Background
He was the son of Brit Hume, then Fox News Channel"s managing editor, and Clare Jacobs Stoner.
He was the son of Brit Hume, then Fox News Channel"s managing editor, and Clare Jacobs Stoner.
Hume worked for The Hill newspaper in Washington, District of Columbia Hume broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup by Republican Bill Paxon against Speaker Newt Gingrich. Another of the plotters, Majority Leader Dick Armey, scuttled the coup when he learned that Paxon, and not he, would replace Gingrich.
Armey later disavowed the whole attempt and claimed not to have been involved.
Hume committed suicide in his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. In the months before his death, Hume, an alcoholic, had begun drinking again.
The night before his suicide, Hume was jailed for drunk driving and tried to hang himself in the United States. Park Police jail cell. He was evaluated at a psychiatric facility and released.
He went home and took his life with a hunting rifle.
He left a long note expressing shame at the previous night"s events. The National Press Club honors Hume"s memory with the for Excellence in Political Journalism, awarded annually.