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00:02There, glittering on the screen, I can see my town in its potty dress, and see again, shown so vividly
00:09across the horizon.
00:12Marilyn Monroe.
00:15Her beauty and talent dazzled the world.
00:19You mix everything about Marilyn Monroe together like a cocktail.
00:23Her physical beauty, her wit, her talent for acting.
00:31Yet from her earliest days in Hollywood, to the heights of international stardom, she moved in circles dominated by powerful
00:41and sometimes ruthless men.
00:45She was pulled from pillar to post by all of them.
00:50She hated being in that position.
00:55Men whose influence reached from studio lots.
01:00To the corridors of power.
01:04Including gangsters from the world of organized crime.
01:09On the surface, she seemed to have such a zest for life.
01:13As Marilyn's fame grew.
01:15Her international appeal took her from command appearances to the other side of the world.
01:20These connections became ever more dangerous.
01:26These were people that Marilyn will have at some point or another come into contact with.
01:31Some speculate slept with.
01:33She entered into affairs with influential figures in Hollywood and Washington.
01:40Some with reported links to the underworld.
01:43She was surrounded by wolves.
01:45She needed a protector.
01:48As she reached her mid-30s,
01:51Marilyn's world was more perilous than ever.
01:54The greatest box office favorites in motion pictures.
01:57And on the horizon,
02:00danger loomed.
02:18In July 1962,
02:20Marilyn Monroe sat down with a reporter from Life magazine to reflect on her career.
02:26One of the most glamorous actresses in Hollywood.
02:30Marilyn's life was marked by remarkable highs.
02:33And a string of brilliant films that showcased her extraordinary talent.
02:37And effortless comic touch.
02:40Yet her fortunes were now faltering.
02:44Her personal life had unraveled after failed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio.
02:48And playwright Arthur Miller.
02:52Addicted to prescription drugs,
02:54she had been fired and then rehired on her latest film.
02:58Yet she spoke openly about the setbacks and struggles she had faced.
03:04What she didn't mention were the powerful men said to be circling her.
03:09From crime boss Sam Giancana
03:12to President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert.
03:17Nor did she speak of Frank Sinatra,
03:20the mob-linked entertainer who had been both lover and confidant,
03:24who was about to take her away on a glamorous weekend with his friend,
03:28the English actor Peter Lawford.
03:43Marilyn was in a very dark place because of all these things that were going on in her life.
03:50So her friends Peter and Pat Lawford took her to the Kalamiva Lodge.
03:56Maybe a weekend away would be good for her.
04:03It was a very glamorous place.
04:06There were lots of little cabins.
04:08There was a sort of ballroom where you could listen to shows.
04:12And there was also, most importantly, a place where you could gamble.
04:17When Sinatra brings Marilyn to this Lake Tahoe ranch,
04:22he is ostensibly with the desire to shield her.
04:27But he is kind of bringing her into the hornet's nest.
04:33Alongside its celebrity guests,
04:35the Kalamiva Lodge is allegedly also a haunt
04:38for shadowy men from the world of organized crime.
04:47Sinatra, connected as he is to Vegas,
04:50both as an entertainer and in terms of the nightclub underworld,
04:53is good friends with Sam Giancana.
04:55And they co-own Lake Tahoe Ranch together.
05:00Sam Giancana is one of the kind of major figures,
05:03I think, of 20th century organized crime.
05:06He was one of the main people who ran Hollywood.
05:10As a gangster,
05:13Sam Giancana would have a lot of trouble owning a casino.
05:17So Frank fronted for him.
05:21It is a place where people can congregate
05:24who are perhaps up to no good.
05:28The mobsters are there.
05:30Sam Giancana's there.
05:33The stories surrounding that weekend are horrific.
05:38Her drinking too much,
05:40taking too many drugs,
05:42walking around the swimming pool
05:44in a disheveled state,
05:46wearing nothing but a robe.
05:49She apparently goes to sleep at night,
05:52scared that she's going to be attacked.
05:56They had underground tunnels
05:58so people could go from one cabin to another
06:01without anyone seeing them.
06:04She unfortunately got very inebriated
06:08and had to be taken back to her room.
06:12There's a story of she breaks down
06:14at the cocktail table
06:18and she's in tears.
06:20She's embarrassing them.
06:22That's witness.
06:23That's photograph.
06:26The man who was supposed to develop the photographs
06:29said he had a conversation with Sinatra.
06:31They looked at these photos and Sinatra
06:35and the photographer said,
06:36we need to destroy these.
06:38So the photographs don't exist.
06:41Reports later emerge
06:43that Marilyn's ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio,
06:45has learned of Marilyn's trip
06:47and has followed her to the Cal Neva Lodge.
06:53This visitor to the lodge said
06:55he watched her for a while
06:57and she was looking up
06:58and there was Joe DiMaggio looking back at her.
07:01She needed a protector
07:02and Joe DiMaggio offered that.
07:06He tries to rescue her
07:07and he's banned from arriving at the hotel.
07:12It's quite hard to work out
07:14which stories are true
07:15and which ones are not true.
07:18Whatever really happened that weekend,
07:21Marilyn reportedly flew home
07:23from the Cal Neva Lodge utterly distraught.
07:27The pilot of the plane said
07:29that when the Lawfords and Marilyn got on the plane,
07:33she was slurring her words.
07:35She was very, very awkward.
07:37He didn't know what happened
07:38but it was very sad to see.
07:42The sum total of it is that she comes back
07:45and she lands in Los Angeles
07:46looking absolutely terrible.
07:48She's barefoot, distressed, disheveled.
07:53She's clearly had something really terrible happen to her.
07:57She comes back a completely different
08:00and utterly broken person.
08:10Emotionally shattered,
08:11Marilyn retreated to a house
08:13she had recently purchased in Los Angeles,
08:16a sanctuary she had been encouraged to create
08:18by her psychiatrist.
08:22Dr. Ralph Greenson is Marilyn Monroe's shrink.
08:28She apparently has some sort of codependent relationship with him.
08:33Dr. Greenson suggested that she put down roots
08:35which is one of the reasons
08:37why she bought a modest house in Brentwood
08:39not far from him.
08:42It was the first place she ever owned.
08:46She was fixing up the house
08:48because that had a feeling of permanence for her.
08:52She sees Greenson almost every day.
08:57He also works with this doctor called Dr. Hyman Engelberg.
09:00They are prescribing her huge amounts of drugs.
09:04Greenson also has this special injection
09:08which he injects Marilyn with
09:09which must have some sort of speed in it
09:12because she stays up for hours
09:14and is high as a kite on it.
09:16I don't think that that was
09:18a good doctor-patient relationship.
09:22I'll quote her.
09:25If I'm generally anything,
09:26I'm generally miserable.
09:28That's a direct quote of Marilyn Monroe.
09:32It's troublesome to think of her
09:34as having her demons
09:35and she did have her demons.
10:09One of the most famous stars
10:11in Hollywood history
10:16Marilyn Monroe was found dead in bed
10:18under circumstances that were
10:20in tragic contrast to her glamorous career
10:22as a comic talent.
10:37When Marilyn Monroe dies in 1962,
10:40she's only 36 years old.
10:44This is someone that everyone
10:47who went to movies thought
10:48would be making movies
10:49for many more decades.
10:52So when her death is announced,
10:54it isn't just a national story,
10:56it's a global story.
10:59By all accounts,
11:00she was home that day.
11:03She was taking several substances
11:05as was kind of the norm for her.
11:09She loved to have long phone conversations.
11:12So she often was calling people
11:14and that she made several phone calls that day
11:15talking to various people in her life.
11:17She had her hairdresser around,
11:19one of her publicists was around,
11:21her doctor,
11:21who she was very close with
11:23and was perhaps quite an unethical person
11:24in terms of what he prescribed her.
11:28And she apparently was thinking a lot
11:31about the Kennedys
11:32and being kind of estranged from them
11:35and the fact that it was troubling her.
11:38She, according to her housekeeper,
11:40goes to bed at about 8 p.m.
11:42It's the last time she's seen alive.
11:46The housekeeper sees the light on it at 3 a.m.,
11:48goes to the door, the door is locked.
11:51She calls this personal doctor who comes in.
11:54He can see through the window
11:55that something's not right.
11:58One of them breaks the window
12:00and they find Marilyn lying naked,
12:04holding the receiver of a telephone,
12:07apparently having died from an overdose
12:10of sleeping pills.
12:13The coroner rules it as a barbiturate overdose,
12:16either suicide or accidental.
12:24Immediately there are conspiracy theories
12:26surrounding this death.
12:29None of it totally stacks up.
12:35An ambulance driver said that
12:37she actually made it into an ambulance
12:38and was alive,
12:39but then passed away
12:41either right before she got to the hospital
12:42or at the hospital.
12:44And due to various powers that be,
12:47was then returned to her home
12:48to look as though she died peacefully there.
12:51The ambulance driver also later said
12:53that he was paid to say that.
12:55So there are so many conflicting stories coming out
12:57that it's quite hard to know
12:59that it's quite hard to know
12:59what the exact version of events was.
13:03In order to take an overdose of barbiturates,
13:08you would need water to drink the pills down with.
13:11There is no glass of water beside her bed.
13:17There is also a discrepancy between the telephone call
13:21to the doctors
13:22and the telephone call eventually to the police.
13:26There's a great long period between the two.
13:29The doctors are supposed to be called at one o'clock
13:31and eventually the police are called at three o'clock.
13:34And in that phone call,
13:36the doctors declare that Marilyn Monroe
13:38has committed suicide,
13:41which is not really their call to make.
13:44After the LAPD arrive,
13:47Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper,
13:49calls her son-in-law
13:51to come and fix the window.
13:55So he fixes the window at 5.25 in the morning,
13:59which seems a very odd thing to do,
14:01to have a handyman come and fix a windowpane
14:03when this is actually a crime scene.
14:06Her body appears to be moved.
14:10They say that she's in what's known as
14:11a soldier's position with her feet together.
14:15They've rolled the body over,
14:17so the crime scene has already been messed around with.
14:20And then the level of incompetency
14:25appears to continue.
14:28The coroner was a young man
14:31who had only just started in the job.
14:33He wasn't the most experienced coroner they had.
14:37They threw away her vital organs
14:40without having them properly tested.
14:47The very next day,
14:49the phone records go missing
14:51from the exchange,
14:53which is either incompetency
14:55or it's a cover-up.
14:57You can see where the conspiracy theories begin.
15:09Marilyn Monroe,
15:11Hollywood's greatest star,
15:13is dead at the age of 36.
15:16Soon after,
15:17in 1963,
15:19President John F. Kennedy
15:20is assassinated.
15:21Around the world,
15:22disbelief was the first reaction.
15:24A moment in history
15:26that still provokes conspiracy theories,
15:28thanks to his family's dealings
15:30with organized crime.
15:34So, unfortunately,
15:36JFK was not much longer lived
15:39than Marilyn herself.
15:40The following year,
15:42he would be shot dead
15:42and assassinated in Dallas.
15:45So,
15:46there's tragedy upon tragedy here.
15:49And John John celebrates
15:50his third birthday
15:51with a soldier's farewell
15:53to his father.
15:57I think a lot of the fascination
15:59about their relationship
16:01is fueled by the fact
16:02that they both died
16:02so young and so close together.
16:06His brother,
16:07Bobby Kennedy,
16:07of course,
16:08would also be assassinated
16:09in 1968 in Los Angeles.
16:12The mob,
16:13if they didn't pull the trigger,
16:16had some
16:16very strong influence
16:19on who did pull the trigger.
16:20They murdered both
16:22Bobby Kennedy
16:23and JFK.
16:26During their lifetimes,
16:28the affair between Marilyn
16:29and John F. Kennedy
16:30was hidden from the public,
16:32although rumors swirled
16:33amongst Hollywood insiders.
16:38There was always talk
16:40about her involvement
16:42with the Kennedys
16:42during her lifetime.
16:45At Hollywood cocktail parties,
16:47it was the talk of everyone.
16:48It was on everyone's lips.
16:50There were blind items
16:52in the newspaper,
16:52not naming names.
16:55One of them said,
16:57Marilyn Monroe is involved
16:58with someone
16:59with a very big name,
17:01even bigger than
17:03Joe DiMaggio
17:03in his heyday.
17:04So don't write her off
17:05as over yet.
17:07That was like
17:08right at the time
17:10that she died,
17:10the week that she died.
17:11That was a blind item
17:12in a column.
17:13So it was being talked about.
17:16The assassinations
17:17of the Kennedy brothers
17:18ignite a wave
17:19of conspiracy theories,
17:21many of them
17:22involving Marilyn,
17:23including author
17:24Norman Mailer's claim
17:25that she was murdered
17:26by the CIA and FBI
17:28for getting too close
17:29to Robert Kennedy.
17:31It's a claim
17:32Mailer himself
17:32has since discredited.
17:35Over time,
17:36countless other theories
17:37have emerged
17:38about how and why
17:39she really died.
17:41Although a 1982 inquest
17:43confirms suicide
17:44as the cause of death,
17:46journalists continue
17:47to probe into the events
17:48surrounding her final hours.
18:10in the 1980s,
18:13an Irish author
18:13and journalist
18:14called Anthony Summers
18:15writes a book
18:15called Goddess,
18:16and it is a collection
18:18of a series
18:19of exhaustive interviews
18:20that he's done
18:21and research
18:21that he's done
18:22with people
18:23in and around
18:23the constellation
18:24of Marilyn's life
18:26and work
18:27and romance
18:28in the lead-up to her death,
18:30trying to figure out
18:30what exactly happened
18:31that day.
18:32Tony Summers,
18:33it's easy, isn't it,
18:34after 23 years
18:35when people are not around
18:36to answer back
18:37to slur their names
18:38by innuendo?
18:40I haven't slurred
18:41anybody's name
18:41by innuendo.
18:42I set out to do
18:43a biography
18:43of Marilyn Monroe's life.
18:45It was, in a sense,
18:46perhaps the best example
18:47to date
18:48of the power of rumor
18:49in our time.
18:50It raises all kinds
18:52of questions.
18:53Did Marilyn
18:54commit suicide?
18:57Was she confused
18:58and she inadvertently
19:00took too many
19:02sleeping pills?
19:05or did her doctors
19:07change the story
19:09of what happened
19:10about her death?
19:12Was an ambulance
19:14called after she
19:15was deceased?
19:16If that was the case,
19:18it was against
19:18California law
19:19that an ambulance
19:21cannot transport
19:23a deceased person.
19:27Was she taken
19:28to the hospital
19:29still alive,
19:30although comatose,
19:32and died
19:33at the hospital
19:34and then returned
19:35to her home
19:36to make it appear
19:37that she had died
19:38at home?
19:39The big question
19:39that's being asked
19:40about Marilyn's death
19:41is was she murdered?
19:43Anthony Sommer's book
19:45explores theories
19:46and myths
19:46surrounding Marilyn's
19:47life and death,
19:48including those
19:49that implicate
19:50John F. Kennedy
19:51and his brother,
19:52Robert.
19:52There was never
19:53until now evidence
19:54that she had actually
19:55had affairs
19:56with either John Kennedy
19:57or Robert Kennedy.
19:59Now there are.
20:00It was Sommer's belief
20:01ultimately that
20:02there was a Kennedy
20:04clean-up job
20:04on the house
20:06to remove any
20:07association that she
20:08had with them
20:08so that there were
20:10certain things about
20:11her death
20:12that seemed mysterious,
20:14things that disappeared,
20:16but not because
20:17there was actual
20:18foul play.
20:21Given that it had
20:22enough in it
20:23to corroborate
20:23certain doubts
20:24around her story,
20:25it did sort of
20:26send people spinning.
20:28As a result of the book,
20:29the chief of police
20:30has been forced
20:31to release
20:32the partial
20:34remnants of the
20:35police files
20:36from 1962
20:37showing Marilyn's
20:38calls to Kennedy's
20:39Justice Department.
20:41Marilyn had been
20:42ditched by JFK
20:45and Bobby Kennedy.
20:47So she is threatening
20:49to go to the newspapers.
20:52There's a story
20:53that's already leaked.
20:56Journalists
20:56write a piece of gossip
20:58in the San Francisco
20:59Chronicle
21:00about how Bobby Kennedy
21:02is being comforted
21:04by a star
21:05of some description.
21:07So the story
21:08is beginning to leak
21:09and Marilyn
21:10is really upset
21:12about being treated
21:13like, in quotes,
21:13a piece of meat.
21:15And both of them
21:16have had their fun
21:17and they've decided
21:19that she is too much
21:20of a liability
21:21so they've both
21:22ditched her.
21:24So she's threatening
21:25to have a press conference
21:27on the Monday morning
21:28and she's unhappy enough
21:31to actually possibly
21:32go ahead with this.
21:33The stakes could not
21:34have really been higher
21:35for the brothers
21:36at this point.
21:38Bobby Kennedy
21:39was voted
21:40Father of the Year
21:41the year before.
21:42He's Catholic,
21:43he's married,
21:43he's got seven children
21:44I think at this point.
21:47This is not
21:48in his interest
21:49for Marilyn
21:50to tell the world
21:51about their affair.
21:54The story
21:55is that he
21:56left
21:57the Democrat conference
21:58in San Francisco
21:59a rise by helicopter
22:01to Peter Lawford's house.
22:04Peter Lawford
22:05drives to
22:05Fifth Helena Drive
22:06and there is
22:08supposedly
22:08this massive row
22:09between Bobby
22:11Bobby and Marilyn.
22:14Bobby Kennedy
22:15is looking for this thing
22:16which is called
22:17the Little Red Book.
22:18Supposedly,
22:19every time she's had dinner
22:20with Bobby Kennedy,
22:22Marilyn has written down
22:23the conversations
22:24that she'd had with him.
22:26They are supposed to have
22:27secrets in them.
22:29The nuclear testing
22:30in the desert,
22:31the Bay of Pigs,
22:32all these hugely
22:34important state secrets.
22:37Not for any malicious reason,
22:39it was just to prove
22:40to him
22:41that she wasn't
22:42a dumb,
22:42fluffy blonde
22:44that everyone
22:44always thought she was.
22:47It's posted on the tapes,
22:49there is the sound
22:50of coat hangers
22:50as he's slapping
22:51through her wardrobe
22:52trying to find this book,
22:54shouting at her,
22:55going,
22:55where is it,
22:56where is it,
22:56where is it?
22:57And she's screaming back,
22:58I have no idea
22:59what you're talking about,
23:00leave me alone.
23:02That is where
23:04the idea
23:04that Bobby Kennedy
23:05was involved
23:06in the murder
23:07of Marilyn Monroe
23:08comes from.
23:12The alleged confrontation
23:14between Marilyn
23:15and Robert F. Kennedy
23:16is said to be caught
23:18on surveillance tape
23:19by a private investigator
23:20named Fred Otash,
23:22who has bugged
23:23Marilyn's house,
23:24possibly on behalf
23:25of the mob.
23:31One of the sources
23:32many people use
23:34is a fellow
23:35named Fred Otash,
23:36who some authors argue
23:38is one of the premier
23:39guys in espionage,
23:42tapping phones,
23:44bugging rooms,
23:45and reporting on celebrities
23:47and reporting on politicians.
23:50Fred Otash said
23:52that at various points
23:53he had worked
23:54wiretapping
23:55and trailing people
23:56for the FBI,
23:58CIA,
23:59the mafia.
24:02The dilemma
24:03with the reliability
24:05or unreliability
24:06of Otash
24:07is that there are
24:08no transcripts
24:09of the tapes
24:10he said he did.
24:12There are
24:13no recordings.
24:15He's almost ubiquitous
24:17in these stories,
24:18but how reliable
24:19is Otash?
24:21he could be fabricating
24:23much or all
24:24of what he said.
24:27Fred Otash
24:28continued to change
24:29his story
24:29throughout his life
24:30up until he died
24:32in 1992.
24:37Despite various sources
24:38linking Robert F. Kennedy
24:40to Marilyn
24:40on the day of her death,
24:42the Kennedy family
24:43has long denied
24:44such claims.
24:47Bobby Kennedy
24:48connection
24:49with Marilyn,
24:50there's one major question.
24:53He denied being
24:55in Los Angeles
24:56on the day
24:56of her death
24:58to the day
24:59he died.
25:02his family
25:02have denied
25:03that he was there
25:04on the day
25:04of her death.
25:06The Los Angeles Police Department
25:07denied that he was there
25:08on the day
25:09of her death.
25:10Peter Loffer said
25:11he was
25:11and he drove him there
25:12and he certainly was
25:14with Marilyn
25:14on the day
25:14of her death.
25:16And Daryl Gates,
25:16the chief of police,
25:17when he wrote
25:17his autobiography
25:19in black and white,
25:20it's there in the book,
25:22we all knew
25:23Bobby Kennedy
25:24was there
25:24on the day
25:24of her death,
25:25we just didn't
25:25like to help him.
25:28So he was there,
25:29and why did he
25:30deny it?
25:30Why did they deny it?
25:33The Banshees
25:33of good taste
25:34will tell you
25:35that's all
25:36because he would
25:36have been smeared
25:37and besmirched
25:38if it had been
25:39made clear
25:40that he was there.
25:42So it was just,
25:43it wasn't a cover-up,
25:44it was protection.
25:45But if you're
25:47covering something up,
25:48is that protection?
25:49Where's the transparency?
25:51No transparency
25:52leads to speculation.
25:54Conspeculation
25:55leads to conspiracy.
25:57Conspiracy leads
25:58to 60 years
25:59of
26:00conjecture.
26:05Over the years,
26:07interest in
26:07Marilyn Monroe
26:08has grown,
26:09and conspiracies
26:10around her death
26:11continue to swirl,
26:13many of them
26:13involving organized crime.
26:16Anthony Summers' book
26:18Goddess
26:18revealed many of
26:19Marilyn's
26:20previously unknown
26:21connections
26:21to major mob figures
26:22across her life,
26:25including gangsters
26:26Johnny Roselli,
26:27Sam Giancana,
26:29and a curious episode
26:31with the notorious
26:32Mickey Cohen.
26:40Mickey Cohen is
26:42perhaps the most
26:43vicious gangster
26:44that stalks
26:45the streets of L.A.
26:47He had his fingers
26:49in a lot of different
26:49pieces of the pie,
26:51particularly sex work
26:52and brothels.
26:54And through those,
26:56he often collected
26:57information
26:58on the famous clients
27:00of those places
27:01and then could use it
27:02as blackmail.
27:05He also started
27:07a newspaper
27:07called Hollywood Nightlife.
27:09His partner in that
27:10was Frank Sinatra's
27:12manager.
27:13This newspaper magazine
27:15was really a device
27:16for blackmailing
27:18famous movie stars,
27:20letting the world
27:21know who was gay,
27:22who was a lesbian,
27:23who was having
27:24an affair.
27:26People dreaded
27:27what stories
27:28might appear
27:29about them.
27:31Every Hollywood producer
27:33read Hollywood Nightlife
27:34to see who was
27:35being scandalized.
27:40Cohen would be
27:40very street savvy.
27:42We'd do a deal.
27:43We'd give over
27:44the negatives,
27:45we'd give over
27:45the compromising pictures
27:47in return for cash,
27:48but also in return
27:49for favors that you,
27:50you're my friend.
27:52A bit godfather-like.
27:53You know,
27:53one day you'll do me
27:54a favor type stuff.
27:57I think he tried
27:58to blackmail
27:59Marilyn Monroe,
28:00but I don't think
28:00he succeeded in doing it.
28:04Any investigation
28:05into Marilyn's life
28:06reveals a cast
28:07of shadowy figures
28:08orbiting her world.
28:10Men with power,
28:11secrets,
28:12and agendas
28:13of their own.
28:14Together,
28:15they fuel
28:16the endless white noise
28:17of conspiracy
28:18that still surrounds
28:20her name.
28:27another of the fantastic
28:29conspiracy theories
28:30about Marilyn Monroe's
28:31death is that
28:33she was the object
28:34of a hit
28:35that was organized
28:37by Sam Giancana,
28:40a man who utterly
28:41hated the Kennedys.
28:44The mafia
28:45were instrumental
28:46in helping
28:47to secure
28:47the vote
28:48for Bobby's brother.
28:51There was a sense
28:52that the Kennedys
28:53had kind of
28:53betrayed them
28:54by enlisting
28:55their help
28:56and then turning around
28:57and attacking them.
28:59It is my firm belief
29:00that new laws
29:01are needed
29:02in the common battle
29:03against the rackets.
29:05According to
29:06Sam Giancana's
29:07grandson,
29:08who wrote a book
29:09called Double Cross,
29:11what he expected
29:12is that
29:13the Kennedy administration
29:15would be
29:16not too rigorous
29:17in going after
29:17organized crime.
29:20John Kennedy
29:21appoints his
29:22younger brother
29:23to be attorney general
29:24who had been going
29:25after Sam Giancana
29:26for years
29:27on a Senate committee.
29:30Is it because
29:30you got the $500?
29:32No, sir.
29:33Giancana saw that
29:34as a double cross.
29:36And another layer
29:37to that
29:38is that
29:39Giancana,
29:40we now know,
29:41worked with the CIA
29:43in this extraordinary
29:45effort with
29:46Johnny Rosselli
29:47to figure out a way
29:48to assassinate
29:49Fidel Castro.
29:52He was involved
29:54with the Kennedys
29:55in an operation
29:56called Operation Mongoose.
29:59The Kennedys
30:01were using the mob
30:02to be hitmen,
30:03in effect,
30:04and they never succeeded.
30:08Giancana,
30:08he had done
30:09what had been asked
30:10of him,
30:11and now they're
30:12paying me back
30:12by having Robert
30:13Kennedy Jr.
30:15and his Justice Department
30:16to come after me.
30:18So the theory is
30:19that he sent
30:20four hitmen
30:21to Marilyn Monroe's house
30:23and they murdered her.
30:26There was a book
30:27written by one
30:28of his relatives
30:30saying that Sam
30:31had sent a hit squad
30:33into Marlon's home
30:34in Brentwood
30:35to wipe her out.
30:39The theories are always
30:40clever because,
30:41you know,
30:42it wasn't like,
30:43didn't go with machine guns,
30:44but they went in
30:44with a suppository,
30:45an amputile suppository,
30:47which then,
30:48you know,
30:49poisoned her,
30:49killed her,
30:49but of course
30:50vanished
30:51and no needle marks.
30:53The autopsy
30:54was done with
30:54by the deputy coroner,
30:55a guy called
30:55Thomas Noguchi,
30:56which seems
30:57a very odd thing
30:58to have had
30:58the deputy
30:59doing somebody
31:00so high profile
31:01to start off with.
31:03He spends a long time
31:04trying to find
31:05an injection in her.
31:06He does a very
31:07sort of close look
31:08at her skin,
31:08finds nothing.
31:11The hope
31:12for those
31:12who promote
31:13that theory
31:13is that
31:14it will implicate
31:16the Kennedy family
31:17and the death
31:18of this icon.
31:20And those
31:21who most hoped
31:22for that
31:22were people
31:23in organized crime.
31:24If they could
31:25somehow soil
31:27the Kennedy reputation,
31:28it would be
31:29just punishment
31:30for the Kennedy family.
31:34Adding even more
31:35fuel to the
31:36conspiracy theories
31:37is the fact
31:38that several
31:38of the powerful
31:39and dangerous men
31:41connected to Maryland
31:42ultimately died
31:43in grisly circumstances.
31:49Johnny Roselli,
31:50true to Hollywood type,
31:52was found
31:53in an oil drum
31:55floating in the
31:56Biscayne Bay.
31:59He was somebody
32:00who knew about
32:00the assassination
32:01of John F. Kennedy
32:03and before he could
32:04testify to the
32:06Senate Assassinations
32:07Committee,
32:08he was lured
32:09onto a boat
32:09off the coast
32:10of Florida.
32:12He suffered
32:13from emphysema,
32:14so the guy
32:14who killed him
32:15just held his nose
32:16and covered his mouth
32:17until Johnny Roselli
32:19was asphyxiated.
32:21They wanted to put
32:22his body into
32:23an oil drum
32:24and it wouldn't fit,
32:25so they had to
32:25cut off his legs
32:26and put his trunk
32:27and his legs in
32:28separately into
32:29an oil drum.
32:31Two fishermen
32:32found it
32:33and notified
32:34the Coast Guard.
32:37An autopsy was done
32:38and they identified
32:39the body
32:39as that of
32:40Johnny Roselli.
32:43After Giancana
32:44was called
32:46to testify
32:47in front
32:47of a Senate
32:48committee,
32:48he was assassinated
32:50in the basement
32:51kitchen
32:51of his home
32:52in Chicago.
32:57Sam Giancana
32:58being shot
32:59I think five times
33:01under the chin
33:02and once
33:03directly in the mouth
33:04had to do
33:05with perhaps
33:05the CIA
33:06trying to keep
33:06them quiet
33:07because they'd
33:07been summoned
33:08to appear before
33:09a special
33:09Senate committee.
33:15Stories of
33:16Marilyn's
33:16connections
33:17to the highest
33:17offices in
33:18politics
33:18and to some
33:20of the most
33:20violent figures
33:21in organized
33:21crime
33:22only deepened
33:23the confusion
33:24which leaves
33:26us asking
33:26what truly
33:28happened
33:29to Marilyn Monroe?
33:33She died
33:35of a
33:35barbiturate overdose
33:36that is certainly
33:37true.
33:38There was
33:39enough
33:39barbiturates
33:40in her bloodstream
33:41to have killed
33:42I think about
33:43seven or eight
33:43people.
33:45She had a very
33:45high tolerance
33:46for barbiturates
33:47because she'd
33:47been taking them
33:48for a very long
33:48time.
33:51Yet she had
33:52no pill
33:54casings in her
33:55stomach during
33:56the autopsy.
33:59her body.
33:59She was also very
34:01keen on
34:02enemas during this
34:03period.
34:04Marilyn used to
34:05have enemas all
34:05the time.
34:07An enema to
34:09make herself thin
34:10enough to get
34:10into a dress.
34:11She often would
34:11have two enemas
34:12a day in the
34:13morning and in the
34:14evening to keep her
34:15stomach entirely
34:16flat.
34:18There is a theory
34:19that Eunice Murray,
34:22who is her
34:22housekeeper, had
34:23given Marilyn a
34:24barbiturate enema
34:26that evening in
34:27order to help her
34:28go to sleep.
34:31Weirdly, Eunice Murray
34:32was leaving the next
34:33day.
34:33She'd been dismissed,
34:35so this was her last
34:36night working for
34:37Marilyn.
34:40Eunice Murray is
34:41always pictured in
34:43the background
34:43washing sheets,
34:45which seems a very
34:45odd thing to be
34:46doing if your boss
34:48has just died.
34:50With so many
34:52rumours and theories
34:53swirling, rivalries
34:54have emerged between
34:55those who believe her
34:56life was ended by
34:57dangerous gangsters
34:58and those who believe
35:00the truth is far less
35:01sinister.
35:11I always say that
35:12Marilyn Monroe is like
35:14politics and religion.
35:16There's people on both
35:17sides and they believe
35:18so strongly and they
35:20hate you if you
35:21disagree with them.
35:22That's how passionately
35:23they feel about it.
35:25So many people who've
35:27changed their story over
35:28the years about what
35:29happened in the order of
35:30events that I think it
35:32is genuinely lost to
35:34time and a lot of the
35:36records and apparent
35:38recordings and FBI files
35:40are also lost to time.
35:43which in and of itself
35:44is a cause for people
35:45to become suspicious and
35:46treat that as a part of
35:47the conspiracy.
35:49That's the thing about
35:50conspiracy theory, they
35:51are self-generating and
35:52self-sustaining that
35:53everything can become a
35:54part of the conspiracy
35:56when in fact a lot of
35:57stuff is people changing
35:58their stories because
35:59they got older, their
36:00memory was bad, it was
36:01traumatic and they don't
36:02remember it exactly the
36:04same way.
36:04I mean there are a lot of
36:05reasons why you can have
36:07different versions of the
36:08story and not all of them
36:09are sinister.
36:13I think that on that
36:14night she was in a moment
36:16of despair, she took a lot
36:18of pills and when she felt
36:22herself starting to go
36:23under she changed her mind
36:28and she started dialing friends
36:31to get help and some of her
36:34friends got a message from
36:36what they said was a fuzzy
36:37voiced woman, obviously it was
36:38Marilyn Monroe.
36:40While she was trying to get
36:42help she went under and
36:46drifted off to paradise.
36:50I do feel that if she had been
36:53saved that night, sadly, she
36:57probably would have done it a
36:58month later or two months
36:59later or five months later or
37:01two years later.
37:04There's something almost Edgaring
37:06Allen Poe about the death of
37:08Marilyn Monroe. Edgar
37:09Allen Poe said there's nothing
37:11more poetic than the death
37:13of a beautiful woman and
37:14certainly that's part of it.
37:17You know, I could be the one
37:19who saved her or what direction
37:22would her career have gone in
37:23had she lived.
37:34She lay in the mortuary for a day
37:36on claim.
37:39She really didn't have any
37:40immediate family.
37:42Some of her friends felt like
37:44they weren't close enough to do
37:45it.
37:47Brief and simple rites marked the
37:49funeral of Marilyn Monroe.
37:51As former husband Joe DiMaggio
37:53lead in a last tribute to the
37:54glamorous actors.
37:56Joe DiMaggio stepped up.
38:01He really, truly loved her.
38:05He set up the funeral and paid
38:10for it, paid for her crib.
38:12Only 25 persons were invited to
38:15the services and no screen stars
38:16were in attendance.
38:18He didn't want any of her
38:20Hollywood friends there like
38:22Frank Sinatra because he felt
38:26that that contributed to her
38:28downfall, the Hollywood set.
38:34He kept it very small with just
38:37people that were close with her.
38:43Even though he's a sometimes
38:44controversial figure in her life,
38:47one thing is for sure,
38:48he loved her very deeply
38:50and she loved him and she always
38:52turned to him in her moments of
38:54need.
39:00The final fade out to the story of
39:02the poor girl who became a movie
39:04star is written
39:05and finished.
39:15It feels unfair.
39:17I understand him wanting privacy
39:20for her and her family, but I don't
39:23understand why your ex-husband should
39:24get the right to control your funeral
39:27rights, control who was there.
39:31She had Hollywood friends.
39:33She's also a woman who, in spite of
39:34everyone constantly talking about
39:36the powerful men in her life, had
39:37many female friendships.
39:40It does seem profoundly unfair to her
39:45and so indicative of that male
39:47ownership of her, her body, her life,
39:49her privacy, for someone to just
39:51decide that.
39:52Nothing to do with her wishes, I would
39:54assume, much more to do with his own
39:55and what he wanted.
39:59Peter Lawford, a one-time friend,
40:02associate, and of course brother-in-law
40:04to the Kennedys, is also buried
40:06fairly nearby to Marilyn.
40:09The story goes that he was heartbroken
40:11by her death and his failure to
40:13successfully intervene or to save her.
40:17It does feel a little bit for me like
40:19Marilyn's died, surrounded by the same
40:22wolves that hounded her in her life.
40:29Although her life was cut short,
40:32Marilyn Monroe lives on as a legendary
40:35figure, a blend of glamour, talent, and
40:40tragedy.
40:43She gives so much joy and so much
40:46entertainment to people that that's
40:49what we should really focus on.
40:52Her career, what she left behind, the
40:55good things that she did, she was a
40:57really marvelous person.
41:00All these other theories, I mean, I just
41:03don't think they're, I've never seen
41:05anything and they really convinced me.
41:08For me, right now, it's enough that she
41:12left behind such a really wonderful
41:16legacy in such a really short time.
41:20But I do think that the final story is a
41:23lot simpler than people want to make
41:25out.
41:26I know that Marilyn touches people in
41:28different ways and if it's very important
41:31for them to believe she died one way and
41:34I believe that it happened another way.
41:38I'm fine with that.
41:40I think there's a certain point where
41:42somebody like Marilyn, and I think this is
41:44true of her in life as well as a star
41:46figure, they kind of lose some of their
41:48humanity.
41:49They become symbols to us.
41:52And now that a lot of time has passed,
41:54they're not really flesh and blood human
41:56beings with families and grieving loved ones.
42:01And so it becomes almost like a pub debate
42:04or a fun conversation to have.
42:07What do you think really happened?
42:08It becomes kind of this parlor game for
42:10people.
42:13I think conspiracy theories thrive in the
42:16absence of certainty and in the absence of
42:21wanting to accept a certain sad reality.
42:25I think it's really tough to accept that
42:28accidents happen, that people are led
42:31astray, that they have bad friends, bad
42:33guidance, that they struggle for mental
42:36health issues.
42:39It's long been sympathetic to Marilyn, a
42:41lot of these conspiracy theories.
42:43A lot of them say, well, she was, yes, she was a
42:45mess.
42:45Yes, maybe she was promiscuous, but actually
42:47she's a victim of circumstance.
42:50And they are maybe well-meaning, but none of them
42:53really tell the truth about her ambition, her
42:55complexity, her talent, because they are so
42:58invested in the tragedy, because it's dramatic
43:01and because it's a neat, like sort of neater
43:03trajectory for them to follow.
43:05So people are interested in that.
43:13I think Marilyn will continue to beguile audiences
43:17because in spite of her personal troubles,
43:22mostly what you get from her on the screen, it's
43:24actually just vivacity and joy and liveliness.
43:28And it's interesting that there's so much focus on
43:31her troubles and her death, when in fact, her films,
43:36particularly her musical numbers in Judgment for a
43:40Blonde and How to Marry a Millionaire and some of her
43:42comic routines and Some Like It Hot, she's just so alive on
43:46the screen, she's so vivid.
43:51And I think this idea that there is a dichotomy between
43:54this happy woman on the screen, this miserable woman off of
43:56it, it's sort of an old stereotype.
43:59I think it was much more complex than that.
44:03Ultimately, she gives a lot of joy to viewers.
44:06And I do believe I could sit a five-year-old or a 15-year-old or a
44:1195-year-old in front of her best films, and they will find some, some kind of joy and
44:16some kind of happiness or humor from them.
44:30The other thing about it is that from the tantalizing things that we do know and
44:35we do hear, whether it's hearsay, rumor, gossip, or confirmed, that the LAPD was
44:40deeply corrupt, that the mafia and Hoover and FBI were doing some deeply, deeply
44:45frightening things.
44:49And all just under the surface of a 1950s and 60s public Americana and show business
44:55that was so wholesome-looking and was so designed for wholesomeness and morality and good clean
45:00fun and Sinatra crooning and Marilyn dancing and, you know, those beautiful kind of images
45:06of wholesome Americana.
45:08And then just underneath, there were some really, truly diabolical things going on.
45:14And people are fascinated by that, quite understandably.
45:19People have fixated on Marilyn as somebody who may have been involved with or murdered
45:24by organized crime associates or by the mob.
45:31The fact of the matter is, the mafia was very powerful in Hollywood, particularly in the mid-century.
45:38Most stars of a certain caliber were associating with those people.
45:45And that they did have pull and there were certain people in Hollywood you didn't mess with.
45:53Every Hollywood party liked to have its token shady guy or gangster because it was cool, it was glamorous.
45:59So there is this underworld just beneath the surface that's guiling to people.
46:07The reality is that they did do bad things, often things that we'll never find out about, because the nature
46:13of them is shrouded in secrecy.
46:16Marilyn Monroe, a woman whose life has been examined more closely than almost any in modern history.
46:23Yet, across every timeline and testimony, one pattern persists.
46:30From her earliest days in Hollywood to the final hours of her life, individuals connected to organized crime appear again
46:40and again in her story.
46:41The rumors continue, and the conspiracies linger, but the truth may be lost forever.
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