He committed suicide by jumping out his New York apartment window on January 31st, 1954, following years of legal and financial ruin over patent lawsuits, mainly against RCA and its company...
According to Armstrong's biographer, Lawrence Lessing, he graduated from Yonkers High School in the spring of 1909 (Man of High Fidelity, p. 39). He graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in...