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

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 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

This account says Thompson killed himself while sitting in a chair on his typewriter and yet the original account 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

Wow. That's another journalist who mysteriously suicides before he's about to publish a book on government misconduct. The other one was Gary Webb. Go ahead and write this off as a coincidence. I can use a good laugh.

HaysooChreesto!

Huh. I thought he died because he put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, leaving his family members to find his suddenly emptied head on the wall behind him. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

Dragon

I knew the CIA did it.

JGL53

I'm thinking the prisonplanet site is a farce comedy site like the Onion or the Landover Baptist Church. Anyone who desires a good laugh should drop by and check it out.

Jesus Tap-Dancin' Christ

The other day I was thinking to myself, just exactly when you'd post this exact thread. I swear. Exact thought: "You know, I bet someone will be posting on how Hunter S Thompson was 'suicided' by the CIA."

lisarea

Where did the story change? His typewriter was in the kitchen.

TySixtus

The CIA doesn't go for headshots.

Two taps to center mass is the preferred method of attack with a firearm, which is how all government employees (FBI, Military, ATF, etc) are trained to shoot.

Head shots are easy to miss. Also, bullets will ricochet off skulls, especially with silenced weapons; silencers require sub-sonic ammo, for the most part.

All of this is null and void, of course, if you believe the CIA makes it look like someone killed themself. However, you have a lady talking about her husband frequently mentioning suicide, who then commits suicide.

Hmmm.... sounds like a conspiracy to me...

Ty

lisarea

A-ha! That's what they want you to think!

As to how some CIA assassin managed to kill him while his son, daughter in law, and grandson were in the other room, leaving a gun and shell casing at the scene no less, and while he was on the telephone with his wife, without him ever saying something like, "WHA? CIA ASSASSIN?!?!?!" they pulled that one off by ...

WHA?!?! CIA ASSASSIN!?!?!?!

Starshark

:: Disassembles ceramic Glock and silencer :: I don't know why some people just can't keep themselves to themselves. Do they think we enjoy doing this?

Seriously, I could entertain the remotest possibility of someone whacking Hunter S Thompson, but in the end it's just not plausible. As a purely intellectual exercise, I'll detail why. Laugh all you want. I don't care. Seriously. Start laughing now. Patsies!

It is not outside the realms of possiblity for someone to whack HST in his home, with his family around, and make it appear to be suicide. Although it is standard operating procedure for military and law-enforcement authorities to use the 'double tap' method (and I know it's SOP because I saw it in a Lee Marvin movie), obviously if one were attempting to simulate suicide, they would not use it. It also wouldn't matter if the rest of the family were in a different room: people have had their belongings (as large as a TV with DVD and SNES) stolen while they were in the house, awake. I know this because they're friends of mine.

An organisation like the CIA would have access to infra red scanning which would help reduce the possiblity of mistakes and discovery. They would also have the training and resources to maximise the chances of pulling it off.

So why is it implausible for the CIA to kill HST? To do so would require a lot of effort, and, sadly, HST wasn't worth it. He may have been planning to write a column about 9/11 being an inside job, but so were a lot of people, and probably a few with more credibility than he. HST is not really a journalist, he's more of a columnist, a maverick, someone to have a laugh at. "Oh that HST, he did so many drugs in the 60's you know..." Even his Hells Angels articles are all colour and no real insight. Anything he might have said that could possibly be of any journalistic value had long ago been covered by Stanley Cohen in "Folk Devils and Moral Panics".

He also had no special inside knowledge of 9/11. Unlike, say, Sy Hersh, he had no informants talking to him, he didn't have the investigative skills of a Woodward and Bernstein... If he had only been born a few decades later, he'd be a blogger now, commanding about as much attention as one.

Killing HST would only risk drawing more attention to a 9/11 conspiracy, not less. You could imagine someone like David Kelly in Britain being whacked because he might have damaging testimony to reveal, but Thompson had nothing. The best way to handle anything he had to say would be to let him say it. You wouldn't even need to give a statement concerning what he had written. Who would seriously question the CIA based on anything Thompson wrote?

So, ultimately, this one can be consigned to the great 9/11 conspiracy dustbin, along with the rest. I'll say one thing for this thread though: Nice pic.

Interloper

Hunter is spinning in his grave.. (or his ashes are really being kicked up)

He got so worked up about 9-11 being an inside job he killed himself. Makes perfect sense... it sounds like such a good idea.. hopefully it catches on..