The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, Mark Shaw
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much, Mark Shaw
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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen

Author: Mark Shaw

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2016

Synopsis

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s twenty-fifth book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, Shaw unfolds a “whodunit” murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello, and a “mystery man” who may have silenced Kilgallen. All while by presenting through Kilgallen’s eyes the most compelling evidence about the JFK assassinations since the House Select Committee on Assassination’s investigation in the 1970s. Called by the New York Post “the most powerful female voice in America” and by acclaimed author Mark Lane “the only serious journalist in America who was concerned with who killed John Kennedy and getting all of the facts about the assassination,” Kilgallen’s official cause of death, reported as an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, has always been suspect since no investigation occurred despite the death scene having been staged. Shaw proves Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who broke the “glass ceiling” before the term became fashionable, was denied the justice she deserved—until now.

About Mark Shaw

Mark Shaw is a former criminal defense attorney, an investigative reporter, and the author of several books, including The Poison Patriarch, Miscarriage of Justice, and Beneath the Mask of Holiness. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, he has written for USA Today, Huffington Post, and the Aspen Daily News.

About Gabra Zackman

Read by Gabra Zackman, Karen Sepulveda, Keisha Zollar, Fred Berman, Soneela Nankani, Nancy Wu, Emily Woo Zeller, Dara Rosenberg, Erin Moon, Piper Goodeve, Julia Farhat, and Saskia Maarleveld

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sketchbook on July 10, 2020

A scary whodunit about the confounding makes-no-sense death of journalist-TV star Dorothy Kilgallen (1913-65) who refused to stop reporting on the JFK assassination, and, unwisely, told the world she was ready to crack the case. Then she was found dead, age 52, in her NYC townhouse -- dead in the wr......more

Goodreads review by Jean on February 19, 2018

I remember listening to “What’s My Line” on radio in the early 1950s and then watching it on T.V. This book is primarily about Dorothy Kilgallen’s (1913-1965) death but Shaw does give a brief summary of her life. While I was reading this book, I stopped and looked up information about the author to......more

Goodreads review by James on June 13, 2017

I started out REALLY liking this book, as the author has done a good job talking about Kilgallen, an exceptional investigative reporter and entertainer during the 1930s, 40s and 50s. However, with the assassination of President Kennedy she decided that the Warren Commission and the justice system we......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 01, 2017

Kudos to Mark Shaw! I, personally, have been waiting for this story to come out and was thrilled to find it when searching on Amazon. The author supplies facts and then reviews them with a fine tooth comb in later chapters. Some would find this redundant. While I didn't 'get' his writing style at fi......more

Goodreads review by Randee on March 10, 2017

The author makes a good case that in all likelihood Dorothy Kilgallen was murdered for information she had on the Kennedy assassination. I keep an open mind but I have always thought there was a lot more to the JFK assassination than what was reported. Old man Kennedy had screwed over the Mafia and......more

Quotes

“A very interesting, informative, and provocative book. Shaw has obviously conducted a tremendous amount of research and investigation into every aspect of Kilgallen’s life.” Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, author of From Crime Scene to Courtroom

“Compelling.” Nick Pileggi, author of Wise Guy

“Mark Shaw has written a gripping biography of Dorothy Kilgallen wrapped in the greatest cold case of all time, the JFK assassination…A real page-turner.” Greg Desilet, language and communications scholar

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