HOLLYWOOD MYSTERIES AND SCANDALS Dorothy Kilgallen The Reporter Who Knew Too Much! What's my Line
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00:00Now, let's meet our award-winning What's My Line panel.
00:08First, the popular columnist whose voice of Broadway appears in the New York Journal American
00:13and papers coast to coast, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
00:18Dorothy Kilgallen, sharp-witted TV personality and skillful journalist.
00:22From the 1930s to the 60s, Kilgallen was one of the most powerful women in print, with
00:27a single mention, the cunning columnist could make or break a career.
00:31She was a wonderful writer, a wonderful reporter.
00:33Dorothy, stop the presses, tear out the front page, I've got a story for you.
00:37Is it bigger than a bread box?
00:41If you got on her bad side, she'd let you have it.
00:44This is Milton Berle.
00:45Oh, there's a product involved.
00:47Product?
00:48Porn.
00:49Dorothy was, despite the controversy that's well-surrounded, a very bright and very good
00:56reporter of criminal cases, one of the best ever.
01:00Kilgallen was proof positive that the pen is mightier than the sword, and in this case,
01:04just as deadly.
01:05I called Dorothy up, and I said, gee, you know, instead of the six million readers that
01:10you're titillating with these items, you ought to think about the person once in a while.
01:14She said, well, I wish somebody would think about me once in a while.
01:19On this episode of Mysteries and Scandals, we'll examine the many faces of hard-nosed
01:23reporter Dorothy Kilgallen.
01:25She was this white-gloved Catholic, and suddenly she was making out with a homosexual all over
01:33town.
01:34We'll also uncover how Dorothy's fascination with the JFK assassination put her on a collision
01:39course with danger.
01:40She had stumbled across something really big.
01:44And finally, we'll explore the theories behind Kilgallen's unusual undoing.
01:49She didn't know too much.
01:50Her death is very mysterious.
01:52I mean, if they killed the president, they're not going to worry about a Broadway columnist
01:57like Dorothy Kilgallen, right?
01:59Lock your doors and pull the shades.
02:00This story has conspiracy written all over it.
02:03Did the murder of an American president figure in the death of Dorothy Kilgallen?
02:22November, 1963, a country was thrown into turmoil when President John F. Kennedy was
02:34assassinated.
02:35Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the killing.
02:38Then Oswald was shot dead by Jack Ruby.
02:40Enter Dorothy Kilgallen, star reporter and columnist for New York's Journal American.
02:46The inquisitive journalist landed a secret interview with Ruby during his incarceration
02:50in Dallas.
02:51The following...