On the Hunter
Separating fact from fiction in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' By Corey Levitan (Las Vegas Review-Journal) That author Hunter S. Thompson and his friend, attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, visited Las Vegas in 1971 is a fact. There are photographs and witnesses. But what exactly happened, and how much of it resembles the book forever entwining Thompson's name with Las Vegas? To commemorate the fifth anniversary of Thompson's death on Saturday, we attempted to separate the fact from the fiction…