Former US Senator, Actor Fred Thompson Dead at 73

[Onkel Neal]

One of my favorite character actors, he made HFRO come alive. RIP Sen. Thompson. :-?

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll270/sweetchinmusical/490_3.jpg

[Aktungbby]

From non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Hodgkin%27s_lymphoma) which also killed Jackie Kennedy. Ronald Reagan once famously said he didn't understand how 'anyone could be president who hadn't been an actor' ; Senator Thompson brought his public-service gravitas the other way to the screen; Including playing himself in the film Marie 1985 about Tennessee Parole Board corruption. He well understood the subject: At he Watergate Hearing the Senator (third from the left) famously inquired:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/ThompsonWatergate.jpg Thompson is sometimes credited for supplying Republican Senator Howard Baker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Baker)'s famous question, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" At a public, televised committee hearing, Thompson asked former White House aide Alexander Butterfield the famous question, "Mr. Butterfield, were you aware of the existence of any listening devices in the Oval Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office) of the President?" thereby publicly revealing the existence of tape recordings of conversations within the White House. National Public Radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio) later called that session and the discovery of the Watergate tapes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_tapes) "a turning point in the investigation." Nixon's imperial-presidential walls really started a-crumbling and tumblin' down. When the Watergate investigation began to pick up speed, tapes revealed that Nixon remarked to his then-Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, "Oh ****, he's dumb as hell." ...compared to whom?:hmmm:

[Oberon]

Damn, I thought he was great in HFRO, RIP Mr Thompson.

[Rhodes]

RIP!

[Commander Wallace]

Rest in Peace Sen. Thompson.

[Jimbuna]

Never knew he was a former Senator but certainly enjoyed seeing him in HFRO

RIP Sir

[eddie]

Sad news.