Hunter S. Thompson: The Final 24 (Full Documentary) The Story of His Final 24 Hours

[Music] gonzo journalist he was a genius larger-than-life character hotter to his dying day wanted to be thought of as outlawing one of the most famous writers in the world was one of the funniest american writers in all history hunter s thompson was a man whose life was fueled by drugs alcohol and the desire to expose the truth about america it represents everything that's wrong in this country down the line he was worshiped by fans loved by celebrities but in the end it wasn't enough after bringing his closest family members to his home in colorado he went as long as he could he wrote the final chapter to his amazing life [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm february 19 2005 hunter s thompson is at owl farm his ranch and refuge just outside of aspen colorado he's 67 years old in just 24 hours he'll be dead at the beginning of his last day thompson's 40 year old son juan and grandson will are at the farm for a visit also present that day is ben fee hunter's family came up to visit and they were to stay for the weekend and it had snowed and juan and jennifer and will were playing in the snow and it was family time it didn't happen very often but underneath the seemingly innocent scene hunter is hiding a dark secret this is the last time he'll be seeing his family [Music] i think he must have known when he asked them down um that that's when he was going to do it but before he goes he has a few loose ends he wants to take care of one one get your ass in here [Music] what's it done something for you there thompson presents one with a few of his most precious keepsakes two silver cups that are thompson family heirlooms the box contains rare limited editions of an unpublished novel and an aztec medallion a reminder of thompson's wild days yeah okay trusted juan more than anyone yeah and he knew that juan loved him a lot and he loved juan a lot i can't take that down at all i said take it you understand what a present is the preparations for his death in less than 22 hours have begun more than three decades before hunter s thompson exploded onto the scene when he wrote fear and loathing in las vegas a series of articles describing a drug field trip across the desert you can read it out loud uh you could it's like poetry it's the choice of words and the images and the you know the narrative and the voice it's just brilliant and he understood the way that writing works as a voice and the way it's like breathing and the importance of its sound writing is a very intimate form of communication you can't shout it to people because there's no sound involved when you read something the sound is occurring inside your own head that's a result of the rhythms that are created on the page hunter was a great student of these these rhythms and he understood writing physically it was fast it was rebellious and it was deeply shocking to mainstream america hunter thompson became one of the leading figures of the 70s counter culture his wild drug-crazed antics his politics and his constant questioning of authority made him a hero for generations of young rebels across the globe i think probably hunter mostly will be remembered as the wild man the drug addict the alcoholic he crossed divides spending time with both the hells angels and president nixon [Music] he was immortalized as uncle duke in the doonsbury cartoon strips [Music] and twice hollywood came calling turning his real-life adventures into movies there were people who were big hunter tops of fans who had never read his work they liked the persona but his lasting legacy will be his writing he broke the mold creating a new kind of journalism where he and drug-crazed antics became the center of the story it was called gonzo [Music] by the end of his life thompson could look back on an incredible journey he'd invented a whole new genre of writing become a cultural icon but his wild lifestyle came at a price his body was now falling apart a broken leg two hip operations and constant pain meant he could no longer live up to the legend he created less than 20 hours hunter s thompson will be dead his final evening is spent in the cozy confines of his house in colorado i met hunter thompson in the winter of 2004 at a party at his house and hunter asked me if i'd stay up there to write and doing some filming behind the scenes and uh so i began going up at nights i mean once you stepped into the kitchen at owl farm you were in his world you can see a tiffany's clock from a close friend right next to a petrified beaver muhammad ali's golden boxing gloves things that you'll never see anywhere else it's a really quite a museum ben fee has been living at owl farm for several weeks helping thompson write a weekly online column and recording his time spent with thompson on videotape thompson's second wife anita is also there in hindsight it was the perfect setting for hunter he had his son and his grandson and his daughter-in-law and he had anita and those were the people who he loved more than anything at that point and he wanted them to be around for the release of his soul in the week before his death thompson wrote that for him there were no more games no more bombs no more guns no more wild fun he'd been talking about dying for ever since i knew him but but talking about actually shooting himself for i'm something like a year and a half telling people close to him that this is what he was going to do he's now 67 he feels that going on is simply being greedy all he's got to do is relax what he's planning won't hurt a bit it was very succinct very brief and it was i mean the whole no more fun part is where the real meat of it is in that hunter realized that he just could not enjoy himself because he was physically as well as psychologically worn down like the eraser of a number two pencil unknown to his family this is the last evening they will ever spend with hunter thompson [Music] 67 years earlier on july 18 1937 hunter stockton thompson came into the world [Music] he grew up in the conservative southern town of louisville kentucky hunter's early childhood was was picture perfect one could not imagine a more american family existence [Music] by the time he was a teenager thompson was already an important figure in his neighborhood [Music] luanne murphy was his girlfriend we went to movies we went to parties in people's homes sometimes we just hung out on my front porch he was very confident had a great air of assurance and his body language just said you know i'm i know where i'm going i haven't run across anybody who had the natural uh charisma uh that he had you could walk into a room full of people and the people would be gravitating to hunter because he had a magnetism that none of the rest of us had his family wasn't rich but thompson wanted to be part of the louisville elite he used his charisma and early writing talent to gain access to the exclusive athenaeum literary association the literary association gave him entre into that elite part of louisville society and i think he wanted desperately to be that a lot of them would be considered top young men in high school years in louisville kentucky he liked that but the picture book life changed forever when thompson was 14. his father who had been this gregarious quiet but interesting uh methodical individual slowly but surely became fatigued became ill a debilitating neurological disease was attacking thompson's father eventually he was admitted to the local veterans hospital and hunter was completely powerless to do anything about it it was a form of torture you might say and there he was daily watching his father wilt wither die [Music] on july 3 1952 thompson's father died it hit the 14 year old hard and i remember hunter coming to my house at twilight and we sat on our front porch for a long long time and then he would get up in pace and i think he was just stunned an angry young hunter thompson started to lash out vandalizing property and causing havoc around town he drank more than some of us did and he had such a wonderful imagination instead of just drinking uh he would want to go and do things and some of the things were not were not great he pushed over mailboxes and smashed light bulbs got drunk you know and chased after women and he and and didn't go to school he was fairly innocent prankish boyish behavior which he sustained to the end of his life [Music] but now thompson 52 years later can feel his own body falling apart he's in constant pain and he's made up his mind his death will not be slow and lingering it's the middle of the night at hunter s thompson's farm in colorado he has less than 16 hours to live his family has come for the weekend and are now gathered in the living room along with his second wife anita [Music] they've been married for several years at times it's a volatile relationship [Music] hunter and anita they they had their battles they had their uh their spats and their and yelling matches they were like the the gonzo sid nancy they could they could really have a go but then you know they just they'd love each other right afterwards but tonight hunter is far from being the peacemaker he and his wife are on a collision course dr gary kennedy is a psychiatrist who specializes in the effects of old age judge with increasing age and especially with people that become physically frail a heavy alcohol intake has a direct effect on the brain and what's important here is those effect can make one less conscious less aware of the effect that your behavior is having on other people he's a very big human being full spectrum and that all the the wonderful exciting good kind generous all of that was absolutely true not loaded i don't care what do you mean you're drunk the dark side of her hunter was really bad he was vicious the fear you know of having a gun point at you it's pretty terrifying so uh that that shook anita this was not fun this was not a fun person this was this was a really pained angry um tortured man hunter's antics have started a row with his wife that will simmer for the remaining hours of his life [Music] 41 years before hunter s thompson had left the stuffiness of louisville kentucky far behind and was living in san francisco with his first wife sandy and their infant son i was very happy to be a mother i had these two men in my life that i was madly in love with both and so i it was it was a very happy time for me thompson decided to dedicate his life to writing he began traveling writing freelance articles for a variety of small magazines and newspapers [Music] he wanted to be a really good writer you know and and he was so disciplined i mean he was very disciplined he wrote every day he he rewrote everything when when i typed something for him i mean it had to be straight edges you know i mean and there couldn't be any mistakes it was well done it was re-edited re-edited the exactly the right word that was his idea of writing thompson struggled to make a living but he was determined to make it as a writer in the spring of 1965 he started an ambitious project an inside account of what was then a little-known motorcycle gang the hell's angels we had the angels over to the house and i'm thinking you know these are these are nice people you know these are they're they're not boring and they're not insurance agents you know they're they're really not they're kind of okay people i didn't realize that they were you know they were also dealing drugs they were killing people all kinds of stuff but i didn't know that after a year of research thompson wrote hell's angels a strange and terrible saga of the outlaw motorcycle gang and he had to be careful with these guys and and he was when the book was published the hell's angels wanted a cut of the money when thompson refused they beat him to within an inch of his life he was stomped and um really fortunately you know one of the guys great big huge guy he got him out just in the nick of time you know kuzner could easily have been killed but the literary critics were kinder they loved the book finally after years of rejection thompson had his first success hunter just i never heard him you know he had been kind of an unsuccessful journalist for many years sports writer pretty much scuffling and getting a lot of rejections and failure for 10 years he he was not a success and he came out with this book called hell's angels and it was stunning you know it was just a magnificent book and never anything like it before but at the same time thompson was beginning his literary career he was also beginning a long-standing relationship with drugs [Music] i remember very very well the first time hunter took acid i didn't have a clue about what this would mean but i have a little boy in a crib and i was terrified i was just terrified that hunter was going to be violent and then he asked me for the gun and i said no and he said i want the gun if you don't give me the gun i am throwing this boot through that window and he did and i was just really scared mostly i was scared for one you know i didn't know what might happen and i reached out you know 1063 i'm five four and a half i reached up and just clawed i mean here the guy is on acid you know and i took my fingers and i just clawed his face actually drew blood [Music] thompson's next big literary assignment was an article on the 1968 democratic convention in chicago but demonstrations outside the convention center soon turned ugly the police used tear gas dogs and brute force to break up the crowd thompson the young journalist was caught in the middle he was in the crowds and he saw many people beaten some people that he knew and he just um and he saw the policemen beating beating beating these you know mostly young people [Music] when he came back i only saw hunter cry twice in 19 years he cried he was telling me the story of how everyone was getting beaten and it it made a huge difference to him thompson himself said the battles with police were a turning point years later he proclaimed in rolling stone that that week in chicago was worse than the most grotesque acid trip that it permanently changed his whole chemistry suddenly it became essential to confront those who had slithered their way into power and were causing these things to happen he was deeply offended about what was happening in america as he as as most thinking people are it's a great dream america but the reality is really upsetting frequently to people who can see the options and possibilities [Applause] [Music] yeah he was he was cared a lot about america he was a real you know he was a southern boy he was an american thompson was determined to somehow get into politics when he moved his family north to aspen colorado he got his opportunity he was asked to run for sheriff he jumped at the chance to showcase his very own brand of politics [Music] it was different from a campaign would be now because it doesn't already establish liberalist uh view of law enforcement and tom back then the the sheriff before hunter carol whitmire was you know your classic cowboy redneck sheriff you know marijuana laws are one of the reasons that there's uh engender this lack of respect that the uh that cops complain about all over the country i think it's a good thing that hunter thompson is running because i think it makes us all aware of the power that's involved in the job at least they have some new ideas which is more than the old people thompson advocated planting grass in the town's streets and punishing people who sold bad drugs michael solheim was his campaign manager we would start with stuff like that but then we would build into the ideas about uh the control of growth in this town we were out doing meetings around town mostly in the evenings at the various lodges and stuff and and inviting all the aspenites to come and meet hunter and listen to what his ideas are remarkably thompson's campaign seemed to be gaining ground i remember one night we were sitting upstairs up there and uh that was the day that it first occurred to us that we might win the damn thing i said what are we gonna do if we win okay whitmire 204 hunter 173. in the end thompson lost by less than 500 votes [Music] it's very hard to you know to have a ball headed lunatic i'll do that for the cameras all right i've already made it my mind has been in fact this is my last trip in politics for this kind of politics i assure you i'll be another kind of politics i'm not sure which way i'll go but it'll be one of the other it won't be down this middle anymore once the running for office thing was behind he preferred to be plotting up in our farm and you know moving the pieces from behind the scenes uh but well he you know when lending his celebrity to a cause would actually do some good he wouldn't hesitate to do so thompson would never run for office again but for the rest of his life he used his writing as a platform to rail against the establishment it's the early hours of the morning hunter thompson is alone he's in constant pain he has 14 hours before he will choose to end his life well physically he was in crummy shape you know he had he'd had a surgery or two and you know the the bad broken leg and all that stuff takes a toll on on anyone that age so yeah he was in crummy shape at 3 a.m thompson calls benfi and juan hey billy he wants company what are you guys doing tonight he's young and it occasionally is taking painkillers which we're not any better for him than they are for anybody else and you know lots of painkillers make you depressed and they kind of make your situation seem more and more uh trapped thanks for years cheers and one and i went over and sat with hunter for a long time for several more hours he had a moment where he was scared that he was gonna have his freedom stripped his uh his ability to live the way he enjoyed to live you know with with guns open on the counter so we read his old works and uh tried to keep it light and upbeat get his mind off it you could strike it was about seven in the morning when hunter went to bed that was good and i asked juan if he ever feared for his father's life he didn't seem to believe that it was right around the corner juan knew his father and knew how it would end but i i don't think juan saw it coming up like it did [Music] 35 years earlier hunter s thompson changed the face of journalism he returned to the city of his birth louisville to cover the kentucky derby for scanlan's magazine as the deadline for the article approached the magazine became anxious to get their copy and they said you have to send us something he said i don't have anything all i have is garbage and they say we have to send it i can't it's just it's not lucid they said send it to us he sent it to them and they said this is great even though thompson wasn't convinced by his new style others saw it as a breakthrough my view is that it actually was quite a polished piece it was just a rather of a radical style and it was consistent with a kind of journalism that was getting more and more radical starting with norman mailer on the steps of the pentagon and armies of the night and tom wolf you know the acid kool-aid test and this kind of personal journalism where you put yourself in the story and you write in the voice the narrative voice that you that you recognize sex drugs and rock and roll narrative voice it was like the way people talk thompson's new style was a break from his previous work it was considered so unique it was given a name gonzo journalism whether accidental or planned thompson's gonzo style became more concrete in 1971 when he took a long drug frenzy journey from california to las vegas with attorney oscar acosta they're somewhere in the deserts outside barstow california when the cocktail of drugs explodes in his brain suddenly even the simple act of driving becomes fraught with frightening visions the audio hallucinates a terrible roar while all around what looks like huge bats are swooping and screeching thompson screams holy jesus what are these god damn animals [Music] what thompson had put to paper was wild manic and like nothing anyone else was writing he's still ogling and groping the american dream that pale exhausted vision of the big winner stumbling like a drunk out of an impassive and stale vegas casino the articles he wrote were turned into a novel fear and loathing in las vegas hunter thompson was just 34 years old and already he created a classic he could cut to the sort of essence of the truth of what was going on by fictional techniques such as metaphor or imagination or fantasy he was brilliant absolutely but more than that he'd created a fictional hunter s thompson the wild drug-taking bourbon-swilling gonzo journalist at the center of the book as thompson grew older he would find it increasingly difficult to play that [Music] character after a short sleep hunter s thompson rolls out of bed in four hours he'll take his own life his wife anita is doing her best to forget the fight of the night before she gets ready to drive into town for a yoga class [Music] morning that's mr bowie good morning mr movie okay well you have a nice day too the day begins like thompson's days have for much of the last 50 years with liberal amounts of alcohol we're good it's very very difficult to separate the writer from the bourbon drinker and it never ever stopped and went on to his dying day it was it was uh an essential part of him he was what i would call a professional drinker and of course a famous um drug user in a uh what i would call an intelligent way that he wasn't a crash and burn sort of a guy okay last night is that it at breakfast thompson tries to apologize to his wife anita for pointing the gun at her the night before it was very difficult to live with honor it was exciting it was at times really loving and romantic but i would say most of the time it was very hard because mostly because hunter was so angry this was an impulsive person attract and command attention was the subject of adulation he was novel he was original but with age that impulsiveness ceases to be so uh so much of an advantage and when you no longer have the uh the emotional high that comes from that kind of attention how do you replace that i've been out of control for 50 years what's new i got to get out of here i'm going to the gym as his wife leaves she has no idea that this will be the last time she will see him alive [Music] 33 years earlier after the great success of fear and loathing in las vegas rolling stone magazines sent their new star on the road again [Music] the assignment was to cover the 1972 us presidential campaign [Music] [Applause] there was a feeling that this was an election that could defeat nixon that something exciting might happen there wasn't such a clear distinction between the music and the politics the music was going to set us free that was that was our motto [Music] thompson was supposed to bring the rock and roll mentality to the campaign richard nixon represents the dark side of the american dream your connection stands for me for everything that i not only have contempt for but dislike and things should be stomped out greed treachery stupidity cupidity nixon represents everything that's wrong in this country down the line he can't even walk you know he walks around with this kind of uh how are you on richard nixon tim ferriss was an editor with rolling stone a button he had printed up once said you know i'm not like the others he wasn't like the rest of the press corps even conservative american political figures like pat buchanan you know would say that hunter was writing the funniest stuff about politics they'd ever read it's really astonishing material fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72 was a collection of stories thompson wrote about the race it was supposed to be released immediately after the election but alan rinsler thompson's editor was getting increasingly worried about the deadline [Music] he and i had exchanged really hostile letters uh prior to this meeting because i'm an intrusive kind of do what's needed to be done kind of hands-on editor i didn't want to just wait for him i knew he was notoriously late with everything and what i realized ultimately was that he was not going to write this book he was not going to finish it on time i would have to actually sit with him the entire time food was brought in constantly but he didn't eat much because he was taking so much speed and cocaine it was a non-stop you know 72 hours at a stretch collapsed 72 more at a stretch collapse kind of experience and we had tape machines in those days people would come pick up the tapes rush away to the office and work all night transcribing the tapes or all day and uh bring back the pages and that was the kind of way you had to work to get it done with hunter not only was rinsla dealing with a writer who found it hard to write he was also dealing with an author who was finding it increasingly difficult to find his groove he tried to tune up his mind through drugs and alcohol to the point where he was having like grandiose visions and and and and flights of tremendous creative imagination i mean it's true and he tried to capture that but then he would there would be too much of it and then he started starting to turn to jelly and he couldn't think straight at all finally after a huge consumption of narcotics and a great deal of help from his editor the book was written once again it was a success but from here on the writing got harder i've been with a lot of writers and it's it's hard for everybody but for hunter it got harder and harder it was a hard act he was himself a hard act to follow the drink and drugs that had once inspired thompson became a permanent fixture and bit by bit began to rot his brain absolutely you can't do that forever he was a big strong guy and he had a high tolerance but after uh 40 years 40 50 years of steady daily never being sober it i think it gets to you a lot of people i know from that era either died or disintegrated or straightened out [Music] after more than 30 years of fighting against the political tide of the united states thompson is preparing to withdraw from the race once and for all [Music] it's february 20th 2005. hunter s thompson has gathered his family for one last weekend at his ranch in aspen colorado on the last morning of his life his knee hurts his hips hurt his back is sore in two hours he will shoot himself hunter was extremely free he insisted on his freedom and he exercised his freedom to a degree that's unknown to most mortals on a day-by-day basis and i'm not just talking about freedom of speech but freedom of action and when that freedom began to be limited by the fact that he couldn't walk right then he was in physical pain from a bad back and back surgery about knee and so a bad broken leg um i think the thing that most troubled him about it was the prospect of that he was he was looking at a permanent narrowing of his of his freedom he'd been blessed with an athlete's body all his life and all of a sudden it all kind of starts to fold up at once over a short period of time is is you know going to be a horrible blow to anyone so his you know it's his his physical problems were a big part of his life at that point [Music] he types a cryptic word on his typewriter it's the last thing he will ever write its meaning remains a riddle [Music] it's 3 30 february 20th 2005. thompson calls his neighbor ed bastian hey honey get over here all right there's gonna be some shooting hunter was someone who never expected to be 30 years old much less 40 or 50. he lived his life knowing that he was living dangerously and enjoying himself on a day by day basis it was all he always emphasized it was fine with him if he didn't live a long life and as he got older he often said that he wasn't afraid to commit suicide that this this was a kind of an exit door that he regarded as being perfectly defensible [Music] hunter s thompson has just two hours left to live 26 years earlier thompson published the great shark hunt the book is a collection of his best writing stretching back to the early 60s thompson was only 41 years old but already he was writing a retrospective he compares it to etching words onto his own tombstone there seems nothing left he said all there is to say beyond he can foresee nothing but a quick exit straight down right off his 28th floor hotel terrace no one could follow up his act let alone hunter s thompson well as you read his chronology throughout his career one of the things that made him great was he took risks he went into areas that were not necessarily safe for journalists from his first work in hells angels to the chicago convention and that riskiness paid off with his creativity but also with that risk when a self-destructive strength thompson continued to write articles for rolling stone but nothing he did could win the same critical acclaim of his earlier works once you've written hell's angels in front of logan you got to keep raising the bar but hunter's particular psyche and personality he was you know insecure and he was you know he would he he was very anxious all the time so the money the fame the hallucinogenics those are all different ingredients and um so hunter began to morph he had to change a bit i had lived to help him be this great writer well this great writer wasn't writing and he wasn't writing great things and what am i doing sandy thompson's wife for over 15 years had had enough of the hunter thompson circus and left i i had no sense of myself i i i didn't think i could do anything i wasn't smart enough i wasn't this enough i wasn't good enough so when i when i left i still loved hunter but i just there was no way that i could that i could live this life anymore thompson had become known as much for his excessive behavior as for his writing [Music] hunter s thompson the writer became more and more hunter s thompson the character [Music] men you know wanted to be an event with a lot of people at olive farm hunter would put on his sunglasses and the cigarette holder and the visor and he'd become that public persona you know and those of us who are closest to them we kind of back off and let the fans move in thompson began to cash in on his notoriety charging large fees to appear in front of crowds of adoring students i saw him speak at cal once and he was he got up on the stage he was so drunk he just fell over and passed out and people had paid a lot of money and he was paid something like 25 grand to do that he was on the stage for like six minutes and that was his public persona for for many of his public appearances i remember once hunter was uh cited and had i think had to pay a fine for setting off a fire extinguisher on stage some talk he was giving somewhere and he told me rather sheepishly that i said well you know why'd you do that and didn't you know that it was you know there are statutes against it now and he said well i i thought it was uh expected of me but thompson's wild antics weren't just for his public appearances i'm gonna blow the hell out of her that wouldn't be good okay one of his favorite things was to get a gallon jar and fill it with gasoline i'm gonna move your gloves up man they're gonna goddamn get away you know that and these little exploding targets would heat attach them to a gallon of gasoline the first time he says michael go into the uh living room and get a fire extinguisher i go to get the fire extinguisher and i'm standing about 20 feet away he says no stand right here behind me i said hunter if i stand here and you catch fire i'm going to catch fire so i'll just stand over there he gave me a really disgusted look [Music] [Music] fire fire was big breaking glass [Music] yeah blowing things up yeah that's that's violence that's chaos the first time i met him he actually handed me i'll never forget this a a fistful of lit roman candles they were lit he said here wrestler all this you know and it was like if you're going to play with me you've got to be fearless and so i took them and then they went off and just shot into the air [Music] yeah hunter loved loud noises and explosions and unexpected things there's a theory about drug abuse and alcohol abuse that in a sense when you s when you start using you stop growing internally and you don't mature you don't develop as an adult you're stuck in 16 17 18 and in many ways i believe that's the key to hunter's personality he was a big kid his public appearances and outrageous behavior did nothing to tarnish his reputation in the late 90s his most famous book fear and loathing in las vegas became a hollywood movie starring johnny depp and when john kerry ran for president in 2004 he could still invoke thompson's name vice president hunter thompson [Applause] but even though kerry could use thompson's name to get a laugh thompson hadn't been taken seriously as either a political commentator or a writer in years later on as politics moved in its course and the country changed to keep on with that kind of political commentary would have required learning quite a lot about how the landscape was changing and the hunter wasn't really interested in doing that i don't think the books were very good the last bunch of books he did he got into kind of an espn sports writing thing that was kind of hack work [Music] he just couldn't keep it up and i think that starting in 1982 or three for the last 20 years of his life his work was just to make a living and to provide a new product for publishers who were willing to pay him large advances because anything that with his name on it would sell but the quality of his work i think really after 1982 just became repetitious and flat [Music] as the years dragged on thompson's writing was becoming increasingly irrelevant as old age set in he would rely on his favorite gun the 45 smith wesson to make his final statement to the world it's late afternoon hunter s thompson has less than half an hour left to live [Music] hello hi it's me his wife anita calls from a local fitness club once again thompson apologizes for his behavior the night before this is the last conversation hunter thompson will ever have hunter was speaking with anita on the phone and uh they were reconciling and uh he was he was speaking with her and telling her that everything was gonna be okay elsewhere in the house thompson's son juan watches over his own son six-year-old will [Music] how are you doing yeah i'm at the gym i'm finishing up this is a sea of gamunzo thongs i hope yes well listen babe i'm sorry about last night okay i'm sorry but uh i really love you come on home are you okay i love you too hunter hunter hunter [Music] juan blew past me it's also on my way over wide as a ghost i had no idea but i could tell that something wasn't right [Music] i was with uh bob bratis our sheriff and bob got a call from one of his deputies saying that there'd been a gun shot out at hunters and we all looked at each other and just knew that was it that was it [Music] jennifer and will were horribly shaken it was so surreal and shocking uh i stepped closer and one interrupted me and he grabbed me and said don't don't come closer please my son to this day and my daughter-in-law both feel that they are glad that they were there to take care of things and also to see him and and feel his body and so it was very very real hunter s thompson died at 5 45 pm february 20th 2005. he was 67 years old he was born a genius and he was born with that charisma and he was also born with that tortured soul and where that comes from i don't know [Music] [Applause] you

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