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Yep: Sinatra, Jr. kidnapping ‘a trial run for all the weird 60s celebrity insanity that followed’

March 19, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

On December 8th, 1963 Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped at gunpoint from a motel room at Harrah’s Club at Lake Tahoe, where he was performing a string of dates. You must remember this was only around a month after the assassination of President Kennedy, and the live TV murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby. People were FREAKING. American was coming apart at the seams, it seemed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIeViHqkc4

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