The Reporter Who Knew Too Much:The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen Free Audiobook Download by Mark Shaw

When What's My Line first debuted in 1950, it was an instant hit with the public. Dorothy Kilgallen who had a knack for solving the most difficult of clues, was by far the most famous contestant on the show. But the popularity of her wit and intelligence helped create a larger-than-life persona for Miss Kilgallen where she became one of America's most sought-after celebrities. Though Kilgallen loved to be in the spotlight as much as anyone else, she often struggled to maintain her own privacy, especially when it came to her personal life.

This is the true story of the death of Dorothy Kilgallen, a groundbreaking journalist who changed the face of American media and started her own successful show.

Mark Shaw is an award-winning journalist and the creator of a weekly investigative newsmagazine show. But in 1965, he found himself on the wrong side of the US government when he published an article about President Lyndon B. Johnson. In retaliation for his "irresponsible and baseless" reporting, a federal agent set him up to be killed.

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The mystery of the death of What's My Line TV star and media icon Dorothy Kilgallen is one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries in show business history. On August 6, 1965, Kilgallen was found dead at age 46 in her New York City apartment. She had been strangled to death with a stock string by an unknown assailant or assailants. At first, police thought that Kilgallen was assaulted by a group of muggers who tried to rob her, but it later became clear that she died from strangulation. It wasn't until recently that writer Mark Shaw made the connection between Big Jim Colosimo - the man she was going to interview - and mob figure Jimmy Hoffa. Colosimo was murdered on July 26,

Dorothy Kilgallen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist when she died at the age of fifty-one. She had been working on an exposé about mob boss, Frank Costello when she went to meet him in Manhattan. It was believed that she was killed by Costello's henchman, Albert Anastasia in retaliation for her work. But by the time of her death, no one knew exactly who did it. The closest thing they found to an answer was Guy Banister; a former CIA operative who worked for Anastasia and is now considered a prime suspect by many people including herself and the FBI. In this book, the author explores Kilgallen's life and how she got into journalism leading up to her death