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A mysterious box, Box 29, was recently found by Private detective Becky Aldrige at UCLA library. It will remain sealed to the public for another two decades, despite a list of contents showing it contains a trove of files about Monroe.
The files inside the box belonged to Marilyn's doctor and the person that found her body, Ralph Greenson. Aldrige believes that this could prove that Marilyn was murdered by her obsessed psychiatrist.
"I discovered he was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe because he had every book, every magazine, every newspaper that was ever written about Marilyn Monroe, everything," said Aldrige.
Aldrige also finds it odd that Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, called the Greenson before calling the ambulance. Allegedly, Murray also had a key to Marilyn's bedroom, so the doctor wouldn't have had to break in.
Aldrige has opened a petition asking for the finding of "probable suicide" to be struck from Monroe's death certificate and for the death to be re-investigated as homicide.
Marilyn Monroe was the "Blonde Bombshell". Not only could she sing, dance and act, she was also very smart. Her life came to a tragic end on August 6, 1962, when she was found dead in her home by her housekeeper the victim of an apparent suicide. Some people however, think that she was murdered. If Marilyn was murdered like some people theorize, was she murdered because she was going to blow the whistle on about aliens? Or was she going to inform the press about the President's plan to kill Castro. A FBI document alleges that Marilyn Monroe knew about a secret airbase. The memo states five relevant points from the wire taps that were conducted. It also states that she was about to divulge what she knew to the public. 1. Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of subject with Kilgallen and the break up with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties hosted by the “inner circle” among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the New Mexico story in the late forties. Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it would cause terrible embarrassment for Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.
2. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother.
3. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
4. Subject made reference to “bases” in Cuba and knew of the President’s plan to kill Castro.
5. Subject made reference to her “diary of secrets” and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures.
The memo is signed head of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton.
Actor Gianni Russo claimed that Marilyn Monroe was killed by a guy known as "The Doctor" paid by Bobby Kennedy. The Doctor allegedly is a killer for a hire and an actual MD. Gianni said that The Doctor injected air into the vein near Marilyn's pubic region, and she died of an embolism, but it looked like drugs to the coroner. Gianni said there had been rumors tying the Kennedys to affairs with Monroe and Bobby feared the story getting out.
Ronald Reagan, the 40th President Of the United States
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6th, 1911 in Tampico Illinois to Nelle Clyde Wilson and Jack Reagan.
Nelle taught Ronald to always expect to find the best in people which he often did.
Jack was a salesman and a story teller. Jack nicknamed Ronald "Dutch" due to his "fat little Dutchman"-like appearance and "Dutchboy" haircut.
Ronald’s ancestry is Irish on his father’s side and Scots-English on his mother’s side.
Ronald was raised in a poor family in a small town of northern Illinois.
He was baptized into the the Disciples of Christ faith in 1922.
Long before the civil rights movement, Ronald opposed racial discrimination. One time in Dixon, the proprietor of a local inn would not allow black people to stay there, Ronald brought them back to his house. His mother invited them to stay overnight and have breakfast the next morning.
At Dixon High School Ronald developed interests in acting, sports, and storytelling.
Ronald's first job was as a summer lifeguard at Rock River in Lowell Park. He preformed 77 rescues over six years.
He attended Eureka College were he majored in economics and sociology and graduated with a C grade. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, was on the football team and was captain of the swim team. He was elected student body president and led a student revolt against the college president after the president tried to cut back the faculty.
After he graduated college in 1932, Ronald worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations before moving to WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa. There he was as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games creating play-by-play accounts of games using only basic descriptions that the station received by wire as the games were in progress.
In 1937, Ronald traveled with the Cubs to California, while there he took a screen test with Warner Brothers Studios. This lead to a seven year contract.
His first starring role was in the 1937 movie Love Is on the Air.
In 1938, on the set of the film Brother Rat, Ronald met fellow actress Jane Wyman.
They fell in love and were married on January 26, 1940 at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California.
Together they had three children, Maureen, Christine and Michael. Christine only lived one day and Michael was adopted.
Ronald lost partial hearing in one ear when he was hurt on the movie set "Code Of The Secret Service" in 1939 after a gun was fired next to his ear. Decades later, President Reagan wrote to Michael Jackson offering his support after Jackson was burned filming Pepsi TV commercial.
By the end of 1939 he had already appeared in 19 films.
In 1940, in the film Knute Rockne, All American, Ronald played the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp and from it, he acquired the lifelong nickname "the Gipper".
Ronald acted in the 1942 movie "Kings Row" where he played a double amputee who recites the line "Where's the rest of me?" This was his favorite movie he acted in.
One April 14th, 1942, he was ordered to military active duty in San Francisco. He classified for limited service only due to his poor eyesight, this excluded him from serving overseas. He was promoted to captain of the First Motion Picture Unit on July 22, 1943 where he was indirectly involved in discovering actress Marilyn Monroe. He returned to Fort MacArthur, California, where he was separated from active duty on December 9, 1945.
In December 1945, he was stopped from leading an anti-nuclear rally in Hollywood by pressure from the Warner Bros. studio.
Ronald was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940's. During this time Ronald and his then wife Jane, provided the FBI with the names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers.
He also testified in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee against the "Hollywood Ten."
Ronald had doubts about being a spy for the government. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he stated,
"I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment."
Ronald Reagan started out as a democrat and his wife, Jane, a republican. This along with Ronald's Screen Actors Guild duties lead Jane to file for divorce in 1948. Their divorced was finalized in 1949.
In 1949, Ronald met actress Nancy Davis while he was helping her with her name appearing on a Communist blacklist in Hollywood. She had been mistaken for another lady of the same name. Nancy described their meeting as,
"I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close."
They were married on March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the valley with actor William Holden serving as best man.
Together they had two children together, Patti and Ronald "Ron" Jr.
Ronald became a motivational speaker at General Electric factories.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a true hero" to Ronald, but Ronald became a Republican in 1962 and was a leading conservative spokesman in the Goldwater campaign of 1964.
Ronald believed in the importance of smaller government.
In his famous speech, "A Time for Choosing" Ronald states,
"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing ... You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream—the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order—or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism"
Ronald's last movie role was in the 1964, The Killers. It was based on an Ernest Hemingway story, and Ronald's only role as a villain in a film. It was the first made-for-TV movie, but was considered too violent for TV, and released to movie theaters instead.
His final work as a professional actor, Ronald was a host and performer from 1964 to 1965 on the television series Death Valley Days.
When Ronald was newly elected governor of California in 1966, by defeating former San Francisco mayor George Christopher, he sided with his political benefactors over Cesar Chavez.
Cesar Chavez led the movement to end the underpayment and inhumane working conditions endured by over a million Mexican-American farm workers.
Reagan's campaign emphasized "to send the welfare bums back to work," and "to clean up the mess at Berkeley". During his tenure as senator, Ronald raised taxes and turned a state budget deficit to a surplus. He also ordered in National Guard troops during the People's Park protests at the University of California.
This led to an incident that became known as "Bloody Thursday," resulting in the death of student James Rector and the blinding of carpenter Alan Blanchard.
Ronald was re-elected as Governor in 1970 defeating "Big Daddy" Jesse M. Unruh. That year, Ronald then responded to questions about campus protest movements saying,
"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.
No more appeasement."
Ronald was "pro-life" he was quoted as saying,
“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
In 1967, Reagan signed the Mulford Act, which repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. This garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest it.
He strongly supported capital punishment.
In 1968 and 1976, he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination. Four years later, he won the nomination, and then defeated incumbent president Jimmy Carter.
Ronald's campaign included, lowering taxes to stimulate the economy, less government interference in people's lives, states' rights, and a strong national defense.
George H. W. Bush was Ronald's running mate.
Debategate, was a political scandal that took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election. Reagan's team had somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's top secret briefing papers that Carter used in the preparation for the October 28, 1980, debate with Reagan.
On November 4, 1980, Ronald won over Carter, carrying 44 states and receiving 489 electoral votes. Ronald also won the popular vote.
Ronald was 69 years old at the time of his inauguration. Until Donald Trump came along, Ronald was the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office. Ronald was also the the first person elected as President to have been divorced.
After taking office, Ronald began implementing his "Reaganomics", which were his economic policies associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. This spurred economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
In his first year in office Ronald appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as America's first female Supreme Court Justice. He also appointed Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., of San Diego as the first African American to chair the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
In 1981, Ronald became the first president to propose a constitutional amendment on school prayer stating,
"Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions.
No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer."
On March 30, 1981, Ronald was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. when he was shot at six times by John Hinckley, who was loitering by a poorly guarded exit. Ronald only was hit once because the bullet ricocheted off the presidential limousine and into his’s chest. A police officer was wounded, as well as a Secret Service agent, and press secretary James Brady. The attack left Brady partially paralyzed. Hinckley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster and he claims that he tried to kill Ronald in order to impress her. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1982.
Also in 1981, the AID's crisis arrived in the United States. Some say Ronald largely ignored the crisis and did little about it. By the time Ronald had given his first speech on the epidemic, it was six years into his presidency. 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died of it. By the end of the year Reagan left office, 115,786 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and more than 70,000 of them had died of it.
However federal funding for AIDS-related programs was $2.3 billion in 1989 and nearly $6 billion total over his presidency.
In 1982, Ronald signed legislation establishing a federal Martin Luther King holiday.
Ronald began the War on Drugs campaign in 1982 saying that "drugs were menacing our society". He promised to fight for drug-free schools and workplaces, expand drug treatment, strengthen law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts, and bring fourth greater public awareness.
Ronald ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces. He revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been canceled by the Carter administration, and he produced the MX missile.
In 1982 Ronald impeded Moscow's proposed gas line to Western Europe. It hurt the Soviet economy, but it also caused ill will among American allies in Europe who counted on that revenue. Ronald retreated on this issue.
On March 3, 1983, Ronald predicted that communism would collapse, stating,
"Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written."
In September of 1983, Ronald's administration suspended all Soviet passenger air service to the United States, and dropped several agreements being negotiated with the Soviets after Soviet fighters downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island. The flight carried 269 people, including Georgia congressman Larry McDonald. Ronald stated that that act was "massacre" and said that the Soviets had turned "against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere."
Ronald deployed the CIA's Special Activities Division to Afghanistan and Pakistan. They trained, equipped and lead Mujahideen forces against the Soviet Army. This action credited him for assisting in ending the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The CIA also began sharing information with the Iranian government, which it was secretly courting. This cost billions of dollars, advanced the career of a Mujahidin commander named Osama bin Laden and led to the emergence of the Taliban.
He did all of this in order to curtail the Soviet Union's influence over Central Asia. He also continued the war after the USSR's retreat. This helped bring about bin Laden's ascendancy in the region.Reagan illegally sold weapons to the unfriendly Iranian government to fund right-wing rebel forces in Nicaragua.
This leading to the Iran-Contra scandal.
In March 1983, Ronald introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative. This was a missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. He believed that this could make nuclear war impossible.
In 1983, Ronald sent forces to Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission during the Lebanese Civil War. On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings, that housed that peacekeeping operation, in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack killed 241 U.S. and 58 French peacekeepers, 6 civilian, and the 2 attackers. Ronald sent in the USS New Jersey battleship to shell Syrian positions in Lebanon, he then withdrew all the Marines from there.
On October 25th, 1983, Ronald, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation's Marxist regime, ordered the Marines to parachute into battle during Operation Urgent Fury. Operation Urgent Fury was the first major military operation conducted by U.S. forces since the Vietnam War. After several days of fighting, the U.S. was victorious, with 19 American fatalities and 116 wounded American soldiers. In mid-December, after a new government was appointed by the governor-general, U.S. forces withdrew.
When Ronald ran for re-election in 1984, he defeated former vice president Walter Mondale in a landslide with the second-largest electoral college victory in American history.
In 1986, Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill that budgeted $1.7 billion to fund the War on Drugs and specified a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses. This was highly criticized for promoting significant racial disparities in the prison population and for doing nothing to change the availability of this drugs on the street.
On January 28th, 1986, the night of the Space Shuttle Challenge disaster, Ronald delivered a speech, written by Peggy Noonan, in which he said:
"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave ... We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
On Tuesday, April 15, 1986, in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing, that resulted in the injury of 63 American military personnel and death of one serviceman, Ronald authorized the use of force against the country. In the late evening of April 15, 1986, the United States launched a series of airstrikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, on ground targets in Libya. To explain his actions, Ronald said,
"When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I'm in this office.
Ronald signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act which enacted on November 6th, 1986, which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States. This made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants, required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status, and granted amnesty to approximately three million illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and had lived in the country continuously.
The Iran Contra Affair came to light in November 1986. when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was part of a largely successful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon. Some of the money from the arms deal had been covertly and illegally funneled into a fund to aid the right wing Contras counter revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Ronald escalated an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with Gorbachev.
Speaking at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Ronald challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"
When Gorbachev visited Washington in December 1987, he and Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons.
In 1988, he vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, arguing that the legislation infringed on states' rights and the rights of churches and business owners. His veto was overridden by Congress.
In 1988, near the end of the Iran–Iraq War, the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilian passengers.
He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after a succession of five prior presidents did not.
In November 1994, Ronald announced, through a letter, that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier that year. The letter read,
"I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease ...
At the moment I feel just fine.
I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done ...
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends.
May God always bless you."
Ronald's son Ron said he had suspected early signs of his father's dementia as early as 1984 and former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl said that in her final meeting with the president in 1986, Ronald did not seem to know who Stahl was at first. However, all four of Ronald's White House doctors said that they saw no evidence of Alzheimer's while he was president.
Ronald did suffered an episode of head trauma in July 1989, after being thrown from a horse in Mexico. A subdural hematoma was found and surgically treated later in the year. The fall supposedly hastened the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
He passed away of pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's disease, at age 93, at his home in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles, California on Saturday, June 5th, 2004, at 1 p.m.
He had a seven day state funeral, which was executed by the Military District of Washington.
Ronald Reagan was the first former U.S. president to die in the 21st century.
In this life Ronald Reagan won many honors including, being made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Presidential Medal of Freedom the Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom.
Marilyn Monroe was very lonely, even though she put on a happy face. Her mentally ill mother tried to kill her, so Marilyn grew up in a series of foster homes. She was married before she turned 16 and dropped out of high school. She never knew her father. Marilyn divorced several times. She desperately wanted a baby, but each time she tried she miscarried. She was good friends with Judy Garland. People thought she was a dumb blonde, but she was not. She was deeply intellectual and an avid reader. She had hundreds of books lining the shelves in her home, such as James Joyce's Ulysses. At the time of her death, Monroe was reading two novels, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Leo Rosten's Captain Newman MD. She was an avid supporter of the civil rights movement. Monroe helped songstress Ella Fitzgerald break into the Los Angeles music scene.
Because of segregation laws still in place in 1955, black people were not allowed in nightclubs, so Monroe demanded that Fitzgerald be allowed to perform.
She promised the management of a popular L.A. nightclub that if Fitzgerald could sing there, she would ensure publicity and a packed crowd by sitting in the front row every night for a week. She was being monitored by the FBI.
Because of the political views of her and her husband, the FBI closely monitored them, thinking that they might have been communists.
The complete files are available now, though huge parts are blacked out.
The original, untouched copies of the Monroe files no longer exist.
During renovations by the new owner to Marilyn's house after she died, discovered elaborate wiretapping and a telephone tapping system.
She was in love with Bobby Kennedy.
Monroe was rumored to have been involved with both JFK and Bobby.A alledged letter was sent to Monroe by Kennedy's younger sister, Jean Kennedy Smith.
"Understand that you and Bobby are the new item!" she wrote. "We all think you should come with him when he comes back East!"
The FBI was investigating the suspected relationship between Bobby and Monroe with J. Edgar Hoover at the helm.
He was particularly determined to find anything scandalous.
A lot of evidence surrounding her death was destroyed or missing.
A lot of forensic evidence related to her death went missing. One of the suspicious things was, that Marilyn's half sister reported that Marilyn's manager was burning some of her papers.
Many witness accounts of the night she died were contradictory.
The coroner and first responders had some doubts that her death was a suicide.
A fresh bruise was on Monroe's hip and when her stomach was examined there were no traces of the dye that coated the Nembutal capsules that claimed her life.
The coroner later admitted that he should have tested her internal organs instead of just performing toxicology tests on the blood and liver.
Weeks after he performed the autopsy the coroner asked the lab to test her other organs but they had already been destroyed.
The first officer to the scene thought something was off. He thought it was staged and looked a little too neat and was nothing to drink in the room and no empty containers.
Did Bobby Kennedy have something to do with her death?
An FBI file suggests that Bobby Kennedy was aware of a plan to"induce" the starlet's suicide. Page 2 of the FBI document describes wiretap evidence of Robert Kennedy inquiring to Peter Lawford “Is Marilyn dead yet?” http://www.marilyndeclassified.com/archives
She was an amazing cook.
After her death, many recipes were found in her home. She planned on writing a cookbook one day. Cooking experts deemed those recipes as wonderful and that they seemed to come from a confident cook.
She was a poet.
Monroe's personal papers were published in 2010.
They show her frustration at dealing with day-to-day life and the people around her.
"I can't really stand Human beings sometimes — I know they all have their problems as I have mine — but I'm really too tired for it. Trying to understand, making allowances, seeing certain things that just weary me."
Another entry reads,
"all this thought and writing has made my hands tremble but I just want to keep pouring it out until that great pot in the mind is, though not emptied, relieved."
Did you know that Marilyn Monroe died her hair from brunette to blonde?
She was was a no-nonsense, tough, uncompromising, aggressive and fearless, American journalist and television game show panelist. She was a true representative of the people, and felt the public had a right to know the truth, wherever it may lead. Ernest Hemingway called her
”the greatest woman writer in the world”.
Dorothy was born July 3, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois to newspaper reporter James Lawrence Kilgallen and his wife, Mae Ahern. She started her career shortly when she was 17 as a reporter for the Hearst Corporation's New York Evening Journal. In 1936, at 23 years old, Dorothy competed in a race around the world using only transportation available to the general public. She was the only woman to compete in the contest and she came in second. She wrote a book about the experience, Girl Around The World. In 1938, she began her newspaper column "The Voice of Broadway," which was syndicated to more than 140 papers with 30 million readers. She also covered high-profile murder trials. In the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard, who denied killing his pregnant wife, and inspiration for the television series The Fugitive (1963-67), Dorothy single-handedly led Sheppard’s murder conviction to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. She told defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey that when the trial started, Judge Edward Blythin called her into his chambers to get her autograph and commented that,
”It’s an open-and-shut case.
He’s guilty as hell”.
She was one of the first reporters to imply that the CIA was involved in working with the mob to try to assassinate Fidel Castro. In 1950, she became a regular panelist on the television game show What's My Line? She was on the show for 15 years, until her death. Most of her articles dealt with show business news and gossip. She did venture in more serious topics, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She scored the only interview with Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused killer of President John Kennedy. She scored a world exclusive when she obtained an advance copy of the Warren Commission's controversial report. This infuriated President Lyndon Johnson, who had not yet even seen it. She was publicly skeptical of the conclusions of the Warren Commission's report into the assassination of President Kennedy. She wrote several newspaper articles on the subject and obtained a copy of Jack Ruby's testimony to the Warren Commission, which she included. She wrote the first article on the FBI’s intimidation of witnesses. She interviewed a witness to the shooting of Officer J. D. Tippit, Acquilla Clemons, whom the Warren Commission never questioned. Clemons claimed to have two men at the scene of the murder, none matching Lee Harvey Oswald‘s description. Dorothy also launched a private inquiry which took her to New Orleans. This resulted in her drawing the scrutiny and scorn of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and LBJ. FBI agents were dispatched to her private residence in New York to interrogate her. She said she’d rather die than reveal her sources. She turned down a an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler. On August 3, 1962, Less than 48 hours after Dorothy wrote a piece about Marilyn Monroe‘s affair with President John K. Kennedy, Monroe was found dead. Dorothy began writing of her suspicions that Monroe’s cause of death was an overdose of pills and challenged the police and medical evidence. When LIFE Magazine came out, with a controversial photo of Oswald, Dorothy publicly challenged its authenticity. Agencies of the federal government like the CIA and FBI followed Dorothy and her friends for many years. Her phones were tapped and she had to arrange secret meetings with sources. Near the end of her life, she very much felt she was in danger . Before her death, she bought a gun for protection. She told her coworkers on What's My Line? that she had planned a second trip to New Orleans to investigate Mafia don Carlos Marcello. Dorothy was quoted as saying, ”If the wrong people knew what I know about the JFK assassination, it would cost me my life.” On November 8, 1965, Dorothy's hair dresser, found her dead, propped up in bed, in full make-up, wig, and earrings. She was not wearing her regular pajamas, but instead a blue matching peignoir and robe. A book lay on her bed, that she had finished reading weeks earlier. Her reading glasses were nowhere nearby. She was found in a third-floor bedroom of her Manhattan townhouse, although she always slept in the fifth-floor. Her death was much like Marilyn Monroe's, which she had also questioned.
”If she were just trying to get to sleep, and took the overdose of the pills accidentally, why was the light on?
Usually people sleep better in the dark.”
When Dorothy was found, her light was also on and like Marilyn Monroe it was determined that her death had been caused by a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturates. Dr. James Luke, the medical examiner that did her autopsy, did not sign the death certificate. It was signed by another physician, Dr. Dominick DiMaio. When he was questioned, he did not know why his name was appeared on the certificate, and he was not working in Manhattan at the time of Dorothy's death. An investigative article that took months to assemble, and relied on eyewitnesses and other sources who were never interviewed by authorities, her most likely was tied into her probe into the death of JFK. A mysterious man befriended her in the months leading up to her death. Just a day or so before she died, Dorothy told her hairdresser, Marc Sinclaire, her belief that someone close to her was a “snitch” and was watching her closely and feeding information to people who wished to do her harm. Three years after her death, tissue samples were analyzed. The glass next to her bed showed traces of a drug she was known to take called Nembutol, however that drug was not found in her body. Analysis showed a deadly combination of three barbiturates: Secobarbital, Amobarbital, and Pentobarbital. Her husband, who was sleeping on the fourth floor, gave inconsistent accounts of what happened the night of Dorothy's death. He claimed that she arrived home at 11:30 p.m., happy, and went off to write her column, but at the same time she was seen in the lounge at The Regency Hotel where the What’s My Line? cast and guests gathered until 2 a.m. The Regency was seven blocks from the townhouse. Later, when asked about his wife’s JFK investigation, he stated that,
”I’m afraid that will have to go to the grave with me.”
He died of a drug overdose in 1971 without revealing any information about the investigation. In 1975, Dorothy's son was contacted by the FBI wanting to know where her JFK files were. He told them the notes were still missing. This was long after the FBI decided Oswald had killed the president. The large folder of notes on the JFK assassination that Dorothy carried with her was never found. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is still looking into Dorothy's death. Dorothy was laid to rest at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Westchester, NY. John F. Kennedy Who Really Killed JFK Do We Finally Know Who Killed JFK
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962
Marilyn Monroe was a famous American, actress, model and singer.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes, and an orphanage. Her mother was a film cutter named Gladys Pearl Baker. She didn't know who her dad was. Her mom was mentally and financially unprepared for a child. Soon after she had Marilyn. she placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender. In 1933 Gladys felt stable enough for Marilyn to move in with her and bought a small house in Hollywood. Gladys took her daughter to Hollywood Premiers.
Jean Harlow was Marilyn favorite star. Jean was nicknamed "the blonde bombshell" and at the time, was one of the biggest stars in the world. Jean died at age 26 and her cause of death was given as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure. Hospital records mention uremia. Marilyn was 11-years-old at the time and when she learned of her idol's death, she was devastated. In January 1934, Gladys had a mental breakdown and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Footage of Marilyn's mother.
She spent the rest of her life in and out of hospitals and was rarely in contact with Marilyn.. Marilyn became a ward of the state. She lived with several foster families and was sexually abused. She also lived in an orphanage for a time. She felt like being there was traumatizing. "It seemed that no one wanted me".
In 1941, 15-year-old Marilyn graduated from Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School.
Marilyn's guardian decided she should marry the neighbor's son. So, on June 19th, 1942, 16-year-old Marilyn married 21-year-old factory worker James "Jim" Dougherty. In an interview Marilyn said:
"Marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy, either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."
World War II was underway and soon Jim went off to sea with the Merchant Marines. During this time Marilyn decided to get a job in a factory. In 1944, she met army photographer David Conover. He had been sent to the factory to shoot morale-boosting pictures of female workers. None of her pictures were used. In January 1945, she quit working at the factory and began modeling for Conover and his friends.
August 1945, defying her husband, she moved on her own and signed a contract with the Blue Book Model Agency. She was taken to Los Angeles and became the icon she is today.
She was known as a natural beauty. Woman began identifying with her because she wasn't afraid to show her body. She would even show her stomach rolls. Despite rumors of her being bigger, she wore a size 6-8. She had big hips, but her waist was small.
Life continued to be tough for her. The paparazzi would follow her everywhere. She hated it.
In 1950, Marilyn had bit parts in, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Right Cross and The Fireball, but also appeared in minor supporting roles in two critically acclaimed films: Joseph Mankiewicz's drama All About Eve and John Huston's crime film The Asphalt Jungle.
In December 1950, Hyde was able to negotiate a seven-year contract for Marilyn with 20th Century-Fox. He died of a heart attack only days later, which left her devastated. She had supporting roles in the MGM drama Home Town Story, and in three moderately successful comedies for Fox, As Young as You Feel, Love Nest, and Let's Make It Legal. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described her as "superb" in As Young As You Feel and Ezra Goodman of the Los Angeles Daily News called her "one of the brightest up-and-coming [actresses]" for Love Nest. It was the time of the Korean War and her popularity with audiences was growing. She received several thousand fan letters a week, and was declared "Miss Cheesecake of 1951" by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes.
In February 1952, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association named Monroe the "best young box office personality". In her private life, Monroe had a short relationship with director Elia Kazan and also briefly dated several other men, including director Nicholas Ray and actors Yul Brynner and Peter Lawford. She had affairs with John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
Also in 1952, Marilyn began her relationship with Joe Dimaggio.
She almost didn't go out with him in the first place. She thought that he would be a big-headed egomaniac. When they met, though, Joe was reserved, which intrigued Marilyn. She was not used to men keeping quiet around her, and she wanted to know more about him.
Marilyn wanted to show more of her acting range. In "Clash by Night,"she played a fish cannery worker. To prepare, she spent time in a fish cannery in Monterey. She received positive reviews for her performance: The Hollywood Reporter stated that "she deserves starring status with her excellent interpretation", and Variety wrote that she "has an ease of delivery which makes her a cinch for popularity". In "Don't Bother to Knock," she starred as a mentally disturbed babysitter. It received mixed reviews from critics, with Crowther deeming her too inexperienced for the difficult role, and Variety blaming the script for the film's problems. Marilyn's three other films in 1952 focused on her sex appeal. In "We're Not Married!," her role as a beauty pageant contestant was created solely to "present Marilyn in two bathing suits". She acted opposite Cary Grant in "Monkey Business." She played a secretary who is a "dumb, childish blonde, innocently unaware of the havoc her sexiness causes around her". In"O. Henry's Full House," she had a minor role as a sex worker.
When she was acting as Grand Marshal at the Miss America Pageant parade, she wore a revealing dress and told gossip columnist Earl Wilson that she usually wore no underwear. By the end of the year, gossip columnist Florabel Muir named Marilyn the "it girl" of 1952.
Marilyn also began to get a reputation for being difficult to work with. She was often late or did not show up at all, did not remember her lines, and would demand several re-takes before she was satisfied with her performance. She disliked her lack of control on film sets and never experienced similar problems during photo shoots, in which she had more say over her performance and could be more spontaneous instead of following a script. To alleviate her anxiety and chronic insomnia, she began to use barbiturates, amphetamines, and alcohol, which also exacerbated her problems. Some of Marilyn's behavior, especially later in her career, was also in response to the condescension and sexism of her male co-stars and directors. Despite this she soon became one of Hollywood's most bankable stars.
She starred in the movie "Niagara," in which she played a femme fatale scheming to murder her husband, played by Joseph Cotten. In some scenes, Marilyn's body was covered only by a sheet or a towel.
Marilyn then did the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
As part of the film's publicity campaign she returned to the Grauman's Chinese Theater, where her mom would take her when she was little, and pressed her hand and footprints in wet concrete outside. She went on to do the film "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
Marilyn made her television debut in the Jack Benny Show, playing Jack's fantasy woman in the episode "Honolulu Trip". She co-starred with Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall in "How to Marry a Millionaire." It featured Monroe as a naïve model who teams up with her friends to find rich husbands. Despite mixed reviews, the film was Monroe's biggest box office success at that point in her career.
Monroe was listed in the annual Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll in both 1953 and 1954, and became the studio's "greatest asset".
In December 1953, Hugh Hefner featured her on the cover and as centerfold in the first issue of Playboy. The cover image was a photograph taken of her at the Miss America Pageant parade in 1952, and the centerfold featured one of her 1949 nude photographs.
Despite being one of 20th Century-Fox's biggest stars, she was paid far less than other stars of her stature and could not choose her projects.
In January 1954, Fox suspended her when she refused to begin shooting yet another musical comedy, The Girl in Pink Tights.
On January 14th, 1954, she married Joe Dimaggio. They eloped and used an already-scheduled baseball trip to Japan as their honeymoon. While still on their honeymoon, the United States army asked her to go to Korea to entertain the troops. Joe stayed in Tokyo while Marilyn went to Korea and did ten shows. Marilyn settled with Fox in March, with the promise of a new contract, a bonus of $100,000, and a starring role in the film adaptation of the Broadway success The Seven Year Itch.
In April 1954, "River of No Return", the last film that Marilyn had filmed prior to the suspension, was released. The first film she made after the suspension was the musical "There's No Business Like Show Business," which she strongly disliked but the studio required her to do for dropping The Girl in Pink Tights. It was unsuccessful upon its release and Marilyn' performance was considered vulgar by many critics. Joe had developed an active role in her career and wouldn't let her do films were should would be half dressed. Joe was on the set while Marilyn was filming "The Seven Year Itch" and became angered with the famous scene where her skirt blew up as she stood on the subway grate. Her filming that scene literally stopped traffic.
While Marilyn was out taking classes and consuming art and culture, Joe would sit up at home waiting for her, smoking and drinking. He allegedly was physically abusive. The marriage didn't work out for them. They ended up getting a divorce nine months later, in the fall of 1954. Even after everything the two of them went through during their marriage, they kept seeing each other and Joe remained as the most trusted friend Marilyn had. Joe loved Marilyn very much and was obsessed with her. Sometimes he would post up at the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria, where Marilyn lived shortly after their divorce, sporting a fake beard and shielding his face with a newspaper, just waiting to get a glimpse of her. He never gave up on trying to win her back and really thought that they would end up together in some capacity. Joe and Frank Sinatra had been very good friends until after Joe and Marilyn divorced. Joe had hired a private investigator that Frank recommended. While Joe and Frank were having dinner, the private investigator called them to notify them that Marilyn was with another man. The two of them rushed to Marilyn’s duplex to try and catch her with the man, but she heard the break-in and fled the scene. Tabloids were all over the mishap, and Joe hardly spoke to Frank afterward. Marilyn wanted greater independence in choosing her films and directors. She also wanted more money. After filming for The Seven Year Itch wrapped up in November 1954, Monroe left Hollywood for the East Coast, where she and photographer Milton Greene founded their own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP). She claimed that she was no longer under contract to Fox, as it had not fulfilled its duties. This began a year-long legal battle between her and Fox. Marilyn moved to Manhattan. She took acting classes with Constance Collier and attended workshops on method acting at the Actors Studio, run by Lee Strasberg. She grew close to Strasberg and his wife Paula, receiving private lessons at their home due to her shyness, and soon became a family member. She replaced her old acting coach, Natasha Lytess, with Paula. At the request of Strasbery, Marilyn started undergoing psychoanalysis. Which is a system of psychological theory and therapy which aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association. She also had spent hours listening to Ella Fitzgerald's recordings as a recommendation from he coach in hopes to improve the star's own singing. In November 1954, she got to see Fitzgerald perform in Los Angeles. The two became fast friends. The venues that hired Ella were often smaller clubs because some places weren't interested in having an overweight black woman perform for them, no matter her talent. When Marilyn found out that Ella wanted a gig at the Mocambo, a famous L.A. nightclub, she decided to help. Marilyn demanded that Fitzgerald be allowed to perform. She promised the management of the nightclub that if Fitzgerald could sing there, she would ensure publicity and a packed crowd by sitting in the front row every night for a week. Marilyn kept her word to sit up front, and Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland showed up on opening night. Ella's shows sold out, and the owner even added a week to her contract. This successful engagement changed Fitzgerald's career trajectory. She later told Ms. magazine, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again."
Ella was right, she got other jobs at big venues, but not every location treated her equally due to the color of her skin. And some expected her to enter through a side door or back entrance rather than the front.
When Marilyn became aware of this, she traveled to Colorado to see Ella perform. Once there, she saw her friend ushered away from the front entrance, so Marilyn refused to go inside unless both she and Ella were allowed through the front doors. Marilyn got her way and soon all of Ella's performance spots were treating the singer with the respect she deserved.
Marilyn dated actor Marlon Brando and playwright Arthur Miller. She had first been introduced to Miller by Elia Kazan in the early 1950's. The affair between Monroe and Miller became increasingly serious after October 1955, when her divorce was finalized and he separated from his wife. The studio urged her to end it, as Miller was being investigated by the FBI for allegations of communism and had been subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, but Marilyn refused. The relationship led to FBI opening a file on her. The complete files are available now, though huge parts are blacked out. The original, untouched copies of the Monroe files no longer exist. By the end of the year, Marilyn and Fox signed a new seven-year contract, as MMP. Fox would pay her $400,000 to make four films, and granted her the right to choose her own projects, directors and cinematographers. She would also be free to make one film with MMP per each completed film for Fox.
On June 29th, Marilyn and Miller were married at the Westchester County Court in White Plains, New York. Two days later they had a Jewish ceremony at the home of Miller's literary agent, in Waccabuc. Marilyn converted to Judaism, which led Egypt to ban all of her films.
She then went to England to film the movie adaptation of the play, "The Sleeping Prince." The play is about an affair between a showgirl and a prince in the 1910's, it was to be directed, co-produced and co-starred by Laurence Olivier. The film was named The Prince and the Showgirl. Complications arose by conflicts between Marilyn and Olivier. He was angered her with the patronizing statement "All you have to do is be sexy" . He also disliked the constant presence of Marilyn's acting coach, on set. In retaliation, Marilyn became uncooperative and began to deliberately arrive late, stating later that "if you don't respect your artists, they can't work well."
During the production, Marilyn's pill dependency problem worsened and she had a miscarriage.
Bus Stop was released in August of 1956 and became critical and commercial success. The Saturday Review of Literature wrote that Monroe's performance "effectively dispels once and for all the notion that she is merely a glamour personality" and Crowther proclaimed: "Hold on to your chairs, everybody, and get set for a rattling surprise. Marilyn Monroe has finally proved herself an actress." She also received a Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination for her performance.
In October, Marilyn was presented to the Queen of England. After returning from England, Monroe took an 18-month hiatus to concentrate on family life.
In May of 1957, Arthur Miller was placed on trial for contempt of congress. Marilyn followed him to Washington and was confident that he would win his case.
Marilyn had an ectopic pregnancy in mid-1957, and a miscarriage a year later. Marilyn was also briefly hospitalized due to a barbiturate overdose.
The Prince and the Showgirl was released to mixed reviews in June 1957. In Europe she was awarded the Italian David di Donatello and the French Crystal Star awards and was nominated for a BAFTA.
Also that year, Marilyn bought her partner's share of the MMP. In 1958, with the encouragement of her husband, Marilyn starred in "Some Like It Hot," with Tony Curtis. Her director was Billy Wilder and the two didn't get along. He disagreed on how Marilyn should play her role. Marilyn demanded dozens of re-takes, and did not remember her lines or act as directed. Curtis famously stated that kissing her was "like kissing Hitler" due to the number of re-takes. Marilyn likened the production to a sinking ship. In the end, Wilder was happy with Marilyn's performance and stated: "Anyone can remember lines, but it takes a real artist to come on the set and not know her lines and yet give the performance she did!" Some Like It Hot was one of the great box office hits of the year. Marilyn earned a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just can't be beat". The movie has been voted one of the best films ever made in polls by the BBC, the American Film Institute, and Sight & Sound. In 1960, she starred in the musical comedy "Let's Make Love." During the shoot, Marilyn had an affair with her co-star Yves Montand. Her husband already had wrote the script "The Misfits." for Marilyn and her childhood idol, Clark Cable. Marilyn disliked that Miller had based her role partly on her life, and thought it inferior to the male roles. She also struggled with Miller's habit of re-writing scenes the night before filming. During the filming, she collapsed and was sent to the hospital for detox. She had been in pain fromgallstones, and her drug addiction was so severe that her make-up usually had to be applied while she was still asleep under the influence of barbiturates. Despite her problems, the director stated that when Marilyn was acting, she "was not pretending to an emotion. It was the real thing. She would go deep down within herself and find it and bring it up into consciousness."[ Marilyn and Miller's marriage was effectively over and they divorced in January of 1961. Marilyn had her gallbladder removed and surgery for her endometriosis, and spent four weeks hospitalized for depression. She was helped by Joe DiMaggio. She also dated Frank Sinatra for several months.
Marylin also moved permanently back to California in 1961, purchasing a house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
In the spring of 1962, she received a "World Film Favorite" Golden Globe Award. She also made a film with Dean Martin called "Somethings Gotta Give", a remake of "My Favorite Wife." Days before filming began, Marilyn caught sinusitis and was too sick to work for the majority of the next six weeks.
On May 19, she took a break to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" on stage at President John F. Kennedy's early birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York. She wore a beige, skintight dress covered in rhinestones.
Marilyn's next filmed a scene for Something's Got to Give in which she swam naked in a swimming pool. To generate advance publicity, the press was invited to take photographs; these were later published in Life magazine. This was the first time that a major star had posed nude at the height of their career.
On June 1st, the cast threw her a 36th birthday party.
Marilyn was sick for again for several days and Fox decided that it could not afford to have another film running behind schedule when it was already struggling with the rising costs of Cleopatra. On June 7, Fox fired Marilyn and sued her for $750,000 in damages. She was replaced by Lee Remick, but after Martin refused to make the film with anyone other than Marilyn, Fox sued him as well and shut down the production. The studio blamed Marilyn for the film's demise and began spreading negative publicity about her, even alleging that she was mentally disturbed. Fox soon regretted its decision and re-opened negotiations with Marilyn. A settlement about a new contract, including re-commencing Something's Got to Give and a starring role in the black comedy "What a Way to Go!," was reached later that summer. Marilyn was planning on starring in a biopic of idol, Jean Harlow. She also gave interviews for Life and Cosmopolitan and did her first photo shoot for Vogue. For Vogue, she and photographer Bert Stern collaborated for two series of photographs, one a standard fashion editorial and another of her posing nude, which were published posthumously with the title The Last Sitting. It was rumored that Marilyn had affairs with Robert and John Kennedy. It has been said that she was in love with Bobby. A alledged letter was sent to Monroe by Kennedy's younger sister, Jean Kennedy Smith.
"Understand that you and Bobby are the new item!" she wrote. "We all think you should come with him when he comes back East!" The FBI was investigating the suspected relationship between Bobby and Monroe with J. Edgar Hoover at the helm. He was particularly determined to find anything scandalous.
Marilyn died on August 5, 1942 between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Her psychiatrist had Marilyn's housekeeper stay with her that night. She received a call from actor Peter Lawford, He wanted her to come party. She didn't feel like it. He said she sounded very weird on the phone and he was concerned. He said she had slurred speech. She told him to "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president , and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy". He tried to call her back, but he couldn't get a hold of her. He contacted the her lawyer and the lawyer called the housekeeper. It was around ten and the housekeeper noticed the light on under Marilyn's door. The lawyer said that everything was fine.
August 6th, 3 a.m., the light is still on under Marilyn's door. The housekeeper knocks on the door a few times, realizing it was locked. Instead of calling the police, the housekeeper called Marilyn's psychiatrist and asked him to come over. He came over, but couldn't get the door open either. He went outside and looked in to Marilyn's window. He saw Marilyn, face down, naked in her bed, with her hands by her side. He broke a window. Some people say that the window was broken from the inside, in attempts to stage the whole thing. He called her doctor. The doctor came over and confirmed the death.
Marilyn was brought to the morgue. The two men who brought her to the morgue, found the situation to be suspicious. They said the body looked fake and bloated. Her neck was bloated.
The first officer to the scene thought something was off as well. He thought it was staged and looked a little too neat. There was nothing to drink in the room and no empty containers.
The toxicological analysis concluded that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning. The possibility of an accidental overdose was ruled out because the dosages found in her body were several times over the lethal limit and had been taken. Some people think that this is suspicious, because there were no pills found in her body.
A fresh bruise was on Marilyn's hip and when her stomach was examined there were no traces of the dye that coated the Nembutal capsules that allegedly claimed her life. The coroner later admitted that he should have tested her internal organs instead of just performing toxicology tests on the blood and liver.
Weeks after he performed the autopsy, the coroner asked the lab to test her other organs but they had already been destroyed.
Marilyn was severely depressed before she edgily committed suicide. She tried to kill herself a few other times before.
A lot of forensic evidence related to her death went missing. Many witness accounts of that night were contradictory. One of the suspicious things was, that Marilyn's half sister reported that Marilyn's manager was burning some of her papers. During renovations by the new owner to Marilyn's house after she died, discovered elaborate wiretapping and a telephone tapping system. An unnamed Justice Department official claimed that the system was built with parts that were "standard FBI issue." Later, documents confirmed she was under surveillance by the F.B.I for years. Actor Gianni Russo claimed that Marilyn Monroe was killed by a guy known as "The Doctor" paid by Bobby Kennedy. The Doctor allegedly is a killer for a hire and an actual MD. Gianni said that The Doctor injected air into the vein near Marilyn's pubic region, and she died of an embolism, but it looked like drugs to the coroner. Gianni said there had been rumors tying the Kennedys to affairs with Monroe and Bobby feared the story getting out.
An FBI file suggests that Bobby Kennedy was aware of a plan to "induce" the starlet's suicide.
Page 2 of the FBI document describes wiretap evidence of Robert Kennedy inquiring to Peter Lawford “Is Marilyn dead yet?”
A FBI document alleges that Marilyn Monroe knew about a secret airbase. The memo states five relevant points from the wire taps that were conducted. It also states that she was about to divulge what she knew to the public. The memo reads:
"1. Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of subject with Kilgallen and the break up with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties hosted by the “inner circle” among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the New Mexico story in the late forties. Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it would cause terrible embarrassment for Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.
2. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother.
3. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
4. Subject made reference to “bases” in Cuba and knew of the President’s plan to kill Castro.
5. Subject made reference to her “diary of secrets” and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures."The memo is signed head of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton. Did you know that on August 3rd, 1962, less than 48 hours after Dorothy Kilgallen wrote a piece about Marilyn Monroe‘s affair with President John K. Kennedy, Marilyn was found dead? Then Dorothy began writing of her suspicions that Marilyn’s cause of death was an overdose of pills and challenged the police and medical evidence.
Dorothy's death also had some eerie parallels to Marilyn's. When Dorothy was found, her light was also on and like Marilyn Monroe it was determined that her death had been caused by a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturates. Many people thought that Marilyn was just a dumb blonde, but she was deeply intellectual and an avid reader. She had hundreds of books lining the shelves in her home, such as James Joyce's Ulysses. At the time of her death, Monroe was reading two novels, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Leo Rosten's Captain Newman MD. After Marilyn's death, many recipes were found in her home. She planned on writing a cookbook one day. Cooking experts deemed those recipes as wonderful and that they seemed to come from a confident cook.
Marilyn's personal papers were published in 2010.They show her frustration at dealing with day-to-day life and the people around her. "I can't really stand Human beings sometimes — I know they all have their problems as I have mine — but I'm really too tired for it. Trying to understand, making allowances, seeing certain things that just weary me."
Another entry reads, "all this thought and writing has made my hands tremble but I just want to keep pouring it out until that great pot in the mind is, though not emptied, relieved." Until he tied in 1999, Joe DiMaggio send roses to Marilyn's grave several times a week.
A mysterious box, Box 29, was recently found by Private detective Becky Aldrige at UCLA library. It will remain sealed to the public for another two decades, despite a list of contents showing it contains a trove of files about Monroe.
The files inside the box belonged to Marilyn's doctor and the person that found her body, Ralph Greenson. Aldrige believes that this could prove that Marilyn was murdered by her obsessed psychiatrist.
"I discovered he was obsessed with Marilyn Monroe because he had every book, every magazine, every newspaper that was ever written about Marilyn Monroe, everything," said Aldrige.
Aldrige also finds it odd that Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, called the Greenson before calling the ambulance. Allegedly, Murray also had a key to Marilyn's bedroom, so the doctor wouldn't have had to break in.
Aldrige has opened a petition asking for the finding of "probable suicide" to be struck from Monroe's death certificate and for the death to be re-investigated as homicide.
