 The federal government also dropped charges in August 1964, and Pavlick was eventually released from the New Hampshire State Hospital on December 13, 1966.Pavlick died at the age of 88 on November 11, 1975 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire.He was portrayed by actor Kent Broadhurst in the 1983 miniseries "Kennedy", but his age is portrayed inaccurately as being 36, rather than the real 73.