Michael Rockefeller - 491
Publisher |
Wondery
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
Society & Culture
True Crime
Categories Via RSS |
Society & Culture
True Crime
Publication Date |
Oct 24, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:58:35

November 19, 1961. Netherlands, New Guinea. Michael Rockefeller, son of former US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, went on an expedition to New Guinea to study the Asmat peoples and to collect art from them. On November 19. 1961 he disappeared after his canoe overturned. With him was a Dutch anthropologist named René Wassing who was rescued hours later. Did Michael Rockefeller drown? Or did something far more sinister happen to him?

Carl Hoffman

Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/What-Really-Happened-to-Michael-Rockefeller-180949813/

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