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 attended New York University for one year, and transferred to University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated with a degree in Asian languages and cultures. John Austin, Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries. She was raised in Queens, New York by Chinese immigrant parents, and attended New York City's famous Stuyvesant High School. 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 Chinese name is Liú Yùlíng (劉玉玲). 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. Lucy Alexis Liu (born December 2, 1968) is a Chinese American Hollywood actress who starred in the TV series Ally McBeal, as the voice of Raquel Smashenburn in Game Over and in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels and 2003 Film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.

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. Protozoa (1993). 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. Bang (1995). The connection to JFK's assassination was first made by conspiracy theorist Penn Jones. Jerry Maguire (1996). The coroner concluded that she had been strangled and had been dead about three days. Guy (1996).

Her nude body was found on Saturday November 30 on her couch in her West Hollywood apartment. Gridlock'd (1997). She was last seen alive on the night of Wednesday, November 27, the day before Thanksgiving. City of Industry (1997). 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. Flypaper (1997). It is often speculated that her death was connected to the JFK assassination, though there is no proof of this connection. Love Kills (1998).

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