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Re-starting this link thread because today’s anniversary brings to mind an essay I wrote in 2013 about three women whose lives and deaths were usurped by JFK conspiracy theories:
Women on the Edge of a Conspiracy Theory | Hazlitt
Karyn Kupcinet, Dorothy Kilgallen, and Mary Pinchot Meyer had little in common in life. In death, however, they share one particular indignity: having their untimely ends overshadowed by the ever-chur...
hazlitt.net
November 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Also worth posting the 2009 obituary of Lee Hillman, Cormac’s first wife: www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
Lee McCarthy Obituary (|-|) - Bakersfield, CA - Bakersfield Californian
View Lee McCarthy's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
www.legacy.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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I think I will in fact have to put together a long piece about the ex-wives, because each of them are uniquely fascinating and way more so than Cormac
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
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First, the best piece I’ve ever written, a 2020 National Magazine Award Finalist in Reporting (and worthy loser to @pamelacolloff.bsky.social):
Before, and After, the Jogger
Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.
www.thecut.com
November 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM