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af, ee §, “ . ~~ - Ortional (Ohm HO. 16 ( C UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum to : Mr. Mohr FROM = 6 C. *iD. paveach ‘ | SUBJECT: MELVINVPURVIS SUICIDE 2-29-60 a” 3 in currently the Chief Couned , Senate Post Office and Civil 8 rvi called and in my absence talked to Wick. He talked of the suicid & We 148A Leet teeteled + a cS pe ge een GHP .2id that Purvis, who has been employed b . yy Pal RS . ‘olson — ( {2 7 . "1 nt . fi Loach Mgione . McGuire Rosen DATE: February 29, 1960 pee W.C. Sullivas _. Tele. Rloon: Gandy r ro 7) wh ie aay £0 LEL LAID LI Ge a 29 E g 8 » g 3 a eo St BB “d he We oe w ashe J Subcommittee, has not looked well for the last several weeks, has not bese e ing and last week came down with the flu. plane home to Florence, South Carolina, last week. He was ashen in color. said he knows that Purvis had a disintegrated disc in his back and that has caused him considerable pain and Purvis feare spreading through his system. He tol take my own life - I've got too much to live for." Co-workers actually forced him to take i osteomyelitis (bone disease) hai been not too long ago that he would “never care ore that Mrs. Purvis lives in Florence, Sout was formerly ve in the radio station Purvis has there but is now ee of the three Purvis boys, one in grade school, one in high school and the oldest in college at the University of South Carolina. Gas «x: he believed Purvis had been taking a considerable amount of drugs recently to ease the pain in his back. 743 ype SSS. 1 - Mr. Jones REW:sak S(_ (3) 3 ae e g all press inquiries in this matter with fe A ey aa letter be sent to Mrs. rere pee ADDENDUM: 2-29-60, ECK:e Reference is made to my ore bus memorandum today concerning the possibility of writing to Mrs. Purvis. 2 We conducted a recent special inquiry of { Purvis for the Senate Committee on the Judiciary , and several persons close to the Purvises advised