Sandy Hume

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Sandy Hume
Birth name	Alexander Britton Hume Jr.
Born	September 2, 1969(1969-09-02)
Birth place	Washington D.C.
Died	February 22, 1998 (aged 28)
in	Arlington, Virginia
Circumstances
Occupation	Journalist for The Hill
Family	Brit Hume, Rhoda Kim Schiller Hume, Virginia Hume
Notable credit(s)	The aborted 1997 coup by Rep. Dick Armey against House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Sandy Hume, born Alexander Britton Hume Jr., (September 2, 1969, Washington, D.C.—February 22, 1998, Arlington, Virginia),was an American journalist. A journalist for The Hill newspaper in Washington, D.C., Hume was the son of Brit Hume, Fox News Channel's managing editor.

1 Career
2 Death
3 Posthumous honors
4 Notes

[edit] Career

Hume broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup by Rep. Dick Armey against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. MSNBC commentator and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough says in his book, Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day, that he was Hume's source.

[edit] Death

Not long after publishing the story, Hume committed suicide in his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. A number of sources question this cause of death.^{[citation needed]}

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 Park Police jail cell.^[1] He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and then released. He went home and took his life with a hunting rifle. Prior to doing so, he wrote a long note, expressing shame at the previous night's events.