The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: Dorothy Kilgallen, Jack Ruby, and the JFK Assassination
On November 8, 1965, the most powerful female journalist in America was found deceased in her Manhattan townhouse. She was in the wrong bedroom. Fully dressed with full makeup. A book she'd already finished reading was propped open beside her. No drinking glass anywhere in the room. An unprescribed drug called Tuinal in her bloodstream. And the file she'd been carrying everywhere for 2 years.. her private investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.. was gone. Her name was Dorothy Kilgallen. Ernest Hemingway called her one of the greatest women writers in the world. And she was doing something no other journalist in America had the access or the nerve to do. She covered the Jack Ruby trial from the defense table. She got a private jailhouse interview with Ruby that no other reporter could get. She obtained Ruby's secret Warren Commission testimony and published it before the government released it. She traced Ruby's connections to Carlos Marcello, the boss of the New Orleans Mafia. And she told people she was about to blow the Kennedy assassination wide open. Then she turned up with a staged death scene, a missing file, and a medical examiner who wrote "Circumstances Undetermined." SOURCES: New York Journal-American archives (Kilgallen columns 1963-1965), Warren Commission testimony transcripts (Ruby, June 7 1964), HSCA Final Report (1979), Mark Shaw's "The Reporter Who Knew Too Much" and "Denial of Justice," Lee Israel's "Kilgallen," Memphis Commercial Appeal, Dr. James Luke autopsy report (November 15, 1965), FBI investigative files, HSCA organized crime investigation records, Fort Myers Press archives. #DorothyKilgallen #JFKAssassination #JackRuby #TrueCrime #UnsolvedMurder #WarrenCommission #CarlosMarcello #ColdCase #TrueCrimeDocumentary #AmericasStrangestHistory #Conspiracy #CoverUp #OrganizedCrime #DeepDive 👉 Connect with us: Subscribe: / @americasstrangesthistory Website: http://www.americasstrangesthistory.com/ Email us: [email protected] © America’s Strangest History
