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Diane Linkletter
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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. 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.
There is, however, no proof that Diane 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 Office and was determined that she died as a result of falling onto the street, later she died inside a hospital. Still, many people continue to believe, due to the way her death was portrayed in the media, that Diane Linkletter's death was accidental and that she was under the influence of hallucinogens when she died.
Filmmaker John Waters made a short film in 1969 entitled The Diane Linkletter Story, based on the events surrounding her death.
Diane Linkletter and her father won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording for "A Letter to a Teenager" (also known as "We Love You; Call Collect"), which had been recorded before Diane died.