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Journalist’s tell-all on mobster tied to JFK might have gotten her killed
http://nypost.com ^ | 12/04/2016 | Susan Edelman

Posted on 12/04/2016 9:25:28 AM PST by heterosupremacist

On the night before her shocking death, Dorothy Kilgallen, a star panelist on the hit TV game show “What’s My Line?” correctly guessed the occupation of a mystery guest: a woman who sold dynamite.

The glamorous, razor-sharp Kilgallen delighted viewers, but behind the scenes, the dogged and courageous reporter was hot on the trail of the biggest story of her life: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The morning after that show, on Nov. 8, 1965, the 52-year-old newspaper columnist hailed by The Post as “the most powerful female voice in America” was dead in her Manhattan town house. Her body was found sitting up in a bed, naked under a blue bathrobe, with the makeup, false eyelashes and a floral hair accessory she had worn on TV still on.

After an autopsy, the city’s chief medical examiner, James Luke, put on Kilgallen’s death certificate: “Acute Ethanol and Barbiturate Intoxication, Circumstances Undetermined.” Luke ruled her death accidental, caused by a combination of sleeping pills and booze.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 19631122; dallas; dorothykilgallen; jfk; jfkmurder; johnfkennedy; johnkennedy; kennedy; kilgallen; killedbythemob; media; texas; whatsmyline
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To: heterosupremacist
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1BAbMY73U762xD2H9yKW8B8wRSb5D_oIp9n7e5Z3C3rZvdjru"> Dorothy Kilgallen
2 posted on 12/04/2016 9:28:20 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist
Dorothy Kilgallen
3 posted on 12/04/2016 9:29:33 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: heterosupremacist

I have an article which says she was found in a bed that she never used, holding a book that she had told her friends she finished weeks ago.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 9:30:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: heterosupremacist

Glamourous??? I remember this like it was yesterday.....I don’t think the mob boss had anything to win, but LBJ sure did!!


5 posted on 12/04/2016 9:30:44 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: heterosupremacist

I remember her death. I always watched “What’s My Line?” every Sunday night with my mother.

Bennett Cerf is deceased now, too, ditto for Arlene Francis and John Charles Daly.

I would think that Cerf’s “Random House” would have been Dorothy’s publisher. Perhaps some of her notes could be located there.


6 posted on 12/04/2016 9:33:39 AM PST by onyx (CELEBRATE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP'S VICTORY DONATE MONTHLY or JOIN CLUB 300!)
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To: heterosupremacist

More of this crap. Get lost.

Oswald did it. Alone. Case closed.


7 posted on 12/04/2016 9:36:45 AM PST by Az Joe (11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
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To: heterosupremacist
New Orleans Mafia don Carlos Marcello

My wife was his daughter's best friend back in the day. She has some stories to tell that are very interesting.

8 posted on 12/04/2016 9:37:31 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: heterosupremacist

The Commie did it, end of story.


9 posted on 12/04/2016 9:38:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: heterosupremacist

I’d hit it.


10 posted on 12/04/2016 9:40:11 AM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: heterosupremacist

That was when journalism meant something.


11 posted on 12/04/2016 9:41:39 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Robert DeLong

too many people with motive to kill the kennedys. Bobby Kennedy tried to deport Marcello and lost in court. So he had a couple of agents kidnap him off the street an take him to central america, guatemala I think. They took his wallet and it tok him 6 days to get to a city and back to New Orleans.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 9:41:45 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: heterosupremacist

That was when journalism meant something.


13 posted on 12/04/2016 9:41:53 AM PST by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Ann Archy; heterosupremacist

The mob putting out a hit on JFK? But why?

LBJ may make more sense but would LBJ go to such an extent risking getting caught and ruining the rest of his life?

Dunno.

The Lee Harvey Oswald always seemed to me like he was acting alone and there’s no compelling evidence to convince me otherwise. But this Kilgallen thing is interesting.


14 posted on 12/04/2016 9:42:30 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: onyx

The most talked about event in 2000 years since the resurection of the Christ, JFK assination. I can recall that weekend like it was yesterday...


15 posted on 12/04/2016 9:42:46 AM PST by exnavy (this tagline under construction, pardon our dust!)
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To: Ann Archy

FIRST of all, that movie by Stone was hilarious as has been debunked as garbage be reliable writers too many times to count.

Second, who are they going to indict 50 years later.

They’re going to dig up bones and put them in a cell?

I heard that she was found wearing the color YELLOW, which she HATED! /s

If that mafia had killed her, she wouldn’t have been found.

I grew up with them. They don’t want to use their influence with the police and DAs and politicians over nonsense like this.

If they thought she needed to die, she’d be at the bottom of the ocean or chopped up and discarded.


16 posted on 12/04/2016 9:43:30 AM PST by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Jim 0216

Giancana helped Kennedy get elected. The WV primary was crucial and Humphrey was favored. The mob was tied to the unions pension fun and delivered the votes to Kennedy. Joe Kennedy had mob res since he and the Italians split up the scotch and hard liquor business during prohibition.

After they were elected they went after the mafia. Giancana sent Johnny Roselli and another guy to Hyannis Port to talk to Joe Kennedy and remind him the mafia had helped the boys get elected. Roselli was a fixer and planner for the mob. The CIA used him to plot against Castro. He’s the one who came up with trying to poison his cigars.

Joe Kennedy said he would talk to the boys when they came for Christmas, but he had a major stroke and reportedly that conversation never took place.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 9:47:29 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: heterosupremacist

Amazing stuff.


18 posted on 12/04/2016 9:49:23 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: dp0622

..but that’s what THEY want you to think. If she’d have gone missing, it would have drawn attention to the mob. Y=This way it doesn’t — GENIUS!!!!


19 posted on 12/04/2016 9:52:11 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Robert DeLong

It is not as far fetched as it seems. Radical or “revolutionary” groups in the 1960’s and 70’s often interfaced with organized crime. When the “comrades” needed drugs, prostitutes,or guns, they more often than not dealt with organized crime who in those days controlled those markets. Organized crime always had access to information and dealt it for profit. Patty Hearst’s family paid the San Francisco mob for information about their kidnapped daughter.Suspect they came to learn more than they cared to know.


20 posted on 12/04/2016 9:53:23 AM PST by allendale
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