bilan de l'URSS un peu de révision ?

54 % des Russes regrettent la chute de l’URSS, et 55 % sont convaincus que le démantèlement de l’Union aurait pu être évité, indique le dernier sondage du centre Levada sur la question (2014).

En Ukraine, la chute du l'Union Soviétique a entraîné un effondrement de 60 % du PIB et une réduction de quatre ans dans l’espérance de vie entre 1991 et 1999
lien à l'article sur ce qui s'est passé :

L’anticommunisme, le gouvernement ukrainien et l’origine de l’oligarchie | histoireetsociete

 

Et la nouvelle de l'année ! une nouvelle CHOC, la voici

En Russie, sur une chaîne de TV Business (TV Business ! les résultats ont du leu rfaire un choc !), 59% de l’audience de la soirée du nouvel an formulaient comme souhait le plus cher le retour de l’URSS.

Le sondage de nouvel an de la TV Business RBC-TV a fourni comme résultats : 6% seulement de l’audience ont demandé à D’ed Maroz’ (le Père Noël), la suppression des sanctions envers la Russie, et seulement 7,4%, la stabilité du rouble. Plus d’un quart (27,3%) ont demandé la paix en Ukraine, mais une majorité absolue, 59,3%, formule en tant que souhait le plus cher pour notre Patrie, «la renaissance de l’URSS».

 

Bon avant de se rappeler l'URSS rappelons-nous ce qui s'est passé juste après sa chute, la décennie des années Ieltsine, bilan par Denissto dans sa dernière édition des "INFOS DONT ON PARLE PEU"

 Maintenant,

Il est de mode de ne dire que du mal de l'Union Soviétique, et même du marxisme révolutionnaire (avec lequel pourtant cet empire décadent que fut l'URSS n'avait qu'un rapport lointain). Même les communistes rivalisent à qui crachera le plus sur son propre visage, c'est assez lamentable.

"Au narcissisme hautain des vainqueurs, qui transfigurent leur propre histoire, correspond l'autoflagellation des vaincus." (Domenico Losurdo)

or :

Jamais le communisme n'a été en mesure de pouvoir mettre en pratique ses
théories,

Et les pays qui au nom de la liberté combattaient le communisme, ce n'était pas au nom de la liberté des hommes, mais au nom de la liberté du capital.

 

Et il y a encore un autre phénomène à considérer, un phénomène très important pour nous :

  Sans l’Union soviétique, les États-providence occidentaux n’auraient jamais vu le jour et l’on voit bien que, maintenant que le contrepoids soviétique a disparu, les classes dirigeantes suppriment peu à peu ce système de bien-être.

C'est uniquement la peur bleue que les bourgeois avaient d'une révolution bolchévique, qui a fait que pendant un demi-siècle ils ont accepté des compromis avec la classe ouvrière, histoire de dissuader le peuple de voter pour les communistes. Les lois sociales, les systèmes d'Etat-providence, et autres moyens que la bourgeoisie a imaginé pour adoucir le sort du peuple (sans que soit compromis l'ESSENTIEL : leurs propriétés privées ! ), afin de détourner celui-ci du vote communiste et de la tentation révolutionnaire.

Depuis que la menace soviétique a disparue, non seulement la tendance régulière à plus de progrès sociaux s'est arrêté subitement, mais, partout,  les gouvernements se sont mis à tout défaire, à serrer la vis, et à reprendre au peuple et aux travailleurs tous ce qu'ils leur avaient cédé durant ces 70 ans de peur. Et ils ne s'arrêteront pas. vous trouvez que la situation est catastrophique ? mais ne vous en faites pas ce n'est qu'un début, elle va empirer !! pourquoi s'arrêteraient-ils ??

 

Où ailleurs que dans la Wikipedia en Esperanto on peut trouver un essai honnête de bilan des "réalisations du système soviètique"?

Ekzemple alia afero, kion oni povas fari per Esperanto estas prezenti dudekjarcentan historion kaj provi detalan, sentabuan bilancon de sovietismo:

( fonto: http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%88efpa%C4%9Do)

Atingoj de socialismo

Atingoj de socialismo (ruse завоева́ния социали́зма) estis populara vortkunmeto en sovetunia diskurso, per kiu oni subkomprenis aron de atingoj pozitive distingantaj socialismon disde kapitalismo.

Ekonomiaj atingoj

• Establo de socialismaj ekonomiaj rilatoj, kiam produktiloj ne estas privataj.
• Planita stabila disvolviĝo de ekonomio.
• Foresto de "marĝenaj tavoloj", kiel en kapitalismaj landoj.

Kaj aliaj atingoj.

Socialaj atingoj

Plej ofte inter "atingoj de socialismo" oni subkomprenis la jenajn socialajn atingojn:

• Senpaga meza edukado (dekjara) por ĉiuj.
• Senpaga alta (universitatnivela) edukado.
• Senpaga sanprotektado, inkluzive regulan kontrolon de sano en laborejoj.
• Ŝtata subteno por emiritoj ("pensio").

Sociala stabileco kaj ĝenerala disvolviĝo de personeco estis konsiderata kiel prioritato.

Politikaj atingoj

Inter la politikaj atingoj oni listigis la jenon:

• Socialisma demokratio, memregado.
• Soci-klasa egaleco (foresto de interklasaj tensioj).
• Paco kaj amikeco inter popoloj.

Modernaj analizantoj, komparante la post-socialisman socion kun la socialisma, ankaŭ emfazas grandan entuziasmon kaj kolektivismon; foreston de interetnaj konfliktoj; altan aŭtoritaton kaj influon de la ŝtato en la mondo.

Sovetia konstitucio de 1977 pri atingoj de socialismo

Sovetia konstitucio de 1977 proklamis finkonstruon de "evoluita socialismo" en la lando. Kvankam la teksto de la konstitucio ne enhavas priskribon de "atingoj de socialismo", ĝi en du lokoj uzas tiun vortkombinon kiel ion antaŭdifinitan:

• "...baziĝante sur la grandaj soci-ekonomiaj kaj politikaj atingoj de socialismo..."
• "Cele al defendo de atingoj de socialismo, paca laboro de sovetia popolo, memstareco kaj teritoria tuteco de la ŝtato..."

Kritiko

Kritiko de la atingoj

Multaj kritikas la nocion "atingoj de socialismo", parolante ke plejparto de tiuj atingoj estis nur proklamita, sed neniam reale atingita. Kelkaj atingoj, kvankam ekzistantaj en realeco, kaŭzis novajn problemojn kiel neefika funkciado de sanprotekta sistemo kaj aliajn.

Kritiko de la alia socia ordo

Ekzistas ankaŭ kritiko de la alia vidpunkto: kiujn problemojn de socialisma socia ordo solvis anstataŭiginta ĝin kapitalismo?

• Meze de la 1990-aj jaroj reganta partiula klaso transformiĝis al reganta kapitalisma klaso. Multaj direktoroj iĝis posedantoj de produktejoj, antaŭaj ideologoj de komunismo (ekzemple Jegor Gajdar) iĝis reformemaj liberaluloj, antaŭaj membroj de la supera regantaro (Boris Jelcin, Viktor Ĉernomirdin) iĝis regantoj de la nova ŝtato.
• Giganta burokratio kreskis kaj plifirmiĝis.
• Nur pligrandiĝis la diferenco inter la reganta elito (restinta same ferma grupo, kiel antaŭe) kaj la cetera parto de la socio.
• En la socia sfero plejparto de la atingoj estas perditaj: multiĝas komercaj instruaj kaj medicinaj servoj, sistemo de emeritiĝo (pensia sistemo) estas jam multfoje reformita sed pli kaj pli krizas (laŭ pritaksoj de la Monda Banko kaj aliaj financaj institucioj).
•  

Kial gxi fiaskis, jen la opinio de juri Finkel :

"Mi jam plurfoje klarigis mian opinion pri kaŭzoj de pereo de USSR. Mallonge ankoraŭfoje:

En USSR ne estis socialismo en plena senco. En ĝi estis provo konstrui socialismon, bedaŭrinde malsukcesa.

La kaŭzoj de tiu malsukceso estis en tio, ke anstataux igxi potenco de laboristoj, gxi restis potenco de malvasta tavolo de registoj-burokratoj. Jes, el klasa vidpunkto ankaux ili estis laboristoj, sed ili estis nur eta parto de la laboristaro, kaj ili uzurpis por si rajton regi anstataux kaj por la laboristaro.

Kaj siavice premiso por tia uzurpo radikis en nesuficxa evoluinteco de la rusia proletaro. Kvankam Rusio en la momento de la revolucio sendube estis kapitalisma, tamen gxi nur antauxnelonge eliris el feuxdismo kaj havis multajn postrestajxojn de feuxdismo. Multaj proletoj estis hierauxaj kamparanoj ktp. Kaj tio signifas, ke ili parte konservis konscion de kamparanoj, kiuj preferas havi _gvidantojn_. El tio elkreskis Stalin ktp. Plus la malfelicxa situacio, kiam la monda revolucio ne okazis, kaj Rusio restis sola. Ja Lenin diris, ke, kvankam Soveta Rusio estis avangarda en socialismo, tamen tuj kiam socialisma revolucio venkos en iu evoluinta lando (ekzemple Germanio), Rusio tuj ree igxos postrestanta kaj devos lerni de tiu lando. Sed tiel ne okazis,  kaj Soveta Rusio devis peni konstrui socialismon sola en la postrestinta lando. Kaj por tio gxi devis unue solvi problemon de industriigo (kio fakte devus esti tasko de kapitalisma evoluo). Estas ne mirinde, ke la transira periodo misvojigxis. Kaj kiam la materia bazo estis jam konstruita, tiam jam politika superkonstruajxo estis misformita kaj malhelpis al plua movigxo al socialismo.

Tamen mi ne vane uzis la vorton "premiso", sed ne "kauxzo". Premiso povus realigxi, kaj povus ne realigxi. La historio iris laux tiu cxi vojo, sed povus iri alie. Tial oni ne diru, ke la Oktobra Revolucio estis vana dekomence (ne dirante ecx pri tio, ke la industriigo ja tutegale estis reala atingo).

Des pli tute ne vanaj estas nunaj streboj al socialismo. Antaux cxio, nun estas aliaj komencaj kondicxoj. Ju pli evoluinta estas kapitalismo, des pli facile estos konstrui socialismon sure gxia bazo. Nun necesas denove organizi la proletaron (kiu ja estas demoralizita). Kaj tiel plu laux la klasikaj ideoj de marksismo."

à propos, ce que montre un récent sondage:  vachements déçus les russes !

"A la chute de l’URSS, les russes se sont vite rendu compte que tout ce qu’on leur avait dit sur le communisme était faux mais ils se sont vite rendu compte aussi que tout ce qu’on leur avait dit sur le capitalisme était vrai". Limonov

l'expérience les a fait réfléchir

quand à la manière dont tout le bloc de l'Est est tombé, il y a encore beaucoup de choses à apprendre, tout ne s'est pas fait "naturellement" il y a eu des choix et des manipulations en coulisses, par exemple: 

" when the [anti-]Soviet KGB surrendered one socialist state after another to the Americans. Cuba was scheduled somewhere between the German Democratic Republic and Romania. The GDR was a rather successful state, and the Ossies still regret its demise. But the KGB was bent on the total elimination of socialism. The Romanian president was shot for being stubborn. In Cuba, Gorbachev’s forces primed General Ochoa for coup-d’etat, and full restoration of US rule, but Fidel learned of it and had the traitor executed, the Russian left.ru reported recently."

 

tiens, au fait, quand on lit les romans de l'époque, tel "La urbo Goblinsk" roman en espéranto de Michel Bronstein, on revoit ce qu'était la vie sociale dans les entreprises soviétiques AVANT la privatisation, toutes les activités de loisirs que pouvaient pratiquer les employés de l'usine, dans le cadre de leur entreprise, en URSS par exemple il y avait partout des orchestres ouvriers, or

"Nous en parlons ce matin avec Marianne, elle a demandé à Tsarkov si depuis la fin de l’Union soviétique, cette tradition des orchestre ouvriers, dans chaque entreprise perdure. C’est fini, fini les bibliothèques, les centre culturels. C’est comme le Pas de Calais dit Marianne, ils ont pratiquement réussi à persuader les ouvriers que la lecture ce n’était pas pour eux…"

(en effet je me souviens que dans les années 80 déjà je suis resté tout ébahi d'entendre des convives en centre de vacances, quand je leur disais que j'aimais la musique classique, répondre que eux ils étaient des ouvriers et que "par conséquent" (sic) la musique classique c'était pas pour eux, il fallait être bourgeois pour ça !!!

alors que ce n'est pas, ça n'a aucune raison d'être déterminé par la classe et par l'argent qu'on a dans le portefeuille, mais par l'âme !!! par le goût qu'on a, le sens de la poésie, etc (choses qui manquent souvent chez les bourgeois d'ailleurs, la plupart étant tout à fait matérialiste et à ras de terre)

 

un espoir qui fout le camp

beaucoup de gens y avaient cru, attaquer les système financier au portefeuille, une assurance autonome dans le principe de l'Assurance des motards, mais ne mieux, et qui permette de s'émanciper des compagnies, de leurs arnaques, etc. De tout ça, et même de la solution de replis humanitaire, il ne reste plus rien.

dommage

chapeau Laurent Louis !

 Laurent Louis incisif :

découvrez bien en particulier de la 30è à la 38è minute jusqu'où est allé le cynisme du grand capital !

l'ouverture des archives soviétiques permet de donner tort aux négationniste et raison à Zygmunt Bauman

enfin une étude scientifique basée uniquement sur des archives, sur ce qui reste des archives d'Auschwitz (la plus grande partie a été détruite par les SS, de même que les chambres à gaz et crématoires, qui n'existent plus car ils avaient été dynamités au moment de leur fuite), la plus grande partie se trouvait dans les archives soviétiques, et interdites d'accès. Maintenant elles ont été ouvertes, et un chercheur français les a épluchées (de même qu'il avait déjà  recueilli et épluché les archives de la firme Topf un Söhn, "entreprise leader sur le marché" - comme les PFG en 2003 quand on a annoncé les morts de la canicule, je me souviens très bien de cette publicité clandestine, et des termes utilisés ! - le marché des fours crématoires, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topf_und_Söhne ).

Ce sont les archives des services (administratifs ! techniques ! retenez bien ces mots) qui se sont occupés de la construction, de l'entretient et de la réfection des installations nécessaires, de ses "appels d'offre", et de ses relations avec les entreprises, qui ont fourni tout ça ...
Il en sort une étude détaillée

lisez bien le conte-rendu de son étude :

http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/auschwitz-la-verite_5...

une étude détaillée, qui
1°) démonte et réfute enfin, par des preuves matérielles et des arguments (et non par des mesures de police !) les travaux des auteurs négationistes.
Dossier enfin clos ! par la BONNE méthode.
2°) montre de manière encore plus claire la justesse de la vision de Zygmunt Bauman
http://1libertaire.free.fr/bauman08.html
http://www.dogma.lu/txt/CR-BaumanHolocauste.htm
http://www.lalettrevolee.net/article-33454137.html
que ce qui a rendu possible les horreurs nazies c'est bel et bien pour l'essentiel, comme facteur clé, ce qu'il appelle "l'esprit de la modernité", cette volonté de maîtrise technique totale sur la société et les choses, cette organisation, et les modes de comportement qui vont avec, froidement administrative, technique, avec une division du travail, administrative, et commerciale ! ça il ne faut pas l'oublier, souvenez vous de Topf und Sohn, de IG Farben ! du travail, qui abouti à une déresponsabilisation des rouages (et des actionnaires ! ..... ça existe toujours de nos jours. Combien de firmes, et les fonds d'investissements qui s'en enrichissent .... vivent de la fabrication d'engins de mort, ou de pratiques capitalistes mortifères de nos jours ? pas moins qu'à l'époque !), des employés consciencieux (comme ceux qui implémentent le fichier Base-élève de nos jours par exemple) et des ingénieurs soucieux d'efficacité et de rendement. Sans toute cette armée de gens qui chacun "faisait son devoir" consciencieusement et en refusant de se poser des questions (comme il y en a toujours plein !), sans tous ces ingénieurs, leurs plans, leurs "bleus", n'auraient été possible ni la mise en oeuvre des projets d'extermination industrielle, ni les gras profits des entreprises qui s'en sont enrichies.
Il s'avère de plus en plus que l'analyse de Zygmunt Bauman sur tout ça (et ses scritiques envers la conception de la morale des sociologues, comme il dit la critique de l'Holocauste est surtout une critique de la vision que les sociologues ont de la sociélé et des valeurs) est INCONTOURNABLE et met le doigt sur une chose dont on n'a pas du tout tiré les conséquence (car ces idéologies et manière de penser et de se comporter n'ont pas du tout été critiquées, et règnent de nos jours plus que jamais).

« les leçons de l’holocauste ont laissé peu de traces sur la sagesse sociologique qui comprend, entre autres articles de foi, l’avantage de la raison surles émotions, la supériorité du rationnel sur (évidemment) l’irrationnel ou l’affrontement endémique entre les éxigence de l’éfficacité et les tendances morales dont les « relations personnelles » sont sidésespérèment imprégnées. »

au contraire les sociologues n’en tirent que la nécessité de dompter encore plus les tendances des hommes « au moyen d’une pression civilisatrice accrue et d’une nouvelle battterie de savantes techniques destinées à la résolution des problèmes . »

« Comment ces allemands ordinaires devinrent-ils donc des meurtriers en série ? Selon Herbert C. Kelman, les inhibitions à l’égard des atrocités tendent à s’éroder lorsque trois conditions sont remplies, séparément ou simultanément:
- quand la violence est autorisée par des ordres officiels,
- quand les actions sont banalisées par des pratiques réglementaires,
- quand les victimes sont déshumanisées par des définitions et endoctrinements préalables »

or tout ça règne de nos jours et sous nos yeux tout autant qu'à l'époque et les gens y sont sensibles et conditionnés tout autant et encore plus moutonnement.

 

prière de rue

pour l'Eglise Catholique Gallicane (relisez l'histoire de France la Pragmatique Sanction, Louis XIV, Bossuet) de France, après le renoncement "collabo", le relais est pris par un évêque africain, universalité et courage de l'Eglise, comme toujours, retour aux catacombes :

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/05/03/01016-20150503ARTFIG00141-leur-eglise-muree-les-fideles-de-sainte-rita-assistent-a-une-messe-dans-la-rue.php

 

Brigitte Bardot, son dernier combat :

http://www.francedimanche.fr/infos-people/cinema/brigitte...

 j'ai bien peur que la fin du monde soit bien triste

autrefois, quand les temps étaient modernes

Voici une des plus belles traductions de chanson en Espéranto, un hymne nostalgique aux illusions de la jeunesse, et des années 70, par un des plus grands noms de la chanson italienne, Pierangelo Bertoli.

Jes ja, estis tempo kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie ....

....on en chialerait

CENT JAROJN MALPLIE (P. Bertoli)

Cent'anni di meno- Trad. Giuseppe Castelli -

Kuŝe sur herbo kaj floroj de kampo,
perdiĝe, fluge por ontaj bonŝancoj,
kun sentoj plenaj je volo de vivo
kaj en la poŝoj esper-pozitivo,
ni al la mamoj fidadis pasie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Kiam virinon estiĝis nebulo
kaj el la lipoj ŝi roson gutigis,
kaj ŝiaj haroj je fojno odoris,
je la tagiĝo la himnoj sonoris
kaj el la buŝo disiĝis al ĉie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Pafila milo nuliĝis pro kiso:
ni tiam kredis je paco tutmonda;
sufiĉis dolĉa rideta rigardo
kaj komenciĝis brakumo dancronda.
Eĉ pluvegado limiĝis gracie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Trans horizonto plej klara kaj hela
naskiĝis nur mateniĝoj de paco;
malsato, frosto, nigrega pan-peno,
aĉa regado de iu kreteno
en ĉielbluon fumiĝis magie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Blindiga lumo venis niajn okulojn
rozkoloriĝis por ni la irejo;
la profitantojn de kontraŭmoralo
kaj la murdintojn de povra ĉevalo
for de la trajno ni pelis malpie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Apud la bordojn de lago el pano
la tutan kreitaĵaron ni portis;
poste ni kantis kantaĵojn pri amo
kaj senvestiĝis, kaj belis, kaj fortis;
kaj ni amsatis plenkore, ebrie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

Malsuper steloj, aŭ en la drinkejo,
postigadante la iron al lito,
ni flugis Marson aŭ Lunon kaj ĝojis
pro nura interaŭskulta profito;
je la morgaŭo ni kredis sendie
kiam ni aĝis cent jarojn malplie.

et:
Le Temps de Fleurs (et le temps où Dalida vivait)

14 avril 2002

 

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prêtres

Sur France-Parlotes (qu'ils s'entêtent à appeler « France-Musique ») on parle de Vivaldi :  Comme il était prêtre, donc il a forcément mis dans sa musique de la vraie foi, etc. Pardon ! C'est pas forcément évident, à l'époque il y avait beaucoup de prêtres qui n'avaient guère de foi.
C'est comme maintenant dans les années 50, 60 , et 70, pas pour les mêmes raison, par modernisme « horizontaliste »; après ça a encore changé : là maintenant il n'y a même plus personne carrément dans les séminaires ! Mais les prêtres qu'on voit encore de nos jours ils ont été forcément formés dans cette époque, où on conservait le vocabulaire chrétien mais en lui donnant un autre sens : "Dieu" c'est devenu le symbole (comme autre fois « Mars » c'était le symbole de la guerre, « Vénus » le symbole de l'amour », on disait «Neptune » au lieu de dire « l'océan ») des aspirations de l'homme à une transcendance, le tout réduit à une dimension psychologique bien entendu, « rencontrer Jésus-Christ » c'est sortir de son égoïsme pour vivre la « fraternité » (comme celle dans la lutte syndicale - mais ça c'est fini maintenant, les curés ne sont plus marxistes, maintenant que le pouvoir ne risque plus de l'être ! ….. - ou quand une grand-mêre reçoit ses petits-enfants pour manger un gâteau, voilà ce que c'est maintenant), l'eternité c'est « une dimension de l'instant » (si, si ! lisez les "La vie Catholique" de cette époque ou autres presse des maîtres à penser cathos), les miracles ça n'existe pas bien entendu, la vie éternelle c'est au moment de crever (pour disparaître dans un néant éternel bien évidemment) se dire que sa vie a eu un bilan globalement positif et en ressentir une fraction de seconde une satisfaction, c'est un truc à la Spinoza, ou si vous préférez c'est le souvenir que de temps en temps, (pendant un certain délai pas plus, bien sûr !) vos proches vont garder de vous après vous avoir crématorisé dans un four crématoire chic, avec en fond sonore une chanson de Michael Jackson, et avant de payer la facture (ça c'est sacré ! et ça c'est éternel ! comme la dette ! pas question de ne pas la payer) des Pompes funèbres Générales, « l'entreprise leader sur le marché » (dixit France-info en août 2003 ).

jeunes paysannes russes vers 1909-19015 (photo de Prokudin-Gorski)

 

*** Remarquez que les femmes à l'époque n'étaient pas habillées de noir des pieds jusqu'à la tête comme maintenant ! mais de toutes sortes de couleurs vives, et aussi que ce qu'on est sommé maintenant d'appeler "voile islamique" n'est autre qu'un fichu, vêtement traditionnel chez les orthodoxes, les catholiques et les athées jusque vers 1960 !

la science-fiction marxiste-léniniste !

Malfacilas esti dio

 

tiuj transplanedaj aventuroj en mezepokeca medio mergas nin ankaŭ en la marksima-leninisma pensmaniero kaj ties "scienco" de historio kaj la evoluoj sociaj. La herooj de la romano estas kosmaj historiaj "sciencistoj", kiuj tiel, kiel la "rezidantoj" de l'Komintern iam surtere, provas helpi la sciencan materie determinitan evoluon de socioj sur aliaj planedoj. Ĉi-tie ili mergas en kruela mezepokeca feŭdismo, kaj traktas kun faŝisma movado, strange similanta al tiu de la naziaj SA, sed ankaŭ al religia Ordeno, strange cinika kaj eĉ pli kruela. "Bruo kaj furoro" en perspektivo ! La, "scienca" stadio de l'komunismo ankoraŭ estas malproksime for. Kaj kiom malfacilas esti "dioj" !
Livre de science-fiction et d'aventure. qui en fait nous plonge dans un monde médiéval, et aussi dans le mode de pensé des intellectuels soviétiques pétris de la science marxiste des évolutions historiques. miiraslimake.over-blog.com/article-26406350.html

La femme qui avait découvert la vérité sur l'assassinat de J.F. Kennedy

et qu'on a tuée à cause de ça
quand au dossier qu'elle avait constitué, après la mort de son mari (6 ans après elle, et .... exactement de la même même manière) on ne l'a jamais retrouvé ....

Pour lire l'histoire en entier, et en particulier le début de sa brillante vie :

http://www.midtod.com/new/articles/7_14_07_Dorothy.html

Et maintenant là où ça se corse ...
( oui je sais c'est en anglais, mais il y a Reverso, quoi qu'il vaut mieux savoir l'anglais soi-même parce que la traduction par ordinateur ça n'est pas bien bien brillant : http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.aspx?lang=FR   )

 

Dorothy's last public reference to the JFK assassination appeared on Sept. 3, 1965 when she challenged the authenticity of the famous Life  magazine cover of Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly holding a rifle. She also  chastised Marina Oswald for vouching for it. The incriminating photo has  since been discredited by analysts who say Oswald's head was pasted on someone else's body.

In October, Dorothy confided to "What's My Line?" make-up man Carmen Gebbia that she was "all excited" about going to New Orleans to meet a source whom she did not know, but would recognize. She said it was "very cloak-and-daggerish" and would yield details about the assassination. Gebbia told Lee Israel that Dorothy "said to me several times, 'If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to break this case.' "

New Orleans had been a bubbling cauldron of suspicious characters, ranging from Lee Oswald to Guy Bannister, David Ferrie, Clay Shaw and Mafiosi Carlos Marcello.* 

Marc Sinclaire said that in October 1965, during the New York newspaper strike, Dorothy hired him to meet her in New Orleans. Marc explained, "She didn't tell me why we were going. She just asked me could I go with her, and I said 'yes.' She told me how I was to travel, where I was to go, what I was to do. And I'd never been to New Orleans before, so I didn't know anything about it. We didn't even travel on the same plane together. I went directly to my hotel, we talked [on the phone], and then I went over to her hotel and had dinner. And then I went back to mine. And the next morning, I was supposed to go do her hair and make-up, and she called me at my hotel and she said, 'I want you to go to the airport, I've left a ticket for you, and I want you to go immediately back to New York, and never tell anyone you came to New Orleans with me.' And I said 'okay' and I left. I did not do her hair." Somebody or something had apparently spooked Kilgallen.

Her other hairdresser, Charles Simpson, recalls, "She even told...me of her own volition...'I used to share things with you...but after I have found out now what I know, if the wrong people knew what I know, it would cost me my life.' "

After her trip to New Orleans, strange things were afoot. "Up until then, I didn't think anyone could touch her," Sinclaire allowed. On October 24, 1965, only two weeks before she died, and just minutes before she was to do "What's My Line?", an announcement came over the theater sound system that rattled Dorothy. A voice said, "The keys to Ron Pataky's room are waiting at the front desk of the Regency Hotel." No one knew who made the announcement or why they hadn't just brought her a note. She was so shaken up that as the show began and the panelists were introduced, Dorothy sat down too soon, and then quickly got up again, the only time that happened since the panelists started showing off their Sunday formal wear in 1954. That "seems odd," Pataky concedes. "I remember that story. They weren't my keys. I was not there then." Was somebody trying to scare Dorothy with embarrassing personal disclosures?

Ironically, she had sent Pataky a letter saying cryptically, "I will try to call you, hopefully before you get this, but it ain't easy." She suggested that Ron visit New York "in late October or early November" so they could have "conferences and all that jazz." 

Sinclaire said that Dorothy Kilgallen called him on Saturday, Nov. 6, 1965, her final weekend alive. "We talked for about an hour," Marc maintained. "Her life had been threatened. Finally, after exhausting me over what was going on, I said, 'The only new person in your life is Beau Pataky. Why don't you ask him if all this information that is slipping out about you is coming from him?' Because she was concerned where people were getting the information from. I'm the one that suggested that she confront Beau Pataky with it. I call him 'Beau' because that's what she called him." Sinclaire pointed out that she was dead "two days later."

In response, Pataky says, "It never happened." But he admits that the Fall of 1965 "was a funny period in retrospect because I was quick to realize after these things began to come out that there's a lot that Dorothy didn't tell me. Clearly, she didn't want to worry me. She danced around problems. She did not want to tell me, for example, that she'd had death threats. She said she had some weird calls. Now these are my words. I'm not sure she said 'weird calls.' I probably said, 'Well, what kind of weird calls?' and she said, 'Oh you know, the kind we get' and I probably said 'Oh ya...?' That's the way it would have gone down."

That final Sunday night, before "What's My Line?" aired, Marc Sinclaire did Dorothy's hair at her home. "She was subdued but no more than usual," Marc recalled. "She had done something every day that week, and she was tired. But I would imagine [also] that she was upset about Beau. She was telling him so much. I think he was the snitch, [and] that's what she found out."

Sinclaire said, "She'd asked me if I wanted to meet her [later], because she did not have anybody she was going to meet with, and she was not dressing for a 'date date.' [But] I said, 'No, I'm going to a movie.' [So she told me] she was going home after the show."

Dorothy had decided to wear a long, white silk file evening gown and Marc reminded her she had worn it the previous week. But she told him no one would notice. "So I said 'okay.' I helped her into it. She wanted to wear that dress. [It] was cumbersome, because that dress took up the back seat [of the limo]. We always discussed the clothes ahead of time, because...if it was an evening dress, I would do [her hairstyle] more elaborate, than I would do...for a shorter cocktail dress." Marc had taken some silk flowers from a vase in Dorothy's home, and incorporated them into her hair.

But Marc was stunned to see, when Kilgallen appeared on the program a short while later, that she was wearing a different outfit entirely: a low-cut, wing-sleeve short chiffon dress by designer Anne Fogarty (a woman who, as it turned out, would marry Dorothy's widower 19 months later). The hairdo Sinclaire had designed for the formal gown didn't look right with the short skirt, especially with the flowers. "She couldn't take the flowers out because they were woven into the hairpiece," Sinclaire explained. So "obviously [there] was something to make her change that dress at the last minute. I don't know how she pressed the chiffon dress because there was no one left in the house to press a dress like that." Sinclaire speculated that "after I left, I think she got a phone call [at home] from somebody, and she agreed to meet whoever it was at the Regency. That's my belief."

Despite the wardrobe switch, the last "WML?" Dorothy was on showcased her astuteness. She looked tired but was in good humor, sharp as ever, phrased questions with her typical shrewdness, and correctly guessed the occupations of two of the contestants. However, she did at times seem to speak a bit like she had a dry mouth, which could have been caused by nervousness. 

Fellow panelist and book publisher Bennett Cerf recalled that after the broadcast, "She read me the preface of the book she was finishing for us at Random House, titled 'Murder One.' I told her it was great." Marc Sinclaire insisted that based on notes that Dorothy carried around with her, and that she had opened one time in his presence, "I think [the posthumously published] 'Murder One' wasn't the book that Dorothy had in mind." He agreed with Ron Pataky that it would have been a book on the JFK assassination.

Arlene Francis subsequently reflected "that was the only night, in all the years we did the show, that Dorothy didn't kiss me on the cheek when she said good night."After the show, Dorothy was observed getting into her Cadillac limousine alone, apparently to meet Bob Bach, a "What's My Line?" producer, for a quick drink at P.J. Clarke's, as was her custom. She had told him in the past that the Warren Commission Report was "laughable" and vowed that she would "break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century."

Clarke's employees confirmed that Dorothy ordered her usual vodka and tonic. She told Bob that she had a "late date." Bach and Kilgallen were on a "don't ask, don't tell" basis regarding each other's personal affairs. He then walked his colleague to her car, "under the impression" that she was headed to meet Ron Pataky.

But Pataky denies he was in New York. Instead, he says, "I think I talked to her that night early [on the phone]." Asked if she sounded suicidal, he said, "No! No! The last time I talked to her, she was just normal. She always called herself my New York secretary and Suzie Creamcheese. 'This is your New York secretary reporting in.' That's how every call began from her."

Katherine Stone from Madisonville, Kentucky, who had just appeared as a contestant on "What's My Line?", was invited by the show's staff to join them for cocktails at the Regency. She rode over in a CBS limo. She remembers walking into the opulent piano bar, which was decorated in reds and located in the basement of the hotel. "When we got there, there was this man sitting right next to [Dorothy]...and I mean close, because they were talking," Ms. Stone explains. "Whether they didn't want anybody else to hear, I don't know. And I could see they both had a drink. There wasn't any laughter. The reason I know this is I kept an eye on her because I wanted to talk to her afterwards to tell her that I enjoyed being [on the show] and I was happy she guessed my line. I'd look over to see what's going on. That's the reason I was paying so much attention. Back in the corner where Dorothy was, was sort of a curved [banquette]. They wanted privacy. In other words, you wouldn't have felt like going up there. I knew they were talking serious business of some kind. I had that feeling."

At 1 a.m., press agent Harvey Daniels ran into Dorothy in the Regency bar. He described her as being in good spirits. Daniels left the bar at 1:30, assuming her to still be seated in the dark corner.

Kurt Maier, the piano player, said that Dorothy was still in the lounge in good spirits when he got off work at 2 a.m. He added, "Of course, Dorothy was with a man. A true lady like her would not come by herself to hear me play."

Dave Spiegel, the manager of the Western Union office, said, "Miss Kilgallen called me at 2:20 in the morning. She sounded great, as usual. She said 'Good morning, Mr. Spiegel, this is Dorothy Kilgallen. Would you send a messenger over to the house to pick up my column and take it to the Journal-American? I'll leave it in the regular place, in the door.' 

"I said, 'It's always a pleasure,' and sent the messenger. It was there, as usual...the last column she ever wrote." 

Dorothy Is Found Dead In A Bedroom In Which She Never Slept

Dorothy had an appointment with Marc Sinclaire to do her hair that Monday morning, Nov. 8, 1965, as she was supposed to be at her son Kerry's school at 10:30. Sinclaire arrived at Kilgallen's townhouse around 8:45 a.m. "I used my key," he explained, "let myself in, and went upstairs" [via a back staircase often used by servants]. He went to the small dressing room on the third floor where Dorothy had her hair done. "When I entered...she was not in that room but the air conditioning was on and it was cold outside. So I turned on my curling irons and I walked into the [adjacent] bedroom, not thinking she would be there," Marc said. That's because, even though it was officially the master bedroom and was adjacent to the "black room" where she and Dick entertained, Dorothy hadn't slept in that room for years, and instead slept on the fifth floor. Dick slept on the fourth.

Yet a surprised Marc Sinclaire found his client. "She was sitting up in bed, and I walked over to the bed and touched her, and I knew she was dead right away," he recalled somberly. "The bed was spotless. She was dressed very peculiarly like I've never seen her before. She always [was] in pajamas and old socks and her make-up [would be] off and her hair [would be] off and everything." This morning, however, "she was completely dressed like she was going out, the hair was in place, the make-up was on, the false eyelashes were on." She was attired in a blue "matching peignoir and robe." Sinclaire insisted that this was the kind of thing "she would never wear to go to bed." 

He said "a book [was] laid out on the bed. [But it] was turned upside down; it wasn't in the right position for if she'd been reading...and it was laid down so perfectly." The book was "The Honey Badger," by Robert Ruark. Sinclaire claimed she had finished reading it several weeks earlier, as she had discussed it with him. Dorothy needed glasses to read, but they weren't found in the room.

"[There was] a drink on the table, the light was on, the air conditioning was on, though you didn't need an air conditioner. You would have had the heat on. She was always cold and why she had the air conditioner on I don't know..." 

Charles Simpson recalled that his friend Marc "called me on the phone and told me that he had found her dead. And he said, 'When I tell you the bed she was found in, and how I found her, you're going to know she was murdered.' And when he told me, I knew. The whole thing was just abnormal," Charles declared. "The woman didn't sleep in that bed, much less the room. It wasn't her bed."

Strangely, she was in the middle of the bed beyond the easy reach of the nightstand. "Rigor mortis had set in on the right hand and it had drawn up the covers a little bit," Sinclaire related. "And there was lipstick on the [left] sleeve of the Bolero jacket. 

"I went back in the dressing room, picked up the intercom, and rang for James [the butler]. I said, 'James, I am unable to wake Miss Kilgallen. Could you please come up?' He ran up the stairs. I could hear him. He came up the front stairs and he ran like he was very excited and of course the door was locked. But I had come in from the back door. I don't think anyone knew I was coming. So I opened the door to the bedroom and James came in, and at that time I noticed a sheet of paper laying on the floor that had been pushed under the door. And James came in and he was very flustered. He wasn't himself at all."

A distraught Sinclaire left the residence without knowing what was on the sheet of paper. "When I got downstairs and went out the front door, there was a police car sitting in front of the house. There were two officers in it. They didn't pay any attention to me," Sinclaire recalled. "I find it very strange that they were sitting in front of the house and Dorothy was dead upstairs."

Dorothy's husband, 11-year-old son, and the son's tutor, Ibne Hassan, who slept in the townhouse that night, claimed to have heard nothing strange. But Hassan said that was not surprising since it was such a big townhouse. He remembers the household staff claiming Dorothy had committed suicide, but they later denied telling him that. He thought her too cheerful for that. 

That morning, a New York woman named Mary Brannum received a bizarre call. "The phone on my desk rang, and when I answered a voice said, 'Mary, Dorothy Kilgallen has been murdered.' Before I could say anything, my caller had hung up. We put on a radio in the office and heard the news a little later. What made it odd was the anonymity of the call, and the fact that it had been made to me at all. I was hardly a reporter, just a managing editor of a couple of movie magazines."

Ironically, that Monday, Kilgallen could be seen as a guest on a recently-taped episode of a rival game show, "To Tell the Truth." After it aired, CBS newsman Douglas Edwards announced at 3:25 p.m. that Dorothy had died. It was only then that a police commissioner heard the news and dispatched detectives.

Her newspaper, the Journal-American, devoted seven pages to her life and death. Joan Crawford called her "one of the greatest women who ever lived." Producer David Merrick said, "Dorothy Kilgallen was one of the great reporters of our time. Her coverage of trials were journalistic masterpieces. She was a star and gave glamour and glitter to the world of journalism." Sammy Davis Jr. said, "Broadway won't be the same without her." Ginger Rogers applauded Dorothy's "journalistic talents and her television brilliance." Famed lawyer Louis Nizer said Dorothy had "keen insight, vivid and concise descriptive powers and an evaluating intelligence." Ed Sullivan said he was "heartsick."
  
Three days after Dorothy died, Bob and Jean Bach invited her widower Richard Kollmar over for dinner. Bob then asked him, "Dick, what was all that stuff in the folder Dorothy carried around with her about the assassination?" Richard replied, "Robert, I'm afraid that will have to go to the grave with me." 

Ten thousand people filed past Dorothy's coffin, but Ron Pataky was not one of them. Neither was her close confidant Marc Sinclaire. Though he had gone to the funeral home and fixed her hair and make-up, he commented, "I didn't like the funeral director because he was very rude about Dorothy's death...  I didn't like the way the family was behaving, I didn't like the way the press was behaving. I didn't like any of it. I knew more than they did, and I didn't want to be party to it." At the funeral, Dorothy's bereaved mother, Mae, angrily confronted Dick Kollmar. Pointing a finger at him, she said, "You killed my daughter, and I will prove it." But Marc Sinclaire said, "I don't think he could have done it. I think more than one person was involved in Dorothy's death."

The following Sunday on "What?s My Line?" somber panelists paid tribute to their missing friend. Bennett Cerf said it best:

"A lot of people knew Dorothy as a very tough game player; others knew her as a tough newspaper woman. When she went after a story, nothing could get in her way. But we got to know her as a human being, and a more lovable, softer, loyal person never lived, and we're going to miss her terribly."

Seven days after Kilgallen's loss, Dr. James Luke, a New York City medical examiner, said she died from "acute ethanol and barbiturate intoxication, circumstances undetermined." That was not a common phrase for his office to use. An autopsy showed her to be in surprisingly good health with no pathology, only "minimal coronary arteriosclerosis" and "no significant stenosis or occlusion." There was no evidence of a heart attack but there was a bruise on her right shoulder. (Back in March, she had fractured her left shoulder.)

Dr. Luke said that the combination of alcohol and barbiturates had caused depression of Dorothy's central nervous system and that this had caused her heart to stop. Dr. Luke would not speculate about the form in which Kilgallen had taken the barbiturates. "We'd rather leave that up in the air," he said. "We don't want to give that out because ... well, just because." Even though the circumstances of her death were listed as "undetermined," for some reason the police never bothered to try to determine them. They closed the case without talking to crucial witnesses.

Since Dr. Luke had gone to the scene the day of Dorothy's death and then did her autopsy, it would have been customary for him to sign her death certificate. But he did not do so. Instead, it was supposedly signed by Dr. Dominick DiMaio. Asked about this, Dr. DiMaio was nonplussed. "I wasn't stationed in Manhattan [where Kilgallen died]," he asserted. "I was in Brooklyn. Are you sure I signed it? I don't see how the hell I could have signed it in the first place. You got me. I don't know why. I know nothing about the case. I never handled it." 

Ten days after Dorothy's death, Ron Pataky penned a scathing attack on New Yorkers and said audiences there are "the stupidest collection of dull clods ever to set foot in a club or theater... If any of them ever had an original idea, the shock on the nervous system would send both the originator and his comrades to their great reward... They go where they hear they really should go." Seeming to take aim at Broadway columnists like his late friend Dorothy, Pataky said, "...big people say go. The others follow suit and do just that. Then, through agony that no mortal, even these idiotic phonies, should have to endure, they pretend to like it."

According to author Lee Israel, Dr. Charles Umberger, director of toxicology at the New York City Medical Examiner's office, privately suspected Dorothy had been murdered, and had inculpatory evidence to prove it. He remained silent, Israel theorizes, because he understood the political implications of the matter and he wanted leverage over Dr. Luke, in an internecine feud. In 1968, he asked a chemist who worked closely with him as his assistant, to use some newly available technology to analyze tissue samples he had retained from Kilgallen's autopsy, as well as the glass from her nightstand. Though Israel interviewed this chemist in 1978, she did not print his name. However, we can now report that he is John Broich. The new tests turned up traces of Nembutal on the glass, but this was not the same as what was found in her blood. The more precise tests on the tissue samples were able, for the first time, to particularize a deadly mix of three powerful barbiturates in her brain: secobarbital, amobarbital and pentobarbital. Broich told Israel that when he gave his findings to his employer, Dr. Umberger grinned and told him to "keep it under your hat. It was big."

In a much more recent interview, Broich elaborated: "There was some talk...whether the body had been moved and a whole bunch of stuff. But I don't know if it was ever resolved. I do remember that things were kinda screwed up. I think things were probably pretty unreliable. I wouldn't trust anything, you know what I mean? When I was [employed by the medical examiner's office], very few of the people knew what the hell they were doing. I was paranoid as hell when I was there. You never knew what was going to happen from one day to the next."

On January 7, 1971, Richard Kollmar was found dead in bed of a drug overdose, just like Dorothy. David Susskind's widow, Joyce, described Dick as "this guy who was always in his cups. He had the looks, he had the intelligence to do something with his life if he had not had this alcoholic cross to bear."

In 1975, the FBI contacted Dorothy's son, Dickie, still trying to locate his mother's papers. Her JFK notes were never found.

Katherine Stone still lives in Kentucky. She remembers that when she learned of Dorothy's passing, "I was shocked to death. It made me mad that everybody thought that her medicine and her drinking caused her death. And I didn't think that at all. I thought that man probably did something to her."

Bob Bach and his wife, Jean, who were close to Dorothy, were among those who suspected Ron Pataky knew something about Kilgallen's demise. But Ron insists, "The next day [Monday] I had been in the office [in Columbus, Ohio] from 8 o'clock on. What did I do...hire my own jet, fly [to New York], kill her, and fly back in a hurry?" In reply to those who wonder why he was lavishing attention on a woman much older than he when he says he wasn't interested in her romantically, Ron explains he had other platonic friendships with older women like Myrna Loy, Alexis Smith, Arlene Dahl and Phyllis Diller.

Conspiracy buffs will no doubt seize on the fact that Pataky told us, "I knew Sam Giancana through Phyllis McGuire. Drunk one night, I tried to put the make on her. That didn't work..."

And Pataky certainly didn't stanch the speculation about himself when he published a poem called "Never Trust A Stiff At A Typewriter." In it, he asserts there's a "way to quench a gossip's stench" that "never fails." He notes, "One cannot write if zippered tight" and that somebody who's dead can "sell no tales!" Some see in these lines a chilling reference to Dorothy and the way she died. But Ron says he's written 2,000 poems and asks: "How in the hell did anyone come up with that one?"

Lee Israel was quoted online as alleging that Pataky "dropped out of Stanford in 1954 and then enrolled in a training school for assassins in Panama or thereabouts." However, in talking with Midwest Today she emphatically denied making that statement, though Ron did attend Stanford for one year.  He says that a few months after flunking out, he spent time inHobbs, New Mexico.

Decades later, Ron Pataky, then 56, went on to earn a master's degree in Christian Counselling from Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Christian Counselling from Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. 

He muses, "I would probably put it at 75% that [Dorothy] died naturally. My inclination, if I think about it at all, is that she accidentally o.d.'ed. Took a little too much pill with just a little too much whiskey. She was not a big person, you know. She was a small gal. And it would not take a whole heck of a lot to just quiet her down to the point she stopped... [But] I'm not a fool. Of course she could have been murdered."

Johnnie Ray was more convinced. He said, "Beyond question...I believe Dorothy was murdered,
but I can't prove it." 

There's No Statute of Limitations for Prosecuting Murder

What to make of all this? What man in Dorothy's life was so important, and knew her so well, that he could call her at home on a Sunday night just before she left for the TV show, and make a late date with her for which she rushed to change her wardrobe at the last minute?

Dorothy obviously knew the man she met at the hotel or she wouldn't have sat so close to him. If this person's encounter with her was so innocent, and did not have sinister implications connected to her death, why has nobody ever come forth to admit he was there with her (as Bob Bach did at P.J. Clarke's)?

Though she had been drinking, Dorothy was apparently functional enough to call Western Union at 2:20 a.m. and sound normal. She may have made the call from the hotel, (there was a bank of phones near the bar), having already left her column in the entryway at her residence, and remained in the bar for awhile longer. Since it was estimated that she died between 2 and 4 a.m., that really leaves only an hour and a half for her to have become intoxicated. (She had a blood alcohol level of 0.15. Based on her weight, this represents four to six drinks. She was legally drunk at 0.10.) 

Since the barbiturates found in Dorothy's system take a half hour to an hour to start working and then reach a dangerous peak level, this implies she consumed them between 2:30 and 3 a.m. The authorities should have pinned down her whereabouts at that time. As Lee Israel told this magazine, ordinarily in the case of a woman's suspicious death, the police would "go out and at least ask pro forma questions of the people who were around her the night before." But the New York cops "did nothing. I mean nothing." The lead detective on the case, who had six children, abruptly resigned from the NYPD without a pension a short time later, moved out of town, and opened a pricey restaurant.

Dorothy's favorite mixed drink, which she'd ordered that last night, included tonic, which contains quinine. Quinine has long been used by murderers to disguise the bitter taste of barbiturates. If someone slipped her a "mickey," she could have been too intoxicated to notice.

The Regency was seven blocks from her townhouse but nobody knows how she got home. It makes sense she would have gone to her dressing room and removed her dress, because she had a big closet there. It is plausible that given her blood alcohol level, the symptoms of which can include impaired balance, movement, coordination, walking or talking, she decided to lie down in the nearest bed. She may even have felt hot from the alcohol, so turned on the air conditioner. But why would she have first put on clothes she didn't normally wear, and grab a book to read without her eyeglasses?

The best evidence to suggest that the several drugs found in Dorothy's blood were not self-administered is that only one drug, the one she normally took, was on the glass on the nightstand.

It's pretty clear that Dorothy Kilgallen's overdose did not happen in response to her having insomnia and then taking too many barbiturates. If sleeplessness had really been the problem that night, before she'd resorted to taking any additional meds, why wouldn't she have done first the things that would have made her more comfortable to begin with, such as remove her earrings, false eyelashes and especially the hairpiece that she wore in back (rather than having to lie on it)? And remember the question that Dorothy had asked about Marilyn Monroe's death: "If she were just trying to get to sleep, and took the overdose of pills accidentally, why was the light on? Usually people sleep better in the dark." Dorothy's light was on.

As the medication took hold, Kilgallen would first experience bradycardia, or slow heart rate, the classic symptoms of which are fainting, dizziness or lightheadedness. This is on top of being drunk.

One scenario is that she may have collapsed before she had a chance to put on more clothes, and injured her shoulder. Richard may have heard this, or she might have even summoned him on the intercom. (The household staff had the night off.) He might have thought she just had too much to drink. He couldn't leave her like that, so perhaps he grabbed an outfit to put on her. He could have propped her up in bed, maybe because she complained of nausea. (A pink liquid was found in her stomach but was never analyzed. Pepto-Bismol, perhaps?) He could have assumed she'd sleep it off. But why lock the door and what was in the note?

Dick Kollmar told inconsistent stories to the police. In one version, he claimed that Dorothy had returned from "What's My Line?" at 11:30 p.m. "feeling chipper," that she "went in to write [her] column," that he had said goodnight and then gone to bed. 

Dorothy's inquiry into Jack Ruby's ties to the mob, and her relentless exploration of the Warren Report's gross inadequacies, threatened to expose dark secrets that powerful people both in and out of government did not want revealed. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI perceived her exposés as enough of a threat that they monitored her closely. 

Incredibly, the CIA had 53 field offices around the world watching her on her foreign travels. Given this context, it is hard to see her untimely death as a mere accident. 

There is no statute of limitations on murder, and there are enough people alive who could be questioned. But will there be enough interest by the powers that be to pursue this? As Dorothy once reflected, "Justice is a big rug. When you pull it out from under one person, a lot of others fall, too." Justice needs to be done in this case.