Diane Linkletter was the daughter and youngest child of popular American media personality Art Linkletter and his wife, Lois Foerster.
10 Facts About Diane Linkletter
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Not widely known to the public before her death, Diane Linkletter was the youngest of five children born to Art Linkletter and Lois Foerster.
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Diane Linkletter performed in summer stock, and in 1968 she appeared in a sketch on The Red Skelton Show, then traveled with her father to Europe to entertain servicemen's families.
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At 9 am on October 4,1969, Diane Linkletter jumped out of a window of her sixth-floor apartment at the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood, California.
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Diane Linkletter was first taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, then to LAC+USC Medical Center where she died of injuries she sustained in the fall.
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Diane Linkletter's father blamed her death, which the media widely reported at the time, on drug use, specifically LSD.
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Edward Durston, the last person known to have seen Diane Linkletter alive, said that he had attempted to grab her, but she had jumped over the balcony.
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Diane Linkletter was murdered by the people who manufacture and distribute LSD.
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Police questioned Edward Durston, who said that Diane Linkletter had phoned him the night before her death and "was very upset" and asked him to come over.
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In 1970, Art and Diane Linkletter won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for their record "We Love You, Call Collect".