EXCLUSIVE - Bobby Kennedy ordered Marilyn Monroe's murder by lethal injection to prevent her from revealing her torrid affairs with RFK and JFK: New book sensationally claims to have finally solved the mystery surrounding her death
- Investigative journalists Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin believe they they lay to rest any notion that Marilyn committed suicide, and reveal how they think the screen goddess really died
- The Kennedy brothers were ‘passing her around like a football,' revealed brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, years after she died
- Marilyn knew too much about the Kennedys and threatened to reveal everything
- Bobby Kennedy did not act alone, the authors claim. Complicit in the murder was Lawford and Marilyn's shrink, who gave her the fatal dose of pentobarbitol
- Before that, she was given an enema filled with broken-down Nembutals and seventeen chloral hydrates
- When ambulance drivers found her in her Brentwood guest house, 'She was naked. She had no sheet, no blanket. There was no water glass. No alcohol…'
Marilyn
Monroe’s death on August 4, 1962 was not a suicide but a murder
orchestrated by Bobby Kennedy to silence her as she was about to reveal
all the dirty Kennedy family secrets she kept logged in a little red
diary.
And
Bobby did not act alone. He had co-conspirators in her murder - his
brother-in-law, actor Peter Lawford, and Marilyn’s psychiatrist, Dr.
Ralph Greenson who gave the star a fatal injection of pentobarbital to
the heart.
Those
are the explosive allegations detailed in a blockbuster new book by
writers Jay Margolis, a long-time investigative reporter and Monroe
expert, and Richard Buskin, a New York Times bestselling author of 30
non- fiction books.
The
volume - The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed - claims to blow the
lid off the world’s most notorious and talked-about celebrity death
through eyewitness testimony and interviews, MailOnline can exclusively
reveal.
Torn between two lovers: Marilyn had affairs
with both Kennedy brothers, the authors claim. She was obsessed with
Jack and Bobby and wrote about their trysts and other Kennedy secrets in
a little red book
Fallen idol: The death of Marilyn Monroe has
generated 50 years of wild speculation about how she really died. Now
two respected authors say they have put that speculation to rest with
proof that Bobby Kennedy arranged the murder of the iconic star
‘Bobby
Kennedy was determined to shut her up, regardless of the consequences’,
Peter Lawford later revealed, according to the authors, feeling wracked
with guilt over the star’s murder. ‘It was the craziest thing he ever
did – and I was crazy enough to let it happen’.
It
was a murder allegedly witnessed by ambulance attendant James C. Hall,
who arrived at the film star's home and saw Monroe’s psychiatrist Dr.
Greenson inject Marilyn directly into her heart with undiluted
pentobarbital, brutally breaking a rib with the needle.
He was set up by Bobby to ‘take care’ of Marilyn.
Bobby
Kennedy got involved in a messy sexual affair with Marilyn in the
summer of 1962 when he was sent out to Los Angeles by his brother Jack
to convince the screen goddess to stop calling the President at the
White House. The President was not going to divorce Jackie and marry
her.
But Bobby fell under her spell and slipped into the bedroom with Marilyn.
‘It
wasn’t Bobby’s intention, but that evening they became lovers and spent
the night in our guest bedroom’, Peter Lawford later revealed.
Troublemaker: Bobby Kennedy got involved in a
messy sexual affair with Marilyn in the summer of 1962 when he was sent
out to LA by JFK to convince the screen goddess to stop calling the
President at the White House. The President was not going to divorce
Jackie and marry her
The
Kennedy helicopter always landed down on the beach in front of
Lawford’s Santa Monica’s Gold Coast home in the Palisades area of Los
Angeles. Jack Kennedy had spent so much time there having extramarital
affairs with starlets and movie queens, it was dubbed the Western branch
of the White House.
Now it was Bobby’s turn.
‘Almost immediately the affair got very heavy, and they began seeing a lot of each other,' Lawford said.
Marilyn
shifted her attentions to Bobby and started calling the Department of
Justice to get the Attorney General on the phone. She was now madly in
love with Bobby, who had promised to marry her and leave Ethel, Lawford
said, despite the Kennedy brothers ‘passing her around like a football’
and making her feel like a piece of meat.
But
when Bobby began to pull away, Marilyn threatened Bobby with a press
conference where she would reveal her illicit affairs with Jack and
Bobby and all the dangerous secrets she knew about the Kennedys and had
written in the little red diary she kept hidden.
Co-conspirators: The Kennedy helicopter always
landed down on the beach in front of brother-in-law Peter Lawford's
Santa Monica-Gold Coast home. When Bobby's love affair with Marilyn went
sour, he enlisted Lawford to help get rid of her, the authors
shockingly claim
Bobby
demanded to know where the diary was. ‘We have to know’, he screamed at
her, claim the authors. Marilyn was not going to give it up.
Bobby’s
first response was to call Dr. Ralph Greenson, Marilyn's psychiatrist,
who she was also sleeping with and order him to go public with that
affair.
Lawford
had learned about her affair with Greenson when he listened to tapes
from the recording devices hidden in Marilyn’s house by the FBI, among
others.
‘Greenson had thus been set up by Bobby to ‘take care’ of Marilyn’…the authors write.
The
revelation would have ended Greenson’s career as well as send him to
prison. But Marilyn had no intention of mentioning her affair with the
doctor. Bobby just made him think that was the case.
Bobby
made his final visit to Monroe’s Brentwood house on the afternoon of
August 4, 1962 with Lawford who went outside to have a glass of
champagne poolside while Bobby talked with her.
Scene of thew crime: Marilyn's last hours were spent in the guest cottage of her Brentwood home
It
turned into a ten-minute argument with Marilyn getting hysterical and
threatening that, come Monday morning, she was going to call a press
conference and reveal all – infuriating Bobby.
He demanded no more calls, no more letters.
Unwilling
to accept being dismissed, she began screaming, grabbed a small knife
and lunged at Bobby. Lawford, who had come back inside because of the
tumult, grabbed her arm and knocked the knife away.
‘Bobby thought we ought to call Dr. Greenson and tell him to come over,' Lawford said.
Marilyn’s
neighbors saw Bobby leave and re-enter later that evening with one of
his two long-time personal bodyguards from the LAPD’s notorious Gangster
Squad who performed illegal activities for the LAPD off the books.
One
of the bodyguards shot Marilyn in the armpit with intramuscular
pentobarbital (Nembutal) to calm her down – after she was thrown to the
floor by Bobby, who made this statement to the doctor in what the
authors claim was a deposition confirming he and Lawford were at the
house.
Fallen star: Amulance attendant James Edwin Hall
later revealed why he knew Monroe hadn't taken a fatal overdose
herself: 'There was no vomit, unusual with an overdose'
While she was stunned, Bobby and Lawford rummaged through the house in search of the little red diary.
The
Nembutal injection wasn’t strong enough to calm her down for long ‘so
the two LAPD Gangster Squad partners held her down, stripped her clothes
off, and gave her an enema filled with broken-down pills containing
anywhere from thirteen to nineteen Nembutals and seventeen chloral
hydrates’.
This did the trick. Back to the search for the red diary.
Kennedy,
Lawford, and the two bodyguards left the scene at 10.30pm and the
incessant barking of Marilyn’s white maltese terrier, Maf, aroused
suspicion of her housekeeper Eunice Murray and Murray’s son, Norman
Jefferies who came over to find out what was going on.
They
discovered Monroe lying across the bed with her head hanging over the
edge in the guest cottage and called an ambulance. Mrs. Murray suspected
it was an overdose.
Schaefer
Ambulance attendant James Edwin Hall was first on the scene about
midnight and threw Monroe onto the floor and proceeded to given her
close-chest heart massage. Attendant Murray Liebowitz was also with Hall
on the abulance run.
‘She
was naked. She had no sheet, no blanket. There was no water glass. No
alcohol…We ascertained that her breathing was very shallow, her pulse
was very weak and rapid and she was unconscious at that time,' Hall
observed.
Mystery: This police photo, exclusively obtained
by the authors, reveals a possible blood smudge on the wall of
Marilyn's bedroom. This smudge was subsequently airbrushed out of the
photo released to the public
Her bedside table had pill bottles all neatly capped. No water, no alcohol.
‘As
I bend over her, it hit me – there was no vomit, unusual with an
overdose which is what the woman managed to tell us that she thought was
wrong. … there was no odor of drugs from her mouth. Another classic
symptom’.
This discredited any theory that she had ingested 64 pills in a suicide attempt.
Hall
started an external heart massage and got her breathing again. He
worked an airway, a clean plastic tube, down her throat and Liebowitz
ran to the ambulance for the resuscitation equipment.
Liebowitz
was about to retrieve the stretcher from the ambulance when a man
appeared in the doorway. It was Greenson who firmly stated, ‘I’m her
doctor. Give her positive pressure.’
‘Jesus
Christ, I thought. What’s wrong with you? I’ve got a machine here
that’s doing a great job of that. Why take her off it’? Hall remembered.
Hall
removed the resuscitator and attached another short length of tube to
the airway. The doctor pushed on Marilyn’s abdomen in the wrong place
while Hall blew into the tube.
‘I
know some doctors aren’t used to emergencies but this guy was all
thumbs. That’s when he muttered, "I’ve got to make a show of this". I
never forgot that remark. "Christ, let’s move", I said. "You can work on
her in the back of the ambulance".
Vulnerable: The fragile beauty was always
looking for love in all the wrong places. But it's when she became
involved with RFK, she was doomed, say the authors
'Time was running out and I wanted to save her’.
The doctor opened his bag and took out a hypodermic syringe with a needle looked about a foot long.
'He
drew up a liquid from a bottle with a rubber seal and filled the
syringe. He felt his way down her ribs like an amateur. Then he thrust
the needle into her chest. But it didn’t go in right. It hung up on the
bone, on one of her ribs’, said Hall.
‘Instead
of trying again, he just leaned into it, his cheeks quivered with the
effort. He pushed hard and he drove it all the way through the rib,
making a loud snap as the bone broke. I know he scarred that rib bone. I
had watched a lot of medical procedures and this guy was downright
brutal’.
James
Hall had worked for Schaefer Ambulance for some years. His father, Dr.
George E. Hall was a Beverly Hills surgeon and former chief of staff of
LA receiving hospitals, the city’s emergency system.
His mother was a surgical nurse. His uncle, John Nance Garner, was Vice
President for two terms under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a very
credible witness to the nurder.
Murray Liebowitz, the other ambulance attendant who witnessed the murder, never talked.
Goodbye Norma Jean: Police remove Marilyn's body. The whereabouts of her little red book is unknown
The ambulance drivers weren't the only witnesses to the injection that would turn out to be a lethal one. Peter Lawford had apparently returned to the scene, along with LA Police Sargeant Marvin Iannone, who had been stationed at Monroe’s house on orders from Bobby and always worked the detail on Lawford’s beach house when the Attorney General was in town.
Private
detective Fred Otash, who had bugged Marilyn's house on a request from
Lawford who liked to listen to kinky tapes, heard Iannone and Lawford
talking on tape at 11.55pm that night, he later revealed.
'There
were five witnesses to Marilyn Monroe's murder', the authors write.
'Three of the five [ultimately Lawford, and ambulance attendants Hall
and Liebowitz] state that Ralph Greenson was responsible'.
Blood on his hands: Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson
was more than just Marilyn's shrink. He was her lover and he injected
the fatal dose that killed the star, say the book's author
'I believe Marilyn was moved [from the guest cottage to her main bedroom] as to fit their story of suicide,' said Hall.
Also,
she was found facedown on her bed. After death the blood in the body
goes to the lowest point by gravity. In this position, the pooling of
the blood would cover up any marks (needle or otherwide) on the front of
the body', Hall stated.
The
LA Coroner at the time, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, performed the autopsy,
stated he looked over the whole body with a magnifying glass and didn't
find any needle marks.
Hall noted that Noguchi possibly didn't see the needle puncture by Greenson that was in the crease of one of Marilyn's breasts.
Life
Magazine photojournalist Leigh Wiener bribed the county morgue staff
with a bottle of whiskey to get inside and photograph Monroe hours after
her death.
Her
body showed cyanosis, blue or purple coloration of the skin which is
consistent with needle injection. 'You'll see little streaks of blue
running through the body..That's how Monroe looked to me when I saw
her', he said.
Chief
William Parker, the police chief in LA, liked Bobby Kennedy and his
stance on organized crime as well as his embrace of the same Catholic
faith. So he refused to assign a full-time detective team to the Monroe
case, initiating a shocking cover-up.
Closing the book: Respected authors Jay Margolis
and Richard Buskin put to rest more than 50 years of speculation over
how the beloved actress met her death
Syndicated
Hollywood columnist May Mann, who interviewed and wrote about stars for
several decades, was reporting on what she considered an inept probe
into Monroe’s untimely death when she received a call from the Chief
Parker.
'He said it would be bad for my health if I kept writing stories like that’, she stated.
The case turned cold.
Detective
Mike Rothmiller wrote ‘it was this unit [the OCID] which had undertaken
the clandestine probe of Monroe’s death. They had the power to ruin
lives and reputations – or to safeguard. This is precisely what they did
with the Monroe investigation …they protected the name of the Kennedy
dynasty’.
Lady
May Lawford, Peter’s mother, confirmed years later that Bobby had been
in town the night of Marilyn's death. His helicopter had been parked at
the beach in front of Peter’s house despite his denial.
PI
Fred Otash confirmed that the FBI and the CIA had bugged Marilyn’s home
and it was an FBI agent who reported to J. Edgar Hoover that Bobby had
been inside the house along with the two Bobby knew that Hoover knew.
Hoover’s
teenage neighbor Anthony Calomaris came forward years later and stated
that Hoover had told him Monroe was murdered but he didn’t want to
arrest Bobby. He used knowledge of the murder to blackmail the Attorney
General to secure his own position as head of the FBI.
Marilyn Monroe's death was ultimately ruled a suicide by the authorities.
- The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed by Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin and published by Skyhorse Publishing is available at Amazon as of June 3
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