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Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City, c. 1912. Rockefeller created the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 [126] to continue and expand the scope of the work of the Sanitary Commission, [121] which was closed in 1915. [127] He gave $182 million to the foundation, [114] which focused on public health, medical training, and the ...
The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private, John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer 1908–1958, Cary Reich, New York: Doubleday, 1996. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family, Bernice Kert, New York: Random House ...
Rockefeller and President Jimmy Carter in October 1977. Rockefeller died on January 26, 1979, from complications of a heart attack, two years and six days after departing the vice presidency. [142] He was 70. [143] An initial report incorrectly stated that he died at his desk in his office at Rockefeller Center.
The Rockefeller family (/ ˈ r ɒ k ə f ɛ l ər / ROCK-ə-fell-ər) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothers John D. Rockefeller and William A. Rockefeller Jr., primarily through Standard Oil (the predecessor of ...
Nelson Rockefeller’s former aide Megan Marshack didn't shy away from her connection to the former vice president in her self-written obituary. The journalist died at age 70 due to liver and ...
Marshack, an aide to Rockefeller, was with the former VP when he died suddenly in 1979. She later lived and worked as a reporter in Placerville.
Marshack remained largely out of the public eye afterward, and never commented on Nelson Rockefeller; the Rockefellers were reported to have had her sign a non-disclosure agreement. [1] For about a year after Rockefeller died, she dated 68-year-old cartoonist Charles Addams, who lived in the same apartment building as she did. [8]
The oil industry tycoon and his family became a political and financial dynasty, and remain one of the most powerful families in the world today. The Rockefeller File offers a critical look into ...