The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (47 page)

(SPADA 1991, p. 323: Dolores Naar had a hunch that Lawford’s two calls were “calculated to mislead us . . .”)

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(LEAMER 1996, p. 569: Joe Naar said, “I blame the changes in Peter and his final decline into the bottle on Marilyn’s death . . .”)

(NAAR, JOSEPH. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 2 SEPTEMBER 2010: “You’re trying to sort out the truth and put a puzzle together, but at this late date it’s going to be extremely difficult . . .”)

(
Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder
documentary, 1988: Former FBI agent Bill Roemer stated, “I would, yeah. I think there have been so many questions now and there’s so much conjecturing . . .”)

(MECACCI 2009, p. 29: “Marilyn’s death was in the end a relief for everyone: for the Kennedys, who had been freed from the nightmare of a scandal; for the CIA and the FBI . . .”)

(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. 528: On July 8, 1964, Hoover wrote to Bobby, “His book will make reference to your alleged friendship with the late Miss Marilyn Monroe. Mr. Capell stated that he will indicate . . .”)

(SUMMERS 1994, p. 350: Hoover’s then-teenage neighbor Anthony Calomaris relayed, “He said she was murdered, that it wasn’t a suicide, that the Kennedys were involved.”)

(SUMMERS 1994, pp. 344, 349: When Marilyn and Bobby Kennedy saw each other at the Lawford mansion on February 1, 1962, Hoover was listening in over wiretaps: “For Edgar, reading the transcript in Washington, Kennedy’s words must have held some comfort . . .”)

(THOMAS 2007, p. 117: Ethel Kennedy and the anonymous recommendation of Police Chief William Parker to the head of the FBI.)

(THOMAS 2007, pp. 194, 429:
Seattle Intelligencer
. 7 August 1962: Bobby Kennedy publicly stated, “I hope Hoover will continue to serve the country for many, many years to come.”)

(Taylor, Gene. “Will Marilyn Monroe’s Secret Love Letters Burn Bobby Kennedy?”
Confidential
. October 1967, p. 72: Gay Talese of
Esquire
magazine wrote: “Mantle stepped forward. He stood with his wife and children, posed for the photographers . . .”)

(Taylor, Gene. “Will Marilyn Monroe’s Secret Love Letters Burn Bobby Kennedy?”
Confidential
. October 1967, p. 72: Gay Talese of
Esquire
magazine wrote: “Kennedy posed with Mantle for a photographer . . .”)

(SUMMERS 2000, pp. 484–485: “Three years after Marilyn’s death, in 1965, Joe DiMaggio stood in a ceremonial lineup for baseball hero Mickey Mantle at New York’s Yankee Stadium. Robert Kennedy came along the line, smiling and shaking hands. Rather than shake Kennedy’s hand, DiMaggio quickly backed away.”)

(HEYMANN 2009, p. 77: “DiMaggio refused to shake Bobby’s hand that day, giving rise to a
New York
Daily News
sports page headline: ‘Joltin’ Joe—No Fan of RFK’s!’”)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 421: Harry Hall said DiMaggio “held Bobby Kennedy responsible for her death. He said that right there in the Miramar.”)

(HAYS 2005, p. 8: “In 1966, Chief Parker died of a heart attack during an engagement as a guest speaker at a military banquet.”)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “MM’s affair with Greenson took on a far greater meaning at the time of her death . . .”)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “‘Marilyn has got to be silenced,’ Bobby told Greenson or something to that effect. Greenson had thus been set up by Bobby to ‘take care’ of Marilyn.”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “I suppose the most surprising revelation in Marilyn’s own tapes was the fact that not only did Marilyn have an affair with both Kennedys, she was also sleeping with Dr. Greenson, who appeared to be deeply in love with her . . .”)

(HEYMANN 1998, p. 322: Peter Lawford said, “I also got hold of portions of the [Mafia-Teamster] tapes, and heard what seemed to be sounds of their [Monroe and Greenson’s] lovemaking . . .”)

(
Say Goodbye to the President
documentary, 1985: Ralph Greenson relayed, “I can’t explain myself or defend myself without revealing things that I don’t want to reveal. . . Listen, you know, talk to Bobby Kennedy.”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “The ending at this particular time seemed so unfair and in a way unnecessary . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(SUMMERS 2000, p. 422: Ralph Greenson said, “She was a poor creature, whom I tried to help and ending up hurting.”)

(LAWFORD, PETER. INTERVIEW WITH C. DAVID HEYMANN. 1983. Transcript located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook: “After Marilyn’s death, the Kennedys gave Pat a job in Washington and soon sent her off to Europe . . .”)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “I had become a prisoner now of a form of treatment which I thought was correct for her but almost impossible for me . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “She was making progress, but at times I felt I couldn’t go on with this. . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE: Greenson wrote to Dr. Kris on August 20, 1962, “I had become the most important person in her life and there was nothing I could do except hope that as she improved still more . . .” The complete letter is located in Greenson Papers, Special Collections, UCLA, sealed from the public until January 1, 2039.)

(Hartford, Bob. “Marilyn Monroe’s Bitter Battle Against Sex.”
The National Police Gazette
. January 1960: Marilyn Monroe said, “I’m tired of playing sex kittens . . .”)

(ROLLYSON 1993, p. 211: Marilyn to Richard Meryman, “I never quite understood it—this sex symbol—I always thought symbols were . . .”)

POSTSCRIPT ENDNOTES

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, p. 235: “The shooting within the pantry began at 12:15:59 a.m. and ceased at 12:16:04.”)

(MOLDEA 1995, p. 312: Dr. Thomas Noguchi said, “The [rear of the right] shoulder pad shot as he was raising his arm . . .”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: When he was interviewed in 1971, Don Schulman asserted how Ace Security guard Thane Eugene Cesar was “standing directly to the side and back of Kennedy . . . He was standing on the right-hand side.”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: KNXT’s Jerry Dunphy reported soon after the shooting while Sirhan Sirhan had not yet been taken out of the Ambassador Hotel: “Don Schulman of KNXT tells us that Kennedy was shot three times . . .”)

(“Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: The FBI Files.” Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. 2007, Second Section, p. 8: Don Schulman said he witnessed “Kennedy being shot three times. The guard definitely pulled out his gun and fired.”)

(MELANSON 1994, p. 78: “For days after the assassination the press and public assumed he was hit twice. Only Don Schulman correctly insisted Kennedy had been shot three times . . .”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: In 1971, Don Schulman said Sirhan Sirhan was “from three to six feet” from RFK during the shooting.)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: Karl Uecker stated, “That bullet which killed Kennedy, it was an inch away from his head . . .”)

(“Summaries of Interviews with Crime Scene Witnesses Concerning Distance of Sirhan from Senator Kennedy.” Karl Uecker stated on February 20, 1975, p. 688 of 809: “There is no way that the shots described in the autopsy could have come from Sirhan’s gun . . . Sirhan never got close enough for a point-blank shot, never.”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, p. 267: “Therefore, bent over the steam table, with his neck and gun-hand restrained [by Karl Uecker], Sirhan was never in a position to fire any shots from the rear of RFK. Kennedy received no frontal wounds.”)

(SCHULMAN, DON. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 FEBRUARY 2014: “One was Sirhan Sirhan and the other one was the security guard . . .”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: In 1971, Don Schulman asserted, “Another man [Sirhan Sirhan] stepped out and he shot just as the guard [Thane Eugene Cesar] who was standing behind Kennedy took out his gun and he fired also. The next thing I knew is that Kennedy was shot three times.”)

(Goldberg, Jerry. “Robert F. Kennedy Is Dead.”
Valley Times
[San Fernando Valley, CA]. 6 June 1968: “He died at 1:44 a.m. today in the intensive care center of Good Samaritan Hospital. Death came a little more than twenty-four hours after an assassin’s bullets . . . An autopsy team headed by Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi, Los Angeles County coroner-chief medical examiner, arrived at the hospital about 3:30 a.m. and conducted a post mortem on the body of the 42-year-old senator.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 131, 505: “Irene Gizzi was chairman of Youth for Kennedy in Panorama City and arrived at the hotel with six other girls [including Katherine ‘Kathy’ Lentine, Joan Wing Kies, and Edith Noonan, three names Ms. Gizzi relayed to Jay Margolis]. Around nine o’clock that night, Gizzi noticed a group of [five] people . . . ‘who did not seem to fit with the exuberant crowd. Observed the female to be wearing a white dress with black polka-dots; the girl was standing with a male . . . [wearing a] gold-colored shirt, and light-colored pants . . .’” from “Irene Gizzi LAPD interview June 6 [1968].”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 29 MARCH 2014: Jay Margolis asked, “The last person to actually interview you were LAPD?” Ms. Gizzi replied, “Yes, the police lieutenant that came to the house.” “Back in [June 6] 1968?” “Yes.”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 MARCH 2014: “First, Robert was speaking in the upper ballroom [the Embassy Room] . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 168-169: “After the speech [in the Embassy Room] . . . Kennedy didn’t go downstairs to the Ambassador Room . . .”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 12 MARCH 2014: To Jay Margolis, Irene Gizzi became the first person at the Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968 to identify both the polka-dot dress girl and her male accomplice via a photo line-up containing three males on the left and three females on the right. Margolis gave Ms. Gizzi a red pen to circle the man and woman she saw and to write defining characteristics for each person above their respective pictures. After circling her choices, she wrote “Medallion” above Tarrants’s picture and for Ainsworth, she wrote “Polka-Dot Dress.” After writing the defining characteristics, Ms. Gizzi initialed her own name below Tarrants’s photo and Ainsworth’s photo respectively. On the top of the page, she wrote, “Today is: March 12, 2014” and Ms. Gizzi also wrote on the bottom of the page: “I, Irene Gizzi, have identified these two individuals to Jay Margolis.” In addition, Jay Margolis took a photograph of Ms. Gizzi holding the photo line-up diagram, both of which are in Margolis’s collection. Jay Margolis took all the photos of Ms. Gizzi in this book.)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 72: “It was December 23 [1968]. Only three days earlier I had celebrated my twenty-second birthday on death row.”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 15: “In early spring [1968], I had been in California conferring with the West Coast coordinator of the Minutemen . . .”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 59: “I decided to take a trip to Los Angeles to deepen my ties with Dr. Wesley Swift, a leader in radical-Right circles.”)

(NELSON 1993, p. 140: “Tarrants would later testify he bought a rifle from Swift with plans to use it to shoot Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr . . .”)

(Mitchell, Jerry. “Book Probes MLK Killing: Authors Suggest White Knights of Ku Klux Klan May Have Played Role In Civil-Rights Leader’s 1968 Slaying.” The
Clarion-Ledger
. 30 December 2007: “On July 31, 1968, Margot Capomacchia, the mother of Jackson schoolteacher Kathy Ainsworth, told an FBI informant her late daughter . . . and four men [including Thomas Tarrants] were responsible for King’s death and ‘used radio equipment . . . in jamming police calls . . .’ Eight years later, a similar allegation surfaced in Miami Magazine, in which reporter Dan Christensen cited 1968 Miami police reports [in which] police informant Willie Augustus Somersett mentions his conversations with a house painter [Sidney Barnes], described in one FBI report as being involved in a failed plot in 1963 to kill King . . . According to the Miami Magazine article, [Sidney Barnes] told Somersett the vehicle ‘used to jam the police cars on relaying messages of the killing of King (that day) . . . was a car used by Thomas Tarrants.’ [Sidney Barnes] also said Tarrants stayed at his house for a week or more after King’s killing. This is ‘the first I’ve heard of anything like this,’ Tarrants responded. He called Barnes a ‘head case . . .’ Tarrants said he had nothing to do with King’s assassination. At the time, he said, he was living in Franklin, N.C., staying with a couple who were followers of Swift. He wouldn’t give their names but surmised they may be dead now because they were older then. As for the allegation the White Knights jammed police radios at the scene, Tarrants remarked, ‘I don’t know they had people with the technical expertise to do that.’ He said he certainly didn’t do it. In Jack Nelson’s book,
Terror in the Night: The Klan’s Campaign Against the Jews
, Tarrants is quoted as saying, ‘That was my ambition, to shoot Dr. King. I hated Dr. King.’ Tarrants acknowledged having those views at the time but pointed out ‘a lot of people in the South hated Martin Luther King.’ According to
Terror in the Night
, Tarrants purchased a gun from Swift with plans to kill King. He acknowledged to the
Clarion-Ledger
that he bought a rifle from Swift.”)