{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 430: Dorthy Kilgallen Pt. II","description":"This week we follow Dorothy Kilgallen onto the front lines of the JFK assassination story, where she did the work almost no other reporter in America was willing to do. From her first column one week after Dallas to the only private interview Jack Ruby ever gave a journalist, we trace the columns, the leaks, and the people she was talking to before her files disappeared. Was the Carousel Club meeting between Jack Ruby, Officer J.D. Tippit, and a "rich oil man" the thread that finally got her killed? [00:40] \u2013 Dorothy's first column: "Oswald File Must Not Close." [02:58] \u2013 The column timeline from November 1963 through April 1964. [04:39] \u2013 The Bird's Heartbeat Handshake: Dorothy's private interview with Jack Ruby. [12:17] \u2013 Leaking the 102-page Ruby testimony before the Warren Report dropped. [16:30] \u2013 Ruby's lung cancer and his claim he was injected in his cell. [18:47] \u2013 Earl Warren in the Dallas jail and Ruby's plea to be moved to Washington. [22:46] \u2013 The FBI at her townhouse and the CIA's 53 field offices tracking her. [27:10] \u2013 Police Chief Jesse Curry's radio order to the overpass. [29:26] \u2013 Acquilla Clemons and the Tippit witnesses the Warren Commission ignored. [32:48] \u2013 The Carousel Club meeting: Ruby, Tippit, Weissman, and "the rich oil man." [36:30] \u2013 H.L. Hunt, the Wanted for Treason handbill, and the Dallas money. [39:17] \u2013 Mark Lane, the Parker and Robinson code names, and the locked file. [47:00] \u2013 Her final JFK column and the sixty days that followed. ","author_name":"Frightday","author_url":"http:\/\/frightday.com","html":"