(SOMETIMES SERIOUS. SOMETIMES TOUCHING. SOMETIMES ENIGMATIC. BUT ALWAYS FASCINATING: SOME FINAL WORDS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE...........)
HUEY LONG: "I WONDER WHY HE SHOT ME?"
ADMIRAL NELSON: "GOD BLESS YOU, HARDY.:
CATHERINE OF ARAGON: "MINE EYES DESIRE THEE ONLY. FAREWELL."
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: "NO." (IN RESPONSE TO HIS BELOVED WIFE, MABEL, WHOM HE WAS MARRIED TO FOR 45 YEARS, AFTER SHE SAID, "DON'T LEAVE ME.")
LUTHER BURBANK: "I DON'T FEEL GOOD."
SITTING BULL: "I AM NOT GOING! COME ON! COME ON! TAKE ACTION! LET'S GO!"
P.T. BARNUM: "HOW WERE THE CIRCUS RECEIPTS AT MADISON SQUARE GARDENS?"
BILLY THE KID: "WHO WAS IT?"
JOHN JACOB ASTOR (MILLIONAIRE WHO DIED BY GIVING UP HIS LIFEBOAT SEAT ON THE TITANIC): "THE LADIES HAVE TO GO FIRST.....GET IN THE LIFEBOAT, TO PLEASE ME....GOODBYE DEARIE, I'LL SEE YOU LATER."
DUTCH SCHULTZ (AMERICAN GANGSTER): "MOTHER IS THE BEST BET."
PABLO PICASSO: "DRINK TO ME."
SAL MINEO: "OH GOD. NO! HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" (AFTER BEING FATALLY STABBED)
ALEXANDER THE GREAT: "TO THE STRONGEST."
H.G. WELLS: "GO AWAY. I'M ALRIGHT."
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