Background
He was born on May 8, 1907 in Washington Heights in New York City to Anthony Capelli and Caroline Louisa Brantigam.
He was born on May 8, 1907 in Washington Heights in New York City to Anthony Capelli and Caroline Louisa Brantigam.
He was the publisher of the newsletter Herald of Freedom in Zarephath, New Jersey. He was one of the first writers to speculate on the Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe trysts. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, had Capell"s telephone tapped.
He remarried in 1948 to Adele Irene Neighbor and they raised 7 sons.
He founded The Capell Employment Agency which had 5 offices in New York City. In 1943, while an investigator for the War Production Board, Capell was fined $2,000 for "agreeing to take a $1,000 gratuity from a clothing manufacturer." In 1964, when Thomas Kuchel was campaigning against Barry Goldwater, 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 acting Capell was indicted for the libel along with: Norman H. Krause, 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.
John F. Fergus, a public relations man for Eversharp, Incorporated., who in 1947 was charged with possession of a concealed weapon and given a suspended sentence. Capell died on October 18, 1980 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was buried in Somerset Hills Cemetery in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Kennedy: A Political, 1925-1968 (1968) 19 pages, also known as The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe (1969) 79 pages in which he theorized that she was killed by Communists and was the first book to bring up the Monroe -.