Fw: [friendsofkpft] was Hunter Thompson murdered?
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Subject: RE: [friendsofkpft] RE: Hunter Thompson ?
Toronto Globe and Mail February 26, 2005:-
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9
Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded
scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did.
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Subject: RE: [friendsofkpft] RE: Hunter Thompson ?
Toronto Globe and Mail February 26, 2005:-
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9
Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded
scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did.
He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it
look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050226/HUNT
ER26/TPFocus/
Now see this Associated Press story about Thompson's death:
"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I
heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.
She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column...
Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.
(Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly
different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added that
Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)
Summation:
Thompson's family says he was not depressed, nor was he in enough to pain to kill himself. In fact, by all reports, he was quite happy. He was talking on the phone to his wife, getting ready to work on his column, when he decided it would be wise to kill himself, so that he could go out (we are told) while "still at the top of his form," even though this would mean not finishing his column or his expose on 9/11 (potentially the most important thing he would ever write) (?)...
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look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050226/HUNT
ER26/TPFocus/
Now see this Associated Press story about Thompson's death:
"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I
heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.
She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column...
Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.
(Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly
different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added that
Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)
Summation:
Thompson's family says he was not depressed, nor was he in enough to pain to kill himself. In fact, by all reports, he was quite happy. He was talking on the phone to his wife, getting ready to work on his column, when he decided it would be wise to kill himself, so that he could go out (we are told) while "still at the top of his form," even though this would mean not finishing his column or his expose on 9/11 (potentially the most important thing he would ever write) (?)...
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