He wore a bulletproof vest to work due to recurring assassination attempts, while her mother had to use the gun she kept in the family home on several occasions.
[1] Cheshire first worked as a reporter for two local papers, the Barbourville Mountain Advocate and The Harlan Daily Enterprise.
In that guise she did not simply stick to the contents of a typical gossip columnist, but spoke of other, more serious matters such as bribes to government officials.
[2] Because of this, she was known and feared by the establishment, having worked on a variety of scandal-type stories concerning various political leaders, such as Koreagate,[3][4] the lechery of John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon's habit of keeping, illegally, gifts given to him by foreign dignitaries.
[3] Cheshire wrote an eight-part series in the early 1960s on the restoration of the White House undertaken by Jacqueline Kennedy.
She reported that several pieces that were supposedly antiques were actually fakes, and that the true cost of the decorations exceeded the official stated figure.
With that, he thrust two one-dollar bills into her wine glass in front of a variety of witnesses and added, "Here's two dollars, baby, that's what you're used to".