***It WAS like the old days with Dorothy Kilgallen and all,***
Wasn’t she the reporter who was going to dig into the Kennedy assasination, but was found dead not long after? I remember reading of this back in the mid 1960s.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/death4.htm
I wikied her to see about what you said, and it seems you are right, there is some, let me say “controversy” about her death and the Kennedy assassination. Those who are interested can check out your link or wiki. (I’d urge any of those folks to also check out Ben Bradlee’s dead sister-in-law, I think it was his s-i-l, another suspicious Kennedy related death)
But it seems that mostly she was a show biz reporter and the only way I know her is as a participant in these early game shows.
I’m guessing you are a little older than me (I’m 54, Lord bless me) and I’m just barely old enough to remember “what’s my line” “to tell the truth” and some of the other shows from early TV. I don’t think I really remember “I’ve got a secret” from prime time, but I certainly did see it sometimes, I’m guessing in some late night pre-cable re-runs.
One thing I do know - I’m not *really* a baby boomer because I DO NOT remember Howdy Doody!
What was up with that show? People even a very few years older than me have it as part of their real cultural memory base I and my cohorts know nothing about it, other than what we’ve gleaned from our near elders! I’ve never figured out the exact dividing line, but Im pretty sure there is one.
I guess this show was a huge hit, but never went into reruns. To me this is a strange and almost unique situation.
Oh, actually there’s another one I can think of “Peter Gunn” everyone knows and loves the theme song to that show, but I don’t know ANYONE who’s seen the actual show!
The mysteries left to us from early TV!