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WINCHELL Walter
Born Walter Winschel.
Date of birth : April 7, 1897, New York City.
Date of death : February 20, 1972, Los Angeles, California (
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Profession gossip columnist and radio personality, influent right-wing reporter; friend of Joe DiMaggio.
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On August 11, 1919 he married in Chicago, Rita Greene. The couple would separated few years later.
In 1923 he married Elizabeth June Magee (September 1905, Mississippi-February 5, 1970, Arizona)
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They had 3 children : Walda Eileen (March 31, 1927, New York-June 30, 1987, Los Angeles)(
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The event benefited to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund.
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On December 19, 1953, Marilyn attended the "8 Ball Welfare Foundation" party, founded by the Los Angeles
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He accompanied DiMaggio on the set of "The Seven Year Itch", during the shooting of the skirt scene, in
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He drove back DiMaggio, angry, at the St Regis Hotel , in New York City.
On October 11, 1953, he accompanied the DiMaggios who attended a base-ball game 
On February 12, 1956, in his radio program (recorded by the FBI), he announced to the whole country that "the most famous blonde of the American cinema has became the left-wing intelligentsia sweetheart which included among its members, some Communist activists".
At the time when Marilyn was with Arthur Miller and he was summoned in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Winchell informed his listeners that through this "appearance, the whole circle of Miller's friends (was about to be examined) which is also Marilyn Monroe close relatives circle, and they are all former Communist sympathizers!".
On August 8, 1962, because he was friend of DiMaggio, he was the only reporter who attended Marilyn's funeral
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In the issue of August 1963 of Photoplay magazine, he developped the allegations published in the foreign press about a "married man" supposedly involved in Marilyn's death. According to the scenario he devlopped, she would have taken too many doses of drugs after having learned that this famous an admired man, at the climax of his career refused to see her again, for ever. This document brought to the right-wing political allies (like Frank A. Capell) a good way to creat doubts about Robert Kennedy.
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