John Hailman

John Hailman (1942-2021) was a retired federal prosecutor from the US attorney's office in Oxford, Mississippi. He was an inaugural Overby Fellow in Journalism and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is author of several books, including Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor: From Moscow to Morocco and Paris to the Persian Gulf ; Thomas Jefferson on Wine ; From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi ; Return to Guntown...See more

John Hailman (1942-2021) was a retired federal prosecutor from the US attorney's office in Oxford, Mississippi. He was an inaugural Overby Fellow in Journalism and an adjunct professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He is author of several books, including Foreign Missions of an American Prosecutor: From Moscow to Morocco and Paris to the Persian Gulf ; Thomas Jefferson on Wine ; From Midnight to Guntown: True Crime Stories from a Federal Prosecutor in Mississippi ; Return to Guntown: Classic Trials of the Outlaws and Rogues of Faulkner Country ; and The Search for Good Wine: From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table , all published by University Press of Mississippi. See less