A FASCINATING AND COLORFUL BIOGRAPHY THAT COVERS INTIMATE NEW DETAILS OF DOROTHY'S LIFE THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER REPORTED!
Since penning the widely acclaimed Midwest Today magazine article "Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?" in 2007, award-winning historian and journalist Sara Jordan-Heintz has spent years researching this trailblazing woman.
Dorothy may be best known as a panelist on the TV game show "What's My Line?" but as a syndicated writer with the Hearst newspaper chain, her "Voice Of Broadway" column was devoured by millions of daily readers. As an investigative journalist, she covered some of the biggest stories and court cases of her era, securing a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Ernest Hemingway called her the best female writer in the world. Sara Jordan-Heintz brings DK to life by culling from scores of her columns.
After her friend President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Kilgallen courageously challenged the official account of his death by doing a series of explosive articles over the next two years that unearthed important new leads.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover dispatched federal agents to Dorothy's NYC townhouse, demanding she reveal her sources. She refused. Jack Ruby's lawyer, Melvin Belli, labeled her reporting "the ruin of the Warren Commission." Kilgallen was the only reporter to score private talks with Ruby. She vowed to blow the lid off the cover-up and expose the truth behind the Kennedy assassination...but died trying.
In her magazine article, Jordan-Heintz was the first to print the name of the man who romanced DK and then became the #1 (unofficial) suspect when she died; the first author to present eyewitness interviews with people close to Dorothy who were never questioned by police; the first to get incriminating quotes from the suspected killer; the first to print shocking new forensic evidence of foul play. In this new book, Sara presents a compelling narrative that explores many aspects of Dorothy Kilgallen's life and death that no one else has reported.
Shockingly, the author has found the SMOKING GUN that links the suspected killer to the CIA and reveals his confessed role (captured on tape in an exclusive interview for this book) in a controversial CIA operation launched by Allen Dulles and run by E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. She details his time at Stanford and reports his confession he attended an assassin's school in Panama.
This is the breakthrough that other authors have missed and contextualizes Dorothy's suspicious death as never before.
For the first time, Sara Jordan-Heintz also traces the evolution of Dorothy Kilgallen's investigation of the JFK conspiracy, quoting from many of her articles and showing how prescient her reporting was. Recently declassified government documents confirm Dorothy turned up vital new facts that put her life in danger. For Kennedy assassination buffs, this compelling new book explores the myriad of new revelations about the case that most Americans don't know
"THE INCREDIBLE LIFE & MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF DOROTHY KILGALLEN" (which runs 414 print pages) is fact-based and fast-paced. Author Sara Jordan-Heintz avoids the wild speculation, reckless errors and reliance on "anonymous" sources that plague some other books on Kilgallen. This is meticulously researched, and beautifully written.
As one reviewer wrote, "this is a superbly well crafted investigative biography, dominated by the twin tragedies of the murder of JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen. I learned a lot from reading this gripping account which puts the pieces together as surely as Dorothy Kilgallen would have,...