Remembering Jon-Erik Hexum: A couple of articles that is on my other blog over at myspace

Another article

I found this post by my friend Rudolph Valentino fan page and I thought it was perfect to put here since this is a page all about Jon Erik Hexum. Thanks RudolphValentinofanpage for letting me re post it and for writing it.

Jon-Erik Hexum, My video tribute.. In the early 1980s Jon-Erik was seen as the "next big thing", and then tragically he was dead from an accident via a self-inflicted gunshot wound playing with a prop gun on the set of 'Cover Up". One week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum's commitment to organ donation, meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. He was dead at only 26 years of age. He's still my favorite!
There is still a fan club with lots of pictures and letters, interviews collected over the years and saved by fans and friends. http://pdhexum.tripod.com/index.html

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May 3, 2010 - Monday

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I found this blog post from a friend of mine on here and it is about Jon Erik Hexum. Enjoy reading it.

Celebrities who died young: Remembering Jon-Erik Hexum

Nice video of Celebrities that died young. Some I had forgotten about.

Included is Jon-Erik Hexum: (November 5, 1957 – October 18, 1984)

Hexum allegedly turned down plenty of opportunities to appear in shows such as "The Dukes of Hazzard" (1979) & "CHiPs" (1977) and many day time soap operas before finally making his debut in the TV series "Voyagers!" (1982) as time traveler Phineas Bogg. He was then cast as hunk Tyler Burnett alongside Joan Collins in Making of a Male Model (1983) (TV), and then as ex-Green Beret, Mac Harper in the TV series Cover Up (1984) (TV).

However, on October 12th, 1984 after a long and draining day's shooting on the set of Cover Up (1984) (TV), Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop .44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger. The gun fired, and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull, whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery. Despite five hours of work, the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth, described the damage to Hexum's brain as life ending, and one week later on October 18th, he was taken off life support and pronounced dead. However, Hexum's commitment to organ donation, meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him. The youthful & charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age.