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Karyn Kupcinet

Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet (March 6, 1941-November 28, 1963) was a young actress who was murdered in a case that remains unsolved. It is often speculated that her death was connected to the JFK assassination, though there is no proof of this connection.

Kupcinet, the daughter of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet, starred in a handful of minor roles, including a small part in the 1961 Jerry Lewis film The Ladies Man. She was last seen alive on the night of Wednesday, November 27, the day before Thanksgiving. Her nude body was found on Saturday November 30 on her couch in her West Hollywood apartment. The coroner concluded that she had been strangled and had been dead about three days.

The connection to JFK's assassination was first made by conspiracy theorist Penn Jones. An Associated Press story reported that an operator overheard a female caller from the area of Oxnard, California say "The President is going to be killed" about 20 minutes before the assassination. Jones, in his book Forgive My Grief II, moved the call 50 miles south to Los Angeles and the date of Kupcinet's death to November 24 and claimed that Kupcinet was the caller. Other authors, while often correcting Jones' errors, have also claimed Kupcinet's death was related to the JFK assassination, but left unexplained is why she would call from Oxnard and how she had advance knowledge of the assassination.

After her name appeared on a 1992 Today Show broadcast on a list of "mysterious deaths" connected to the JFK assassination, her father wrote in his column that linking her to JFK’s killing was "an atrocious outrage...Karyn no longer can suffer pain by such an inexcusable mention, but her parents and her brother Jerry can."

Further reading

John Austin, Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries. New York: Ace, 1970.


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New York: Ace, 1970. She died in New York of cancer and was interred in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. John Austin, Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries. She appeared in two films, playing an agent in Garbo Talks and an eccentric in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. After her name appeared on a 1992 Today Show broadcast on a list of "mysterious deaths" connected to the JFK assassination, her father wrote in his column that linking her to JFK’s killing was "an atrocious outrage...Karyn no longer can suffer pain by such an inexcusable mention, but her parents and her brother Jerry can.". Her (non-musical) performance as a washed-up television comedienne in 1983's Noises Off received rave reviews, but the role was played in the movie by Carol Burnett (who also got Loudon's role in the 1982 film version of Annie). Other authors, while often correcting Jones' errors, have also claimed Kupcinet's death was related to the JFK assassination, but left unexplained is why she would call from Oxnard and how she had advance knowledge of the assassination. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, and co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in the play West Side Waltz in 1981.

Jones, in his book Forgive My Grief II, moved the call 50 miles south to Los Angeles and the date of Kupcinet's death to November 24 and claimed that Kupcinet was the caller. She took over as Mrs. An Associated Press story reported that an operator overheard a female caller from the area of Oxnard, California say "The President is going to be killed" about 20 minutes before the assassination. Her television series, Dorothy, in 1979, had her portraying a former showgirl teaching music and drama at a stuffy Girls' School. The connection to JFK's assassination was first made by conspiracy theorist Penn Jones. I am too good for this song! I am, however, not too good for this dress.". The coroner concluded that she had been strangled and had been dead about three days. Her version of Gershwin's "Vodka" had her throwing off a luxurious fur, (telling it to "wait in the car") to reveal a spectacular sleek blue sequined costume, adding "I am too good for this room.

Her nude body was found on Saturday November 30 on her couch in her West Hollywood apartment. Her performance of the song "Fifty Percent" from Ballroom on the Tony Awards was one of a series of triumphant performances on the yearly awards show, which included an outrageous version of "Broadway Baby" from Follies. She was last seen alive on the night of Wednesday, November 27, the day before Thanksgiving. She was widowed in 1977, and appeared as a recently widowed woman in Ballroom in 1979. Kupcinet, the daughter of Chicago Sun-Times columnist Irv Kupcinet, starred in a handful of minor roles, including a small part in the 1961 Jerry Lewis film The Ladies Man. Her best-remembered role is "Miss Hannigan" in Annie, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in 1977. It is often speculated that her death was connected to the JFK assassination, though there is no proof of this connection. She married Norman Paris, a composer who arranged the music for Sondheim's television muscial "Evening Primrose", and who wrote the theme song for the television game show "I've Got a Secret".

Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet (March 6, 1941-November 28, 1963) was a young actress who was murdered in a case that remains unsolved. She looked back on these with typical humor, once answering the comment "Miss Loudon, I saw you in Comedy Tonight with the response, "Oh, you poor thing! I feel so bad for you!". She appeared in a series of commercial failures (The Fig Leaves Are Falling ran for four performances) which nonetheless garnered her favorable reviews and a nomination for a Tony Award in 1969. She made her Broadway debut in "Nowhere to Go But Up" which ran only two weeks but earned her outstanding reviews. She made her stage debut in 1962 in The World of Jules Feiffer, a Jules Feiffer play directed by Mike Nichols, with music by Stephen Sondheim.

She became a lounge singer, mingling song with ad-libbed comedy, and was featured on televsion on "The Perry Como Show" and "The Ed Sullivan Show". She moved to New York and landed a job as a featured nightclub performer. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and began singing as a child. Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1933 - November 15, 2003) was a Broadway actress noted for her comedy and "belting" singing voice, which she used to deliver a wide range of musical comedy and Roaring Twenties songs.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil -1997. Garbo Talks - 1984. "Dorothy" - 1979. "The Garry Moore Show" - regular appearances 1962-1964.

"It's a Business" - 1952. Dinner at Eight - 2002 (replaced in previews due to ill health). Comedy Tonight - 1994. Jerry's Girls - 1985.

Noises Off - 1983. West Side Waltz - 1981. Sweeney Todd - 1980. Ballroom (musical) - 1979.

Annie (musical) - 1977. The Women - 1973. Three Men on a Horse - 1969. The Fig Leaves Are Falling - 1969.

Noël Coward's Sweet Potato - 1968. Nowhere to Go But Up - 1962. The World of Jules Feiffer - 1962.