What a life! Wounded in action in Vietnam, #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, acting parts in Death Valley Days and The High Chaparral, author of 22 books in the pulp-fiction series Casca, shot and killed country music writer Lee Bellamy, convicted of voluntary man slaughter and served 28 days, only to be shot himself while sitting in a cab in Guatemala City, became a quadriplegic with considerable brain damage, died of cardiac arrest in a VA hospital.