Kevin Spacey Spin-off

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Karyn Kupcinet (born Roberta Lynn Kupcinet; March 6, 1941 – November 28, 1963) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She is the daughter of Chicago newspaper columnist and television personality Irv Kupcinet.

Karyn Kupcinet had a brief acting career during the early 1960s. Six days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, her body was found at her West Hollywood, California home. With her death officially ruled an unsolved homicide, and occurring so close to the JFK assassination, her name has become one of hundreds added to the multiplicity of theories that emerged after the assassination... Karyn Kupcinet's death remains officially unsolved.

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The Goddards went to Kupcinet's apartment on November 30, after she failed to telephone the couple as promised. Mark Goddard stated that he had a "funny feeling" that something was wrong.[1] Upon arriving at Kupcinet's apartment, the couple found her nude body lying on the couch. Mark Goddard initially assumed that she had died from a drug overdose.[1] Upon searching Kupcinet's apartment, investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office found prescriptions for Desoxyn, Miltown, Amvicel, and other medications.[4] Authorities also found a note written by Kupcinet that reflected in some detail her emotions regarding issues in her life (i.e., parents, self-image, problems with boyfriend) and people she admired.[11]

Coroner Harold Kade concluded that due to fracture of the hyoid bone in her throat, Kupcinet had been strangled. Her death was officially ruled a homicide.

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Alleged connection to JFK
Kupcinet's death was first mentioned in connection with the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1967 by researcher Penn Jones Jr. in the self-published book Forgive My Grief II.[16] Jones cited an Associated Press wire service story about an unidentified woman who placed a phone call on November 22, 1963, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles, and Jones claimed this woman was Kupcinet.

The woman, who dialed her local operator roughly twenty minutes before the shooting of the president in Dallas, stated that he was going to be shot. Jones alleged that "Karyn Kupcinet" was attempting to warn someone of the impending assassination. Jones claimed that she was told of the imminent assassination by her father Irv, who allegedly had been given advance notice by Jack Ruby, the Dallas nightclub owner who fatally shot President Kennedy's accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Jones speculated that Irv Kupcinet may have met Ruby in Chicago in the 1940s.[11]

Jones speculated Karyn Kupcinet had been murdered by representatives of the Italian-American Mafia who silenced her and sent a message to her father to remain silent about why President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot and who was actually responsible.[17]

Irv Kupcinet denied that he or his daughter had prior knowledge of the shootings of the president or Oswald. This was supported by Kupcinet's friends, actor Earl Holliman, Holliman's then-girlfriend [a beard -- Delhi LA-born Holliman is actually a homo], and Karyn's boyfriend Andrew Prine, all of whom traveled to Palm Springs with Karyn on November 22. Kupcinet reportedly seemed upset and shocked about television and radio coverage of the shootings that she saw and heard in Palm Springs.[11] She did not reveal any foreknowledge of the events.

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