- After television career ended, went into business, serving as president of Linkletter Enterprises, a developer of commercial and industrial real estate. Also operated a private investment fund and was a motivational speaker.
- Graduate of the University of Southern California with a degree in English.
- Older brother of Diane Linkletter, Robert Linkletter, Dawn Linkletter and Sharon Linkletter.
- Youngest of the five children, sister Diane Linkletter, leaped to her death from a high-rise apartment window in 1969 at age 20. Her death was widely reported in the media at the time, and her father blamed her death on LSD. There is, however, no proof that Diane took LSD on the day she died. All available evidence suggests that she was a despondent woman and that her death was a suicide rather than a drug-related accident. Nevertheless, shortly thereafter, Art Linkletter became a prominent anti-drug campaigner.
- Hosted seven television shows throughout his career, including Hootenanny (1963), Here's Hollywood (1960) and America Alive! (1978). He also hosted a number of well-known special events and pageants, including the Miss Universe Pageant (1965), events for the World's Fair and many parades.
- Son of Art Linkletter and Lois Foerster.
- Owned a firm which developed and operated commercial and industrial real estate.
- As a boy, Jack provided the inspiration for his father's most famous The Linkletter Show (1952) routines: interviewing young children. Art got such a kick one day after asking Jack how his first day of kindergarten went that he played his interview with Jack on his "Who's Dancing Tonight?" Sunday-night interview show in San Francisco. Once "House Party" began, Art started interviewing four children between the ages of 4 and 10 during the last five minutes of each show, about 27,000 children over the years.
- Hosted "On the Go," a daytime human-interest show in which he and a video crew visited various locales for behind-the-scenes stories.
- Linkletter was an English major at the University of Southern California in 1958 when he began hosting the NBC-TV prime-time summer-replacement quiz show Haggis Baggis (1958).
- At 15, he began doing an interview show for CBS Radio, which was soon followed by an hour-long program called Teen Time, that featured records and stunts.
- Oldest of the five children of Art Linkletter. He was said to have been inspired to enter show business by his famous father's show, The Linkletter Show (1952). He died at age 70 with both parents outliving him.
- Was a licensed pilot and flew to many of his business meetings throughout the western United States.
- Nephew of Laura Ann Linkletter.
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