1994: Rock musician Kurt Cobain ‘shoots himself’

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With the 10th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s suicide days away, The Smoking Gun has published an assortment of Seattle Police Department documents compiled during the investigation of the grunge star’s April 1994 death.
The chilling records range from reports from the first officer on the scene to the receipt for the shotgun Cobain, 27, bought a week before his death. A second group of police reports detail previous run-ins Cobain and wife Courtney Love had with the local cops.
The BBC makes this audio available in their story on Cobain’s regrettable passing, first published April 8, 1994.
In their latest issue, Rolling Stone publishes this Nirvana Anthology.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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2 thoughts on “1994: Rock musician Kurt Cobain ‘shoots himself’”

  2. Debra,
    The ‘flashing’ photo is an animated gif. In this case, the ‘gif’ was saved from The Smoking Gun site. Type in animated gif in the Google search engine, and download ‘moving’ gifs to your heart’s content … and drive your friends to absolute distraction by appending an animated gif at the end of e-mails you send.

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