FBI file on missing actress, 1949

Posted on October 12, 2008 by lmharnisch

Excerpts from Jean Spangler file

Mother of missing actress wrote letter to President Truman asking for help.
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Photograph by Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times
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 Steven Bibb passes along the FBI’s slim file on Jean Spangler, 14 pages, he says. Most of it consists of memos asking whether the bureau should maintain a missing persons file on her.

However, her mother’s letter to President Truman, written at the suggestion of Ronald Reagan, is an undiscovered treasure, full of heartbreak.

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1 Response to FBI file on missing actress, 1949

  1. Amy Disch's avatar Amy Disch says:
    October 12, 2008 at 9:14 am

    Thanks to Steven for sending this and to you for posting it. I had never heard of Jean Spangler. Her disappearance is tragic.

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