A new book called The Reporter Who Knew Too Much claims that, in 1965, reporter Dorothy Kilgallen was killed because she had investigated the JFK assassination for eighteen months and planned to write a tell-all book on the subject.
Kilgallen was found dead of an overdose at the time after working with a secret informant during her investigation. While her death at the time was attributed to alcohol and pills, author Mark Shaw claims in his book that instead she was killed by a mobster who was worried that she would implicate him in the assassination in her tell-all book.
Shaw is also calling for a full investigation into Kilgallen’s death, despite the fact that it happened so long ago.
“Murder is murder whether it happened five days or 50 years ago,” Shaw told the New York Post, adding, “Victims have rights, and Dorothy was denied hers because there was no investigation.”
Shaw claims that the discovery of 40 videotaped interviews shows that Kilgallen had been investigating the assassination with the belief that Lee Harvey Oswald had not acted alone and that there was reason for not only those involved in the conspiracy but even the likes of J. Edgar Hoover to want her dead. Pointing to the fact that Kilgallen’s book was never published after her death, Shaw claims that she was effectively silenced when she died.
“The killers won, because she was eliminated and erased from any historical record about the JFK assassination,” he said.
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much will be released on Dec. 6.