Death
With nowhere else to turn, the desolate Bruckman borrowed a .45-caliber pistol from Buster Keaton, claiming to need it for a hunting trip. On the afternoon of January 4, 1955, Bruckman, a resident of Santa Monica, California, parked his car outside a local restaurant, entered a restroom and shot himself in the head.
Some reports claim the location was Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, but according to his January 5 obituary it was in the city of Santa Monica and Bruckman left a typewritten note for the "gentlemen of the Santa Monica Police Department." Neither Jules White nor Buster Keaton had any inkling of Bruckman's intentions.
Bruckman was survived by his wife, Gladys.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
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You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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the death of him.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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