Diane Linkletter

Diane Linkletter (October 31, 1948 – October 4, 1969) was the daughter and youngest child of popular American media personality Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster. She was 20 years old when she committed suicide in 1969.

Background

Not widely known to the public before she died, Diane Linkletter was the youngest of five children born to Art Linkletter, and his wife Lois Foerster. In 1965 at the age of 17, Linkletter married 19-year-old Grant Conroy. The marriage, which was later annulled, was not publicized, as both Linkletter and Conroy's families wanted to keep news of the marriage quiet.

Linkletter later pursued a career in acting. She performed in summer stock and, in 1968, appeared in a sketch on The Red Skelton Show. That same year, Linkletter traveled with her father to Europe to entertain families of servicemen.

Death

At 9 a.m., on October 4, 1969, Linkletter jumped out of a window of her sixth-floor apartment at the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood, California. She was first taken to Hollywood Receiving Hospital, and then to Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center where she died of her injuries sustained in the fall. Her death was widely reported in the media at the time. Her father blamed her death on drug use, specifically LSD.