Stockdale died in a fall from his office on the 13th floor of the DuPont Building in Miami , Florida , on December 2 , 1963 , one week after the funeral and just ten days after the assassination of President Kennedy . Police termed it a suicide , but no suicide note was found . Larry King later reported speaking to him the day of the assassination and finding him " disconsolate to the point where he could n't get a word out "
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Grant Stockdale