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...November 1965. Because she was the only journalist ever allowed a private interview with Jack Ruby after his arrest, Penn Jones naturally decided that hers could be added to "that list of strange deaths." Even Ramparts editors could not swallow that one, conceded that "no serious person really believes" Kilgallen's death-from alcohol and barbiturates-was part of the plot...
...effort to prove that court officials as well as newspapers were prejudiced, Bailey told how Judge Blythin had confided to Hearst Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen in a pretrial interview that Sheppard was "guilty as hell.'' Ohio Attorney General William Saxbe contended that Kilgallen's affidavit had never been sworn. Because Kilgallen as well as Judge Blythin have since died, Saxbe maintained that the statement could not be rebutted and was inadmissible. Bailey retorted that an assistant attorney general of Ohio had accompanied him when he talked with Kilgallen, and they agreed that her statement did not have...
Jack O'Brian, 51, who gloried in making enemies during his 15 caustic years covering TV for Hearst's New York Journal-American, will probably make just as many in his new job. He takes over the "Voice of Broadway" gossip column from Dorothy Kilgallen, who died this month. Atra Baer, 38, replaces O'Brian...
Hints of Espionage. As a youngster, Dorothy wanted to grow up to be like Daddy-crack I.N.S. Reporter James Kilgallen. The summer after her freshman year at the College of New Rochelle, she went to work at the New York Evening Journal and liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest...
...Kilgallen column was a mixture of catty gossip ("A world-famous movie idol, plastered, commanded a pretty girl to get into his limousine, take off all her clothes"), odd tidbits of inconsequential information ("The Duke of Windsor eats caviar with a spoon"), and dark hints of international espionage ("Anti-American factions are planning to blow up the Panama Canal"). When she wasn't being very nasty, she could be very nice. While she knocked Frank Sinatra and Jack Paar at every possible opportunity, she had only good things to say about Pop Singer Johnny Ray or Broadway Producer Richard...