By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-05 13:28:29 | Updated at 2025-01-09 05:15:51
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Manhattan DA won’t investigate famed journalist Dorothy Kilgallen’s 1965 death — but Hollywood set to suggest foul play
NY Post ^ | 1/04/25 | Susan Edelman
Posted on 01/05/2025 4:47:45 AM PST by Libloather
Manhattan authorities have refused to take a fresh look at the suspicious 1965 death of famed journalist and TV celebrity Dorothy Kilgallen — but Hollywood actress Jessica Chastain will star in a movie portraying the reporter’s ill-fated investigation of the JFK assassination as a “murder mystery,” The Post has learned.
Detectives with the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney’s Office have brushed off a plea by City Councilman Robert Holden to dig into whether Kilgallen’s death was a homicide — not “accidental,” as authorities quickly labeled it at the time.
Kilgallen, a famed columnist for the New York Journal-American, was hot on the trail of a Mafia kingpin she suspected had planned the 1963 shooting of President John F. Kennedy when she was found dead in her Manhattan apartment.
The cause was quickly deemed a drug and alcohol overdose, aborting a probe of possible foul play.
Last year, Holden, (D-Queens), formally asked the NYPD and the DA’s cold-case unit to reopen the Kilgallen case, but got only “lip service,” he told The Post.
“I was told there was going to be an investigation, but it turned out there wasn’t,” he said.” They just looked at it on a superficial level and decided it wasn’t worth doing.”
A police spokesman confirmed, “The NYPD, along with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, declined to reopen the investigation.” The decision was not explained.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: assassination; death; hollywood; jfk; journalist; kennedy; kilgallen
1 posted on 01/05/2025 4:47:45 AM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
Look no further than the aholes at the FBI, America’s Secret Police.
I hope Trump burns those mofos to the ground.
J Edgar Hoover was a faggot who was being blackmailed by the Mob.
Piss on the bastards at the FBI, they have never been more than a criminal gang with a badge.
2 posted on 01/05/2025 4:52:53 AM PST by OldHarbor
To: Libloather
All the files have to be declassified.
And the results have to be embarrassing to some powerful people.
If the results are just “ho hum” then we are being played — because SOMEONE desperately wanted these files classified and hidden for generations.
To: Libloather
4 posted on 01/05/2025 4:57:45 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
To: OldHarbor
Disband the FBI and replace them.
5 posted on 01/05/2025 4:59:35 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: ClearCase_guy
I recall the files were to be restricted for 75 years after the last of JFK family had died. I always thought the 75 year range covered dirt.
6 posted on 01/05/2025 5:01:18 AM PST by healy61
To: Libloather
“What's My Line” was a great program.
And Dorothy Kilgallen was pure class and a great journalist.
I still remember that time her dad appeared as one of the guests.
7 posted on 01/05/2025 5:12:44 AM PST by SmokingJoe
To: Libloather
She is White so that white hater DA could care less .
8 posted on 01/05/2025 5:23:43 AM PST by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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