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died in his car a few minutes after he finished teaching the last class of Ph.D. Microeconomics.
Available obituaries and institutional tributes place Walter E. Williams’s death on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, after teaching his final class on Tuesday, December 1—not a few minutes after class ended.
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This claim compresses the timeline of Walter E. Williams’s death by roughly a day.
Multiple credible sources state that Williams taught his final class on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, and died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. UCLA Economics, quoting a Wall Street Journal remembrance, says he "died Wednesday morning after teaching his final class at George Mason University on Tuesday." WTOP likewise reported that he "died Wednesday, a day after teaching his last class" at George Mason.
Those reports are incompatible with the article’s statement that he died "a few minutes after" finishing that class. Even if he did die in his car, the available sourced timeline does not support the much more specific claim that death occurred only minutes after the class ended.
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- Walter Williams, UCLA Ph.D. | UCLA Economics
"Walter Williams died Wednesday morning after teaching his final class at George Mason University on Tuesday."
- Economist, GMU professor Walter E. Williams dies at 84 - WTOP News
"Williams died Wednesday, a day after teaching his last class at the Fairfax university..."