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For 62 years, the official story of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has rested on a single conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. On November 22, 1963, according to the Warren Commission, Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, in 8.6 seconds. … Read more

Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the most famous women in America. Every Sunday night, roughly 30 million viewers watched her smile in silk and diamonds on the television panel show What's My Line? Few of them knew that the glamorous television star was also a hard-boiled investigative reporter. Fewer still knew that she was quietly … Read more

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, became one of the most enduring mysteries of the modern era. The death of a young, democratically elected and deeply beloved president ignited decades of speculation about who was really responsible. Countless books, movies, and investigations have tried to uncover whether a hidden cabal … Read more

On the morning of November 8, 1965, a hairdresser let himself into a Manhattan townhouse and walked into a scene the world would soon call an accident. Lying in a bed she famously hated, in a room she had not slept in for years, was Dorothy Kilgallen. She was cold and stiff. She was wearing … Read more

On the night of June 16, 1962, a police officer put his hands on the wrong woman outside Smalls Paradise in Harlem. Three hours later, his New York life was effectively erased. There was no arrest and no headlines, only silence. This was not a crime of passion or revenge. It was strategy. Everyone knows … Read more

On a summer morning in Harlem, an ordinary neighborhood celebration turned into a public humiliation that would ripple far beyond West 138th Street. The Harlem Summer Exhibition was not a parade or a political rally. It was something smaller and, to the people involved, more important: bakers, tailors, carpenters, and florists showing what their hands … Read more

In February 1952, a fugitive from Georgia's death row walked into a Harlem dress shop with a stolen pistol and walked out with a scar that would follow him to the electric chair. Charlie Cross Morrison had 93 days left to live when he woke up in an abandoned Lower Manhattan warehouse on the morning … Read more

Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson was born on October 31, 1905, in Charleston, South Carolina, into a family already struggling to survive in the Jim Crow South. A small physical deformity on the back of his head gave him the nickname that would follow him for life. That nickname, once a taunt, would eventually strike fear into … Read more