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Sessions was FBI director during the 1992 massacre at [[Ruby Ridge]], [[Idaho]], at which the unarmed Vicky Weaver and her infant son were shot dead by a confused FBI sniper. The agents were after Randall Claude "Randy" Weaver (born 1948), whom they alleged had tried to sell a sawed-off shotgun to an undercover agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Weaver subsequently received more than $3 million in settlement for the wrongful deaths of his wife and son. The next year, the FBI launched a 51-day siege of Ruby Ridge encouraged by the administration of Bill Clinton which ended with deadly assault of more than eighty Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.<ref name=Danner>{{cite web|title=Former FBI director, wife call off San Antonio divorce|url=https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Former-FBI-director-wife-call-off-San-Antonio-14562868.php|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=June 20, 2020|author=Patrick Danner|publisher=''The San Antonio Express-News''}}</ref>​

Sessions was FBI director during the 1992 massacre at [[Ruby Ridge]], [[Idaho]], at which the unarmed Vicky Weaver and her infant son were shot dead by a confused FBI sniper. The agents were after Randall Claude "Randy" Weaver (born 1948), whom they alleged had tried to sell a sawed-off shotgun to an undercover agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Weaver subsequently received more than $3 million in settlement for the wrongful deaths of his wife and son. The next year, the FBI launched a 51-day siege of Ruby Ridge encouraged by the administration of Bill Clinton which ended with deadly assault of more than eighty Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.<ref name=Danner>{{cite web|title=Former FBI director, wife call off San Antonio divorce|url=https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Former-FBI-director-wife-call-off-San-Antonio-14562868.php|date=October 25, 2019|accessdate=June 20, 2020|author=Patrick Danner|publisher=''The San Antonio Express-News''}}</ref>​

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Clinton then claimed that Sessions had engaged in ethical improprieties, such as using an FBI airplane to visit his daughter on more than one occasion, and errors in judgment. Clinton asked for his resignation. When Sessions refused to leave on grounds that he had done nothing wrong, Clinton fired him. He had served just over half of his 10-year appoin ted term.<ref name="Time's Up for William Sessions">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/22/opinion/time-s-up-for-william-sessions.html |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|title=Time's Up for William Sessions|date=January 22, 1993| accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>​

Clinton then claimed that Sessions had engaged in ethical improprieties, such as using an FBI airplane to visit his daughter on more than one occasion, and errors in judgment. Clinton asked for his resignation. When Sessions refused to leave on grounds that he had done nothing wrong, Clinton fired him. He had served just over half of his 10-year appointed term.<ref name="Time's Up for William Sessions">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/22/opinion/time-s-up-for-william-sessions.html |publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|title=Time's Up for William Sessions|date=January 22, 1993| accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref>​

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==Family==

==Family==

In 1952, Sessions married his former classmate, Alice June Lewis (1931–2019), a native of Independence, Missouri, the 1948 high school class valedictorian,  an ardent liberal Democrat, and a patron of theater arts and [[Planned Parenthood]]. The couple had four children: William Lewis Sessions, former U. S. Representative Peter Anderson  "Pete" Sessions, Mark Sessions, and Sara Sessions Naughton.<ref name=alicedeath>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206457164/alice-june-sessions|title=Alice June Lewis Sessions|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref> Sessions was accused of relying too much on his wife, who publicly defended him against the allegations of "ethical improprieties." Sessions himself said that the real dispute center on the dissatisfaction of ten FBI employees who railroaded him.<ref name=death/>

In 1952, Sessions married his former classmate, Alice June Lewis (1931–2019), a native of Independence, Missouri, the 1948 high school class valedictorian,  an ardent liberal Democrat, and a patron of theater arts and [[Planned Parenthood]]. The couple had four children: William Lewis Sessions, former U. S. Representative Peter Anderson  "Pete" Sessions, Mark Sessions, and Sara Sessions Naughton.<ref name=alicedeath>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206457164/alice-june-sessions|title=Alice June Lewis Sessions|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=June 20, 2020}}</ref> Sessions was accused of relying too much on his wife, who publicly defended him against the allegations of "ethical improprieties." Sessions himself said that the real dispute center on the dissatisfaction of ten FBI employees who railroaded him.<ref name=death/>