abstract:Michael Clark Rockefeller (born May 18, 1938; presumed to have died November 17, 1961) was the youngest son of New York Governor (later Vice President) Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and Mary Todhunter Rockefeller and a fourth generation member of the Rockefeller family. He disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea.
He had Herms ties, a midtown Manhattan apartment with a doorman and skyline views, and a circle of powerful friends, among them technology entrepreneur MichaelRockefeller and real estate developer William Zeckendorf.