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?
Sources:
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen, by Mark Shaw (amazon.com)
Denial of Justice: Dorothy Kilgallen, Abuse of Power, and the Most Compelling JFK Assassination Investigation in History, by Mark Shaw (amazon.com)
Kilgallen: A Biography of Dorothy Kilgallen, by Lee Israel (amazon.com)
Dorothy Kilgallen (spartacus-educational.com)
Local author says columnist cracked the JFK case in 1965, just… (padailypost.com)
What Did Dorothy Know? (washingtonpost.com)
Spilling Secrets | Vanity Fair | April 2006 (archive.vanityfair.com)

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