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...Gravitt, the 51-year-old chief executive in Texas for Southwestern Bell, of which he was a vice president walked into the garage of his $120,000 north Dallas home, turned on the ignition of his Oldsmobile and settled back to die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Later that day, Gravitt's family and Bell colleagues found in his briefcase a nine-page memo accusing his company of political payoffs, illegal wiretapping and using questionable bookkeeping to secure telephone rate increases. A hand-scribbled message added, "There is bound to be much more. Watergate is a gnat compared...
...Hugh Gravitt, a slight, nervous taxicab driver with a record of 22 previous traffic offenses, also testified: "This accident which happened was unavoidable. I see her everytime I go to bed and I said then and I still say I would rather it to have been me than...
...jury found Gravitt guilty of involuntary manslaughter, recommended a year to 18 months in jail (he will be eligible for parole in four months). The judge let Gravitt go free for a week before sentencing...
Next night, Hugh Gravitt smacked his car, the same one that killed Margaret Mitchell, into a truck just outside Atlanta. He was not hurt seriously...