HIGH CRIMES: New Evidence Suggests Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered By Bobby Kennedy & LAPD Covered Up Murder (Part 2)

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  • ‘….Charles D. Ford (AKA Fiscalini), was Bobby Kennedy’s operational CIA officer whose assignment was to act as a go-between with the Mafia while using the pseudonym Rocky Fiscalini….Charles Fiscalini saw Bobby Kennedy frequently in his office and regularly talked to him on the phone. “Charlie was a good officer, and Bobby was his case officer. He was Bobby’s man. The substance used to kill Marilyn Monroe was not traceable. It could very well have come from the CIA’s arsenal of toxic poisons that had been developed as part the top secret “Project Naomi.”

New Evidence Suggests Marilyn Monroe Was Murdered by Bobby Kennedy and LAPD Covered Up Murder (Part 2)

“The Whole Thing Stinks”

…Continued From Part 1

Though heartbroken and fearful of Bobby, Marilyn had appeared happy to her friends in the days before her death. No suicide note was found nor any pills in her stomach. Pat Newcomb, Marilyn’s friend and press agent, said she appeared to be in “wonderful spirits” before she was killed and that the next day they had plans to go to the movies.

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Pat Newcomb, left, with Marilyn Monroe. [Source: tarahanks.com]

At the time, Marilyn’s career was flourishing. Marilyn was scheduled to meet the next week with two motion picture executives who wanted her to star in a new picture and make night club appearances in Las Vegas for a lucrative fee. She was also going to resume a starring role in the 20th Century Fox feature “Something’s Got To Give.” The month before she had been on the cover of Life and Paris Match.

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Syndicated columnist Dorothy Kilgallen told Marilyn’s friend Robert Slatzer that she would never believe that Marilyn took her own life as “there were too many conflicting stories from the people who were there that night. The whole thing stinks.”[11]

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Dorothy Kilgalen with Marilyn Monroe [Source: pinterest.com]

While Dr. Greenson said that he had broken into Marilyn’s room via the window with a poker—before calling Dr. Hyman Engelberg, Marilyn’s doctor—the window had been miraculously mended by the time the police arrived. Other witnesses insist the window was broken—but from the inside with particles of glass scattered around outside the window.[12]

Marilyn’s neighbors reported a helicopter hovering overhead that night—indicating a police presence before Marilyn was reported dead.[13] Forensic evidence afterwards went missing, and the police refused to make public Marilyn’s phone records.

Eunice Murray admitted to finding Marilyn on the floor, implying she was moved onto the bed. Her body was found naked which was unusual for someone who had taken their own life. Also, Marilyn usually slept wearing a supportive bra to keep her famous “tits tilted up shape.”

That there was no glass of water found in her room was also suspicious—how else could she have swallowed enough pills to kill herself if she could not wash them down with water?[14]

Like the Plumbers at Watergate–What the First Cop on the Scene Saw

Journalist Tony Sciacca wrote that Marilyn Monroe was “murdered because she knew too much about men at the top of the country’s power structure,” and that the murderers afterwards “callously tossed around her naked [lifeless] body in a desperate search to remove all evidence that she had ever been intimate with the Kennedys,” attempting to carefully arrange the death scene. “But like the Plumbers at Watergate, the federal agents botched the job so badly that it was obvious to the first cop on the scene that Marilyn had been murdered.”[15]

When that cop, Jack Clemmons, first entered Marilyn’s home at 4:45 a.m., housekeeper Eunice Murray—oddly—was doing laundry.

Marilyn’s body was found on her bed with her legs stretched out perfectly straight, which was unlike the contorted bodies of most victims who have overdosed on sleeping tablets.

Marilyn was cold to the touch, indicating she had been dead for some hours. She showed signs of liver mortis on her back, which further confirmed she had died hours earlier and indicated a body that had been moved after death and placed on the bed face down.[16]

 Jack Denton Clemmons
Sgt. Jack Clemmons [Source: findagrave.com]

Clemmons believed that Marilyn’s bedroom and everything around it had been created to show she was “alive enough to kill herself.”[17] What he saw was “not kosher.”[18] Clemmons said that the people at Marilyn’s home when he arrived appeared extremely nervous—not upset as you might expect people to be about the sudden death of a loved one. He had the distinct feeling they were hiding something.

When Clemmons saw that there was an empty pill bottle, he heard a toilet in the home flush. As he moved in that direction, he saw Dr. Greenson exit the bathroom.[19] Some residual pills were still in the toilet (some pills were only partially broken down and resting in the bowl).

When Clemmons asked Greenson if he had dumped pills into the toilet, Greenson said “no.” Clemmons then told Greenson not to use the toilet again but, soon after, Greenson again flushed the toilet but played dumb, suggesting he thought Clemmons meant not to use another bathroom.[20]

Dr Ralph Greenson
Dr. Greenson [Source: dailymail.co.uk]

When questioned afterwards, Dr. Greenson and Dr. Engelberg told Clemmons that their delay in calling the police was because they were busy telephoning 20th Century Fox and her “business associates.” But it is unlikely that they would be doing this for four hours with Marilyn lying dead.[21]

She Died in the Ambulance

Natalie Jacobs, the widow of Arthur Jacobs who handled Marilyn’s public relations, reported to investigator Anthony Summers, in The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe, that the night of Marilyn’s death, she and her husband had been listening to a Henry Mancini concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

At half past ten in the evening, they heard the bad news about Marilyn and immediately drove to her house in Brentwood. Eunice Murray’s claim about calling Dr. Greenson at 3:00 a.m. thus could not be true because her husband Arthur was at Marilyn’s house well before midnight, and his business was to keep the press at bay.

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Arthur P. Jacobs, Marilyn’s publicist, with the star in 1955. [Source: themarilynmonroecollection.com]

Walt Schaefer, an ambulance man, stated that he was there when an ambulance came to Marilyn’s home before midnight and took her to the Santa Monica hospital. At the time, Schaefer said she was alive but comatose.

Eunice Murray confirmed this story years later, admitting to the arrival of an ambulance while Marilyn was still alive.[24]

Dr. Greenson told journalist John Sherlock that he was in the ambulance with Marilyn, and that she died in the ambulance and was taken back to her house after. Greenson’s son Danny, who developed a good relationship with Marilyn because of a mutual left-wing outlook, told Anthony Summers that he was not comfortable telling him what his dad had told him.

Bobby in LA

Whitman Lynn Franklin (1922-2005) - Find A Grave Memorial
Lynn Franklin [Source: findagrave.com]

Bill Woodfield, a journalist interviewed in The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe, said he had learned that Bobby Kennedy had flown into Los Angeles that weekend and was staying with Peter Lawford. Bobby’s presence in LA was confirmed by Daryl Gates, William Parker’s driver and protégé and LAPD Chief from 1978-1992, who confessed in his autobiography that the LAPD knew Kennedy was in town on August 4.[22] Eunice Murray also admitted during a 1985 BBC interview that Bobby Kennedy had visited Marilyn that day.[23]

A Beverly Hills police officer, Lynn Franklin, stopped Peter Lawford’s car with Bobby in it at 12:10 a.m. on Olympic Boulevard where he was going the wrong way at twice the speed limit. Lawford told Franklin he was trying to “get the Attorney General to the airport.[25]

Bill Woodfield said that Bobby had flown into LA via helicopter. He looked at the pilot logs and saw that Bobby had flown out of LA to San Francisco at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. the morning of Marilyn’s death (the next day Kennedy attended a church service with his family in San Francisco).

Before coming over, Bobby apparently called Marilyn from Lawford’s house and Marilyn said that she was angry with him because she had felt “used. Like a piece of meat.” Marilyn’s hairdresser, Sydney Guilaroff, reported that, late Sunday afternoon, an upset Marilyn telephoned him twice and said that Bobby Kennedy had been at her house with Peter Lawford and threatened her.[26]

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Sydney Guilaroff cutting Marilyn’s hair. He reported receiving a call from a distressed Marilyn about being threatened by Robert Kennedy on the afternoon of her death. [Source: cursumperificio.net]

When Marilyn died, there were senior FBI agents in her home—their purpose evidently being to cover up the circumstances of her death.

Monroe was dead three months after she famously sang 'Happy Birthday' to President Kennedy in a performance that was so erotically charged, it caused one gossip columnist to remark: 'It seemed like Marilyn was making love to the president in front of 40 million Americans'
Marilyn singing Happy Birthday to President John F. Kennedy in a performance that was so erotically charged, it caused one gossip columnist to remark: “It seemed like Marilyn was making love to the president in front of 40 million Americans.” [Source: dailymail.co.uk]

Freudian Slip

During questioning, Dr. Greenson made one slip. When asked what had truly happened the night of Marilyn’s death, he barked: “Ask Robert Kennedy.” Dr. Greenson also acknowledged that Marilyn was involved with “suitors at the highest levels of government.”[27]

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Horrible Last Weekend

On the last weekend of July 1962, Marilyn, at the invitation of Frank Sinatra, had flown to the Cal Neva Lodge and Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where she allegedly was drugged and anally raped by Mafia boss Sam Giancana—so-called Sicilian sex—as retribution for her affair with Bobby.

Sam Giancana - Wikipedia
Sam Giancana [Source: wikipedia.org]

Earlier in the night, Monroe said that the Kennedys had “used her as a piece of ass.”[28] This statement may have resulted in her death since, if revealed publicly, it would have ruined the Kennedys.

Peter Lawford Spills the Beans

In 1982, former LAPD detective Mike Rothmiller interviewed Peter Lawford who, over the course of the interview, appeared to unburden himself of a terrible nightmare he had kept secret for years.

Retired L.A. Detective Stuns with 'Bombshell' - Flagstaff Business News
Mike Rothmiller [Source: flagstaffbusinessnews.com]

Lawford confessed to Rothmiller that, when he and Bobby went to Marilyn’s house, she appeared slightly intoxicated and the situation quickly became heated as Marilyn accused Bobby and his brother Jack of treating her like a whore.

When Bobby shook his hand in her face, Marilyn slapped it away and Kennedy slammed her to the floor near the sofa. He then leaned over her, screaming profanities and grabbing her flailing arms by the wrists. Struggling to free herself, Marilyn slapped Bobby who had to be subdued.

Lawford at the time believed that Bobby was interested in finding Marilyn’s diary. Bobby began rummaging through cabinets and drawers in the house, while Lawford stayed with Marilyn and tried to calm her. After a few minutes, Marilyn confronted Bobby in her bedroom where he was looking through her dresser and told him to get out of there. Kennedy then violently pushed Marilyn, causing her to fall onto the bed. She now began to cry.

Bobby held her down on the bed and reportedly yelled: “Where is it?” He said he had to have the diary and would pay her. Kennedy then screamed something to the effect: “You’d better shut your mouth.”[29]

'Peter (Lawford) would obviously be pimping for both Kennedys,' said Jeanne Martin (wife of Dean Martin) in the doc. 'They would do it in front of anybody. Their wives could be in the other room, and many times were. I mean I've had a hand up my breasts. The president owned it'
Peter Lawford with Bobby Kennedy. [Source: dailymail.co.uk]

Marilyn by this time was hysterical as Bobby stormed out of the bedroom. When Lawford tried to console Marilyn, Bobby went to the kitchen sink. Lawford next saw him with a glass of water that he was stirring. Apparently he had put something in the drink.

Kennedy then walked to the living room and Kennedy gave her the glass and said “drink this and you’ll feel better.” Marilyn refused at first but, with Lawford’s coaxing, took the drink (Lawford said at the time he thought Kennedy had put a sedative in the drink that would calm her). Kennedy then told Marilyn to “finish it.” With that, she finished the drink.[30]

Subsequently, Marilyn passed out on the couch and Lawford and Kennedy renewed their search of the house for Marilyn’s diary. When Lawford glanced again at Marilyn she looked to be unconscious, with a waxen complexion. He told Kennedy and said they needed to call an ambulance. Bobby responded by grabbing Lawford’s arm and saying “leave her.”

As the two left, Lawford saw two men enter Marilyn’s house whom he thought might be detectives or CIA agents. Lawford and Kennedy then got into Lawford’s car and Lawford drove Bobby to the airport.

At the end of the interview Lawford told Rothmiller that, after he left the house, he believed that Marilyn was dead. Lawford also said he was aware that there was a subsequent delay in calling the police, which was designed to give Bobby an alibi.[31]

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Marilyn’s living room where the attack by Bobby Kennedy and likely poisoning took place. [Source: mirror.co.uk]

Fred Otash Tapes

Fred Otash’s surveillance confirmed that Robert Kennedy indeed visited Marilyn with Lawford on August 4, that the conversation between Marilyn and Kennedy became heated, and that Kennedy asked Marilyn how much money she wanted to keep her relationship with him and his brother secret. This question infuriated Marilyn, who began screaming at Bobby.

The tapes, at some point, revealed someone rummaging from room to room looking for something—presumably Marilyn’s diary. This ended with Kennedy screaming in a rage, “Give it to me,” and sounds of a physical struggle.

Marilyn was heard screaming and crying and Kennedy told her to shut up.

Lawford then said that he and Bobby had to leave and he would call Marilyn later but Marilyn did not respond. After Kennedy and Lawford exited the house, several people could be heard moving quickly through and rummaging around the house (thought to be LAPD detectives Archie Case and James Ahern).[32]

Marilyn at this point possibly said “who are you?” and then there were sounds of another struggle interlaced with muffled screams and men’s voices telling someone to shut up. After 20 minutes, Marilyn’s voice could no longer be heard—though other voices could be heard saying “take this,” “take that” and “did you find it?”

Otash believed that the men in the house may have administered a drug to Marilyn to subdue her and then were probably searching for her diary (marks of an injection were subsequently found on Marilyn though not reported in the original autopsy).[33] Later, Marilyn’s diary turned up in the OCID’s top secret files, which indicates the agents found what they were looking for.[34]

A policeman stands in front of Marilyn Monroe's house, where she was discovered dead, on June 5, 1962, in Brentwood.
Police officer stands in front of Monroe’s home in Brentwood, California. [Source: nypost.com]

Bernard Spindel Tapes–Yet More Incriminating Material

Yet more incriminating material was unearthed by Bernard Spindel, a wiretap expert working for Jimmy Hoffa who died of a heart attack in jail at the age of 45 in 1968 after medication he was taking was withheld from him. Spindel had installed wires in Marilyn’s home and elsewhere around Los Angeles to get the dirt on Kennedy.

One most revealing tape was of a call from San Francisco to a West Los Angeles home early Sunday morning, August 5, at a time Marilyn was already dead though word of her death had not yet been reported to police. The caller from San Francisco, who must have been Kennedy, asked: “is she dead yet?”[35]

Bernard Spindel [Source: wikipedia.org]

Who Provided Bobby with the Poison?

Bobby had close personal ties to various CIA agents, including William Harvey, the “American James Bond” who ran subversion and sabotage operations directed against Cuba.[36]

RFK on CIA's William King Harvey (The American James Bond) - YouTube
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One of Harvey’s key associates, Charles D. Ford (AKA Fiscalini), was Bobby Kennedy’s operational CIA officer whose assignment was to act as a go-between with the Mafia while using the pseudonym Rocky Fiscalini.

CIA Task Force W Executive Officer Samuel Halpern told author Seymour Hersh that Charles Fiscalini saw Bobby Kennedy frequently in his office and regularly talked to him on the phone. “Charlie was a good officer, and Bobby was his case officer. He was Bobby’s man.”[37]

The substance used to kill Marilyn Monroe was not traceable. It could very well have come from the CIA’s arsenal of toxic poisons that had been developed as part the top secret “Project Naomi.”

Kennedy could have been supplied with the poison through Fiscalini or Harvey; the latter was known to have researched viable poisons that could be used to kill Fidel Castro.

Kennedy could also have been supplied the poisons by members of LAPD’s intelligence division which had close links to the CIA. Its head for many years, Daryl F. Gates, the future LAPD chief, was a CIA asset.[38]

Daryl Gates - Wikipedia
Daryl F. Gates [Source: wikipedia.org]

Based on Fred Otash’s revelations, agents from this division may have been the ones to administer the poison.

That poison could have been a shellfish toxin known as Saxitoxin which had been developed, refined and stored at the U.S. Army’s secret biowarfare laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Saxitoxin is among the deadliest poisons known to humankind. One to four milligrams (smaller than a grain of sugar) will kill an average-sized person by causing respiratory failure within minutes.[39]

Cover-up

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William H. Parker [Source: calisphere.org]

Robert Kennedy was particularly close to LAPD chief William Parker, whom he considered the best police chief in the nation, and consulted with about counter-insurgency tactics in Latin America and action in Cuba to effectively deal with Fidel Castro.[40]

Intelligence Captain James Hamilton was also an intimate friend of the Kennedys and regularly ran secret LAPD intelligence operations on their behalf.[41]

Hamilton, according to Rothmiller and Thompson, was a key figure in the cover-up of Monroe’s murder. Fred Otash and Peter Lawford identified him as being at Marilyn’s house after her death and he is suspected of being the one to obtain Marilyn’s diary.[42] Hamilton also oversaw the investigation that concluded her death was a suicide.

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Los Angeles Police Chief William H. Parker, left, looks at a “Mafia” chart from Senator John McClellan’s Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field (commonly known as the Rackets Committee) with Captain James Hamilton, head of LAPD’s Intelligence Squad, at the State Building on September 26, 1958. Bobby Kennedy was the subcommittee’s chief counsel and investigator.[Source: calisphere.org]

When Jack Clemmons arrived at Marilyn’s home, he saw an unmarked LAPD car parked down the street with two men inside.[43] Later he learned that they were LAPD intelligence. To Clemmons it was obvious that they had been aware of Marilyn’s death long before the police were called.

A week later, Captain James Hamilton told Clemmons to sign a report he had prepared about Marilyn’s death. Clemmons refused, but later learned that his signature was forged under the orders of Chief Parker.[44]

Clemmons said that he was asked to initial two photographs he had not taken, which was not standard police procedure. One of the photos had Monroe’s body in bed holding a telephone and another where she was not holding the telephone.[45] The two diametrically opposed photos made clear to Clemmons that the crime scene had been staged. When Clemmons had entered Monroe’s room and saw her body, she was not holding the telephone.[46]

The LAPD also produced a doctored photo showing a drinking glass by Marilyn’s bed.[47] When Clemmons initially entered Marilyn’s room, he remembered that he did not see a glass.

In the days after Marilyn’s death, Eunice Murray—who had owed her housekeeping job to Dr. Greenson—disappeared for a few days and then mysteriously came into some money and took an extended European vacation, making herself conveniently unavailable for questioning.

Pat Newcomb, Marilyn’s publicist meanwhile went to the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, MA, where she was photographed on a yacht with Kennedy family members, and thence was sent by the Kennedy’s to Europe for an extended vacation.

Newcomb may have helped provide an alibi for Kennedy because she claimed to have had dinner with Marilyn the night of her death, which would have been impossible given the timeline outlined by Lawford in his confession.

After her return from her vacation in Europe, Robert Kennedy got Newcomb a job as an information specialist (motion pictures) for the U.S. Information Agency. Newcomb was then hired to work on Bobby’s 1964 U.S. Senate campaign in New York and that of Pierre Salinger, a Kennedy confidante, in California, and served as Bobby’s campaign manager in his run for president in 1968 (Newcomb was also put on the payroll of the Department of Justice in a special unit on the fifth floor and later snagged a senior role at MGM studios).

“They Just Called It a Suicide”

Marilyn’s autopsy was performed by Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who later became known as the “coroner to the stars.” At the time, he had only been working in the Coroner’s Office for a year and a half. He admitted that he endured great political pressure and failed to report on a bruise on Marilyn’s hip, which indicated possible violence before her death.[48]

Though the cause of death was determined to be “acute barbiturate poisoning due to ingestion of overdose,” there were no traces of barbiturates found in Marilyn’s stomach—only in her blood which indicated they had been injected and not taken orally.

In 2009, Noguchi acknowledged that he had made a mistake in having the toxicology tests only on the blood and liver and not on other internal organs. When he made a request for the organs in order to rectify the error, Noguchi was informed that the organs had already been disposed of and the case marked as closed.

Noguchi had been assigned to perform the autopsy by Dr. Theodore Curphey despite being only a junior doctor at the time, which may have been intentional.[49]

Theodore J. Curphey - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine
Theodore J. Curphey [Source: collections.nim.nih.gov]

Lionel Grandison, then a 22-year-old LA Deputy Coroner’s aide, charged that Dr. Curphey ordered him to take part in a cover-up, telling an interviewer that “they just called it a suicide and ordered me to forget all about it. She was connected to the President and his Attorney General brother. Marilyn knew too much and someone—the FBI, the CIA or the Mafia—killed her to shut her up. She did not commit suicide, she was murdered.”[50]

Marilyn Monroe Coroner Lionel Grandison Photo National Enquirer Stamped |  eBay
Lionel Grandison [Source: ebay.com]

Ain’t Karma a Bitch

If you believe in karma, Bobby Kennedy got what was coming to him on the night of June 5, 1968, when he was assassinated just like Marilyn by the dark forces of the “deep state.”

Many people today—including especially on the liberal end of the political spectrum—consider Bobby Kennedy to be a pure-hearted idealist whose death signified the end of the 1960s and ushered in a conservative dark age.[51]

However, Kennedy’s role in Monroe’s death and brutal conduct toward her helps demystify this view. It in turn exposes American politics for what it is: a Machiavellian world dominated by ruthless and unprincipled individuals and dynasties connected with organized crime who use people like ragdolls, including in their private sex lives.

That even the world’s preeminent sex symbol was deemed expendable shows the true colors of America’s ruling elite and the depths to which it will go—which compares with the ruling elites in other decadent empires throughout history.


  1. Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe (London: Ad Lib Publishers, 2021).
  2. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 138, 286. John’s statements to Marilyn contradict the view of some historians that Kennedy was planning to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam and that this is what got him assassinated.
  3. Robert E. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe (Los Angeles: Pinnacle Books, 1974), 16, 17, 408. It was thus Bobby and not Jack who made the fateful decision not to use air power at the Bay of Pigs, which angered hard-liners..
  4. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 15.
  5. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 408. The notes recorded in Marilyn’s diary were only brought to light years later during Senate investigations on the intelligence agencies spearheaded by Frank Church (D-ND). Thad Brown, the Los Angeles chief of detectives, is also reported to have told the US Treasury’s assistant chief of intelligence in Los Angeles had found a crumpled piece of paper amidst Marilyn’s sheets.On it was a number for the White House.
  6. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 111.
  7. The dark side of the Kennedys is detailed in numerous books: Seymour Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1998); Thomas Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1997); Noam Chomsky, Rethinking Camelot (Boston: South End Press, 1993); Stephen Dunleavy and Peter Brennan, Those Wild, Wild Kennedy Boys (Pinnacle Books, 1976)..
  8. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 53, 131. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis was a Harvard classmate of Bobby’s. Describing Kennedy as “callow and tough,” Lewis said that he did not like him. Once he had to pry him away from a man who he thought had insulted his brother. “Bobby would have killed him,” Lewis said, “if we hadn’t pulled him off….It really scared us. The Kennedys had each others’ backs.”
  9. Martin J. Sherwin, Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020).
  10. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 4, 5.
  11. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 272. Kilgallen herself later died under suspicious circumstances after she uncovered damning information on the assassination of JFK. See Mark Shaw, Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK (New York: Post Hill Press, 2021).
  12. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 210.
  13. Idem.
  14. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 227; Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 30..
  15. Tony Sciacca, Who Killed Marilyn? And Did the Kennedy’s Know (Manor Books, 1976); Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 416.
  16. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 222, 223, 224; Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 32. At first the doctors said they had not moved her or rolled her over. Then they changed their story and said they did roll her over on the bed to see if they could save her.
  17. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 221, 222. Clemmons said that his reports were falsified and that he faced harassment and was ordered to shut up about what he knew.
  18. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 288. Clemmons said that he “didn’t like the look on the psychiatrists’ face,” and “didn’t like his attitude.”.
  19. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 225.
  20. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 225; Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 300.
  21. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 225.
  22. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 43.
  23. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 210. Murray’s testimony was confirmed by several women who were playing cards at the home of Marilyn’s neighbor that afternoon and spotted Bobby Kennedy accompanied by another man (Peter Lawford) walking on the street and visiting Marilyn’s home. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 21, 22.
  24. Idem.
  25. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 43. Franklin said that there was a third man in the car whom he later identified as Dr. Ralph Greenson, Marilyn’s psychiatrist. When Franklin told Lawford that he was going the wrong way, he heard Bobby Kennedy shout urgently from the back seat: “I told you stupid!” Franklin subsequently survived two attempts on his life.
  26. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 211.
  27. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 234.
  28. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 183.
  29. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 214-216.
  30. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 218.
  31. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 220. When asked whether John and Bobby wanted Marilyn dead, Lawford answered yes.
  32. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 258, 262.
  33. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 257, 258.
  34. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 273.
  35. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 13. After Spindel’s arrest on illegal wiretapping charges, police raided his home and seized all his tapes.
  36. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 175, 176.
  37. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 176.
  38. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 262, 263.
  39. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 229.
  40. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 151. Just after Marilyn’s death, Parker, who had ambitions of replacing J. Edgar Hoover as FBI chief, was the one to confiscate her phone records. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 401.
  41. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 26.
  42. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 262, 274.
  43. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 225.
  44. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 226.
  45. Idem.
  46. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 227.
  47. Idem.
  48. Noguchi also failed to report on punctures in Marilyn’s flesh which derived from a shot she allegedly received under the armpit to subdue her during her struggle with Bobby Kennedy. Marilyn’s doctor, Hyman Engelberg also testified that he gave Marilyn two shots on August 1 and 3 which should have been highlighted in the autopsy report. Slatzer, The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe, 64.
  49. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 266. See also Frank A. Capell, The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe (Zarephath, New Jersey: Herald of Freedom, 1964), 62, 63, 69. It is possible that Robert Kennedy slipped a lethal dose of barbiturates into Marilyn’s water glass, and that Dr. Engelberg pumped Marilyn’s stomach in the hours before the police were called.
  50. Rothmiller and Thompson, Bombshell, 266; Lionel Grandison, Memoirs of a Deputy Coroner: The Case of Marilyn Monroe (Los Angeles: Bait-Cal, 2012).
  51. Although I was never under any illusions about the Kennedys and knew about their dark side, I admittedly succumbed to this illusion in my article for CovertAction Magazine about Robert Kennedy’s assassination.


Jeremy Kuzmarov – Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine. He is the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018). He can be reached at: jkuzmarov2@gmail.com


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