The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (38 page)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 335: “The Attorney General and another well-dressed man [Archie Case or James Ahern] came to the house sometime late in the afternoon . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 469–470: “I tracked that story to its source, a woman called Betty Pollard . . .”)

(MURRAY 1975, p. 128: Mrs. Murray explains how a Marilyn Monroe author “related sensational rumors about Bobby Kennedy’s arriving at the house that afternoon with a physician, reportedly to sedate an hysterical Marilyn.”)

(MURRAY 1975, p. 128: She continues to say how the “story stems from reports of a card party on Fifth Helena that afternoon at which the ladies were supposed to have looked out the window and seen Kennedy walking through Marilyn’s gate with a man carrying a doctor’s black bag.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 520–522: “The source says both Marilyn’s and Kennedy’s voices were easily recognizable . . .” On their trip to Marilyn’s home on August 4, 1962, Peter Lawford and Bobby Kennedy were looking, not for a listening device as Summers’s source hypothesizes, but for Marilyn’s red diary.)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, p. 66: Deputy Coroner’s Aide Lionel Grandison noted how Marilyn wrote in her red diary, “Bobby came back with Peter . . .”)

(
Marilyn: The Last Word
documentary, 1993: Anthony Summers said it’s very possible Bobby Kennedy was looking for Marilyn’s red diary, not a listening device.)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, p. 66: Marilyn wrote in her diary, “Bobby was really mad. Acted crazy and searched all my stuff . . .”)

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(SUMMERS 2000, p. 410: “During the morning Norman Jefferies, working on the kitchen floor, found himself looking at a pair of bare female feet. He looked up to see Marilyn wrapped in a huge bath towel, and was appalled.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 455: Mrs. Murray relayed, “Oh sure, yes, I was in the living room when he [Bobby Kennedy] arrived. She was not dressed.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 456: Norman Jefferies said, “Mr. Lawford made it very clear that he wanted Eunice and I [sic] out of there . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 340, 410: “Murray’s son-in-law, Norman Jefferies, was employed by Marilyn in 1962 to help with the remodeling of her house. Murray proved oddly reluctant to assist me in reaching Jefferies . . . There was indeed secrecy about the Robert Kennedy visit that he witnessed . . . In fact, Jefferies was still outside the house when Robert Kennedy arrived alone, driving a convertible.”)

(SUMMERS 1994, p. 299: Assistant Director Cartha DeLoach said, “[William] Simon reported that Bobby was borrowing his [white] Cadillac convertible for the purpose of going to see Marilyn Monroe.”)

(KESSLER 2012, p. 41: “[FBI agent] William Simon . . . headed the Los Angeles field office, just after the August [4], 1962, death of Marilyn Monroe . . . According to [Cartha] DeLoach, who saw the teletype, it said that then Attorney General Robert Kennedy had borrowed Simon’s personal car to see Monroe just before her death.”)

(KESSLER 2012, p. 41: William Simon’s son Greg said, “My father said Robert Kennedy would borrow his white Lincoln convertible. That’s why we didn’t have it on many weekends.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 519: One of Otash’s employees relayed, “Marilyn had done a turnabout. Lawford said Marilyn had called the White House, trying to reach the President . . .”)

(Miner, John. “Marilyn Uncensored.”
Playboy
. December 2005, p. 200: “I want someone else to tell him it’s over. I tried to get the President to do it. . .”)

(GUILAROFF 1996, p. 166: Marilyn recollected for Guilaroff: Bobby Kennedy told Marilyn, “It’s over.” Marilyn replied, “But you promised to divorce Ethel and marry me.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 512: Otash said he heard Marilyn say to Bobby Kennedy on that last day, “I feel passed around—like a piece of meat. You’ve lied to me. Get out of here. I’m tired. Leave me alone.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 519: After Bobby Kennedy’s visit in the afternoon on August 4, “Otash insists that from then on, rather than Marilyn reaching out to Kennedy that evening,
he
tried to get her to come to the Lawford beach house. Marilyn’s response, Otash says, was ‘Stop bothering me. Stay away from me.’”)

(SELSMAN, MICHAEL. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 28 MARCH 2011: “She was convinced that not Jack but Bobby would leave Ethel and all their kids . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, pp. 456–457: Sydney Guilaroff relayed, “She said, ‘Bobby Kennedy was here, and he threatened me, screamed at me, and pushed me around! . . .’ She told me she had an affair with Bobby as well as Jack, and everything had gone wrong. Now she was afraid and felt she was in terrible danger. Bobby felt she had become a problem and had said to her, ‘If you threaten me, Marilyn, there’s more than one way to keep you quiet.’”)

(GUILAROFF 1996, pp. 165–167: “What’s the matter, dear? . . .”)

(GUILAROFF 1996, p. 170: “Then and now I believe that there was a conspiracy between the Kennedys and Dr. Greenson . . . As far as I am concerned, John and Robert Kennedy, aided by Dr. Greenson, murdered Marilyn Monroe just as surely as if they had shot her in the head.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 513: Otash relayed how Peter’s friend “Bullets” Durgom told him, “Bobby was very worried about Monroe getting spaced out and shooting her mouth off. He told Peter, ‘Get her to your place. She won’t talk to me now, you get her to the beach.’”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 460: According to Guilaroff, after Greenson’s visit, Marilyn was in a better frame of mind and called Guilaroff one last time in the evening.)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 415–416: “At about 9:30 P.M., Marilyn called Sydney Guilaroff, a prominent Hollywood hairdresser who knew her well . . .”)

(WILSON 1973, pp. 320–321: Monroe–Guilaroff phone call on the night of August 4, 1962)

(ENGELBERG 2004, pp. 281–282: Joe DiMaggio relayed to Engelberg: “The Kennedys killed her . . . Something the world should know about is in there . . .”)

(ENGELBERG 2004, p. 282: “After his father’s funeral, I asked him about that envelope . . .”)

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(WOLFE 1998, p. 459: “At Murray’s request, Norman Jefferies stayed on into the evening.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 461: “Norman Jefferies recalled that between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m., Robert Kennedy, accompanied by two men [Case and Ahern], appeared at the door. They ordered Jefferies and Murray from the house.”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: Mrs. Murray stated, “It became so sticky that the protectors of Robert Kennedy, you know, had to step in there and protect
him
.”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 518: Mrs. Murray said, “It became so sticky that the protectors of Robert Kennedy, you know, had to step in there and protect
him
. Doesn’t that sound logical?”)

(WOLFE 2005, pp. 288–289: “In the course of researching my Marilyn Monroe biography, I learned from Vince Carter and other confirming sources that Case and Ahern had accompanied Robert Kennedy to Marilyn Monroe’s house on the night she died.”)

(HODEL 2004, p. 376: Names of Gangster Squad members.)

(OTASH, FRED. INTERVIEW WITH JAMES SPADA. 15 NOVEMBER 1988: “I worked undercover in Hollywood. I worked Vice. I first met Peter Lawford when I was on the LAPD in 1949 . . .”)

(GATES 1993, p. 170: “I think Bobby always had an affection for LAPD . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 461: Norman Jefferies said, “They made it clear we were to be gone . . .”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 460: After interviewing Sgt. Jack Clemmons in 1993 and 1997, Wolfe learned that days after Marilyn died, Clemmons got the opportunity to interview Marilyn’s next-door neighbor to the east, Mary W. Goodykoontz Barnes. Incorrectly identifying the neighbor as Elizabeth Pollard who was actually a guest at that bridge party, Wolfe relayed Mrs. Barnes’ observations as relayed to Sgt. Clemmons regarding that same night, “Three men [Kennedy, Case, and Ahern] walked down Fifth Helena Drive. One was carrying a small black satchel similar to a medical bag.”)

(
The Marilyn Files
documentary, 1991: Sgt. Jack Clemmons relayed, “The neighbor [at 12304 Fifth Helena Drive Mary W. Goodykoontz Barnes] said, ‘I’ve seen Bobby Kennedy go into that house a dozen times. That definitely was him. I don’t know who the other two men were.’”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS: “Two of my brothers were FBI agents . . . I had heard that my brother John Anderson had seen Robert Kennedy and two men enter Marilyn Monroe’s home. Hours later it was reported that Marilyn Monroe had died.”)

(Turner, Dave.
Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI
. Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 1996, p. 235: “Anderson, John K. 1952–1977, membership number 000121”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 537: “Bolaños . . . said that—in a telephone call on the night she died—Marilyn told him ‘something that will one day shock the whole world . . .’”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 416: “José Bolaños says he telephoned Marilyn from the Ships Restaurant, not far from her home, between nine-thirty and ten o’clock . . . He does say Marilyn ended the conversation by simply laying down the phone—she did not hang up while he was on the line.”)

(WOLFE 1998, p. 461: “There was a commotion at the door, and Marilyn went to see what it was.” José Bolaños said Marilyn put the phone down and never came back on the line. Marilyn left the room and went into the guest cottage to investigate a noise.)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, pp. 456–458: Via a transcript edited by Otash, Schwarz read the sanitized version of the tapes versus Strait’s firsthand listening of the actual tapes that indicated murder and multiple persons in the room.)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 DECEMBER 2010: On how Noguchi never believed suicide but didn’t rock the boat.)

(STRAIT, RAYMOND. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 18 NOVEMBER 2010: “I had all those tapes in my garage . . .”)

(BROWN AND BARHAM 1993, p. 457: Raymond Strait said, “Fred was afraid of the tapes. . . It was obvious that she was subdued . . .”)

(Galloway, Stephen. “Taping Marilyn Monroe.” The
Hollywood Reporter
. 6 June 2013: Fred Otash wrote in his notes, “I listened to Marilyn Monroe die . . .”)

(HASPIEL 1993, pp. 199–200: “Suddenly without thinking further, the politician [Robert Kennedy] grabbed for a pillow across the bed and placed it over her tear-stained face.”)

(VICTOR 1999, p. 137: “It is Haspiel’s opinion that Marilyn was murdered as part of a conspiracy reaching up to the highest echelons of government, an opinion based upon tapes reputedly recorded by wiretapper Bernie Spindel.”)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, p. 193: Bobby Kennedy had ordered LAPD Gangster Squad partners Case and Ahern to “Give her something to calm her down.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS: “I don’t know if she was injected merely to subdue her or . . .”)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, pp. 60–61: Lionel Grandison wrote, “Miner and Noguchi were looking at some bruises on her leg . . .”)

(GRANDISON, JR., AND MUQADDIN 2012, pp. 61–62: Lionel Grandison wrote, “My first thought was needle mark, but obviously Dr. Noguchi didn’t concur . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS: “My friend Marty George was a Los Angeles photographer. He had a job where once a year, he would go down to the Coroner’s Office . . .”)

(HALL, JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE MORGAN. OCTOBER 1997: “On the autopsy report, Noguchi wrote, ‘No needle mark . . .’”)

(ABRAMS, ARNOLD, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 2 NOVEMBER 1992: “The odds that she took pills and died from them are astronomically unlikely . . . I have never seen anything like this in an autopsy. There was something crazy going on in this woman’s colon . . .”)

(Rebello, Stephen. “Somebody Killed Her.”
Playboy
. December 2005, p. 188: Concurring with Spoto’s medical professional Dr. Arnold Abrams, John Miner maintains Marilyn couldn’t have given herself the enema that killed her. Miner explained, “If she administered it. . . she would have been unconscious with all this stuff running out of her before enough of it was absorbed to kill her.”)

(AMADOR, ELIAS, M.D. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 11 JANUARY 2011: Marilyn was given an enema containing a total of thirteen to nineteen 100-mg Nembutals and seventeen 500-mg chloral hydrates. Dr. Amador originally estimated between 15–20 Nembutals; however, 13–19 was the amount of Nembutal left in Marilyn’s bottle at the time the enema was given to her. The autopsy report noted that 10 chloral hydrates were remaining from a bottle of 50.)

(SPOTO 1993, pp. 585, 587: “. . . an enema—something on which Marilyn often relied for other purposes.”)

(VITACCO-ROBLES 1999, p. 106: The guest cottage had a bath directly adjacent to it so water was indeed easily accessible for an enema.)

(ROBERTS, RALPH. INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SPOTO. 2 MARCH 1992: Roberts said he learned from Marilyn’s secretary May Reis that Marilyn often took about 6 Nembutals in one day.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 433: Peter Lawford’s third wife Deborah Gould explained how Lawford told her, “Marilyn took her last big enema.”)