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"My own guess is that it was not suicide, but that’s a different story." What was this about, I wonder?

Turing was gay and knew a lot of government secrets at a time when gay people were considered security risks and likely Communist sympathizers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_scare

I’m not an expert on the topic at all, but the story always seemed fishy to me. Who kills themself by injecting an apple with poison and eating an apple?

(The JFK story also seems fishy to me because I don’t get why in the world Jack Ruby killed Oswald)

Ruby was under the delusion that the world would forgive him for it because everyone hated Oswald so much for having offed JFK. And, that he would be labeled a national hero.

There's some doubt. He did electroplating as a hobby for which he used potassium cyanide. He could have inhaled hydrogen cyanide fumes, or not washed his hands well enough before eating the apple. So it might have been accidental death.

Having worked with similar chemicals, you tend not to get careless. I would wager a majority of cyanide injestions are not accidental. I think murder or suicide is much more likely, particularlly given the context.

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