She was one of the few people who knew both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. She worked on Kennedy's staff when he was a newly-elected Senator from Massachusetts. She eventually became a journalist and moved to Moscow, where she filed stories for the North American Newspaper Alliance. In 1959, a contact at the U.S. Embassy told her "a boy named Oswald" was trying to defect to the USSR. He was staying at her hotel, and she spent five hours interviewing him.