How the Cannibals From New Guinea Ate the Heir to the Rockefeller’s Fortune

23-year-old Michael Rockefeller literally disappeared without a trace in 1961

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
4 min readMar 12, 2021

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One of the last photos of Michael Rockefeller surrounded by locals (Photo By Jan Broekhuijse)

Michael Clark Rockefeller (1938–1961) was the son of a Governor of New York and future Vice President of the United States of America Nelson Rockefeller. Michael was also a grand-grandson of John D…

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