found: His The Marilyn Monroe story, 1953.
found: Up late with Joe Franklin, 1995:CIP t.p. (Joe Franklin) galley (b. Joseph Fortgang, March 29, 1926, though some publicity releases listed later years, like 1928)
found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-27(b. 1930)
found: New York times (online), viewed Jan. 26, 2015(in obituary published Jan. 24: Joe Franklin; b. Joe Fortgang, Mar. 9, 1926, the Bronx; d. Saturday [Jan. 24, 2015], Manhattan, aged 88; became a New York institution by presiding over one of the most compellingly low-rent television programs in history, one that even he acknowledged was an oddly long-running parade of has-beens and yet-to-bes interrupted from time to time by surprisingly famous guests)