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“Kilgallen was found dead on the 3rd floor of the 5-story apartment on Nov. 8, 1965, by her hairdresser, Marc Sinclair,” Dean wrote. “She was found to have alcohol and barbiturates in her system...
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- Dorothy Kilgallen’S Investigation Into JFK’s Death
- The Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen
Born on July 3, 1913, Dorothy Kilgallen had a reporter’s nose from the beginning. Her father was a “star reporter” with the Hearst organization and Kilgallen followed in his footsteps. She cut her teeth by covering big stories of her day, including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign in 1932 and the 1935 trial of Richa...
For 18 months, Dorothy Kilgallen set out to learn all she could about the Kennedy assassination. She found the Warren Commission’s 1964 conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had killed the president alone “laughable” and set her sights on Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, who’d murdered the assassin on live television two days after Kennedy’s death. During R...
On Nov. 8, 1965, almost two years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead at her East 68th Street townhouse. She was discovered sitting in bed, wearing nothing but a blue bathrobe, false eyelashes, and a floral hair accessory. A week later, The New York Timesreported that the 52-year-old journalist had die...
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San Diego 8-year Dorothy Kilgallen probe. Part II — Murder Investigation March 2024 Updated
An author who’s published multiple books regarding the death of reporter and TV star Dorothy Kilgallen has asked a judge for permission to exhume her body in an effort to gather DNA evidence to prove what he believes may have been foul play.
Her television career began when she appeared on the first panel of the quiz show WHAT'S MY LINE in 1950. Dorothy Kilgallen was known for her tough reporting style, her stylish dress and her caustic commentary on notables of the day. She died on November 8, 1965.
In this edition of A New York State of Crime, Alicia illuminates a Dominick-adjacent story, that of the mysterious 1965 death of crime reporter Dorothy Kilgallen. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or the result of her investigation into the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy….
Aug 11, 2019 · Dorothy Killgallen, the reporter who died suddenly at age 52 on Nov. 8, 1965, is seen in an undated photo. Shaw contends, in court papers and his books, that Pataky was helping Kilgallen’s...
