#438: The Connected Murders of JFK, RFK, and Dorothy Kilgallen with Mark Shaw

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Patrick Coffin

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Author and former criminal defense attorney Mark Shaw joins Patrick Coffin to discuss his explosive work new book Abuse of Power.

Think the Charlie Kirk narrative is suspect? This is not the government's first rodeo. Central to the conversation is Dorothy Kilgallen, the famous journalist (and top panelist on the game show phenomenon What's My Line? who aggressively investigated the JFK assassination.

Her biographer Shaw explains how "abusive power" operates through intimidation, disinformation, media control, and mysterious deaths. Kilgallen was the only reporter to interview Jack Ruby privately—and believed the official narrative was false. She publicly stated she would break the JFK story wide open—then was found dead under highly suspicious circumstances.

Shaw draws chilling connections between JFK's assassination, the later murder of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., Kilgallen's death, and why Sirhan Sirhan deserves a new trial. All three cases involve: conflicting autopsy evidence; missing documents; compromised investigations; and media suppression Shaw argues these deaths reveal a pattern, not coincidence—a system protecting power at any cost.

The discussion raises uncomfortable questions about: who controls historical narratives why certain truths are buried and how fear keeps journalists silent A sobering reminder that truth is temporarily dangerous—when it threatens entrenched power.

Link to Mark's book: Abuse of Power: Connecting Robert Kennedy's Assassination with the Murders of JFK and Dorothy Kilgallen Exposes Who Was Responsible and Why Sirhan Sirhan Deserves a New Trial https://amzn.to/3KBFmXv \

Dorothy Kilgallen's last appearance on What's My Line? https://youtu.be/DUOcxyDIYuI?si=D1hfmZcFKEc2v0iA

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Patrick Hoppin Show. Looking forward to my next, my second conversation with Dorothy Kilgallan,
0:06.1	double biographer Mark Shaw, and all the dot connections that he makes in his new book called
0:10.3	Abusive Power. Cannot wait to introduce you to Mark if you've never heard of him in his work.
0:14.9	But I do want to mention that if you love talking about official government slash media narratives,
0:20.7	the Hollywood Washington nexus of storytelling
0:23.4	that things we're supposed to believe, things were allowed to know, things were not allowed
0:26.5	to know, and you might like the True North movement. If you click the link in the bio,
0:30.2	it's Patrickoffen.media. We talk about all the things that distinguish truth from falsity.
0:37.0	We ask uncomfortable questions and we dig for the
0:39.4	truth. This is the meaning behind true north as opposed to magnetic north. Most of us are Catholics,
0:44.4	all of us are literate. Everyone is curious about what's really going on in this world and how
0:48.9	to distinguish truth from falsity, especially in a galloping world of artificial intelligence.
0:54.9	With that, we turn to Mark Shaw.
0:56.8	His new book is called Abuse of Power.
0:59.0	It connects the murders of John F. Kennedy, famed journalist and panelists on What's
1:04.6	My Land, Dorothy, Kilgallan, and Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.
1:08.3	Mark, great to see you again.
1:09.9	Thanks for coming on. Thank you. And I'm going to get a copy of that book. I didn't know it existed. I'm sorry, but that sounds like that's right up my alley with some of the things that's happened to me. So that's great. Right. Good. Well, there's so much, there's so much to be said, and you've created a problem for me with your book because it's hard to know which is the best starting
1:28.0	point. Maybe we can start with our mutual object of admiration, Dorothy Kilgallin. That's probably
1:33.9	your deepest passion. I can tell by the way you speak about her. I'm always surprised at how
1:40.7	few people know who Dorothy Kilgallan is because she's an instrumental,
1:44.4	pivotal player in the difference between what the government wants us to believe about events
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