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Dorothy Kilgallen — the journalist and television personality who died suddenly in November 1965 — made a few intriguing remarks to people close to her, including her hairdresser, in the days just before her death.
From what’s been reported in biographies, press accounts, and later investigations:
💇 What she told her hairdresser
Kilgallen’s longtime hairdresser, Marc Sinclaire, later said she had confided that she was working on a huge story — something that would “blow the lid off the country.”
He recalled her saying, just days before her death: “If the wrong people knew what I know, it would cost me my life.”
She also told him that she had just interviewed a “key witness” in New Orleans related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
📖 Context
Kilgallen was one of the few journalists to interview Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, and she was pursuing her own investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
She had been writing critical columns about the Warren Commission and reportedly was preparing a book manuscript.
On November 8, 1965, she was found dead in her Manhattan townhouse at age 52. The official cause was “acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication.” Many found the circumstances suspicious.
🧩 Takeaway
Her hairdresser’s account has fueled decades of speculation that Kilgallen’s death might not have been accidental, since she herself had expressed fear that her reporting on JFK could endanger her.
Would you like me to also give you a summary of what other friends and colleagues (besides her hairdresser) remembered her saying in those last days?