Talk:Lester C. Hunt

Phrasing
Does anyone fully understand this sentence? Drury transferred the homosexual incident from a Senator's son to a Senator, with the blackmailing Senator, Fred Van Ackerman, in Wyoming, not the victim, who was Senator Brigham Anderson from Utah.

It needs rewritten if you do. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 21:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Done (or at least attempted) —EqualRights (talk) 03:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

"On July 9, Blick signed an affidavit exonerating Bridges and Welker of pressuring him, but his decision to prosecute Hunt Jr. remained unexplained."

Um, how about because Hunt Jr. committed a crime? Duh. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.57.121 (talk) 17:40, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Earlier the point is made: "It was his first offense, which police normally handled quietly as a matter for the offender's family to address." Blick could not explain why the case was not handled in the usual way. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 17:44, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

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Apparent discrepancy in timeline
In the 1954 Drew Pearson article following Hunt's death, the author says that he spoke with Hunt "last December" then "one day later" a newspaper featured the story about Hunt Jr.'s arrest, and then "immediately thereafter" Roy Blick, head of the Morals Division at MPD, was summoned to Capitol Hill and threatened because Hunt Jr. had not yet been prosecuted and then "shortly thereafter" Hunt Jr. was brought to trial. In the narrative of this Wikipedia article, we have Hunt Jr. paying a fine and his attorney making a public statement about the arrest before that in October. It seems to me as though we have the correct timeline, with the threat occurring before the fine and public statement, and the 1954 article is in error or misleadingly written, but the discrepancy seemed worth mentioning here in the talk page. ▸₷ truthious Ⓑ andersnatch ◂ 14:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Discrepancy in Buddy Hunt's reported age
If Buddy Hunt was 24 when he was arrested on June 9, 1953, this means he must have been born between June 10, 1928 and June 9, 1929. Later he is described as having died aged 92 in January 2020, which means he must have been born no later than January 31, 1928. I think that I, living in England, am not in the best position to pursue this matter further, and hope that someone in the USA will take this up.CWO (talk) 21:19, 28 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Fixed. I found his birth and death dates via Ancestry.com and added them to the relevant note. I also updated the narrative of his arrest to reflect the correct age. He was 25 when he was arrested and 92 when he died. Billmckern (talk) 22:58, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for your prompt work on this.CWO (talk) 11:17, 29 August 2022 (UTC)