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Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist.
Dec 26, 2022 · A dogged journalist unafraid to speak truth to power, Kilgallen was deep into her own investigation about the president’s death when she died. She found the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald had killed Kennedy alone “laughable” and spent 18 months speaking to sources and digging into the assassination.
Considered by some to be the greatest woman reporter of her era, Dorothy Kilgallen was born in 1913, the daughter of famous journalist James Lawrence Kilgallen and Mae Ahern Kilgallen, an attractive red-head who at one time had a promising career as a singer.
Nov 2, 2022 · As reported in The New York Times, Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead in her New York five-story townhouse on November 8, 1965, just hours after filming what would be her last-ever episode of "What's My Line?" Though Kilgallen's death was originally ascribed to "natural causes," a later medical report argued that the famous journalist and TV star ...
Nov 22, 2021 · Columnist and investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen covered numerous big stories from the 1940s through the 1960s. But her death by overdose in 1965 while investigating the John F. Kennedy assassination remains a subject of controversy.
For five decades and counting, the exhaustive 18-month investigation of the JFK assassination by Dorothy Kilgallen has been buried due to a cover-up by those threatened with a tell-all book she was writing for Random House.
Jan 13, 2017 · Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most powerful voices in America. She had a role on the popular TV show, “What’s My Line,” and she was a journalist who wrote an insightful gossip column. She especially loved covering high profile murder trials.
Investigator of the Kennedy assassination; friend of Frank Sinatra and confidante of Johnnie Ray, Dorothy Kilgallen was as enigmatic as she was versatile. What exactly did she know about Jack Ruby? And how did she die?
May 24, 2017 · At a time when few women had a career, Dorothy Mae Kilgallen had several; she broke the glass ceiling without even knowing it was there. She was a television and radio star, syndicated columnist, journalist, author and, of most significance to her – a crime reporter.
Jul 3, 2013 · Born 100 years ago today, Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most outspoken journalists of mid-20th-century America. In New York society and across the U.S., she was known to have an opinion on...
