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notoriety for doing two things, 1.) Sniping a federal judge; and 2.) being suspected of involvement
in the assassination of President Kennedy. In fact, he confessed to both crimes while high on
cocaine.
Which brings us to the first problem with typing him. Harrelson was addicted to alcohol, marijuana
and cocaine. But Keirsey has suggested that Rationals are one of the types least likely to use
drugs, 302 and Thorburne, who works with substance abusers, agrees with this conclusion while
adding that NTs find it easier to go cold turkey. 303 Other research confirms that (male) NTs are
underrepresented among drug users. 304 However, it's always dangerous to generalize. One study
did find that INTJs were one of the three male types overrepresented in a sample of drug abusers, 305
so clearly there are at least some populations of INTJs that abuse drugs.
The real problem here is that drug use is known to have long-term confounding effects upon a
person's MBTI personality. Indeed, the MBTI manual recommends that type practitioners not
employ the MBTI unless a person has been off drugs for 30 days. 306 Tests of drug users before and
after rehab find that upon being "cleaned up," their new MBTI results feel more like the "real them"
than the results they got while they were addicted. 307
So the question is, what does Harrelson's real personality look like? The periods where he was most
free from drug and alcohol were during his various stays in prison. It would therefore seem that the
most likely place to look for the real Harrelson is in prison. (Granted, he was smuggling drugs
around in his boot during prison, so he wasn't totally clean, but he was at least more clean.)
As we know, Harrelson's prisoner personality seems to be INTJ. This was a consistent pattern for
him; before being put into supermax, he was placed in solitary confinement for two years at
Leavenworth prison. At this time Harrelson's attorney noted that he had never seen Harrelson so
content. (On a side note, Harrelson's father was a prison guard and his uncle was a warden. Could
this have anything to do with it?)
We might also look at Harrelson's early school days for a drug free period, though these are sketchy.
He was apparently a fair student who didn't cause much trouble—basically average. An internet
user on a JFC assassination site 308 claims to have contacted Harrelson's school and obtained the
following details: he was vice president of the poster club, had "impeccable" handwriting, and was
a member of the cartoon club and choir. The school librarian claimed to have known someone who
knew Harrison who said that he was a loner (however, all murderers are popularly thought to be
loners, and given the third hand nature of this source I am skeptical of the claim).
Later, Harrelson got a job selling dental equipment and encyclopedias; for the latter, he was chosen
as salesman of the year. Salesmanship—this sounds like an ESTP achievement, no? As we shall
see, the "outside" Harrelson has quite a few ESTP traits.
Next, he moved to California and became a gambler. Harrelson liked gambling and playing cards
quite a bit, and would win and lose large sums. While in solitary he taught himself a large
repertoire of card tricks. Gambling is not a habit one would not typically associate with a
stereotypical INTJ, though it is a habit one would associate with a stereotypical ESTP. However, an
MBTI study of gamblers found no particular connection between type and gambling problems (read
302 Keirsey, 1998
303 Thorburne, 2000
304 Quenk and Quenk in Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
305 Quenk and Quenk in Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
306 Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
307 Shuck & Manfrin in Myers, McCaulley, Quenk & Hammer, 1998
308 (Take it how you will.)