How did Bruce Lee die?
On July 20, 1973, Lee was in Hong Kong, due to have dinner with former James Bond star George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film. According to Lee’s wife Linda, Lee met producer Raymond Chow at 2 p.m. at home to discuss the making of the movie Game of Death. They worked until 4 p.m. and then drove together to the home of Lee’s colleague Betty Ting Pei, a Taiwanese actress who was to have a leading role in the film. The three went over the script at her home, and then Chow left to attend a dinner meeting. A short time later, Lee complained of a headache, and Ting Pei gave him an analgesic. At around 7:30 p.m., he lay down for a nap. After Lee did not turn up for dinner, Chow came to the apartment but could not wake Lee up. A doctor was summoned, who spent ten minutes attempting to revive him before sending him by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. However, Lee was dead by the time he reached the hospital.
There are several theories as to how Bruce Lee died. One is that he was over-training and was ingesting Nepalese hashish to calm his nerves. He was under tremendous stress from all of the demands on his life at the time, and supposedly, Steve McQueen taught him to eat cookies that had Nepalese hashish in them. Unfortunately, Steve McQueen died after Bruce Lee. Perhaps if he had died first, his death might have sent up a red flag for Bruce. I do know that when Bruce Lee died, I spoke with a friend of mine who was a prominent Kung Fu master from China, and I asked him how Bruce died. His answer was very matter of fact, and given with a straight face to me. He said, “Tien Hsueh.” This is the Chinese word in Kung Fu for “Spot Hitting,” sometimes refered to as “Delayed Death Touch.” This master further added me that he knew the “young dragon” that was sent to kill Bruce, and he even knew the “old dragon” who sent him. A litttle history would be in order. Bruce Lee’s teacher in Hong Kong was
On July 20, 1973, Lee was in Hong Kong, due to have dinner with former James Bond star George Lazenby, with whom he intended to make a film. According to Lee’s wife Linda, Lee met producer Raymond Chow at 2 p.m. at home to discuss the making of the movie Game of Death. They worked until 4 p.m. and then drove together to the home of Lee’s colleague Betty Ting Pei, a Taiwanese actress who was to have a leading role in the film. The three went over the script at her home, and then Chow left to attend a dinner meeting. A short time later, Lee complained of a headache, and Ting Pei gave him an analgesic. At around 7:30 p.m., he lay down for a nap. After Lee did not turn up for dinner, Chow came to the apartment but could not wake Lee up. A doctor was summoned, who spent ten minutes attempting to revive him before sending him by ambulance to Queen Elizabeth Hospital. However, Lee was dead by the time he reached the hospital. There was no visible external injury; however, his brain had swolle
Bruce Lee died on the 20th of July, 1973 and to this day the facts of his sudden demise are not fully clear. Was it a reaction to medicine taken to control cerebral edema? Was it the Chinese Government / Kung-fu clans that did not want Lee to teach Westerners powerful fighting techniques? Was it a jilted lover? Triads that demanded protection money? Or a death-touch (dim mak) strike by a martial artist? The most accepted sequence of events is probably the correct one…Bruce had already had a close shave with death when he suffered full-body seizures in the month of May in 1973. This happened on the sets of “Enter the Dragon”; the film which immortalized Lee and made us learn that “boards…don’t hit back!” Bruce Lee was found dead in actress Betty Ting Pei’s apartment where he went after an afternoon meeting with movie producer Raymond Chow. There were rumors that Bruce Lee was killed elsewhere and then moved to Betty’s place; the complete truth on the issue like that of JFK’s death is pr
