Thanks - that was part of the reason I was trying to do the research.

My knowledge of Patton was basically what I knew from the movie and a few historical stories bandied about and the whole assassination angle was new to me.

At face value though I don't see how they could've assassinated him with the car other than it being an accident. is the theory that they beat him up and made up the car story? (The original wiki article has the curious blurb that only his wife was allowed to see him for the 2 weeks as he lay dying - you'd think he would've at least told her?) EDIT: Nevermind, I see from another post that he was recovering from the wreck when he died of a heart problem while in the hospital... convenient.

Thanks - that was part of the reason I was trying to do the research.

My knowledge of Patton was basically what I knew from the movie and a few historical stories bandied about and the whole assassination angle was new to me.

At face value though I don't see how they could've assassinated him with the car other than it being an accident. is the theory that they beat him up and made up the car story? (The original wiki article has the curious blurb that only his wife was allowed to see him for the 2 weeks as he lay dying - you'd think he would've at least told her?)