Diane Linkletter
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| Diane Linkletter | |
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| Born | October 31, 1948 California, United States |
| Died | October 4, 1969 (aged 20) West Hollywood, California, United States |
Diane Linkletter (October 31, 1948 - October 4, 1969) was the daughter and youngest child of popular American radio and television personality Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster.
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[edit] Biography
Not widely known to the public before she died in 1969, 20-year-old Diane Linkletter jumped out of a window of her high-rise apartment to her death in West Hollywood, California. Her death was widely reported in the media at the time, and her father blamed her death on LSD. Shortly thereafter, Art Linkletter became a prominent anti-drug campaigner.[1]
There is, however, no proof that Linkletter took LSD on the day she died. All available evidence suggests that she was a despondent woman and that her death was a suicide rather than a drug-related accident. An investigation was conducted by the Los Angeles Coroner's Office determined that Linkletter died from "multiple traumatic injuries" sustained from the fall and that she had no drugs in her system at the time of her death.[1]
Linkletter and her father won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for "We Love You, Call Collect", which had been recorded before her death.[2]The record, which had gone unreleased before Linkletter's death, was released in November 1969 and sold 275,000 copies in eight weeks. According to Art Linkletter, royalties from the sales went "to combat problems arising from drug abuse."[3]
[edit] The Diane Linkletter Story
On October 5, 1969, the day after Diane Linkletter's death, filmmaker John Waters made a 9 minute film entitled The Diane Linkletter Story, a fictionalized version of the events surrounding Linkletter's death.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b The Scarlet Linkletter
- ^ Grammy Awards of 1970
- ^ "Profits of Tragedy", Time, 1970-01-05. Retrieved on 2008-01-16.
- ^ Plea, Robert L.. Filthy: The Weird World of John Waters, 54. ISBN 1-555-83625-9.
[edit] External links
- Diane Linkletter at the Internet Movie Database
- Diane Linkletter at Find a Death
- Diane Linkletter at Find a Grave
- TV commercial featuring Art & Diane Linkletter
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| NAME | Linkletter, Diane |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Television personality, musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | California, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1969 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | West Hollywood, California, United States |
