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Dorothy Kilgallen

Wild Irish Women:
The Reporter Who Wouldn’t Go Away

By Rosemary Rogers, Contributor
June / July 2017

May 24, 2017 by 16 Comments

Dorothy is Back! Dorothy Kilgallen was a TV and radio star, a columnist who wrote about theater and film, the rich and famous, but more than anything, she was a crime reporter who, at the time of her mysterious death, was investigating the JFK assassination.  She was as tough as she was brittle, as brave as she was bitchy. At a time when few women had a career, … [Read more...] about Wild Irish Women:
The Reporter Who Wouldn’t Go Away

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