Mark Rosen, Ed Durston, The Sinatra Kids, The Linkletter Kids, The Folger Kids, The Tate Kids, Rodne
Sept 5, 2020 1:58:50 GMT -6
Post by elantric on Sept 5, 2020 1:58:50 GMT -6
Mark Rosen ( aka Mark Ross, Aesop Aquarian, Steven/Stephen Morrell )
www.charlesmanson.com/vicinity-crimes/28-clubhouse-avenue/
28 CLUBHOUSE AVENUE
(Home of Mark Ross, aka Mark Rosen, Y Lee Freeman)
The home of Mark Ross at 28 Clubhouse Avenue, Venice, CA 90291. On several occasions, family associates stayed at this Venice Beach home which is also the location of John Philip Haught’s questionable death.
Mark Ross was born on Feb. 27, 1945 and was a friend of the Manson Family. He lived in a beach house located at 28 Clubhouse Avenue, Venice, CA 90291. On several occasions, family associates stayed at this Venice Beach home which is today described as a 3 bedroom, 2 bath restored classic beach house situated on one of Venice’s “Walk-Streets” which are tiny cobblestone walkways that do not allow vehicles and resemble more of small alleyways.
It was at the home of Mark Ross, where on November 5, 1969, Manson family associate John Philip Haught, aka “Zero”, allegedly killed himself playing Russian roulette. When Los Angeles County Police responded to a call at 28 Clubhouse Avenue they found the body of a young man lying on a mattress with a gun and its holster nearby. The victim had a gunshot wound to the right side of his temple.
Still in the home were other Manson family members who were all questioned individually and all provided matching witness statements; that Zero picked up a .22 Calibre revolver, spun the cylinder, and shot himself in the head. One of the family members was inside the bedroom with Zero and the others only heard the shots, however they all ran in and collaborated on what they had seen.Without any other evidence, the police concluded that it was indeed suicide. Later, an anonymous man told a Los Angeles Times writer that he was present when Zero died and that Zero didn’t kill himself but that one of the girls had shot him. However, the man disappeared before authorities could talk to him.
Mark Ross, whose real name was likely “Mark Rosen”, later changed his name to “Aesop Aquarian”, which speculation exists that this was done so he could better hide from the Manson Family as he was in fear of them. However, in the early 1970s another group sprouted up on the Los Angeles scene and many of those members changed their names to include the “Aquarian” surname, which suggests and alternative possibility; that he changed his name to follow another group of wanderers.
See Jim Baker, "Father Yod" The Source Restaurant
www.npr.org/2008/04/08/89467276/from-source-restaurant-to-cosmic-commune
Black Angles movie with Mark Ross (as "Singer" ) (shot at Spahn Ranch in 1968-69)
haveguitar-willtravel.com/HAVEGUITAR-WILLTRAVEL.COM/Home.html
haveguitar-willtravel.com/HAVEGUITAR-WILLTRAVEL.COM/Acting_Resume.html
www.lacasting.com/aesop
www.imdb.com/name/nm0032592/
www.imdb.com/name/nm0032592/bio
Trivia: According to the director of Van Nuys Blvd. (1979) on the commentary cut, Aesop hung out with the Manson "family" (Charles Manson, et al) in the 1960s but got out when he realized things were getting too strange. Ironically, the actor later played a Manson-like character in Starsky and Hutch: Bloodbath (1977).
2020 Duck (Short)
Geoff Duckman
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Old Pioneer (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs") (uncredited)
2018 Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (TV Series)
- Wherever It Leads (2018) ... Volvo Driver (uncredited)
2017 I'm Dying Up Here (TV Series)
- Midnight Special (2017) ... Homeless Guy (as Aesop T. Aquarian)
2016 Chomper (Short)
Chomper
2015 Rough Love (TV Series)
- I Want Sex & Money (2015) ... Herschel
2014 Married (TV Series)
- The Old Date (2014) ... Homeless Man (as Aesop T. Aquarian)
2013 Babylon Beach (Short)
Rabbi Rosenwasser
2013 Sequence (Short)
Bishop O'Shea
2013 Iron Man 3
Village Elder (uncredited)
2012 Dick Little
Homeless Man
2011 GiddyUp, Grandma! (Short)
Noah
2011 Man Without a Head
Bearded Unkempt Man
2011 Jon Benjamin Has a Van (TV Series)
- Road Rage (2011) ... Rabbi Kahn
2008 Ring of Death (TV Movie)
Bearded Convict (uncredited)
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Rabbi (uncredited)
2008 Fix
Bill
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Core - Black Pearl Asian Pirate (uncredited)
2007 Stand Up
Boris Kolenkov, the Russian cab driver
2006 Three Strikes (TV Movie)
Churchgoer (uncredited)
2006 The Unit (TV Series)
- First Responders ... Afghani Backgammon Player (uncredited)
2005 Lincoln's Eyes (Short) (voice)
2004 Hollywood Division (TV Movie)
Hassidic Rabbi (uncredited)
2004 Center of the Universe (TV Series)
Rabbi Zeltzer
- The Break-In ... Rabbi Zeltzer (uncredited)
2004 Target
Homeless Vet
2003 Judging Amy (TV Series)
- Rumspringa ... Grandpa Byler (uncredited)
2000 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (TV Series)
- Operation Lightspeed (2000) ... Warlock
1986 Body Slam
Man in Wheelchair's Friend (as Steven Morrell)
1985 Inside Out
www.imdb.com/title/tt2674348/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
1982 Shoot the Moon
Rick (as Stephen Morrell)
1981 Bret Maverick (TV Series)
- Welcome to Sweetwater (1981) ... Virgil Stubbs (as Stephen Morrell)
1980 Galaxina
Chopper (as Stephen Morrell)
1979 Walk Proud
Hippo (as Stephen Morrell)
1979 Van Nuys Blvd.
Biker (as Stephen Morrell)
1978 The Lord of the Rings
Character Actor (voice)
1978 Big Wednesday
Hippie
1978 Loose Change (TV Mini-Series)
Activist speaker (uncredited)
1977 The Rockford Files (TV Series)
- Quickie Nirvana (1977) ... Cook
1977 Barnaby Jones (TV Series)
Brother Free
- Run Away to Terror
1977 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series)
Simon Marcus - Bloodbath
1976 A Star Is Born Recording Engineer - 'Meow-Chow' Catfood Commercial (uncredited)
1976 Phyllis (TV Series)
Episode "Phyllis and the Jumper" Bass
1970 Walk the Walk Pool Player (uncredited)
1970 Black Angels
Singer (uncredited)
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Diane Linkletter
A.E. England Pontiac- Hollywood & Argle - Hollywood, CA
1968 Art Linkletters "HouseParty" Top Fuel Dragster -on display at A.E. England Pontiac car Dealership
caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1804432.html
Diane Linkletter
derangedlacrimes.com/?tag=diane-linkletter
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On 4 October 1969, Davis "Ed" Durston resided across the street when Diane Linkletter was "suicided" out the window across the street.
(Autopsy reported Diane Linkletter had no drugs in her system, and Art Linkletter used her death to manifest a politilly backed an anti drug campaign, as he made several appearances on talk shows publicly speaking out about Diane's unfortunate death.
He was good friends with then Governor Ronald Reagan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Durston
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Wayne
@ 1211 Horn Ave, Hollywood, CA
www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-scarlet-linkletter/
www.mansonblog.com/2019/06/mansonblog-tour-2019-whats-with-horn.html
www.mansondirect.com/police-report-tate-1st.html
www.mansondirect.com/police-reports.html
At 2200 hours, Abigail Folger's mother telephoned Abigail from San
Francisco. She called to verify the fact that Abigail was flying to San
Francisco to see her on the 1000 flight on 8-9-69. The visit was to
unite the two for Abigail's birthday. During the telephone conversation,
Abigail sounded a little "high" but did not express any alarm or anxiety
as to her personal safety or the situation at the Polanski house.
Investigation disclosed that when Frykowski departed from the
Polanski residence at approximately 1505 he drove directly to the Jay
Sebring residence. At that location he picked up a Miss Suzan
Peterson, who had been Jay Sebring's companion for the preceeding
night. Frykowski drove Suzan to the art gallery operated by
Kaczanowski a t 9406 Wilshire Boulevard. The purpose of this trip was
to obtain a key for the Woodstock house; Abigail Folger had
Frykowski's key at the time.
At the gallery there was a short conversation between Frylkowski and
Kaczanowski and Kaczanowski was invited by Frykowski to come up to
the Polanski residence that night. It was ascertained that Kaczanowski
did not have the key to the Woodstock house in his immediate
possession, but the key was at his girlfriend's, Christina Lerewska's,
house.
While Frykowski and Kaczanowski were conversing at the gallery,
Suzan Peterson was browsing in a dress shop adjacent to and
connected with the gallery. During this time, she conversed with
Christina's mother, and during the conversation it was ascertained that
Suzan Peterson spoke French and that she intimated that she was
going to the Polanski house that night.
Kaczanowski and Suzan were driven to Christina's house by Frykowski.
The key to the Woodstock house was obtained from Christina and
Kaczanowski was returned to the gallery.
Peterson and Frykowski went to the Woodstock house. As they entered
the house, Frykowski obtained the mail, among which was a music
album. They played the album and looked around the house,
Frykowski explaining to Suzan that Kaczanowski was an artist but not
a businessman and there were some disparaging statements made by
Frykowski about Kaczanowski as to the key to the house not being
readily available. He then drove Suzan to her residence on Horn Street
in Hollywood and Frykowski departed.
Suzan had a tentative appointment to call Sebring at 1900 hours, but
after Frykowski deposited her at the Horn address, she became
lonesome or impatient, called a cab, was taken to the Versailles
apartments on Hollywood Boulevard and kept company with a Mr. Rick
Steven. Suzan engaged in some sort of a domestic scene and was
probably under the influence of one or more types of drugs and did not
awaken until 2300 hours. At this time she recalled her tentative date
with Jay Sebring and called his residence. She was informed by Amos,
the butler, that Sebring had gone out.
(Theory - perhaps Diane Linkletter was going to spill the beans on a Bernard Crowe / Ed Durston's global Credit Card/ Airline Ticket Fraud ring operated by Ed Durston and others at 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood - (smells like a NSA/CIA human /drug trafficking operation to me)
By June 1970 a major Airline Ticket Fraud ring was busted operating out of 1211 Horn Ave, Hollywood, CA
^ CHECK OUT the participants
David P Marsh 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Stephen E Pankey - 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Lynda Faye Cody - 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Dennis Blum - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
Jack R Mirsky - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
( and Joel J Rostau - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
Charles R Newsome - 2252 N. Gower, Hollywood, CA
Joe H Guntman - 14045 oxnard St, Van Nuys, CA
Bruce Glateman 20063 Calvert, Woodland Hills, CA
(V) Looks like stolen jewelry Insurance scam by Rostau
(many still alive)
www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesboroherald/obituary.aspx?n=charles-randall-newsome-randy&pid=145224364
BRUCE GLATEMAN (SHADY PRODUCTIONS / ENCORE INTL. LTD)
rehold.com/Woodland+Hills+CA/CALVERT+ST
martinbiallas.com/file/Bruce-Glatman-Reference.pdf
www.corporationwiki.com/California/Woodland-Hills/encore-intl-ltd/128775210.aspx
More details
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Cielo EyeGlasses
Below is the complete article:
Letter-Writer Links Frazier and ‘Zodiac’
By Duane Sandul, Tribune Staff Writer [10]
The Zodiac killer also was an accomplice of John Linley Frazier in the mass murders of Soquel eye surgeon Victor Ohta and four others on Oct. 19, 1970, a woman from Woodland Hills claims in a letter to the Tribune.
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The woman, Mrs. Marie Vigil, asked the Tribune to forward the letter to Frazier’s attorney.
She said that Dr. Ohta once prescribed glasses for the Zodiac killer, sought for multiple murders in San Francisco. Mrs. Vigil identified the Zodiac killer as Robert Linkletter and said she saw Linkletter with Frazier before the Ohta murders.
She said she knew Linkletter as a man who has been killing since 1966 but declined to elaborate in a telephone conversation with the Tribune from her San Fernando Valley home. She said she had not intended her letter to become public information but as “confidential” to the defense.
James Jackson, attorney for Frazier, said last night the letter writer “probably is eccentric,” but that he would have an agent “check out the letter.”
“I’ve received seemingly wild letters before which indeed did help produce witnesses,” Jackson said. He added he had received other letters linking the Zodiac killer with Ohta.
The typewritten letter claims that the Zodiac killer also is one of the killers of Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas. Charles Manson and his “family” were convicted for those murders earlier this year.
When the Tribune spoke with Mrs. Vigil, she declined to discuss specifics “over the telephone.”
Frazier’s trial, shifted to Redwood City from Santa Cruz by order of the California Supreme Court, ended Wednesday. The four-man, eight-woman jury which must decide his guilt or innocence will begin deliberations Friday.
Frazier has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity.
Mrs. Vigil, who said she is over 50 years old, told the Tribune she had reported her information to police departments linking the Zodiac killer with Frazier although she wouldn’t say which police departments.
Sgt. Frank Witt of the Woodland Police Department told the Tribune police have no record of Mrs. Vigil filing a report with them.
Asked why she thought Frazier and the Zodiac killer are accomplices, Mrs. Vigil said, “Because they were together.” She added, “I’ve seen them; they were in Woodland Hills.”
She would give no further information about her acquaintance with the “Zodiac killer.”
Excerpts from the letter:
“I do have some information about the accomplice of Frazier. He is Robert Linkletter, one of the killers of Miss Tate, La Bianca never brought to trial here, the killer who lost one pair of glasses the night of the Tate killings.
“Less than one month prior to the execution of Dr. and Mrs. Ohta and three other people, Robert was with them here one Sunday pointing me out to them because I knew those glasses did belonged (sic) to him. Dr. Ohta must have prescribed them. A few days later, I was to see Robert again with Frazier driving a light-colored van, kind of old. Robert was driving, was also wearing a blonde wig and some round oversized glasses with pink lenses …
“If the two daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Ohta know of some connection with their father and Robert Linkletter, their lives are in danger …. [11]
“… This killer has been dropping bodies since 1966, a knife killing in Riverside he has admitted. He moves constantly from San Diego to the High Sierra killing here and there. He must believe the Law and Order is willing to cover up all of his murders
Sincerely,
Mrs. Marie P. Vigil” [12]
According to the above excerpts, Robert Linkletter had a discussion with Dr. and Mrs. Ohta on a Sunday in late September. Mrs. Vigil apparently was not part of this discussion but somewhere nearby, close enough so that Robert could point her out as someone who knew about the glasses at the Tate house. A few days later she saw him with Frazier.
The last paragraph says he “has been dropping bodies since 1966, a knife killing in Riverside he has admitted.” On October 30, 1966, Cheri Jo Bates, a student of Riverside Community College, was brutally beaten and stabbed to death. One month later, nearly identical typewritten letters were mailed to the Riverside police and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, titled “The Confession,” describing how he killed her. A third letter, handwritten, was sent to Cheri Jo’s father, Joseph Bates. It said, “Bates had to die, there will be more,” and it was signed with the letter “Z.” Going on an anonymous tip, Paul Avery wrote an article for the San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 1970, linking the Zodiac to the Bates murder. Five months later, on March 13, 1971, the Zodiac mailed a letter to the Los Angeles Times acknowledging he had indeed killed Bates.
Avery further said in his article that a janitor found a poem carved into the bottom side of a desktop in the Riverside College library. [13] Its language and handwriting resembled that of the Zodiac. Titled “Sick of living/unwilling to die,” it was signed with the initials rh. It is possible that the h was originally an l. There are three h’s in the poem. The first two were made with a continuous motion without lifting the pen, and the descending part of the arch ends at, or near, the baseline. Unlike the first two h’s, the slight overlap of the left foot of the arch on the vertical line in the third h indicates a two-step operation. Furthermore, the termination of the descending part of the arch in the first two h’s have an assurance that is lacking in the third h, with the right side of the arch trailing hesitantly below the baseline. Since Sherwood Morrill saw distortion and disguise in the formation of letters in the letter to Joseph Bates, the initials at the end of the desktop poem might been subjected to the same treatment to disguise the writer’s identity.
First h Second h initials
Vigil said that Robert travelled constantly between San Diego and the High Sierra. In the second letter that will be quoted below, he is said to have sometimes stayed with his sister at Lake Tahoe and that he was a member of the Sierra Club. His parents often spent their weekends at a skiing cabin in Alpine Meadows.
Six weeks prior to the Ohta massacre, on September 6, 1970, Donna Lass, a nurse at the Sahara Tahoe hotel and casino, disappeared. Six months later, the Zodiac sent a postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle claiming responsibility for the nurse’s disappearance. The postcard was a collage featuring a scene from an advertisement for Forest Pines condominiums in Incline Village and pasted letters and texts from magazines including one that read “Sierra Club.”
Vigil wrote her second letter on November 21, 1971 to Judge Charles Franich, the presiding judge of the Frazier trial, forwarded through the Redwood City Tribune. [14] Apparently it never appeared in print, and its contents are only known through Mae Brussell. She read excerpts on two of her programs, sometimes word for word, sometimes paraphrasing, in order to leave out information she wanted to keep confidential. Below is one excerpt:
“The Los Angeles Times of today finally had a story about the trial and murder of the Ohtas and their secretary. You asked if I was certain it was John Frazier who was with Robert Linkletter. They were here in Woodland Hills less than a month prior to those killings. He looked exactly like Frazier, when they were arrested, except for one thing. He also wears glasses. About the van, there were two people in the car and it was Robert who was driving it. I do not recall something in the newspaper about that at the time.
According to Frazier’s original story, he drove a white van to the Ohta house where he met three persons. They went into the house, while Frazier stood in the driveway. After they came out, Frazier drove Mrs. Ohta’s car. Witnesses saw three people in the car. That leaves one to drive the white van. Probably on the following day, in accordance with Vigil’s letter, two people were in the white van and the other two were in Mrs. Ohta’s car as they drove toward the railroad tunnel.
I have some reason to believe that Robert was driving north just last Thursday. So if you are observant, you will see him snickering in the courtroom to see how his murders are done and taken care of. He is the man that John Frazier is trying to find at the rear of the courtroom. Does Frazier know about the organization of killers called the International White Guard? Does he fear his wife will be killed if he were to name Robert Linkletter and his father as being heavy in this honorable organization of killers?
On the day “Robert was driving north,” Thursday, November 18, the court had gone into recess. Frazier apparently expected to see him prior to the recess. The Los Angeles Times article mentioned in the letter, dated November 21, said, “Frazier’s appearance in court seems strangely in contrast to the magnitude of the crime he is accused of. Much of the time, the 5-foot, 6-inch defendant sits slumped in his chair, turned from the judge and jury, focusing his soft hazel eyes impassively toward the rear of the sparsely occupied courtroom.”
Linkletter might have been in the back of the courtroom on Monday to hear the closing arguments. He might have been “snickering” as the jury convicted Frazier of mass murder on November 29. Ten days later, the same jury declared him legally sane, leaving the way clear for the judge to impose the death penalty on December 30. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on February 18, 1972.
Robert was also identified as the Zodiac by his sister three days before her death. She had read his first message, that was partly coded. I never believed that she committed suicide any more than her brother-in-law, John Zweyer, did. He had been shot by Robert. These two were witnesses the night of the Tate murders. John did turn down a bribe that was offered to him concerning the killings. These are the kind of killers that this state has been cultivating and nurturing.
Robert is 27. Sometimes he lets his beard grow. He wears a wig, and sometimes he looks almost bald. Within the past two years, I have seen him in all colors and wig lengths. I know him as Robert Linkletter and also as the Zodiac. I drive a school bus in Los Angeles, and I used to see him on Van Nuys and Ventura Boulevards. He sometimes waits for me on Ventura Boulevard, driving on my way to pick up some children from school. He follows behind and then moves to the side until he is sure I recognize him. Someone must know how smart he is.
He stays sometimes at Lake Tahoe with his older sister, who is a widow, and belongs to the Sierra Club, which is interested in the misuse of the environment.
This Robert, may I say, has the eyes and fingerprints that should be checked. Also I believe Dr. Ohta must have prescribed those glasses that were lost the night of the Tate murders.
A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is no defense at all [referring to Frazier], because of the horror of those murders. They should convict everyone who is brought in before the courts.
Zweyer
John and Dawn Zweyer
John Zweyer married Robert’s older sister Dawn in 1959 at the Westwood Methodist Church in Los Angeles. John was a lieutenant in the Air Force, serving as a public information officer at Stead AFB, just north of Reno, Nevada. After getting out of the Air Force, he and his wife moved to Hollywood where he became an insurance salesman. On July 15, 1969, he died of a gunshot wound to the head beside the swimming pool of their home while his wife was on the phone. The coroner ruled it as “a possible suicide.” Supposedly his failing insurance company was the cause of his depression. A more probable cause for his death was murder.
As read by Mae Brussell, the letter seems to say that Zweyer was a witness the night of the Tate murders. Probably while simultaneously reading aloud and condensing parts of the letter, she had accidentally conflated key sentences and obscured the original message. Perhaps what Vigil actually said was that Zweyer was a witness to the planning stage of the impending massacre, and his refusal to be silenced by a bribe was the reason he had to be killed.
On October 3, three months after her brother-in-law died, Diane Linkletter, a roving Hollywood reporter, left the doctor’s office in a cheerful mood. “Suicide seemed as far from her mind as the sun,” her doctor said afterwards. Later that night, at 3:00 am, her friend Ed Durston got a call from Diane asking him to come to her apartment, which was on the sixth floor of the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood. He went there and found her to be “extremely emotional, extremely despondent, and very irrational.” Six hours later, while Durston was still there, she called Robert and told him she felt like committing suicide. He told her to calm down and said that he would be right over. Robert then spoke to Durston and asked if he could handle her until he got there. He said he could. For a few moments, Diane seemed to relax and even seemed cheerful. Then without warning, she rushed toward the kitchen window. Durston tried to grab the belt loop of her dress but could not prevent her from jumping out. Robert arrived on the scene shortly after the ambulance took her away. A private funeral service was scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, but Robert, his father, and his mother did not attend, having gone into seclusion at their cabin at Lake Tahoe.
According to Vigil, Diane Linkletter died because of what she knew about the Tate murders. She certainly had a connection to the Sharon Tate milieu. Her name was in the address book of Abigail Folger, one of the five victims killed at the Tate house. Diane’s live-in boyfriend of several months, Harvey F. Dareff, allegedly went to the Cielo house on August 8, shortly before the massacre, to buy or sell drugs. [15]
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A Los Angeles Police Department homicide lieutenant admitted to UPI reporter Vernon Scott, “Yes, Diane Linkletter knew Abigail Folger, and probably was an acquaintance of Sharon Tate.” Diane’s friend, Ed Durston, knew Polish filmmaker Voityck Frokowski, another victim in the Tate house. According to Vernon Scott, “Only one element ties the death of Miss Linkletter with the multiple murders in the canyon home of Miss Tate and her director husband, Roman Polanski – drugs.” The article again quotes the lieutenant regarding this Hollywood subculture, describing it as “a patchwork of peripheral celebrities such as Sebring and Miss Tate, offspring of movie stars and jet setters, hangers-on (Frokowski) and the cast-off children of the big rich. . . . The Hollywood-oriented 600 to 800 go in for bigger kicks, the eerie, weird and freaked-out. They are not militants, protestors or idealists. They groove to their own bag and stick together in the event of a bad trip.”
According to Art Linkletter, his daughter was going with a group that was experimenting with drugs and died from the effects of ingesting LSD. He blamed LSD advocate Timothy Leary and the music industry, particularly the Beatles, for fostering a tolerance for dangerous drugs. The drug-induced suicide version of his daughter’s death was later contradicted by the autopsy report. Coroner Thomas Noguchi said, “We have not been able to pick up any trace of lysergic acid, heroin, marijuana, any narcotics or alcohol in the body of Diane Linkletter at this time.”
Monti
The day after Diane’s funeral, October 8, Toni “Connie” Monti, apparently depressed by the death of Diane, took her own life with an overdose of pills, according to her husband Nick Monti. He said he and his wife were friends of Miss Linkletter. This was contradicted by Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Griffin, who said, “There was no indication she even knew the Linkletter girl.” Connie’s mother disputed the suicide version of her daughter’s death and said she never took drugs and would never consider taking her own life. Perhaps the true reason behind her death is the fact that she lived in an apartment across the street from Shoreham Towers at 1211 N. Horn Ave. From this vantage point, she might have seen Diane’s fatal plunge. An interesting coincidence is that Ed Durston also lived at 1211 N. Horn Ave. [16]
According to Vigil, Diane identified her brother as the Zodiac three days before her death and read the “first message, that was partly coded”. Her discovery would have been several days after the slaying of a woman and the severe wounding of a man at Lake Berryessa on September 27. The weekend following Diane’s death, the Zodiac killed cab driver Paul Stine in San Francisco on October 11. The “first message, that was partly coded” had a 408-character cryptogram and was sent to three newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area on August 1. Three days later, a Vallejo newspaper dated August 4, printed the contents of a letter mailed to the San Francisco Examiner, which said, “This is the Zodiac speaking,” the first time the Zodiac name become public. Four days later Manson sent four of his followers to the home of Sharon Tate. Linkletter was also at the Tate house that fatal night and somehow lost his glasses. As mentioned earlier, the right temple stem of the glasses found at the Tate house was lower than the left. A picture of Linkletter showing both ears appears in the Minnesota Star Tribune on November 19, 1965. Since newspaper editors sometimes reverse pictures for various reasons, I have taken the liberty of changing the picture to an alternative orientation. It shows the right ear lower than the left.
RL 1965 front view
Robert Linkletter was born in San Francisco on October 15, 1944. He was a “free-spirited, curious explorer,” according to his brother Jack, very capable of designing and making things. As a teenager, he built his own electric guitar, when his father refused to buy him one. He went to Santa Monica City College, where he acted in a musical comedy. His goal was to become a theater arts major at the University of Southern California and then become an actor. Instead of going to college, he became the guitarist for a surfing music band, called the Cornells. From December 1962 to November 1963, the band released four singles and one record. In May 1963, it appeared on a television show called “I’ve Got a Secret.” Their secret was “We’re all the sons of Hollywood celebrities.”
Linkletter went into the Air Force, spending some time in Australia. During the last six months of his enlistment, he was at Sheppard Air Force base in Wichita Falls, Texas. At that time, war protest songs such as Barry Maguire’s “Eve of Destruction” and Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind” were becoming popular. Linkletter believed such songs, put out by “radical nuts,” had a depressing effect not only on military morale, but also on the nation as a whole, even to the extent of causing the Watts riot of 1965. He also hated “long-haired freaks” like the Beetles. When he left the Air Force in October 1965, he began a nationwide tour singing songs with a “positive” outlook, speaking out against war protesters, and urging people not to give in to the demoralizing influence of those dominating the pop music field.
From Detroit Free Press, November 26, 1965
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28 CLUBHOUSE AVENUE
(Home of Mark Ross, aka Mark Rosen, Y Lee Freeman)
The home of Mark Ross at 28 Clubhouse Avenue, Venice, CA 90291. On several occasions, family associates stayed at this Venice Beach home which is also the location of John Philip Haught’s questionable death.
Mark Ross was born on Feb. 27, 1945 and was a friend of the Manson Family. He lived in a beach house located at 28 Clubhouse Avenue, Venice, CA 90291. On several occasions, family associates stayed at this Venice Beach home which is today described as a 3 bedroom, 2 bath restored classic beach house situated on one of Venice’s “Walk-Streets” which are tiny cobblestone walkways that do not allow vehicles and resemble more of small alleyways.
It was at the home of Mark Ross, where on November 5, 1969, Manson family associate John Philip Haught, aka “Zero”, allegedly killed himself playing Russian roulette. When Los Angeles County Police responded to a call at 28 Clubhouse Avenue they found the body of a young man lying on a mattress with a gun and its holster nearby. The victim had a gunshot wound to the right side of his temple.
Still in the home were other Manson family members who were all questioned individually and all provided matching witness statements; that Zero picked up a .22 Calibre revolver, spun the cylinder, and shot himself in the head. One of the family members was inside the bedroom with Zero and the others only heard the shots, however they all ran in and collaborated on what they had seen.Without any other evidence, the police concluded that it was indeed suicide. Later, an anonymous man told a Los Angeles Times writer that he was present when Zero died and that Zero didn’t kill himself but that one of the girls had shot him. However, the man disappeared before authorities could talk to him.
Mark Ross, whose real name was likely “Mark Rosen”, later changed his name to “Aesop Aquarian”, which speculation exists that this was done so he could better hide from the Manson Family as he was in fear of them. However, in the early 1970s another group sprouted up on the Los Angeles scene and many of those members changed their names to include the “Aquarian” surname, which suggests and alternative possibility; that he changed his name to follow another group of wanderers.
See Jim Baker, "Father Yod" The Source Restaurant
www.npr.org/2008/04/08/89467276/from-source-restaurant-to-cosmic-commune
Black Angles movie with Mark Ross (as "Singer" ) (shot at Spahn Ranch in 1968-69)
haveguitar-willtravel.com/HAVEGUITAR-WILLTRAVEL.COM/Home.html
haveguitar-willtravel.com/HAVEGUITAR-WILLTRAVEL.COM/Acting_Resume.html
www.lacasting.com/aesop
Skills
General Sports
AEROBICS, ARCHERY, BADMINTON, BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, BILLIARDS PLAYER, BOATING, BODY BUILDING, BODY SURFING, BOWLING, BOXING, CANOEING, CROQUET, DIVING, DRIVE A BOAT, FENCING, FISHING, FLY FISHING, FOOTBALL, FRISBEE, GOLF, HANDBALL, HIKING, JOGGING, JUMP ROPE, KAYAKER, LACROSSE, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, PING PONG, POGO STICK, RACQUETBALL, ROCK CLIMBER, RUNNING, SNORKELER, SOCCER, SOFTBALL, SURFER, TENNIS, TRAMPOLINE, VOLLEYBALL, WATER POLO, WEIGHT LIFTER, WRESTLING
Swimming
BACK STROKE, BREAST STROKE, BUTTERFLY, DIVING, FREESTYLE, SWIMMING, GENERAL
Stage Combat Training
DAGGERS, HAND-TO-HAND, RAPIER, STAFF, SWORDS
Martial Arts
JIU-JITSU, JUDO, KARATE, KUNG FU, TAE KWON DO, TAI CHI
Military Training
MARINES
Dance
BALLROOM, BELLY, CLUB/FREESTYLE, DISCO, HIP HOP, JAZZ, LINE, MODERN, POLKA, SALSA, SQUARE, SWING, TANGO, WALTZ
Improvisation
IMPROV, GENERAL, SKETCH, STAND-UP COMEDY
Languages
ARABIC, CANTONESE, CHINESE, FARSI, FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, HEBREW, HINDI, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN, LATIN, MANDARIN, PERSIAN, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, TAIWANESE, URDU, YIDDISH
Dialects
AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH, CAJUN, CANADIAN, CHINESE, COCKNEY, FRENCH, GERMAN, IRISH, ITALIAN, JAMAICAN, JAPANESE, MEXICAN, MINNESOTA / WISCONSIN, NEW ENGLAND / BOSTON, NEW YORK / BRONX, NEW YORK / BROOKLYN, RUSSIAN, SCANDINAVIAN, SCOTTISH, SOUTHERN, SPANISH
Instruments
ACCORDION, AUTOHARP, BANJO, BASS, BONES, BONGOS, CONGA, DRUMS, FINGER CYMBALS, GUITAR, KAZOO, KEYBOARDS, MANDOLIN, MARACAS, ORGAN, PERCUSSION, PIANO, RECORDER, STAND UP BASS, TAMBOURINE, TROMBONE, UKULELE
Miscellaneous Skills
ASTROLOGER, BARTENDER, CARPENTRY, CHEF, COMEDIAN, DISC JOCKEY, EAR PROMPTER, HOSTING, IMPRESSIONIST, MAGICIAN, MASSEUSE, PUPPETRY, SIGN LANGUAGE, SINGER, STAND-IN EXPERIENCE, TELEPROMPTER, VIDEO GAMES, YO-YO, YOGA
Martial Arts Weapons Training
SWORDS, THROWING KNIVES
Stunts
BOAT DRIVING, DIVING, DOWNHILL BIKING, PRAT FALLS, ROAD DRIVING
Track & Field
DISCUS, JAVELIN, SHOT PUT, TRACK, GENERAL
Cycling
CYCLING, GENERAL, ROAD BIKING
Singing
COUNTRY, FOLK, JAZZ, MUSICAL THEATER, POP, R&B, RAP
Vocal Range
BARITONE, BASS
General Weapons Training
AUTOMATIC WEAPON, CROSS BOW, HANDGUN, LONG BOW, RIFLE
Circus Skills
CLOWN, HULA HOOP, MIME
Horse Riding Skills
BARE BACK, BARREL, HORSEBACK RIDING, GENERAL, JUMP, RODEO, WESTERN
Driving Skills
ATV, MOTORCYCLE, DIRT BIKE, MOTORCYCLE, ROAD BIKE, PRECISION DRIVER, SAILBOAT, STICK SHIFT
Facial Hair
Beard, Goatee, Long Beard, Mustache
Other Experience
ENGAGEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST)
ASH GROVE - LOS ANGELES, CA
BARNEY'S BEANERY - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
BENNY K'S - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
BLUE NOTE - TUCSON, AZ
BOB KENNEY'S FUNNY CAR -AZUSA, CA
BRASS BELL - SANTA MONICA, CA
COMEBACK INN - VENICE, CA
CROWN INN - VENICE, CA
HIGHLAND GROUNDS - HOLLYWOOD, CA
HOTEL CAFE - HOLLYWOOD, CA
JOKER CLUB - N. LAS VEGAS, CA
MAGIC APPLE INN - BURBANK, CA
POPPY'S STAR - ENCINO, CA
ENGAGEMENTS, INTERNATIONAL (PARTIAL LIST)
AMERICAN PARK - EXPO 70 - OSAKA, JAPAN
BANFF CAFE - BANFF, ALBERTA, CANADA
GO DOWN BISTRO - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
THE HIDEOUT - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
THE JOCKEY CLUB - BANGKOK, THAILAND
LE SPOT - VIENTIENNE, LAOS
PATTYA BEACH HOTEL - PATTYA BEACH, THAILAND
THE PUB - BANGKOK, THAILAND
GUEST SETS (PARTIAL LIST)
ADMIRAL RISTY'S - PALOS VERDES, CA
BLA-BLA CAFE - STUDIO CITY, CA
CHEZ VOLTAIRE - BEVERLY HILLS, CA
CHUCK'S STEAKHOUSE - HONOLULU, HI
COMEDY STORE - HOLLYWOOD, CA
NIGHT GALLERY - LAS VEGAS, NV
CROOKED BAR - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
GARRET - HOLLYWOOD, CA
HOLE IN THE WALL - BURBANK, CA
HOLY CITY ZOO - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
ICE HOUSE - PASADENA, CA
IMPROV - HOLLYWOOD, CA
IRON WORKS - PALO ALTO, CA
RADIO
ROBERT Q. LEWIS SHOW - KFI, LOS ANGELES, CA
SWINGEROO SHOW - BANGKOK, THAILAND
CONCERTS (PARTIAL LIST)
EXPO 70 WORLD'S FAIR - OSAKA, JAPAN
POP/FOLK 70 - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
RENNAISSANCE FAIRE - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
RENNAISSANCE FAIRE - LOS ANGELES, CA
MEN'S PRISON - LOMPOC, CA
WOMEN'S PRISON - FRONTERA, CA
PUMPKIN FESTIVAL - CALABASAS, CA
CHARACTER VOICES and DIALECTS
SINGER: Bass voice - 3 octave range c2-C
MUSICIAN: 12-String Guitar, Banjo, Stoneman-style Autoharp, Standup Bass
SONGWRITER: Words and Music
Horseback Riding (since 1952)
Motorcycle riding (since 1967)
General Sports
AEROBICS, ARCHERY, BADMINTON, BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, BILLIARDS PLAYER, BOATING, BODY BUILDING, BODY SURFING, BOWLING, BOXING, CANOEING, CROQUET, DIVING, DRIVE A BOAT, FENCING, FISHING, FLY FISHING, FOOTBALL, FRISBEE, GOLF, HANDBALL, HIKING, JOGGING, JUMP ROPE, KAYAKER, LACROSSE, MOUNTAIN CLIMBING, PING PONG, POGO STICK, RACQUETBALL, ROCK CLIMBER, RUNNING, SNORKELER, SOCCER, SOFTBALL, SURFER, TENNIS, TRAMPOLINE, VOLLEYBALL, WATER POLO, WEIGHT LIFTER, WRESTLING
Swimming
BACK STROKE, BREAST STROKE, BUTTERFLY, DIVING, FREESTYLE, SWIMMING, GENERAL
Stage Combat Training
DAGGERS, HAND-TO-HAND, RAPIER, STAFF, SWORDS
Martial Arts
JIU-JITSU, JUDO, KARATE, KUNG FU, TAE KWON DO, TAI CHI
Military Training
MARINES
Dance
BALLROOM, BELLY, CLUB/FREESTYLE, DISCO, HIP HOP, JAZZ, LINE, MODERN, POLKA, SALSA, SQUARE, SWING, TANGO, WALTZ
Improvisation
IMPROV, GENERAL, SKETCH, STAND-UP COMEDY
Languages
ARABIC, CANTONESE, CHINESE, FARSI, FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, HEBREW, HINDI, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN, LATIN, MANDARIN, PERSIAN, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, TAIWANESE, URDU, YIDDISH
Dialects
AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH, CAJUN, CANADIAN, CHINESE, COCKNEY, FRENCH, GERMAN, IRISH, ITALIAN, JAMAICAN, JAPANESE, MEXICAN, MINNESOTA / WISCONSIN, NEW ENGLAND / BOSTON, NEW YORK / BRONX, NEW YORK / BROOKLYN, RUSSIAN, SCANDINAVIAN, SCOTTISH, SOUTHERN, SPANISH
Instruments
ACCORDION, AUTOHARP, BANJO, BASS, BONES, BONGOS, CONGA, DRUMS, FINGER CYMBALS, GUITAR, KAZOO, KEYBOARDS, MANDOLIN, MARACAS, ORGAN, PERCUSSION, PIANO, RECORDER, STAND UP BASS, TAMBOURINE, TROMBONE, UKULELE
Miscellaneous Skills
ASTROLOGER, BARTENDER, CARPENTRY, CHEF, COMEDIAN, DISC JOCKEY, EAR PROMPTER, HOSTING, IMPRESSIONIST, MAGICIAN, MASSEUSE, PUPPETRY, SIGN LANGUAGE, SINGER, STAND-IN EXPERIENCE, TELEPROMPTER, VIDEO GAMES, YO-YO, YOGA
Martial Arts Weapons Training
SWORDS, THROWING KNIVES
Stunts
BOAT DRIVING, DIVING, DOWNHILL BIKING, PRAT FALLS, ROAD DRIVING
Track & Field
DISCUS, JAVELIN, SHOT PUT, TRACK, GENERAL
Cycling
CYCLING, GENERAL, ROAD BIKING
Singing
COUNTRY, FOLK, JAZZ, MUSICAL THEATER, POP, R&B, RAP
Vocal Range
BARITONE, BASS
General Weapons Training
AUTOMATIC WEAPON, CROSS BOW, HANDGUN, LONG BOW, RIFLE
Circus Skills
CLOWN, HULA HOOP, MIME
Horse Riding Skills
BARE BACK, BARREL, HORSEBACK RIDING, GENERAL, JUMP, RODEO, WESTERN
Driving Skills
ATV, MOTORCYCLE, DIRT BIKE, MOTORCYCLE, ROAD BIKE, PRECISION DRIVER, SAILBOAT, STICK SHIFT
Facial Hair
Beard, Goatee, Long Beard, Mustache
Other Experience
ENGAGEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST)
ASH GROVE - LOS ANGELES, CA
BARNEY'S BEANERY - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
BENNY K'S - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
BLUE NOTE - TUCSON, AZ
BOB KENNEY'S FUNNY CAR -AZUSA, CA
BRASS BELL - SANTA MONICA, CA
COMEBACK INN - VENICE, CA
CROWN INN - VENICE, CA
HIGHLAND GROUNDS - HOLLYWOOD, CA
HOTEL CAFE - HOLLYWOOD, CA
JOKER CLUB - N. LAS VEGAS, CA
MAGIC APPLE INN - BURBANK, CA
POPPY'S STAR - ENCINO, CA
ENGAGEMENTS, INTERNATIONAL (PARTIAL LIST)
AMERICAN PARK - EXPO 70 - OSAKA, JAPAN
BANFF CAFE - BANFF, ALBERTA, CANADA
GO DOWN BISTRO - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
THE HIDEOUT - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
THE JOCKEY CLUB - BANGKOK, THAILAND
LE SPOT - VIENTIENNE, LAOS
PATTYA BEACH HOTEL - PATTYA BEACH, THAILAND
THE PUB - BANGKOK, THAILAND
GUEST SETS (PARTIAL LIST)
ADMIRAL RISTY'S - PALOS VERDES, CA
BLA-BLA CAFE - STUDIO CITY, CA
CHEZ VOLTAIRE - BEVERLY HILLS, CA
CHUCK'S STEAKHOUSE - HONOLULU, HI
COMEDY STORE - HOLLYWOOD, CA
NIGHT GALLERY - LAS VEGAS, NV
CROOKED BAR - WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA
GARRET - HOLLYWOOD, CA
HOLE IN THE WALL - BURBANK, CA
HOLY CITY ZOO - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
ICE HOUSE - PASADENA, CA
IMPROV - HOLLYWOOD, CA
IRON WORKS - PALO ALTO, CA
RADIO
ROBERT Q. LEWIS SHOW - KFI, LOS ANGELES, CA
SWINGEROO SHOW - BANGKOK, THAILAND
CONCERTS (PARTIAL LIST)
EXPO 70 WORLD'S FAIR - OSAKA, JAPAN
POP/FOLK 70 - HONG KONG, B.C.C.
RENNAISSANCE FAIRE - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
RENNAISSANCE FAIRE - LOS ANGELES, CA
MEN'S PRISON - LOMPOC, CA
WOMEN'S PRISON - FRONTERA, CA
PUMPKIN FESTIVAL - CALABASAS, CA
CHARACTER VOICES and DIALECTS
SINGER: Bass voice - 3 octave range c2-C
MUSICIAN: 12-String Guitar, Banjo, Stoneman-style Autoharp, Standup Bass
SONGWRITER: Words and Music
Horseback Riding (since 1952)
Motorcycle riding (since 1967)
www.imdb.com/name/nm0032592/
www.imdb.com/name/nm0032592/bio
Trivia: According to the director of Van Nuys Blvd. (1979) on the commentary cut, Aesop hung out with the Manson "family" (Charles Manson, et al) in the 1960s but got out when he realized things were getting too strange. Ironically, the actor later played a Manson-like character in Starsky and Hutch: Bloodbath (1977).
2020 Duck (Short)
Geoff Duckman
2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Old Pioneer (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs") (uncredited)
2018 Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (TV Series)
- Wherever It Leads (2018) ... Volvo Driver (uncredited)
2017 I'm Dying Up Here (TV Series)
- Midnight Special (2017) ... Homeless Guy (as Aesop T. Aquarian)
2016 Chomper (Short)
Chomper
2015 Rough Love (TV Series)
- I Want Sex & Money (2015) ... Herschel
2014 Married (TV Series)
- The Old Date (2014) ... Homeless Man (as Aesop T. Aquarian)
2013 Babylon Beach (Short)
Rabbi Rosenwasser
2013 Sequence (Short)
Bishop O'Shea
2013 Iron Man 3
Village Elder (uncredited)
2012 Dick Little
Homeless Man
2011 GiddyUp, Grandma! (Short)
Noah
2011 Man Without a Head
Bearded Unkempt Man
2011 Jon Benjamin Has a Van (TV Series)
- Road Rage (2011) ... Rabbi Kahn
2008 Ring of Death (TV Movie)
Bearded Convict (uncredited)
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Rabbi (uncredited)
2008 Fix
Bill
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Core - Black Pearl Asian Pirate (uncredited)
2007 Stand Up
Boris Kolenkov, the Russian cab driver
2006 Three Strikes (TV Movie)
Churchgoer (uncredited)
2006 The Unit (TV Series)
- First Responders ... Afghani Backgammon Player (uncredited)
2005 Lincoln's Eyes (Short) (voice)
2004 Hollywood Division (TV Movie)
Hassidic Rabbi (uncredited)
2004 Center of the Universe (TV Series)
Rabbi Zeltzer
- The Break-In ... Rabbi Zeltzer (uncredited)
2004 Target
Homeless Vet
2003 Judging Amy (TV Series)
- Rumspringa ... Grandpa Byler (uncredited)
2000 Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (TV Series)
- Operation Lightspeed (2000) ... Warlock
1986 Body Slam
Man in Wheelchair's Friend (as Steven Morrell)
1985 Inside Out
www.imdb.com/title/tt2674348/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1
1982 Shoot the Moon
Rick (as Stephen Morrell)
1981 Bret Maverick (TV Series)
- Welcome to Sweetwater (1981) ... Virgil Stubbs (as Stephen Morrell)
1980 Galaxina
Chopper (as Stephen Morrell)
1979 Walk Proud
Hippo (as Stephen Morrell)
1979 Van Nuys Blvd.
Biker (as Stephen Morrell)
1978 The Lord of the Rings
Character Actor (voice)
1978 Big Wednesday
Hippie
1978 Loose Change (TV Mini-Series)
Activist speaker (uncredited)
1977 The Rockford Files (TV Series)
- Quickie Nirvana (1977) ... Cook
1977 Barnaby Jones (TV Series)
Brother Free
- Run Away to Terror
1977 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series)
Simon Marcus - Bloodbath
1976 A Star Is Born Recording Engineer - 'Meow-Chow' Catfood Commercial (uncredited)
1976 Phyllis (TV Series)
Episode "Phyllis and the Jumper" Bass
1970 Walk the Walk Pool Player (uncredited)
1970 Black Angels
Singer (uncredited)
www.imdb.com/name/nm5285275/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t28
Diane Linkletter
A.E. England Pontiac- Hollywood & Argle - Hollywood, CA
1968 Art Linkletters "HouseParty" Top Fuel Dragster -on display at A.E. England Pontiac car Dealership
caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1804432.html
Diane Linkletter
derangedlacrimes.com/?tag=diane-linkletter
derangedlacrimes.com/?p=10652
On 4 October 1969, Davis "Ed" Durston resided across the street when Diane Linkletter was "suicided" out the window across the street.
(Autopsy reported Diane Linkletter had no drugs in her system, and Art Linkletter used her death to manifest a politilly backed an anti drug campaign, as he made several appearances on talk shows publicly speaking out about Diane's unfortunate death.
He was good friends with then Governor Ronald Reagan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Durston
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Wayne
Four days after Dianne Linkletter’s suicide another woman committed suicide, this time by overdose. She had told her husband that she was despondent over the Linkletter suicide. The woman, Toni Monti, lived at 1211 Horn Avenue.
@ 1211 Horn Ave, Hollywood, CA
www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-scarlet-linkletter/
www.mansonblog.com/2019/06/mansonblog-tour-2019-whats-with-horn.html
Horn Avenue is where Bernard “Lottsapapa” Crowe was arrested for forgery at the end of March 1970. Crowe, who was arrested with three others, claimed that the apartment at 1211 Horn Avenue was his residence. However, we know that Crowe actually lived on Woodrow Wilson Drive up in Laurel Canyon.
www.mansondirect.com/police-report-tate-1st.html
www.mansondirect.com/police-reports.html
At 2200 hours, Abigail Folger's mother telephoned Abigail from San
Francisco. She called to verify the fact that Abigail was flying to San
Francisco to see her on the 1000 flight on 8-9-69. The visit was to
unite the two for Abigail's birthday. During the telephone conversation,
Abigail sounded a little "high" but did not express any alarm or anxiety
as to her personal safety or the situation at the Polanski house.
Investigation disclosed that when Frykowski departed from the
Polanski residence at approximately 1505 he drove directly to the Jay
Sebring residence. At that location he picked up a Miss Suzan
Peterson, who had been Jay Sebring's companion for the preceeding
night. Frykowski drove Suzan to the art gallery operated by
Kaczanowski a t 9406 Wilshire Boulevard. The purpose of this trip was
to obtain a key for the Woodstock house; Abigail Folger had
Frykowski's key at the time.
At the gallery there was a short conversation between Frylkowski and
Kaczanowski and Kaczanowski was invited by Frykowski to come up to
the Polanski residence that night. It was ascertained that Kaczanowski
did not have the key to the Woodstock house in his immediate
possession, but the key was at his girlfriend's, Christina Lerewska's,
house.
While Frykowski and Kaczanowski were conversing at the gallery,
Suzan Peterson was browsing in a dress shop adjacent to and
connected with the gallery. During this time, she conversed with
Christina's mother, and during the conversation it was ascertained that
Suzan Peterson spoke French and that she intimated that she was
going to the Polanski house that night.
Kaczanowski and Suzan were driven to Christina's house by Frykowski.
The key to the Woodstock house was obtained from Christina and
Kaczanowski was returned to the gallery.
Peterson and Frykowski went to the Woodstock house. As they entered
the house, Frykowski obtained the mail, among which was a music
album. They played the album and looked around the house,
Frykowski explaining to Suzan that Kaczanowski was an artist but not
a businessman and there were some disparaging statements made by
Frykowski about Kaczanowski as to the key to the house not being
readily available. He then drove Suzan to her residence on Horn Street
in Hollywood and Frykowski departed.
Suzan had a tentative appointment to call Sebring at 1900 hours, but
after Frykowski deposited her at the Horn address, she became
lonesome or impatient, called a cab, was taken to the Versailles
apartments on Hollywood Boulevard and kept company with a Mr. Rick
Steven. Suzan engaged in some sort of a domestic scene and was
probably under the influence of one or more types of drugs and did not
awaken until 2300 hours. At this time she recalled her tentative date
with Jay Sebring and called his residence. She was informed by Amos,
the butler, that Sebring had gone out.
(Theory - perhaps Diane Linkletter was going to spill the beans on a Bernard Crowe / Ed Durston's global Credit Card/ Airline Ticket Fraud ring operated by Ed Durston and others at 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood - (smells like a NSA/CIA human /drug trafficking operation to me)
By June 1970 a major Airline Ticket Fraud ring was busted operating out of 1211 Horn Ave, Hollywood, CA
^ CHECK OUT the participants
David P Marsh 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Stephen E Pankey - 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Lynda Faye Cody - 1211 Horn Ave, West Hollywood, CA
Dennis Blum - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
Jack R Mirsky - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
( and Joel J Rostau - 840 Larrabee, West Hollywood, CA
Charles R Newsome - 2252 N. Gower, Hollywood, CA
Joe H Guntman - 14045 oxnard St, Van Nuys, CA
Bruce Glateman 20063 Calvert, Woodland Hills, CA
they lived at 1211 Horn Avenue. They are David P. Marsh, 23; Stephen E. Pankey, 26; Linda Faye Cody,22. That’s very same address that Lottsapapa was using for his forgery business. Since it was an apartment building it’s more than likely that they lived in different apartments.
Another two people in that group, Dennis A. Blum, 23, and Jack R. Mirsky, 23, lived at 840 Larrabee Street. This was the same address that Joel Rostau gave when he reported a break-in at his apartment back in March 1969. Rostau was living a couple of blocks over at 999 Doheny when he was murdered in May 1970.
Another two people in that group, Dennis A. Blum, 23, and Jack R. Mirsky, 23, lived at 840 Larrabee Street. This was the same address that Joel Rostau gave when he reported a break-in at his apartment back in March 1969. Rostau was living a couple of blocks over at 999 Doheny when he was murdered in May 1970.
(V) Looks like stolen jewelry Insurance scam by Rostau
Joe Guntman aka Joe Gunn seemed to be the head of this particular gang of eight people. His own company Shady Productions was located at 8780 Sunset Blvd. which is a block and a half from the intersection of Horn Avenue.
The Los Angeles Times was more forthcoming in naming the entertainers who were busted using the stolen tickets than the Van Nuys Valley News. Some of those in the entertainment industry were 15 people traveling with Carlos Santana who were arrested in New York on their way to London and Linda Ronstadt and five backup musicians were stopped in San Francisco on their way to Honolulu. They said their tickets were given to them by their manager, the tickets were stolen in a robbery in Hollywood on April 27, 1970.
The weekend prior to the arrests of the gang, Eric Burden and War were stopped at the Anchorage Alaska airport with tickets that were stolen in the Los Angeles area.
A 1972 newspaper article told of a group of people who were arrested back east for stealing and selling airline tickets. In this article the FBI and Interpol joined forces for the arrests because “underworld figures” were using the tickets to smuggle drugs and to unload “millions of dollars in stolen securities throughout Europe.”
The Los Angeles Times was more forthcoming in naming the entertainers who were busted using the stolen tickets than the Van Nuys Valley News. Some of those in the entertainment industry were 15 people traveling with Carlos Santana who were arrested in New York on their way to London and Linda Ronstadt and five backup musicians were stopped in San Francisco on their way to Honolulu. They said their tickets were given to them by their manager, the tickets were stolen in a robbery in Hollywood on April 27, 1970.
The weekend prior to the arrests of the gang, Eric Burden and War were stopped at the Anchorage Alaska airport with tickets that were stolen in the Los Angeles area.
A 1972 newspaper article told of a group of people who were arrested back east for stealing and selling airline tickets. In this article the FBI and Interpol joined forces for the arrests because “underworld figures” were using the tickets to smuggle drugs and to unload “millions of dollars in stolen securities throughout Europe.”
(many still alive)
www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesboroherald/obituary.aspx?n=charles-randall-newsome-randy&pid=145224364
BRUCE GLATEMAN (SHADY PRODUCTIONS / ENCORE INTL. LTD)
rehold.com/Woodland+Hills+CA/CALVERT+ST
martinbiallas.com/file/Bruce-Glatman-Reference.pdf
www.corporationwiki.com/California/Woodland-Hills/encore-intl-ltd/128775210.aspx
More details
www.mansonblog.com/2019/06/mansonblog-tour-2019-whats-with-horn.html
SixtiesRockRules! said...
Now you're getting close to the real motive behind the Tate murders, Deb S. Very good information, and now you might all want to check out zodiackilleridentified.com (if you haven't done so already) to learn the name harvey dareff. Turns out he may well have been at ceilo drive on august 8th, 1969 to sell or purchase drugs. Was dareff an associate of joel rostau? We will likely never know the answer to that, but we DO know he was dianne linkletter's live-in boyfriend in the summer of 1969. This whole angle regarding linkletter's and durston's friendship with several of the Tate victims, not to mention its possible connection to linkletter's odd "suicide", deserves way more attention from TLB researchers than it has thus far been given.
June 10, 2019 at 12:39 AM
Now you're getting close to the real motive behind the Tate murders, Deb S. Very good information, and now you might all want to check out zodiackilleridentified.com (if you haven't done so already) to learn the name harvey dareff. Turns out he may well have been at ceilo drive on august 8th, 1969 to sell or purchase drugs. Was dareff an associate of joel rostau? We will likely never know the answer to that, but we DO know he was dianne linkletter's live-in boyfriend in the summer of 1969. This whole angle regarding linkletter's and durston's friendship with several of the Tate victims, not to mention its possible connection to linkletter's odd "suicide", deserves way more attention from TLB researchers than it has thus far been given.
June 10, 2019 at 12:39 AM
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Below is the complete article:
Letter-Writer Links Frazier and ‘Zodiac’
By Duane Sandul, Tribune Staff Writer [10]
The Zodiac killer also was an accomplice of John Linley Frazier in the mass murders of Soquel eye surgeon Victor Ohta and four others on Oct. 19, 1970, a woman from Woodland Hills claims in a letter to the Tribune.
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The woman, Mrs. Marie Vigil, asked the Tribune to forward the letter to Frazier’s attorney.
She said that Dr. Ohta once prescribed glasses for the Zodiac killer, sought for multiple murders in San Francisco. Mrs. Vigil identified the Zodiac killer as Robert Linkletter and said she saw Linkletter with Frazier before the Ohta murders.
She said she knew Linkletter as a man who has been killing since 1966 but declined to elaborate in a telephone conversation with the Tribune from her San Fernando Valley home. She said she had not intended her letter to become public information but as “confidential” to the defense.
James Jackson, attorney for Frazier, said last night the letter writer “probably is eccentric,” but that he would have an agent “check out the letter.”
“I’ve received seemingly wild letters before which indeed did help produce witnesses,” Jackson said. He added he had received other letters linking the Zodiac killer with Ohta.
The typewritten letter claims that the Zodiac killer also is one of the killers of Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas. Charles Manson and his “family” were convicted for those murders earlier this year.
When the Tribune spoke with Mrs. Vigil, she declined to discuss specifics “over the telephone.”
Frazier’s trial, shifted to Redwood City from Santa Cruz by order of the California Supreme Court, ended Wednesday. The four-man, eight-woman jury which must decide his guilt or innocence will begin deliberations Friday.
Frazier has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity.
Mrs. Vigil, who said she is over 50 years old, told the Tribune she had reported her information to police departments linking the Zodiac killer with Frazier although she wouldn’t say which police departments.
Sgt. Frank Witt of the Woodland Police Department told the Tribune police have no record of Mrs. Vigil filing a report with them.
Asked why she thought Frazier and the Zodiac killer are accomplices, Mrs. Vigil said, “Because they were together.” She added, “I’ve seen them; they were in Woodland Hills.”
She would give no further information about her acquaintance with the “Zodiac killer.”
Excerpts from the letter:
“I do have some information about the accomplice of Frazier. He is Robert Linkletter, one of the killers of Miss Tate, La Bianca never brought to trial here, the killer who lost one pair of glasses the night of the Tate killings.
“Less than one month prior to the execution of Dr. and Mrs. Ohta and three other people, Robert was with them here one Sunday pointing me out to them because I knew those glasses did belonged (sic) to him. Dr. Ohta must have prescribed them. A few days later, I was to see Robert again with Frazier driving a light-colored van, kind of old. Robert was driving, was also wearing a blonde wig and some round oversized glasses with pink lenses …
“If the two daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Ohta know of some connection with their father and Robert Linkletter, their lives are in danger …. [11]
“… This killer has been dropping bodies since 1966, a knife killing in Riverside he has admitted. He moves constantly from San Diego to the High Sierra killing here and there. He must believe the Law and Order is willing to cover up all of his murders
Sincerely,
Mrs. Marie P. Vigil” [12]
According to the above excerpts, Robert Linkletter had a discussion with Dr. and Mrs. Ohta on a Sunday in late September. Mrs. Vigil apparently was not part of this discussion but somewhere nearby, close enough so that Robert could point her out as someone who knew about the glasses at the Tate house. A few days later she saw him with Frazier.
The last paragraph says he “has been dropping bodies since 1966, a knife killing in Riverside he has admitted.” On October 30, 1966, Cheri Jo Bates, a student of Riverside Community College, was brutally beaten and stabbed to death. One month later, nearly identical typewritten letters were mailed to the Riverside police and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, titled “The Confession,” describing how he killed her. A third letter, handwritten, was sent to Cheri Jo’s father, Joseph Bates. It said, “Bates had to die, there will be more,” and it was signed with the letter “Z.” Going on an anonymous tip, Paul Avery wrote an article for the San Francisco Chronicle on November 16, 1970, linking the Zodiac to the Bates murder. Five months later, on March 13, 1971, the Zodiac mailed a letter to the Los Angeles Times acknowledging he had indeed killed Bates.
Avery further said in his article that a janitor found a poem carved into the bottom side of a desktop in the Riverside College library. [13] Its language and handwriting resembled that of the Zodiac. Titled “Sick of living/unwilling to die,” it was signed with the initials rh. It is possible that the h was originally an l. There are three h’s in the poem. The first two were made with a continuous motion without lifting the pen, and the descending part of the arch ends at, or near, the baseline. Unlike the first two h’s, the slight overlap of the left foot of the arch on the vertical line in the third h indicates a two-step operation. Furthermore, the termination of the descending part of the arch in the first two h’s have an assurance that is lacking in the third h, with the right side of the arch trailing hesitantly below the baseline. Since Sherwood Morrill saw distortion and disguise in the formation of letters in the letter to Joseph Bates, the initials at the end of the desktop poem might been subjected to the same treatment to disguise the writer’s identity.
First h Second h initials
Vigil said that Robert travelled constantly between San Diego and the High Sierra. In the second letter that will be quoted below, he is said to have sometimes stayed with his sister at Lake Tahoe and that he was a member of the Sierra Club. His parents often spent their weekends at a skiing cabin in Alpine Meadows.
Six weeks prior to the Ohta massacre, on September 6, 1970, Donna Lass, a nurse at the Sahara Tahoe hotel and casino, disappeared. Six months later, the Zodiac sent a postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle claiming responsibility for the nurse’s disappearance. The postcard was a collage featuring a scene from an advertisement for Forest Pines condominiums in Incline Village and pasted letters and texts from magazines including one that read “Sierra Club.”
Vigil wrote her second letter on November 21, 1971 to Judge Charles Franich, the presiding judge of the Frazier trial, forwarded through the Redwood City Tribune. [14] Apparently it never appeared in print, and its contents are only known through Mae Brussell. She read excerpts on two of her programs, sometimes word for word, sometimes paraphrasing, in order to leave out information she wanted to keep confidential. Below is one excerpt:
“The Los Angeles Times of today finally had a story about the trial and murder of the Ohtas and their secretary. You asked if I was certain it was John Frazier who was with Robert Linkletter. They were here in Woodland Hills less than a month prior to those killings. He looked exactly like Frazier, when they were arrested, except for one thing. He also wears glasses. About the van, there were two people in the car and it was Robert who was driving it. I do not recall something in the newspaper about that at the time.
According to Frazier’s original story, he drove a white van to the Ohta house where he met three persons. They went into the house, while Frazier stood in the driveway. After they came out, Frazier drove Mrs. Ohta’s car. Witnesses saw three people in the car. That leaves one to drive the white van. Probably on the following day, in accordance with Vigil’s letter, two people were in the white van and the other two were in Mrs. Ohta’s car as they drove toward the railroad tunnel.
I have some reason to believe that Robert was driving north just last Thursday. So if you are observant, you will see him snickering in the courtroom to see how his murders are done and taken care of. He is the man that John Frazier is trying to find at the rear of the courtroom. Does Frazier know about the organization of killers called the International White Guard? Does he fear his wife will be killed if he were to name Robert Linkletter and his father as being heavy in this honorable organization of killers?
On the day “Robert was driving north,” Thursday, November 18, the court had gone into recess. Frazier apparently expected to see him prior to the recess. The Los Angeles Times article mentioned in the letter, dated November 21, said, “Frazier’s appearance in court seems strangely in contrast to the magnitude of the crime he is accused of. Much of the time, the 5-foot, 6-inch defendant sits slumped in his chair, turned from the judge and jury, focusing his soft hazel eyes impassively toward the rear of the sparsely occupied courtroom.”
Linkletter might have been in the back of the courtroom on Monday to hear the closing arguments. He might have been “snickering” as the jury convicted Frazier of mass murder on November 29. Ten days later, the same jury declared him legally sane, leaving the way clear for the judge to impose the death penalty on December 30. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment after the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on February 18, 1972.
Robert was also identified as the Zodiac by his sister three days before her death. She had read his first message, that was partly coded. I never believed that she committed suicide any more than her brother-in-law, John Zweyer, did. He had been shot by Robert. These two were witnesses the night of the Tate murders. John did turn down a bribe that was offered to him concerning the killings. These are the kind of killers that this state has been cultivating and nurturing.
Robert is 27. Sometimes he lets his beard grow. He wears a wig, and sometimes he looks almost bald. Within the past two years, I have seen him in all colors and wig lengths. I know him as Robert Linkletter and also as the Zodiac. I drive a school bus in Los Angeles, and I used to see him on Van Nuys and Ventura Boulevards. He sometimes waits for me on Ventura Boulevard, driving on my way to pick up some children from school. He follows behind and then moves to the side until he is sure I recognize him. Someone must know how smart he is.
He stays sometimes at Lake Tahoe with his older sister, who is a widow, and belongs to the Sierra Club, which is interested in the misuse of the environment.
This Robert, may I say, has the eyes and fingerprints that should be checked. Also I believe Dr. Ohta must have prescribed those glasses that were lost the night of the Tate murders.
A plea of not guilty by reason of insanity is no defense at all [referring to Frazier], because of the horror of those murders. They should convict everyone who is brought in before the courts.
Zweyer
John and Dawn Zweyer
John Zweyer married Robert’s older sister Dawn in 1959 at the Westwood Methodist Church in Los Angeles. John was a lieutenant in the Air Force, serving as a public information officer at Stead AFB, just north of Reno, Nevada. After getting out of the Air Force, he and his wife moved to Hollywood where he became an insurance salesman. On July 15, 1969, he died of a gunshot wound to the head beside the swimming pool of their home while his wife was on the phone. The coroner ruled it as “a possible suicide.” Supposedly his failing insurance company was the cause of his depression. A more probable cause for his death was murder.
As read by Mae Brussell, the letter seems to say that Zweyer was a witness the night of the Tate murders. Probably while simultaneously reading aloud and condensing parts of the letter, she had accidentally conflated key sentences and obscured the original message. Perhaps what Vigil actually said was that Zweyer was a witness to the planning stage of the impending massacre, and his refusal to be silenced by a bribe was the reason he had to be killed.
On October 3, three months after her brother-in-law died, Diane Linkletter, a roving Hollywood reporter, left the doctor’s office in a cheerful mood. “Suicide seemed as far from her mind as the sun,” her doctor said afterwards. Later that night, at 3:00 am, her friend Ed Durston got a call from Diane asking him to come to her apartment, which was on the sixth floor of the Shoreham Towers in West Hollywood. He went there and found her to be “extremely emotional, extremely despondent, and very irrational.” Six hours later, while Durston was still there, she called Robert and told him she felt like committing suicide. He told her to calm down and said that he would be right over. Robert then spoke to Durston and asked if he could handle her until he got there. He said he could. For a few moments, Diane seemed to relax and even seemed cheerful. Then without warning, she rushed toward the kitchen window. Durston tried to grab the belt loop of her dress but could not prevent her from jumping out. Robert arrived on the scene shortly after the ambulance took her away. A private funeral service was scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, but Robert, his father, and his mother did not attend, having gone into seclusion at their cabin at Lake Tahoe.
According to Vigil, Diane Linkletter died because of what she knew about the Tate murders. She certainly had a connection to the Sharon Tate milieu. Her name was in the address book of Abigail Folger, one of the five victims killed at the Tate house. Diane’s live-in boyfriend of several months, Harvey F. Dareff, allegedly went to the Cielo house on August 8, shortly before the massacre, to buy or sell drugs. [15]
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Investigators feel Dareff is a good suspect as some information has been received indicating
he may have gone to the Cielo residence on the evening of 8-8-69, to possibly buy or sell
some form of narcotics.
he may have gone to the Cielo residence on the evening of 8-8-69, to possibly buy or sell
some form of narcotics.
A Los Angeles Police Department homicide lieutenant admitted to UPI reporter Vernon Scott, “Yes, Diane Linkletter knew Abigail Folger, and probably was an acquaintance of Sharon Tate.” Diane’s friend, Ed Durston, knew Polish filmmaker Voityck Frokowski, another victim in the Tate house. According to Vernon Scott, “Only one element ties the death of Miss Linkletter with the multiple murders in the canyon home of Miss Tate and her director husband, Roman Polanski – drugs.” The article again quotes the lieutenant regarding this Hollywood subculture, describing it as “a patchwork of peripheral celebrities such as Sebring and Miss Tate, offspring of movie stars and jet setters, hangers-on (Frokowski) and the cast-off children of the big rich. . . . The Hollywood-oriented 600 to 800 go in for bigger kicks, the eerie, weird and freaked-out. They are not militants, protestors or idealists. They groove to their own bag and stick together in the event of a bad trip.”
According to Art Linkletter, his daughter was going with a group that was experimenting with drugs and died from the effects of ingesting LSD. He blamed LSD advocate Timothy Leary and the music industry, particularly the Beatles, for fostering a tolerance for dangerous drugs. The drug-induced suicide version of his daughter’s death was later contradicted by the autopsy report. Coroner Thomas Noguchi said, “We have not been able to pick up any trace of lysergic acid, heroin, marijuana, any narcotics or alcohol in the body of Diane Linkletter at this time.”
Monti
The day after Diane’s funeral, October 8, Toni “Connie” Monti, apparently depressed by the death of Diane, took her own life with an overdose of pills, according to her husband Nick Monti. He said he and his wife were friends of Miss Linkletter. This was contradicted by Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Griffin, who said, “There was no indication she even knew the Linkletter girl.” Connie’s mother disputed the suicide version of her daughter’s death and said she never took drugs and would never consider taking her own life. Perhaps the true reason behind her death is the fact that she lived in an apartment across the street from Shoreham Towers at 1211 N. Horn Ave. From this vantage point, she might have seen Diane’s fatal plunge. An interesting coincidence is that Ed Durston also lived at 1211 N. Horn Ave. [16]
According to Vigil, Diane identified her brother as the Zodiac three days before her death and read the “first message, that was partly coded”. Her discovery would have been several days after the slaying of a woman and the severe wounding of a man at Lake Berryessa on September 27. The weekend following Diane’s death, the Zodiac killed cab driver Paul Stine in San Francisco on October 11. The “first message, that was partly coded” had a 408-character cryptogram and was sent to three newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area on August 1. Three days later, a Vallejo newspaper dated August 4, printed the contents of a letter mailed to the San Francisco Examiner, which said, “This is the Zodiac speaking,” the first time the Zodiac name become public. Four days later Manson sent four of his followers to the home of Sharon Tate. Linkletter was also at the Tate house that fatal night and somehow lost his glasses. As mentioned earlier, the right temple stem of the glasses found at the Tate house was lower than the left. A picture of Linkletter showing both ears appears in the Minnesota Star Tribune on November 19, 1965. Since newspaper editors sometimes reverse pictures for various reasons, I have taken the liberty of changing the picture to an alternative orientation. It shows the right ear lower than the left.
RL 1965 front view
Robert Linkletter was born in San Francisco on October 15, 1944. He was a “free-spirited, curious explorer,” according to his brother Jack, very capable of designing and making things. As a teenager, he built his own electric guitar, when his father refused to buy him one. He went to Santa Monica City College, where he acted in a musical comedy. His goal was to become a theater arts major at the University of Southern California and then become an actor. Instead of going to college, he became the guitarist for a surfing music band, called the Cornells. From December 1962 to November 1963, the band released four singles and one record. In May 1963, it appeared on a television show called “I’ve Got a Secret.” Their secret was “We’re all the sons of Hollywood celebrities.”
Linkletter went into the Air Force, spending some time in Australia. During the last six months of his enlistment, he was at Sheppard Air Force base in Wichita Falls, Texas. At that time, war protest songs such as Barry Maguire’s “Eve of Destruction” and Bob Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind” were becoming popular. Linkletter believed such songs, put out by “radical nuts,” had a depressing effect not only on military morale, but also on the nation as a whole, even to the extent of causing the Watts riot of 1965. He also hated “long-haired freaks” like the Beetles. When he left the Air Force in October 1965, he began a nationwide tour singing songs with a “positive” outlook, speaking out against war protesters, and urging people not to give in to the demoralizing influence of those dominating the pop music field.
From Detroit Free Press, November 26, 1965
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