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On October 4, 1969, Diane Linkletter, a 20-year-old aspiring actor, jumped from her apartment window and fell several stories. Within hours of her death, her father, the popular radio and television host Art Linkletter, proposed that the most probable cause of death was the serotonergic hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), which he alleged had led to a “bum trip” and nervous breakdown 6 months earlier. Mr. Linkletter further speculated that she had likely been intoxicated with LSD when she jumped to her death, because she was “not herself” at the time (even though toxicology reports and a personal account of her behavior prior to the fall indicated that no drugs were in her system) (Bleeker 2016). This event, following on the heels of the horrific Manson Family murders earlier that year, which had also been reputed to implicate repeated LSD use, shook the nation.
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