Intrepid reporter and TV star Dorothy Kilgallen, who investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, will get a Manhattan street co-named in her honor Saturday on the 60th anniversary of her mysterious death.
Before media icons like Barbara Walters, Kilgallen smashed the glass ceiling in male-dominated NYC newspapers, the New York Evening Journal and New York Journal American. She wrote a syndicated Voice of Broadway column and covered major criminal trials, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case and the murder trial of Jack Ruby, who killed JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
In her heyday, the New York Post called Kilgallen “the most powerful female voice in America.”
“She never got her due. So many people don’t know who she was,” said City Councilman Robert Holden

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