Saturday, April 20, 2024
What’s My Line?: Wally Cox (September 20, 1953)
[ “Watch What’s My Line?, the Most Sophisticated TV Game Show of Them All, Which Serves as a Wistful Time Capsule Displaying America’s Decline into ‘America’ (Oct 14, 1956).”]
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
saturday, april 20, 2024 at 1:15:00 p.m. edt
I’ve got one for you on youtube. The Wally Cox episode from 1953; the second person is a lady who “fixed zippers.” Steve Allen asked some questions that were unintentionally hilarious.
Wally was a big star at this point, and was guessed rather easily.
--GRA
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"Would any well equipped secretary know how to operate one?"
"Only if she wants to get 'ahead'."
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DOROTHY KILGALLEN WAS INVESTIGATING JFK DEATH,TALKED TO JACK RUBY AFTERWARDS AND LAUGHED AT THE SUGGESTION OF OSWALD BEING THE SOLE ASSASSIN;CERTAIN AUTHORS BELIEVE SHE WAS KILLED BECAUSE OF IT.
I've been binge watching "What"s My Line" and after about 30 episodes,found myself looking up the panelist's bios,when Dorothy Kilgallen surprisingly popped up as a disbeliever in the "one shooter" theory,concerning the JFK assassination.
She was a very smart person on the show,but I had no idea about her interest in the JFK investigation that she was undertaking.
A quick summary of author Mark Shaw's opinion,in his "Denial of Justice" book--but not his theory alone--is that the man Kilgallen was having an affair with,while he was working undercover for the U.S.government,poisoned her drink after she received documents,which Shaw said,"blew the JFK case apart."
Here are a few snippets of an article about the book.
--GRA
(Palo alto daily times)Shaw landed upon this new information after writing the bestseller “The Reporter Who Knew Too Much,” which detailed how journalist and “What’s My Line?” panelist Dorothy Kilgallen was poisoned in 1965 while she was investigating the assassination.
Dorothy Kilgallen, in the hallway of a Texas courthouse, clutches the file of notes and documents she was collecting in the JFK assassination case. Photo courtesy of Mark Shaw.
Shaw’s meticulous investigation showed that Kilgallen died when her drink was spiked with three lethal drugs by a man with whom she was having an affair, an Ohio newspaper columnist. But it’s likely he was spying on her at the behest of the FBI, the Mafia or both.
After the release of the “Reporter Who Knew Too Much,” Shaw was able to obtain the long-buried 2,000-page transcript of Ruby’s 1964 trial.
At the time, reporters didn’t pay much attention to the trial because, after all, Ruby shot Oswald on TV in the basement of the Dallas police station. It was open and shut, they thought. Nobody cared about who might have put Ruby up to killing Oswald. And besides, the media was uniformly pushing the government’s official line that Oswald acted alone.
But the trial transcripts gave Shaw a lot of new material that showed Ruby was part of a conspiracy. Shaw figured out that Ruby’s lawyer, famed San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli, was doing the mob a favor by having Ruby plead insanity, so that the investigation would stop right there. Who’s going to believe a crazy man, right?
Belli was “on call” for the mob after the assassination, Shaw writes. While having lunch at Scoma’s on Fisherman’s Wharf, Belli heard that Oswald had been killed. He remarked to a witness Shaw interviewed, “Well, since Oswald’s dead, I’ll have to defend Ruby.”
At trial, Ruby wanted to take the stand, but Belli wouldn’t let him. Ruby did give a couple of interviews to Kilgallen, who was a nationally known columnist for the Hearst Newspaper Syndicate. Apparently a great deal of what Kilgallen learned from Ruby didn’t make it into her column, but she planned to use it in a book that, because of her death, would never be published.
Kilgallen targeted
“Denial of Justice” makes it clear that in the minds of those behind the assassination, Kilgallen had to be killed.
She told people just before her death that she had evidence that would blow the JFK case wide open. Her fellow panelist on “What’s My Line?” Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, had given her an advance on a book she was going to write about the assassination. Cerf read the book’s preface the evening of her final “What’s My Line?” episode before her death. He told people he was impressed by it.
She was murdered Nov. 8, 1965, a day before she was to travel to New Orleans, the home turf of crime boss Marcello, as she neared the end of her investigation.
A few hours after she died — but before police arrived — witnesses saw FBI men carrying files out of her Manhattan townhouse. Then again, the federal agents might actually have been members of the mob, Shaw allows. Either way, her notes and the file she was amassing on the JFK case were gone.
--GRA
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