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<b>ROBERT YOUNG</b>, who found fame as dad Jim Anderson in the classic TV show <b>“FATHER KNOWS BEST”</b> stunned the world when he attempted suicide by gassing himself in his garage.
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ROBERT YOUNG, who found fame as dad Jim Anderson in the classic 1950s TV show “FATHER KNOWS BEST” stunned the world when he attempted suicide by gassing himself in his garage.
On January 12th 1991, a boozy Young, then 83, told police “I want to die… I’m too old and tired of living”, The ENQUIRER reported.
Young, a known alcoholic, had jammed one end of a garden hose into his car’s tail pipe, taped it tight, ran the other end through the car window and then stuck it into his mouth and then turned on the engine.
But the car kept stalling and in a bizarre move, the woozy star had called his auto club to come fix it!