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Searching for sex scandal's Munsinger
The Munsinger affair is big news worldwide. Everyone wants an exclusive with the elusive Gerda Munsinger. Despite offers as high as $35,000 from competing news organizations, Munsinger refuses to give interviews saying she is suffering from "acute, nervous meltdown." CBC reporter David Halton describes the international media frenzy outside her apartment in Munich.Searching for sex scandal's Munsinger
• Charles Lynch, then Southam News Bureau Chief at the time of the scandal, thought the Munsinger affair could have a positive outcome. He thought the scandal may change Canada's "dull and unexciting" image and encourage more tourists to Expo '67.• CBC Television's This Hour Has Seven Days host Laurier LaPierre described Munsinger as a woman who patronized strip joints, loved baseball and dated rich, powerful men including a well-known Montreal gangster.
Also on March 13:
• 1928: Eileen Vollick of Hamilton, Ontario becomes the first Canadian woman to get a private pilot's license. She is 19 years old.
• 1971: Paul Rose is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte. Rose, his brother Jacques, Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie were members of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). They kidnapped Laporte on October 10. His body was found on October 17, 1970. See: October Crisis
• 1989: Deborah Grey wins a by-election in the Alberta riding of Beaver River to become the first member of Parliament for the Reform Party. Grey retired from politics in 2004.
Searching for sex scandal's Munsinger
Medium: Radio
Guest(s):
Reporter: David Halton
Duration: 1:58
Last updated:
March 11, 2008
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Frank Grant, a Star Photographer made first "contact" with Girda... and brought the story to Canada. He was with G/W Photography on Dupont Road... is probably retired now... but he should be interviewed for without his work no one would have heard of her and George Hees might have become Prime Minister.
Submitted by: Bob Hopeless
The ladies best boyfriend might have been Frank Grant... check this out!
Submitted by: Bob Hopeless