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From: "R.Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: [OM] OT: Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
>
> Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
> Writer Penned 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'
>
> The Associated Press
> Sunday, February 20, 2005; 11:42 PM
>
> ASPEN, Colo. -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer
> who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear
> and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his
> home, his son said. He was 67.
>
> "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers
> respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said
> in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.
>
> Near Aspen, Colorado, Hunter Thompson, who is the author of the
> counterculture classic, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", lets the
> camera have a quick look at his usually sunglass-covered eyes on
> December 22, 1981. (AP)
>
> Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson,
> confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return
> calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.
>
> Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not
> home at the time.
>
> Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas,
> he is credited with pioneering New Journalism -- or "gonzo journalism"
> -- in which the writer made himself an essential component of the
> story.
>
> An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life,
> Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"
> in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the
> Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was
> first published in 1998.
>
> Other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most
> recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The
> Downward Spiral of Dumbness."
>
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