I still say we don’t know the whole story about John F. Kennedy’s murder.
I think a few people know the truth, but they are not letting on.
Just the other day, I happened across a story about a woman named Dorothy Kilgallen. She was an American journalist and TV game show personality. Unfortunately, she died of an alleged drug overdose in 1965.
Journalist. We all know that investigative journalism can be a dangerous job. History has documented numerous reporters who were kidnapped or murdered because of knowledge they may have possessed. And guess what? Some people say that Kilgallen was murdered because she knew too much about JFK’s death.
Let’s take it back a little. Kilgallen was known for being a panelist on the TV show What’s My Line? But more than that, she was known for the”Voice of Broadway,” a newspaper column she began writing in 1938. It was popular.
Kilgallen’s column appeared in over 140 newspapers in the United States. Her articles mostly centered around celebrity gossip and show business. Mostly.
But. Then she had to go be investigative in the political world. One of her final projects concerned the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. But, in the very midst of investigating the case, Kilgallen passed away, leaving many to speculate whether there was more to her death.
At the time, it was muffled down. But today, one modern lawyer and author, Mark Shaw, has taken it upon himself to investigate her life and death. He believes that Dorothy Kilgallen was slain. Shaw claims there was foul play and something more sinister than an OD. Kilgallen may have been the journalist who knew too much – and paid the price for it.
You see. Kilgallen’s last day alive was a typical one. She spent the day and most of the evening working on the panel of the CBS TV show What’s My Line? in New York. After filming, she went to the Regency Hotel bar for a drink before heading home. She returned to the apartment she shared with her husband, and he reported later she had been in good spirits. Kilgallen went to bed shortly after arriving home but did not sleep in the same room as her husband.
On the morning of November 8, 1965, 52-year-old Killgallen was found dead by her hairdresser and a maid in her townhouse. She was sitting up in bed, still wearing makeup, false eyelashes, and a flower in her hair from the previous night.
Autopsy results claimed Kilgallen died from a fatal combination of alcohol and prescription pills. She had no reason to kill herself, it seems.
But here is the thing. She planned to break the “real story” behind Kennedy’s assassination. Kilgallen considered John F. Kennedy a friend and even visited the president in the White House. Like so many others, she was devastated by his assassination in 1963.
When the Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, Kilgallen claimed the report was “laughable.” Kilgallen began researching the case herself and eventually compiled a thick file over the course of a few years.
Back to Shaw. In 2016, he started an investigation on his own. He examined her autopsy. While the initial report stated Kilgallen had Seconal in her system, a sleeping pill prescribed to her by a doctor, the lab report also claimed she had two additional barbiturates in her system: Tuinal and Nembutal.
There are a lot of other details about this, but one statement in the autopsy’s lab reports regarding a powdery substance found on the glass beside Kilgallen’s bed. The powder residue on the glass proves someone drugged Kilgallen’s drink.
To make matters more interesting, he found that Kilgallen had been under FBI surveillance at the time of her death.
Kilgallen was perhaps the first known journalist to write about the alleged John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe affair. Her article was published on August 3, 1962. And then? Two days later, Monroe was found dead from an alleged OD. Following Monroe’s death, Kilgallen began publicly questioning the autopsy report, believing there was more to the story.
Coincidentally, Kilgallen passed three years later in the same manner as Marilyn. One of the details of Monroe’s death that Kilgallen questioned was the light left on in Monroe’s bedroom.
Other quick facts.
Kilgallen got to know Frank Sinatra and published an expose’ piece about him.
Kilgallen also uncovered information that linked Mafia Crime Boss to Carlos Marcello. In fact, right before her death, she mentioned to friends and colleagues that she had a trip planned to New Orleans to speak with an informant and had discovered Marcello was working with Oswald.
It goes on and on, one fact after another.
Conspiracy theory or distinct possibility?
We don’t know.
Mostly, I believe we don’t know because the “higher places” in the control of America don’t want us to know.
There have been aisles of books published on this topic, all of them containing their own golden theory, most of which do not jive with the Warren Commission Report.
And, a few days ago, more documents came forward. Unremarkable documents.
Why do I care?
Because this is supposed to be free America and our Constitution used to be the governing document of our democracy. Where the rights of the people are protected and where the courts have the power to interpret and enforce the laws.
Supposedly.
Here.
In America.
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“Justice delayed is justice denied.” – William E. Gladstone
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“The first duty of society is justice.” – Alexander Hamilton
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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson
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