Vince Foster

Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. (January 15, 1945 ? July 20, 1993) was an attorney who worked for U.S. President Bill Clinton. His death in 1993, shortly after Clinton took office, was officially ruled a suicide by several investigations, including one by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

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Foster, a childhood friend of Bill Clinton, had worked at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas with Hillary Clinton and had difficulty making the transition to life and politics in Washington. He was only a deputy counsel, but he was personally the target of several hostile Wall Street Journal editorials. Wrestling with depression, he was prescribed Trazodone over the phone by his doctor, though he could have only taken a few at most before he died. The next day, Foster committed suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a .38 caliber pistol. He was 48 years old.

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A suicide note of sorts was found torn into 27 pieces in his briefcase, a list of complaints specifically mentioning the Wall Street Journal and complaining "I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport."

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His body was discovered in Fort Marcy Park, a federal park in Virginia.

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