Career
Hunter had previously been a court reporter in Wichita Falls, Texas, for five years. On 22 March 1964 Hunter wrote a story for the Press-Telegram saying that Oswald had "assuredly" killed Kennedy. On 23 April 1964 Hunter was killed in a Long Beach police station by a police officer, Creighton Wiggins.
Wiggins initially claimed that the shot was fired when he dropped his weapon.
When the trajectory of the bullet showed this was impossible, he said he had been playing "quick draw" with a fellow officer, Errol Greenleaf, and had fired accidentally. Wiggins and Greenleaf, who said his back was turned at the time, were convicted of involuntary manslaughter and received three-year probation sentences.
Another Press-Telegram columnist said in 1991 that he had often experienced gun-play in his friendships with Long Beach policemen, declaring "lieutenant was childish and terribly dangerous fun, and finally fatal. The only surprise is that it hadn’t happened before." Hunter"s death nonetheless remains one of many considered suspicious by some researchers pursuing John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories.
