Playbill

April, 1977

When Howard Hughes died, he left a legacy of documentary evidence about his financial, political and personal life. Much of it was immediately destroyed by his aides while he was being flown by air ambulance from his Acapulco hideout--but the Mexican government seized the rest. Our intrepid Hughes watchers, Senior Articles Editor Laurence Gonzales and free-lance writer Larry DuBois, managed to obtain a large portion of these files--nearly 3500 pages--and they've boiled them down to the good part...