His attorney s convinced him he would win but it would take him another 9 years That thanksgiving Armstrong strung with a fire poker He shot his wife and his marriage was over He kept driving himself in debt he sold most of his stock He was fighting this giant corporation He has been a man with an enormous drive and finally he snapped The 20 years had past they were enemies now and Armstrong had been defeated In his bed he wrote a letter to Marian filled with regret with the way their lives turned out Armstrong had always loved high places Now he removed the AC from his room He opened the window and stepped out 13th story The next morning someone found his body Jeanne Hammond Niece she was holding a newspaper and she hid it She wouldn t give it to her She finally saw it and saw that her uncle committed suicide He shouldn t be surprised this was going to happen He died thinking he was failure He didn t seem to understand that he was more of a success than many of these people he thought he was fighting against 300 years from now students will read his classic paper on FM and know about his work and never heard about Sirnof and de Forest Sirnof declard he didn t kill Armstrong De forest had no public comment but in private begged for details about the issue Father of radio autobiography by de Forest persuaded his wife to write one of his own called I married a genius Nothing worked 1947 de Forest suffered a serious heart attack He died in his bed He had 12500 in his bank
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