Frank A. Capell

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Francis Alphonse Capell
Capell in c. 1960
Born(1907-05-08)May 8, 1907
Washington Heights
New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 18, 1980(1980-10-18) (aged 73)
New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationsAuthor, pamphleteer, essayist
SpouseAdele Irene Neighbor
Parent(s)Anthony Capelli
Caroline Louisa Brantigam

Francis Alphonse Capell (May 8, 1907 – October 18, 1980) was an American conservative, anticommunist writer and essayist. He was the publisher of the newsletter Herald of Freedom in Zarephath, New Jersey.[1][2][3][4] He was one of the first writers to speculate on the Robert F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe trysts.[5][6][7] Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, had Capell's telephone tapped.[8]

Biography

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He was born on May 8, 1907, in Washington Heights in New York City to Anthony Capelli and Caroline Louisa Brantigam. He married in 1935 and had one daughter. He remarried in 1948 to Adele Irene Neighbor and they raised seven sons. He founded The Capell Employment Agency, which had five offices in New York City.[9] In 1943, while an investigator for the War Production Board, Capell was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $2,000 for "agreeing to take a $1,000 gratuity from a clothing manufacturer."[2][10][11][12] In 1964, when Thomas Kuchel was campaigning against Barry Goldwater, there circulated a "vicious document" that purported to be an affidavit signed by a Los Angeles Police Department officer saying that in 1949 he had arrested Kuchel. The document said the arrest was for drunkenness while Kuchel had been in the midst of a sex act. Capell was indicted for the libel, along with Norman H. Krause, a bar owner and ex-Los Angeles policeman, who in 1950 did arrest two people who worked in Kuchel's office for drunkenness: Jack Clemmons, a Los Angeles police sergeant until his resignation two weeks before his arrest; and John F. Fergus, a public relations man for Eversharp, Inc., who was charged in 1947 with possession of a concealed weapon and given a suspended sentence.[2][13][14]

A lifelong heavy smoker, Capell died from lung cancer on October 18, 1980, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[15] He was buried in Somerset Hills Cemetery in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Selected publications

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Books

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  • The Threat from Within: The Truth about the Conspiracy to Destroy America (1963). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom. 51 pages.
"The American people have the finest country In the world. This has been made possible only because of God's blessing."
  • Treason is the Reason (1965). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom. 168 pages.
  • The Strange Case of Jacob Javits (1966). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom. 71 pages.
  • LSD — Weapon of Subversion (1968). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom.[16]
  • The Untouchables (1968). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom.
  • The Untouchables, Part 2 (1969). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom.
  • The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe (1969). Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom. 79 pages.
Argues that Monroe was killed by Communists. The original exposé of her trysts with Robert F. Kennedy.[2][3][5][6][8]

Pamphlets

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Also published as Robert F. Kennedy: Emerging American Dictator.[21]

Newsletters

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  • Herald of Freedom (biweekly).
Sold for $10/year for the standard edition, and $6/year for the religious edition, in 1970.[1][22][23][24]

References

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  1. ^ a b Muller, Robert H.; Spahn, Theodore Jurgen; Spahn, Janet M.; Spahn, Janet Peterson (1970). From Radical Left to Extreme Right: A Bibliography of Current Periodicals of ... Campus Publishers. ISBN 9780875060118.
  2. ^ a b c d "The Smear". Time. March 5, 1965. Archived from the original on January 5, 2012. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  3. ^ a b Sarah Bartlett Churchwell (2005). The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0805078185. ...and he was "following a lead," says Spoto, that was planted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Frank A. Capell.
  4. ^ American Opinion. John Birch Society. 1973.
  5. ^ a b Laurence Leamer (2002). The Kennedy Men: 1901–1963. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060502886. Two years later Frank A. Capell, a right-wing journalist, published a book in which he alleged that Bobby was having an affair with the actress...
  6. ^ a b "Flashback". Newsweek. 1976. Retrieved 2009-12-14. Frank A. Capell, the right-wing author of The Secret Story of Marilyn Monroe, a book published in 1964 which alleged a relationship between Robert Kennedy...
  7. ^ Peter Harry Brown and Patte Barham (1993). Marilyn: the last take. Mandarin. ISBN 0-7493-1110-X.
  8. ^ a b Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (2005). The Final Days. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743274067.
  9. ^ National directory of employment services. 1962. Capell Employment Agency; 56 Bay Street, Third Floor Staten Island, New York
  10. ^ "Investigators Seized After One, It Is Said, Accepts $1,000 From Garment Maker". The New York Times. September 22, 1943. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  11. ^ "FBI Agents Arrest Two As Bribers". Associated Press in Hartford Courant. September 22, 1943. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  12. ^ "United States v. Wilson". United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  13. ^ "Surrenders On Charges In Kuchel Libel". Chicago Tribune. February 25, 1965. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  14. ^ "Publisher Appears In Coast Libel Case". The New York Times. February 25, 1965. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  15. ^ Social Security Death Index
  16. ^ American Mercury. 1968.
  17. ^ The Cross and the Flag. Christian Nationalist Crusade. 1972.
  18. ^ Coogan, Kevin (1999). Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn: Autonomedia. ISBN 978-1-57027-039-0.
  19. ^ American Opinion. 1976.
  20. ^ Christian Crusade. Christian Nationalist Crusade. 1966. [Atheism] ... by Frank A. Capell ... not only carries on the struggle against the City of God from outside the walls...
  21. ^ Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Jr.). Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  22. ^ Tiger in the Court: Herbert J. Stern. Playboy Press. 1973. The charges against father and son were first aired by Frank Capell, editor of a right-wing "hate-sheet" called Herald of Freedom, published in Zarephath, New Jersey...
  23. ^ The Genocide Convention. United States Government Printing Office. 1982. ISBN 9780828312882.
  24. ^ Morris Kominsky. The Hoaxers: Plain Liars, Fancy Liars, and Damned Liars. Boston: Braden Press. 1970. "Frank A. Capell, alias Francis A. Capelle, has made a career of Red-Baiting forquite a number of years. He edits and publishes a bi-weekly newsletter."
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External audio
audio icon Capell's remarks on the Nixon State Department, at the New England Rally For God Family & Country (1972). Introduction by Scott Stanley.

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