Francis Alphonse Capell (May 8, 1907 – October 18, 1980), was a 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]
He was born on May 8, 1907, in Washington Heights in New York City to Anthony Capelli and Caroline Louisa Brantigam.[9] 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.[10][11] 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][12][13][14] 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][15][16]
A lifelong heavy smoker, Capell died from lung cancer on October 18, 1980, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[17] He was buried in Somerset Hills Cemetery in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.[10]
...the views and opinions of Frank A. Capell, editor and publisher.
… and Francis A. Capell, 57, of Zarephath, N.J., publisher of a rightist newspaper, Herald of Freedom, and author of a pamphlet entitled The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, which suggests that Marilyn met death at the hands of Communists.
In 1943, as an investigator for the War Production Board, Capell was fined $2,000 for 'agreeing to take a gratuity from a clothing manufacturer.'
...and he was "following a lead," says Spoto, that was planted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Frank A. Capell.
... Frank A. Capell is a professional intelligence specialist of almost thirty years standing. He is Editor and Publisher of the fortnightly newsletter, ...
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...
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...
The love affair was first documented by crusading conservative journalist Frank A. Capell in his 1964 book, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe. ...
Frank A. Capell, the right-wing author ...
Capell Employment Agency; 56 Bay Street, Third Floor Staten Island, New York
Two investigators for the War Production Board's compliance division were held in bail of $7,500 each yesterday, after they had been arrested, according to United States Attorney James B.M. McNally, while accepting a bribe of $1,000.
Francis A. Capell, 40, and Richard C. Atherton, 32, investigators for the War Production Board, were arrested in New York today by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of bribery, Director J. Edgar Hoover announced.
The defendant, formerly an investigator in the Compliance Division of the War Production Board, stood trial in the District Court on an indictment charging him in four counts, under the usual conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C.A. 88, with conspiring with Francis A. Capell and Richard C. Atherton, also investigators, to accept bribes in violation of the statute, 18 U.S.C.A. 207. Capell and Atherton had been indicted earlier, but, having pleaded guilty, were not defendants in this case and appeared as witnesses for the government. After a trial to a jury, defendant was convicted and sentenced on all counts, with sentence suspended on all but the first count. Defendant appeals, assigning several errors in the charge, insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, and misconduct of the prosecutor.
Francis. A. Capell, 57, one of four men indicted by the Los Angeles county grand jury for conspiracy to criminally libel Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel ...
Francis A. Capell of Zarephath, N.J., surrendered voluntarily here today to face an indictment charging him and three others with conspiracy to commit criminal libel against Senator Thomas H. Kuchel Republican of California.
He may be addressed as follows: Post Office Box 3, Zarephath, New Jersey 08890.
Mr. Capell is a devout Catholic who is upset over the betrayal of Christian ...
Corso appears to have spread this rumor in conjunction with Frank Capell.
The story is told in detail by the dogged intelligence expert Frank A. Capell, in Henry Kissinger: Soviet Agent...
[Atheism] ... by Frank A. Capell ... not only carries on the struggle against the City of God from outside the walls...
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...
As Frank Capell put it forcefully in the Herald of Freedom (Mar. 20, 1970) "What the United States understands is ... PO Box 3, Zarephath, NJ 08890. ...