HPM@SU-AI (12/28/82)
From: Hans Moravec <HPM at SU-AI>
a018 2337 27 Dec 82
BC-Swigert,170
Former Astronaut Dead of Cancer at 51
DENVER (AP) - Rep.-elect Jack Swigert died Monday night of cancer at
the Lombardi Cancer Institute of Washington's Georgetown University,
a spokeswoman for his Washington office announced. He was 51.
Swigert, a former Apollo 13 astronaut, was a Republican elected to
represent Colorado's new 6th Congressional District Nov. 2. He was to
have been sworn in Jan. 3.
Before the November election, Swigert announced that his doctors had
diagnosed his condition as bone marrow cancer. The cancer later
spread to Swigert's lungs, his doctors said.
June Weiss, his press secretary, said the immediate cause of
Swigert's death was respiratory failure.
Swigert had been hospitalized in Washington since Dec. 19, when he
was airlifted to the Georgetown University hospital from his home in
Littleton. He was under treatment for bone marrow cancer and
complications from chemotherapy treatments.
Ms. Weiss said Sen. William Armstrong, R-Colo., was with Swigert
when he died at 10:10 p.m.
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