Editing Art Linkletter (section)

==Personal life==
[[Image:ArtLinkletter.PNG|right|thumb|Linkletter on ''The [[Jack Benny]] Show'']]
Linkletter had one of the longest marriages of any well-known person in America, at nearly 75 years. It was the longest [[Hollywood marriage]] of all time (prior to his death), and it currently ranks as the third-longest Hollywood marriage of all time. He married Lois Foerster on November 25, 1935, and they had five children: [[Jack Linkletter|Arthur Jack]] (known as Jack), Dawn, Robert, Sharon and [[Diane Linkletter|Diane]]. Lois Foerster Linkletter survived her husband by sixteen months, dying at the age of 95 on October 11, 2011. They outlived three of their five children.

On October 4, 1969, 20-year-old Diane died after jumping out of her sixth-floor kitchen window.<ref name="LinkletterTIME"/> Linkletter claimed that her death was drug-related because she was on, or having a [[LSD flashback|flashback]] from, an [[LSD]] [[Psychedelic experience|trip]] (toxicology tests later determined there were no drugs in Diane's system at the time of her death).<ref name="foxnews"/> After Diane's death, Linkletter spoke out against drugs to prevent children from straying into a drug habit.  On October 24, 1969, he said "Anybody who has said anything which would encourage my daughter to take LSD was unwittingly a part of being her murderer."<ref>{{cite web|author=Gilliland, John. |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692054/m1/#track/4 |title=Pop Chronicles Interviews #129 – Art Linkletter – All Tracks UNT Digital Library |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |date=1969 |accessdate=2021-02-09}}</ref> His record, "We Love You, Call Collect", recorded before her death, featured a discussion about permissiveness in modern society, along with a rebuttal by Diane, titled "Dear Mom and Dad". The record won a [[12th Grammy Awards|1970 Grammy Award]] for the "Best Spoken Word Recording".<ref name="foxnews">{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tv-show-host-art-linkletter-dies-at-97/ |title=TV Show Host Art Linkletter Dies at 97|date=May 26, 2010|website=[[Fox News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203193317/http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/05/26/tv-host-art-linkletter-passes-away/|access-date=November 14, 2012|url-status=live |archive-date=December 3, 2010}}</ref>

Son Robert Linkletter died in an automobile accident on September 12, 1980.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/13/archives/car-crash-kills-robert-linkletter.html?sq=diane%2520linkletter&scp=9&st=cse Obituary: "Robert Linkletter"] ''The New York Times.'' September 13, 1980</ref> Another son, [[Jack Linkletter]], died from [[lymphoma]] in 2007.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/21/arts/television/21linkletter.html?scp=1&sq=jack%20linkletter&st=cse Obituary: "Jack Linkletter, Second-Generation TV Host, Dies at 70"], ''The New York Times'', December 21, 2007.</ref>

In early 2008, Linkletter suffered a mild [[stroke]]. He died on May 26, 2010, at age 97 at his home in [[Bel Air, Los Angeles, California|Bel Air, Los Angeles]], California.<ref name="NYTobit"/><ref name="LATimesobit"/><ref name="LinkletterCNN" >{{cite news
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  | date=May 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>
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  | title = TV Show Host Art Linkletter Dies at 97
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  | work = [[Fox News]]
  | url = https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/tv-show-host-art-linkletter-dies-at-97/
  | access-date = May 26, 2010
  | date=May 26, 2010}}</ref>

After his death, [[Phyllis Diller]] stated, "In a couple of months Art Linkletter would have been 98 years old, a full life of fun and goodness, an orphan who made it to the top. What a guy."<ref name="foxnews" />