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Murder one Hardcover – 1967

by Dorothy Kilgallen (Author)

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Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Random House (1967)
ASIN: B0007EFTJ6
Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,966,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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debbie

Great book

September 9, 2016

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My daughter bought this. She is studying criminal justice and really loves this book.

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Manon de la Cure

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November 21, 2014

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Great, yet to read!

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Mango

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December 22, 2015

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Great item! Thanks!

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ziggyzettel

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July 25, 2016

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Gamma

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May 16, 2015

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Not what I expected

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Dr.L.

What's my line indeed!

September 20, 2013

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Not what I expected. I thought the book would contain some very interesting tidbits about the assassination of JFK. Dorothy had info, or at least she said she did and was going to release it. Apparently she died under rather curious circumstances, the implication being that someone else thought she had important assassination info as well. The writings here are stilted and rather lack luster.....much like her career on What's My Line. Sorry, this is most disappointing. Nothing revealed here.

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jay pister

not what I had expected

May 7, 2014

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Somewhere in my readings I had come across the story that Dorothy Kilgallen had conducted an interview with Jack Ruby while after he was in jail for the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. The story went that Ms. Kilgallen had to turn over the notes of her interview to the CIA and they had never given them back. In those days it was poorly understood what one could and could not do with regards to the CIA so she rested her case.

I had heard that she had come back and later published the book based on her interview with Jack Ruby. I immediately knew that I would want to read that book. When I had received the book in the mail , I found that "Murder One" was not even close to that story. Some how I was wrong. . So I am disappointed in my experience. It is not her fault or the publishers but mine.

jay Pister

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Acute Observer

Reporting Murder Trials

July 21, 2007

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Murder One

Dorothy Kilgallen covered many of the sensational murder trials that shocked or fascinated American newspaper readers. This book contains new versions of six murder trials, famous in their time. Kilgallen was on the panel of “What’s My Line?”. She gave a deposition in the Sheppard murder case that helped to get a new trial (p.20). Most of the trials in this 40 year old book occurred before the 1960s. [Dr. Sam Sheppard was retried in 1966 for a correct verdict of not guilty.] Kilgallen died 12/8/1965 before this book was published. It lacks photographs of the people covered in this book; these are like magazine articles.

Dr. Bernard Finch was co-owner of a medical center in Los Angeles. Carole Tregoff was hired as a receptionist. Both had unhappy marriages, and came to love each other. Their liaison was discovered by Barbara, Bernard’s wife; she informed Jimmy Pappas, Carole’s husband. Both neglected spouses filed for a divorce. Barbara was soon shot dead by Bernard, her maid saw it and ran away to call the police. Once Carole admitted her help to Bernard she became a co-defendant. [If this story was a film on TV you might say it was unbelievable.]
“Motive Unmentionable” tells about the shooting of Fritz Gebhardt by Greta Peltz, a good-looking and charming single girl. They were having an affair and Fritz refused to marry Greta. Greta visited Fritz in his bedroom, then fired shots. Murder or self-defense?
Eva Coo was electrocuted for the murder of Harry Wright, found dead by the side of a road. Eva was the beneficiary of his insurance policy. Her past had problems. “She got a raw deal” (p.113). [Does this story remind you of “The Postman Always Rings Twice”?]

Robert Allen Edwards had a clean-cut appearance and trustworthy manner. Robert met the older Margaret at college, he was friendly with Freda, the girl next door. Robert had to marry Freda. They went swimming together but only Robert returned. [Another “American Tragedy”?]
Mary Frances and John Creighton moved to Baldwin, Long Island from New Jersey. They had been accused of poisoning but were acquitted. They took in a married couple (the Depression). Ada Applegate became violently ill and died. The police investigation found arsenic. Her husband Everett was guilty of statutory rape with the Creighton’s daughter and adultery with her mother. Mary Frances was confessed and blamed Everett for the poisoning. But she had bought the poison. [What if they appeared on a TV talk show?]
The murder trial of the century [or at least the decade] was of Dr. Sam Sheppard. The US Supreme Court ruled he didn’t receive a fair trial, and he was acquitted on re-trial. Kilgallen did not share the presumption of guilt and was shocked by the verdict. The evidence was “flimsy beyond belief” (p.233). The local media aroused and inflamed public opinion and the jury panel (p.234). Ten years later she revealed a secret that helped to get a new trial. “Sheppard vs Ohio” set a precedent against “trial by publicity”.

Kilgallen, a star Hearst journalist, was able to get an exclusive interview with Jack Ruby. She confided to friends that this story would blow the lid off the JFK assassination story. Then she was found dead of an “accidental overdose”, and no such report was ever found among her papers. Her best friend who she confided in soon died of the same “accidental overdose”. Do you know how many witnesses to the JFK assassination also died accidentally?

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