Wonder what this guy's up to now?

Oh, he's got a postal stamp this year! 

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/09/10/postal-service-unveils-new-buckley-postage-stamp/

• In 2025, the U.S. Postal Service released a stamp honoring Buckley.^[236]

"William F. Buckley Jr." - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Buckley_Jr.

"Edgar Smith murder case

In 1962, Edgar Smith, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of 15-year-old high-school student Victoria Ann Zielinski in New Jersey, began a correspondence with Buckley from death row. As a result of the correspondence, Buckley began to doubt Smith's guilt. Buckley later said the case against Smith was "inherently implausible".[81] An article by Buckley about the case, published in Esquire in November 1965, drew national media attention:[81]

Smith said he told [friend Don Hommell] during their brief conversation ... on the night of the murder just where he had discarded his pants. The woman who occupies property across the road from which Smith claimed to have thrown the pants ... swore at the trial that she had seen Hommell rummaging there the day after the murder. The pants were later found [by the police] near a well-travelled road .... Did Hommell find them, and leave them in the other location, thinking to discredit Smith's story, and make sure they would turn up?

Buckley's article brought renewed media interest in Hommell, who Smith claimed was the real killer. In 1971, there was a retrial.[81] Smith took a plea deal and was freed from prison that year.[81] Buckley interviewed him on Firing Line soon thereafter.[82]

In 1976, five years after being released from prison, Smith attempted to murder another woman, this time in San Diego, California.[82] After witnesses corroborated the story of Lisa Ozbun, who survived being stabbed by Smith, he was sentenced to life in prison. He admitted at the trial that he had in fact also murdered Zielinski.[82] Buckley subsequently expressed great regret at having believed Smith and supported him.[82] Friends of Buckley said he was devastated and blamed himself for what happened.[83]"