Hunter S. Thompson

[iaafan]

Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'

Toronto Globe
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 . . ."
Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a story.
Now check out this February 25 Associated Press <http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... h.wife.ap/> story about Thompson's death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer:
"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.)
Mack White sums up the questions well:
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) (?)...
RELATED: Hunter S. Thompson Suicide Story Changes </articles/march2005/020305storychanges.htm>
This account says Thompson killed himself while sitting in a chair on his typewriter and yet the original account <http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... h.wife.ap/> tells us that Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone in the kitchen. Why has the story changed andwhat is the significance of the word typed on the paper in light of the fact that Thompson said he would be 'suicided' before being able to release a major story on explosives bringing down the twin towers?
RELATED: Hunter S. Thompson thought 9/11 an inside job <http://www.libertythink.com/2005/02/hun ... nside.html>

[Hell's Bells]

Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'

Toronto Globe
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 . . ."
Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a story.
Now check out this February 25 Associated Press <http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... h.wife.ap/> story about Thompson's death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer:
"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.)
Mack White sums up the questions well:
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) (?)...
RELATED: Hunter S. Thompson Suicide Story Changes </articles/march2005/020305storychanges.htm>
This account says Thompson killed himself while sitting in a chair on his typewriter and yet the original account <http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/0 ... h.wife.ap/> tells us that Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone in the kitchen. Why has the story changed andwhat is the significance of the word typed on the paper in light of the fact that Thompson said he would be 'suicided' before being able to release a major story on explosives bringing down the twin towers?
RELATED: Hunter S. Thompson thought 9/11 an inside job <http://www.libertythink.com/2005/02/hun ... nside.html>

nothing like ending a friday evening with a b.s. story...let me guess george w bush, the president that cant even tie his own shoe, decided to order this one himself, because he is soooo evil that he hired hit men to cover the fact that he was the one who wanted the world trade center buildings down???

[iaafan]

No I don't think that guess is accurate. Geez HB quit bashing Bush all the time. What's gotten into you?

['93HonoluluCat]

Hunter Thompson was working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'
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nothing like ending a friday evening with a b.s. story...let me guess george w bush, the president that cant even tie his own shoe, decided to order this one himself, because he is soooo evil that he hired hit men to cover the fact that he was the one who wanted the world trade center buildings down???

Come on, HB, I thought you'd know better. It wasn't Bush, he's not devious or smart enough. It was Rove, you silly person!

[grizzh8r]

WOW. That story has got to be the biggest, most delusional piece of sensationalist crap I have ever read...

['93HonoluluCat]

WOW. That story has got to be the biggest, most delusional piece of sensationalist crap I have ever read...