https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer
Mary Pinchot Meyer is another interesting case.
Still, about Killgallen, I’m not sure why something Ruby told her would have been anything more revealing than he said elsewhere.
There has never been any question about who bumped her off. Even her husband, Cord Meyer of the CIA, knew they did it. She was a paramour of JFK. She was the First Lady when Jackie wasn't in town. They tried to pin the crime on some poor black guy on his lunch break but that didn't work.
People in DC knew exactly what was going on when they read in the paper that she had been assassinated. It was known that she was a 'confidante' of JFK. BTW her brother-in-law was, are you ready, Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post.
Getting rid of women in D.C. is no surprise. Remember Martha Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Kennedy, Mary Joe Kopekne, the D.C. Madam and her appointments secretary, on and on.
People told Dorothy Kilgallen things they would tell no one else, for a long long time. She was a reporter with a storied career who can be compared to no one writing today. There is a TON of material, and also an entire book on her and her untimely death—she was so excited about the material she had amassed with Ruby, though, that she couldn’t keep it to herself. This could’ve proved to be the fatal mistake she made. A highly suspicious liaison she had with a younger man in the weeks leading up to her death suggest that he was spying on her for the FBI==of course, ALL the material she had from the Ruby interviews completely disappeared once her NYC apartment was “searched” after her death.
Dorothy Kilgallen was part of New York’s café society. At the Stork Club she would rub elbows with all manner of VIPs and celebrities. She knew the boxing great Barney Ross who was one of the greatest pound for pound champions of all time. Ross also received the Silver Star for his combat roles in Guadalcanal.
Barney Ross grew up with his fellow Jewish-American Jack Ruby. Ross and Ruby were the same age and were lifelong friends. Ross knew Ruby better than anybody and understood his eccentric ways. Kilgallen probably got more cooperation from Ruby because of Ross. But Ross also knew that Ruby was not a hit man for the mob and was too much of a loose cannon to be controlled by anybody.
Dorothy Kilgallen, a reporter and quiz show personality, is always among those on the “mysterious deaths” lists. Supposedly, she was about to “blow the lid” off the conspiracy.
In this essay, historian Eric Paddon does not discuss the circumstances of her death (which the medical examiner didn’t consider sinister), but rather the question of whether she actually knew anything that might threaten a supposed conspiracy.
Had she learned something new about the assassination, or was she just repeating standard conspiracy buff stuff? How might Kilgallen have gotten critical information that would have allowed her to “blow” the conspiracy? - According to Gary Wills and Ovid Demaris, (Jack Ruby, page 72):
Conspiratorialists of the wilder variety believe that Dorothy Kilgallen had a private interview [with Jack Ruby], one that caused her death.
This tete-a-tete never took place: she leaned over the rail and talked to Jack in the open courtroom during a break in the proceedings. Lawyer Joe Tonahill, who hoped to collaborate with Miss Kilgallen on a book, arranged the brief exchange, and was present at it.
But the important thing, as John Leyden has pointed out, is that Kilgallen didn’t die “mysteriously” until 20 months after the interview. Darn patient reporter who can sit on a big story that long.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/deaths.htm
Jack Rubinstein had quite a few different version of the stories he told (as did the US gov't). It depends on which version Ruby told her and how much he told her how to corroborate. Information is pretty useless until it all fits together.
Fortunately there is a way to PROVE which version of Ruby's stories is correct.