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Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation 's New York Evening Journal.
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.
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?"
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.
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 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.
TV star and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen one of the most feared journalists in history? Why has her threatened exposure of the truth about the JFK assassination triggered a cover-up by at least four government agencies and resulted in abuse of power at the highest levels?
