What Did She Know?
There’s a particular kind of erasure that happens to women who get too close to the truth. Sometimes it looks like an overdose. Sometimes it looks like a car accident. Sometimes it looks like a suicide. And sometimes — if you’re lucky enough to be a famous columnist in 1965 — it just looks like a quiet death in your own home, ruled inconclusive, while your private notes on the biggest murder case in American history quietly disappear. Listen to the latest episode here: Bitchstory Dorothy Kilgallen wasn’t just a TV personality or a gossip columnist. She was one of the most tenacious investigative journalists of her era. And she was *this close* to something. We just don’t know exactly what. Dorothy Kilgallen: The Woman Who Wouldn’t Let It Go By the time Dorothy Kilgallen died on November 8, 1965, she had already accomplished what virtually no other journalist had managed: a private interview with Jack Ruby, the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald on live television. She’d attended Ruby...