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Another Key Witness Conveniently Silenced: Dorothy Kilgallen

Here it is, short and not so sweet:

Dorothy Kilgallen, the nationally-famous reporter who interviewed Jack Ruby in prison, died of unexplained causes after hinting at an explosive breakthrough in the Kennedy story.⁴¹¹

Actually, the causes were explained; they just made absolutely no sense! In fact, the official version is more full of holes than Swiss cheese.

Kilgallen was a nightmare for the government because she said she was sure the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy and wouldn’t let the story die. She also vowed to stay on the case until she broke it and that she would indeed solve the case and prove the conspiracy as a result of the inside information she had acquired.

That claim had a foundation, as she was the only reporter in the country who was allowed to have a private interview with Jack Ruby and nobody knew what he had told her. So when Kilgallen said that she was going to “bust this case wide open,” everyone paid attention. And it’s easy to see how that probably disturbed a lot of people in white shirts around Washington.

Kilgallen said it would all be in her new book that exposed the conspiracy behind the assassination, but that book was never published the way she intended, because she was soon found dead.

Sound suspicious? Well, keep reading, because it’s so creepy it’ll knock your socks off.

Official Scenario: She was found in bed in her ritzy, multi-level Manhattan townhome, the victim of an overdose. Having combined sleeping pills with alcohol, she succumbed to their effects and died. Either Suicide or Accidental Overdose.

Big problems with the official scenario.

It was medically estimated that Dorothy had the equivalent of fifteen to twenty pills in her body, in a triple combination of Nembutal, Seconal, and Tuinol, combined with alcohol, which supercharged their effects.

Yet it has been established that she was observed in a fine, coherent state a short time before her death occurred. She could not have taken that many pills—accidentally or otherwise—and still been walking around in a coherent state. Whatever did happen must therefore have happened very quickly.

And an even larger issue is the sterility of the crime scene. There was no vomit or mess of any kind. That would simply not be possible if she had swallowed fifteen to twenty pills and combined them with alcohol.

A person doesn’t take that many pills accidentally. And she was happy that night; not the slightest bit suicidal. So that’s why some think she was slipped a fast-acting “Mickey Finn” cocktail because—a short time later—she was down.

Whoever staged the crime scene made some huge mistakes. Check out some of these things; it’s just like in a good thriller.

The bed that she was found in was actually the master bedroom, but all of her friends knew that the master bedroom was never used and contained a bed that she never would have gone to sleep in. It was just for show; it was off the living room, and when entertaining formally, was just used to maintain the false pretense that she and her husband were still a happy couple.⁴¹²

She was found in bed with a book next to her, like she had been reading and then passed out. But the clothes she was wearing were something that friends and family knew she would never wear to bed: a blue bed jacket over a nightgown instead of her regular old pajamas.⁴¹³

Even though she was supposedly ready for bed, she still had her makeup and false eyelashes on; two more things that friends and family knew she’d never wear to bed. Here’s how Kilgallen’s hairdresser, the one who discovered her body, explained it to a friend: “When I tell you the bed she was found in, and how I found her, you’re going to know she was murdered.”⁴¹⁴

The book that was placed next to her on the bed was another mistake they made. It was a book that she had already read and had discussed it with friends.⁴¹⁵ So they picked a book that she wouldn’t have been reading.

She also used reading glasses when she read, and there were no reading glasses near her. See what I mean about all the mistakes that the killers would have had no way of knowing?⁴¹⁶

Another thing was that the air conditioning was left on, which was something she never did at night.⁴¹⁷

When they ran lab tests on the drinking glass that was near the bed, it only showed traces of one barbiturate, but the autopsy showed that she was killed by a “cocktail” of small doses of three different barbiturates, which formed a lethal combination with alcohol.⁴¹⁸

So somebody obviously tried to make it look like she had taken some pills, gone to bed, and quietly passed away. But then how did the other two barbiturates get into her body?

And get a load of this little gem: All of Dorothy’s notes on JFK for her upcoming book totally disappeared.

And if that’s not bizarre enough for you, then get this: Dorothy was one smart cookie. She was aware that two other reporters who had been investigating JFK’s murder had recently died very sudden and strange deaths.⁴¹⁹ So she usually carried her JFK notes with her. And she also even gave a backup copy of those notes to someone she knew she could trust: fellow journalist Flo Pritchett.

Well, guess what Charlie Brown? Her friend was dead two days later. And in case that’s not crazy enough for you, the backup copy of the notes also vanished.

People have pointed out that her friend had a long-term illness, which was true. But what happened to the notes? Nobody has ever been able to explain that.

Kilgallen’s book was published posthumously—without the chapter on JFK.

⁴¹¹ Heiner, Without Smoking Gun, 113.

⁴¹² Sara Jordan, “Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?,” October 21, 2007, Midwest Today: midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html

⁴¹³ Ibid.

⁴¹⁴ Ibid.

⁴¹⁵ Ibid.

⁴¹⁶ Ibid.

⁴¹⁷ Ibid.

⁴¹⁸ Cassie Parnau, “Archive/Medical Reports,” The Kilgallen Files, retrieved 11 May 2013: kilgallenfiles.wordpress.com/category/official-reports/medical-reports/

⁴¹⁹ Belzer & Wayne, Hit List (see Jim Koethe, Bill Hunter, Dorothy Kilgallen, Flo Pritchett).