“I Had Hoped He Would Die. I Had Hoped He Would Be Hung.”

Art Linkletter’s daughter Diane plunged to her death from a six-story window in 1969, perhaps influenced to suicide by LSD. Timothy Leary was the most famous proponent of the drug. Talk show host Stanley Siegel, that button-pusher, thought it a good idea in 1977 to have Linkletter and Leary speak by phone on live TV.

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