The Rockefellers were always full of surprises. January 1979 was no exception.
Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States and a member of one of America’s most influential families, died on January 26, 1979, at the age of 70. The official cause of death was a heart attack. In the years that followed, however, the circumstances surrounding his death became the subject of one of the most persistent rumors in modern political history.
Rockefeller suffered the fatal attack at his Manhattan townhouse while accompanied by Megan Marshack, a much younger aide who was helping him with research related to forthcoming art publications. Marshack was present when he became ill and was the one who called for assistance, a fact confirmed by family representatives and contemporary news reports.
What has never been medically established, despite decades of speculation, is the claim that the heart attack occurred during sexual activity. No autopsy report made such a determination, and no physician publicly confirmed the allegation.
Even so, a mix of unusual circumstances, leaked accounts, and intense media attention helped embed the story in the public consciousness.
After Rockefeller’s death, Marshack largely retreated from the spotlight and later worked as a writer and editor. The Rockefeller family consistently maintained that he died of a heart attack and generally declined to comment on the rumors beyond their official statements.
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In 1898, author Morgan Robertson published a novel describing a massive luxury ocean liner that hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks because it carries too few lifeboats. The fictional vessel, named the Titan, closely resembles what would later happen in real life—14 years before the construction of the RMS Titanic.
In 1898, American author and former sailor Morgan Robertson published Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, a novella about a gigantic British passenger liner called the Titan that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks due to a lack of lifeboats. The striking resemblance to the real-life sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, 14 years later, has intrigued readers for more than a century.
In Robertson’s story, the Titan is described as the largest ship ever built, widely regarded as “unsinkable,” and capable of remarkable speed—details that eerily echo how the Titanic was later promoted and perceived.
Despite these apparent parallels, most historians view the similarities as coincidence rather than prophecy. Robertson drew on his maritime background and on real trends in late 19th-century shipbuilding, when ocean liners were rapidly growing in size, speed, and prestige. There were also key differences between the fictional and real disasters, including ship specifications, passenger numbers, and the exact circumstances of the collisions.
Even so, The Wreck of the Titan remains one of the most famous examples of fiction seeming to anticipate a real-world tragedy.