Michael Rockefeller | |
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Born | Michael Clark Rockefeller May 18, 1938 |
Disappeared | November 19, 1961 (aged 23) Asmat region of southwestern Dutch New Guinea |
Status | Missing for 62 years, 9 months and 9 days; Declared legally dead in 1964 (aged 25–26) |
Education | Harvard University (AB) |
Parent(s) | Nelson Rockefeller Mary Clark |
Relatives | Rockefeller family |
Michael Clark Rockefeller (May 18, 1938; disappeared November 19, 1961) was a member of the Rockefeller family. He was the son of New York Governor and later U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a grandson of American financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a great-grandson of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Rockefeller disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Dutch New Guinea, which is now a part of the Indonesian province of South Papua. In 2014, Carl Hoffman published a book that included details from the official inquest into the disappearance, in which villagers and tribal elders admitted to Rockefeller being killed after swimming to shore in 1961.[1] No remains of Rockefeller or physical proof of his death have been discovered.