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Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's son, Michael Rockefeller, disappeared in New Guinea in November 1961

Rockefeller's boat capsized while on an excursion, and he decided to try to swim to shore

The anthropology enthusiast was never seen again, and many believe that he either drowned or was killed

Michael Rockefeller went missing over 60 years ago, and his body has never been found.

The son of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and an heir to the Rockefeller fortune, the 23-year-old Harvard graduate was on an expedition to New Guinea when he disappeared. A lifelong lover of art, Rockefeller had joined a group of explorers and anthropologists from around the world in hopes of collecting pieces to display at his father’s Museum of Primitive Art.

In May 1961, Rockefeller

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