- ASPEN, Colo. - The widow
of journalist Hunter S. Thompson said her husband killed himself while
the two were talking on the phone.
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- "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.
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- She said her husband had asked her to come home from
a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column - but instead
of saying goodbye, he set the telephone down and shot himself.
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- 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.
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- Hunter Thompson, famous for "Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas" and other works of New Journalism, shot himself in the
head Sunday in the kitchen of his Aspen-area home. He was 67.
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- His son, daughter-in-law and 6-year-old grandson were
in the house when the shooting occurred.
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- Anita Thompson, 32, said her husband had discussed killing
himself in recent months and had been issuing verbal and written directives
about what he wanted done with his body, his unpublished works and his
assets.
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- His suicidal talk put a strain on their relationship,
she said.
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- "He wanted to leave on top of his game. I wish I
could have been more supportive of his decision," she said. "It
was a problem for us."
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