Dorothy Kilgallen, 'Murder One' and a French connection
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 9:00 pm
I'm starting a separate thread for this.Bob had posted a link to a very interesting clip on YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLLpPDPcz3IRe: "Evidence Of Revision - JFK Assassination Rarities"It's given me some highly significant information to do with a book which had been written in the USA following the JFK murder, but of which the author didn't want to risk first publication in the USA. The chapters, out of sequence, were being sent in English to a French language publisher in Paris (France, not Texas).The publisher was feeding the manuscript to their English/French translator, and she used to lunch sometimes with one of my contacts who in 1965 was living and working in Paris.The translator told our contact, who we'll call Gabrielle (not her real name) that she was working on the translation of a book which would be an absolute bombshell best seller when complete. She said it was a bit confusing, as she was being sent the chapters out of sequence, but she said a major theme was that LBJ was centrally involved in the 'coup d'Etat' murder of JFK.Remember, this was a quick conversation over a lunch break.....probably rather longer than we are used to, admittedly (the French love long lunches.)Anyway, our contact didn't see her friend the translator for some time, months, I think.Then she bumped into her again at a Brasserie, one lunchtime.Gabrielle asked the woman "What happened about the book?"The reply shook her severely.Her friend told her that she was having nothing further to do with the translation of the book, following a very frightening incident.She had gone to collect her child from school one afternoon, only to be told that her husband had already collected the child.The problem was that she was separated or divorced from her husband, and hadn't seen him for some time. Worried, she went back to her home, and immediately she got in, the phone rang.She answered and was told by a male voice (not her husband) that she was to stop, and forget about, the translation of the book if she ever wanted to see her child alive again!Needless to say, she agreed to this, and the child was delivered by unknown men.I think it's highly probable that the book was the one Dorothy Kilgallen was working on, "Murder One",and I wonder if there's any known connection between this journalist and any French publisher based in Paris....anyone know anything on this?(Later)Interesting. I Googled "Murder One" by Dorothy Kilgallen, and got this:-http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5622608W ... ePublished by Random House, New York, in 1967, two years after her death.Judged by the list of contents, this is hardly something over which the writer would have been killed, and certainly bears no resemblance to the manuscript which was sent to Paris, nor to the manuscript she had described to friends in 1965.....Of course, if she really had her teeth into the JFK story to the point where she had to be shut up, 'someone' could well have felt obliged to get a fake "Murder One" manuscript ghosted and published as a cover.....one that isn't about JFK.I wonder who owned Random House in 1967?Who gave them the manuscript allegedly penned by Dorothy?I'd say, when you compare the content of this 1967 version of "Murder One" to the original work she talked about, after interviewing Jack Ruby,and many other players and witnesses, and finding "over 100 errors in the Warren Report", a manuscript which she had (unfortunately for her) described as "going to blow the JFK story wide open, and be the scoop of the century...." that the existence of this Random House book has the smell of a cover up.If the script which was being translated into French is indeed the original story based on her research, I'd conclude that Random House edition is as fake as a three dollar note.