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Kim Peek "Rain Man" has died of a heart attack
Posted by Autism Society on 12/22/2009.
Kim was 58 years old and diagnosed with Autism. He was a genius in 15 different subjects including history, literature, geography and music.
"It was just unbelievable, all the things that he knew," says Fran Peek , Kim's father "He traveled 5,500 miles short of 3 million air miles and talked to nearly 60 million people - half have been students."
See article in the New York Times on Kim Peek
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27peek.html
"It was just unbelievable, all the things that he knew," says Fran Peek , Kim's father "He traveled 5,500 miles short of 3 million air miles and talked to nearly 60 million people - half have been students."
See article in the New York Times on Kim Peek
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27peek.html