On this day, November 8, 1965, Kennedy assassination skeptic Dorothy Kilgallen died.

[Mc Mike]

4. Dorothy's good friend, Florence McCanless Pritchett Smith,

also known as 'Mrs. Earl Smith', died of a cerebral hemorrhage the next day.

"Florence continued working as a journalist. She also became a television personality and appeared on programmes such as What's My Line? It was during this time she became friendly with the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. In 1965 Dorothy Kilgallen managed to obtain a private interview with Jack Ruby. She told friends that she had information that would "break the case wide open". Aware of what had happened to Bill Hunter and Jim Koethe, Kilgallen handed her interview notes to Florence Smith. She told friends that she had obtained information that Ruby and J. D. Tippit were friends and that David Ferrie was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On 8th November, 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen, was found dead in her New York apartment. She was fully dressed and sitting upright in her bed. The police reported that she had died from taking a cocktail of alcohol and barbiturates. The notes of her interview with Jack Ruby and the article she was writing on the case had disappeared. Florence Smith, died the next day of a cerebral hemorrhage. Her son, Earl Smith III, said that she had been suffering from leukemia."

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57676344/florence-mccanless-smith