At the time when Thompson (was) commited 'suicide' – he was inmidst of a telephone-conversation with his wife!
If you read...
"Thompson shot self while talking with wife" (CNN-headline)
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/25/thompsondeath.wife.ap/index.html
...it might give you lots of good clues about the actual happenings:
"Gonzo-Journalist" Hunter S. Thompson was talking to his wife Anita on phone about his work on his weekly ESPN column and that she should come home from her health club, but instead of proceeding the phone conversation she heard a "muffled noise" and "didn't know what had happened". She reported further: "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone,"...
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. Now that's interesting: WHY "slightly different"? Because CNN spinned some different CONCLUSION into it????? Stay with the facts!!! Learn from 'Bloggers'!!
Really weird, if you commit suicide during a phone-conversation with your wife, moreover talking at the same time about your mutual plans...
Funny also that CNN writes in the sub: 'He set the receiver down and he did it' while at the same time stating in the same article in the lead just below: ASPEN, Colorado (AP) -- The widow of journalist Hunter S. Thompson said her husband killed himself while the two were talking on the phone.
Now what's correct: "After" or "while"? Dear CNN, that's what I would call real 'GONZO-Juornalism'...
As you wrote in this articles more "WHILES" I would believe that version more likely.
And which weapon makes a "muffled noise"? How thoughtful of the author to commit 'suicide' with a silencer, while your 6-years old grandson is in the same house upstairs...
Hear Thompson about 9/11 on this sound file from Aug.2002:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/hunter_thompson_aug29_2002.mp3
War on Error, Part 67: "Sounds of Silencer"
Far Sight 3
