Web Quotableonline.com Frasescelebres.org Greatbookscollection.org

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. Police questioned several of
Kupcinets's friends and her boyfriend, actor
Andrew Prine, multiple times but no charges were
ever filed.

The connection to JFK's assassination was first
made by author 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.

==External links==

*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475432/ IMDB listing
*http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/kupcinet.htm
"Hollywood Homicide"
*http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5439/
Phone_Tip.html The AP story