https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/g ... -dead.html
Gerald Shur, who realized that witnesses would be more likely to testify against organized crime figures if they weren’t afraid of being assassinated, and who used that insight to create the federal witness protection program, died on Aug. 25 at his home in Warminster, Pa., He was 86.
Gerald Shur, Architect of Witness Protection program, dead at 86
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