She Knew Too Much

 WE ARE BACK! I took a little break while my husband was home for a visit.  And we are back with what might be one of my favorite episodes to date…

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Dorothy Kilgallen was, by any measure, one of the most powerful women in twentieth-century American media. By her early twenties she was already racing around the world — literally — competing against male reporters on commercial routes, finishing second, and coming home to a song written in her honor. Her daily column, Voice of Broadway, ran in 146 newspapers and covered everything from Hollywood gossip to organized crime to the inner workings of the Supreme Court. The New York Post called her “the most powerful female voice in America.” For good reason.

She was also a television personality before television knew what to do with women — a regular panelist on What’s My Line? for seventeen years, beloved and wry and sharper than anyone in the room. She wore glasses she didn’t actually need because she thought they made her look more intellectual. She was already the smartest person there.

And then she started pulling on a thread. She covered the JFK assassination with a ferocity no other journalist matched. She secured a private interview with Jack Ruby — something no other reporter managed to do. She told people close to her that she was about to break the story of the century.

She never did.

What happened to Dorothy Kilgallen — and why you’ve probably never heard her name — is a story that deserves to be told out loud.

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