This day in history: Ernest Hemingway committed suicide on this day in 1961.
As posted on Social Media: Early in the morning of 1961, while his wife Maria was still asleep in the upstairs bedroom, Ernest Hemingway walked into the lobby of his Idaho home, selected his favorite shotgun from the hunting rifle rack and committed suicide.
While he was still alive, he complained constantly to friends and family about being followed by agents of the FBI. He was repeatedly sent to psychiatric clinics, from where he also called and complained about bugs and wiretaps. As treatment, Hemingway was prescribed electroshock, which at the time was used to treat all mental disorders.
Decades later, the FBI confessed that it had been following him since the 1940s. The regime was suspicious of his activities on the Caribbean, so agents hid bugs in the writer's house, car and hospital room, tapped his phone conversations, opened his mail and checked his bank accounts.
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