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Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners.
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Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgrayland is
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Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. The Marilyn Monroe story, her background,
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Speaker 1: her explosion into America's consciousness, is a sex symbol and
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Speaker 1: megawatt talent, her personal life, and of course, her death
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Speaker 1: and the mystery surrounding it is so complex that two
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Speaker 1: episodes were needed to properly tell this story. If you're
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Speaker 1: just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hip
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Speaker 1: pause and go back to the last episode of disgraysand
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Speaker 1: Part one of the Marilyn Monroe Story, where we discuss
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's early days on the glamorous but rough Hollywood party girls,
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Speaker 1: circuit her massive stardom and split with American hero and
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Speaker 1: Yankee slugger husband Joe DiMaggio. We get into Marilyn's complex
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Speaker 1: marriage with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller and her
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Speaker 1: disastrous turn and Miller's John Houston directed screenplay starring opposite
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Speaker 1: her hero, Clark Gable, a man many believe Marilyn drove
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Speaker 1: to an early grave with her behavior on the set
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Speaker 1: of what would become his last film. That film, The
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Speaker 1: Misfits was also Marilyn Monroe's last film, and despite its
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Speaker 1: notoriously flawed production, it's a great film, different than anything
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Speaker 1: Marilyn had done prior, but no less great than her
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Speaker 1: comedic turns in Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch,
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Speaker 1: and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes all great? And that loop I
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Speaker 1: played for you at the top of the show that
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Speaker 1: wasn't from a great film, That was a preset loop
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Speaker 1: for my mellotron called Mystery Hour MK one. I played
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Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the rights to
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Speaker 1: roses are read My Love by Bobby Vinton. And why
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Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of copa cabana cheese?
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Speaker 1: Could I afford it? Because that was the number one
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Speaker 1: song in America on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, And
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Speaker 1: that was the day Marilyn Monroe died, a day that
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Speaker 1: would kick off numerous conspiracy theories about the most famous
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Speaker 1: woman in the world, a woman so famous that the
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Speaker 1: world won't let her die. On this episode, party Girls, Sluggers, Playwrights, Misfits,
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Speaker 1: and the all time great Marilyn Monroe. I'm Jake Brennan,
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Speaker 1: and this is disgrace slammed. Most people die once. Marilyn
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Speaker 1: Monroe died three times. Her allure, her fame, her sexuality.
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Speaker 1: It's so strong even in death that the legions of
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Speaker 1: skeevy middle aged male hacked journalists and board past their
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Speaker 1: prime Hollywood publicists. The only way to explain her death
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Speaker 1: and to make a couple easy bucks, is to explain
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Speaker 1: it through conspiracy theory. And for some fans who can't
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Speaker 1: let go, they of course accept these theories. And given
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Speaker 1: just how iconic Marilyn Monroe has become, it's easy to
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Speaker 1: see how these fantastical theories have metastasized from conjecture to
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Speaker 1: accepted fact. So on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, Marilyn
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Speaker 1: Monroe died. Then the rumors started, and she died again.
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Speaker 1: And now we're going to set the record straight and
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Speaker 1: learn about the way Marilyn Monroe actually died. The third way,
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Speaker 1: but first death number one, the probable suicide. Peter Lawford
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Speaker 1: kept calling Marilyn's place in Brentwood. He reached her earlier
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Speaker 1: that evening. On the phone. She was in rare form
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Speaker 1: even for Marilyn. Peter was trying to get her to
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Speaker 1: come by his place and They were all there, him,
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Speaker 1: his wife, Patricia Kennedy, sister of Bobby and Jack, some
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Speaker 1: other famous friends, and Marilyn had committed to go earlier,
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Speaker 1: but then when she hadn't shown, and when Peter called
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Speaker 1: to check in on her, she seemed pretty well in
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Speaker 1: the bag, woozy, slurring her words. Peter insisted she come by.
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Speaker 1: She was missing a hell of a time and they
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Speaker 1: all wanted to see her. Marilyn declined, seeming to fade
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Speaker 1: further away with every word she spoke, and to the
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Speaker 1: other end of the phone. Peter struggled to hear her
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Speaker 1: over the party picking up in the background, but he
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Speaker 1: did hear her final haunting words, say goodbye to pat,
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Speaker 1: Say goodbye to Jack, Say goodbye to yourself, because you're
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Speaker 1: a good guy. But with that, the phone went dead.
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Speaker 1: Peter was worried. He called back nothing. He called his manager,
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Speaker 1: who advised him not to go buy Marylyn's. If something
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Speaker 1: bad was going down, it was best to not get
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Speaker 1: caught up in it and bring the Kennedy name into
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Speaker 1: the drama. Lawford's manager tracked down Marilyn's lawyer, Milton Rudin,
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Speaker 1: who got Marilyn's housekeeper Eunice Maury, who was spending the
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Speaker 1: night at Marylynd's. On the phone, Eunice insisted everything was
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Speaker 1: all right, without even looking in on Marilyn, who was
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Speaker 1: in her room at that moment dying from an overdose
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Speaker 1: of nembutal, having taken what would later be learned was
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Speaker 1: a heavy dosage of the powerful sedative. At three am,
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Speaker 1: Eunice Mario awoke in the guest room. It was then,
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Speaker 1: hours after her call from Marilyn's lawyer, that she decided
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Speaker 1: to check in on her. What she found was immediately distressing.
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's door was locked, which it never was, and the
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Speaker 1: phone's cord was stretched under the door, which was odd
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Speaker 1: considering that Marilyn's nightly pre bed ritual included taking the
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Speaker 1: phone into a faraway room and covering it in pillows
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Speaker 1: so as to not let a late night ring disturb
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Speaker 1: her heart. To find sleep. Eunice then called Marilynd's psychiatrist,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greenson, who instructed Unis on what to do next,
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Speaker 1: which was so incredibly obvious it's hard to wonder why
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Speaker 1: Unice needed to call doctor for instructions to knock on
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Speaker 1: the goddamn bedroom door. She did and Marylyn did not answer,
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Speaker 1: and doctor Greenson decided then to head over to Marilyn's
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Speaker 1: himself again past three in the morning, rather than call
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Speaker 1: authorities or paramedics. When he arrived at three forty am,
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Speaker 1: he broke the window outside Marilyn's bedroom to gain entry
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Speaker 1: and found her dead, face down on her bed, with
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Speaker 1: the phone's receiver by her head, in an array of
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Speaker 1: half empty pill bottles on the nightstand next door. At
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Speaker 1: four twenty five, some forty five minutes after arriving, doctor
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Speaker 1: Greenson called the police. The coroner called it based on
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's past history of attempted suicide, based on the amount
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Speaker 1: of nembutal and corahydrate in her body, probable suicide. The
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Speaker 1: cops bought it, America bought it. Joe DiMaggio did not
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Speaker 1: buy it. He later told his biographer, I always knew
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Speaker 1: who killed her, but I didn't want to start a
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Speaker 1: revolution in this country. Death Number two, Operation Mute Blonde.
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Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe kept calling the White House. She couldn't understand
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Speaker 1: why the President wouldn't take her calls. His brother would
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Speaker 1: over at the Department of Justice. What was the big deal?
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Speaker 1: Had he not seen her in that dress at his
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Speaker 1: birthday party. Had their time in Palm Springs meant nothing?
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Speaker 1: She introduced them to her doctor for Christ's sakes? Had
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Speaker 1: he no gratitude? He didn't love Jackie. Why was he
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Speaker 1: still carrying on the charade? It was nineteen sixty two.
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Speaker 1: Times had changed. America would understand she was Marilyn Monroe.
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Speaker 1: After all, she was no less desirable than Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Speaker 1: They'd all see. Marilyn would bring real glamour to the
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Speaker 1: White House. Jack had enough. White House switchboard operators were
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Speaker 1: talking to back bench press corps in DC bars. Back
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Speaker 1: bench was looking to make names for themselves by breaking
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Speaker 1: the code, going public with the salacious rumor that the
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Speaker 1: President was carrying on a tourret affair with none other
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Speaker 1: than Marilyn Monroe. Jack couldn't have that. He told Bobby
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Speaker 1: to sort it out, and Bobby called Marilyn, and that
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Speaker 1: was a real she thought, just like an entitled rich
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Speaker 1: kid to have his little brother clean of his mess.
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Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra warned Marilyn Monroe about Bobby Kennedy. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: like Jack. He was ruthless. He'd wink at you with
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Speaker 1: one eye and stared daggers at you with the other
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Speaker 1: at the same time. And he was loyal to keeping
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Speaker 1: the Kennedy name clean above all else, above God, country,
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Speaker 1: even above his beloved wife Ethel and their seven kids.
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Speaker 1: At the time, and Marilyn didn't care. She took a
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Speaker 1: page out of Frank's book and told Bobby to go
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Speaker 1: pound sand And she kept calling Jack, who by now
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Speaker 1: had Marilyn firmly placed on the payno Mind list. Marilyn
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Speaker 1: spun out of control. She wrote letters to Jack. She
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Speaker 1: threatened to talk to the press herself. She took more pills,
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Speaker 1: drank more champagne, and made it a nightly ritual to
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Speaker 1: harass the most powerful man on the planet with the
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Speaker 1: only weapon she had left, her phone. Bobby was dispatched
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Speaker 1: to Hollywood. Operation Mute Blonde was in full effect. Peter
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Speaker 1: Lawford arranged for the two to meet at his place
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Speaker 1: while his wife, Bobby's sister, was out of town. Bobby
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Speaker 1: and Marilyn walked on the beach while the Attorney General
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Speaker 1: explained gently that his brother was a busy guy running
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Speaker 1: the country in all and how shopping for divorce lawyers
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Speaker 1: wasn't high on his priority list At the moment Marilyn
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Speaker 1: was crushed. Her vulnerability was intense, as intense as her beauty,
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Speaker 1: and Bobby couldn't help himself. He buried that Catholic guilt
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Speaker 1: deep in that night they slept with each other. Now
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Speaker 1: the switchboard of the Department of Justice began lighting up,
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Speaker 1: and similarly, Bobby married supposed a devoted Catholic and family man,
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Speaker 1: made like Jack, and ignored Marylyn until he couldn't anymore.
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Speaker 1: Operation Mute Blonde the sequel, Bobby Kennedy touched down at
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Speaker 1: Santa Monica Airport on August fourth, nineteen sixty two. He
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Speaker 1: would now have to clean up both his and his
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Speaker 1: brother's mess, And now the mess was spinning. Marilyn out
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Speaker 1: of control. Distraught over being rejected by both Kennedy brothers, who,
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Speaker 1: by her account quote passed her around like a football,
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Speaker 1: Marilyn began sleeping with her therapist, the esteemed colleague of
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Speaker 1: Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysts,
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Speaker 1: the very married, very concerned about his reputation in maintaining
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Speaker 1: his professional code of ethics, doctor Greenson if it ever
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Speaker 1: came out that he was sleeping with his patient forget
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Speaker 1: about his marriage. The doctor would have faced jail time
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Speaker 1: for the crime of sexual exploitation by a therapist. Bobby
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Speaker 1: Kennedy knew this because he had Marilyn's home bugged, and
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Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy knew an opportunity when he saw one. She's
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Speaker 1: your problem too, Doc, Marilyn has to be silenced, Bobby
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Speaker 1: told doctor Greenson, and you're going to help us do it,
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Speaker 1: And so the plan was hatched. Mute the Blonde Forever.
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Speaker 1: The black, unmarked cruiser slammed into the spot immediately out
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Speaker 1: in front of Marilyn and Roe's one two three h
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Speaker 1: five fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood. The Attorney General, along
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Speaker 1: with his bodyguard and his brother in law, Peter Lawford,
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Speaker 1: exited the car with authority and walked briskly to Marilyn's
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Speaker 1: front door. She was expecting them, the excited She had
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Speaker 1: laid out a spread of Mexican food for the occasion.
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Speaker 1: But for Bobby Kennedy this wasn't a social call. He
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Speaker 1: got down to business straight away. No more calls, Marilyn,
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Speaker 1: not to me, not to Jack, not to our wives,
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Speaker 1: you bastard, she cried, becoming immediately hysterical. Lawford chimed in
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Speaker 1: and telling her to cool out. Fuck off, Peter fucking
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Speaker 1: Aaron boy, what do you know about it? Lawford was
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Speaker 1: used to being put in his place, part of the
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Speaker 1: gig when you marry Kennedy. He fell into line. Bobby
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Speaker 1: did not. He told her it was over all of it.
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Speaker 1: They'd sink her career with the studio. She trumped his
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Speaker 1: threat with one of her own. She was going to
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Speaker 1: hold a press conference on Monday and tell the world
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Speaker 1: about her relationship with both Kennedy brothers. Bobby got real serious.
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Speaker 1: You will not, Marilyn screamed back at him. She would
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Speaker 1: do whatever the hell she want. She was Marilyn Monroe
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Speaker 1: and she wouldn't be treated like this, like an object,
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Speaker 1: used and abused and cast aside. It was the same
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Speaker 1: old story or whole life. Attorney general, president's studio, head director,
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Speaker 1: Pulitzer prize winning author, they were all the same. She
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Speaker 1: was going on and on and on, and it was
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Speaker 1: no use. And Bobby bounced his bouncer and his brother
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Speaker 1: in law brought up the behind and they went back
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Speaker 1: to Peter's place called doctor Greenson. It was on now
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Speaker 1: meet us at Marylyn's and they got back in the
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Speaker 1: car and beat a quick path back to Brentwood. This
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Speaker 1: time the Attorney General was spotted by a neighbor walking
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Speaker 1: from the car into the famous starlet's home. Marilyn let
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Speaker 1: them in, hoping for a reprieve. She got none. The
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Speaker 1: doctor arrived carrying his black doctor's back. Marilyn went full
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Speaker 1: hysteria him too. They were all in on it, every
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Speaker 1: last swinging dick. She screamed. She attacked Bobby. He held
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Speaker 1: her down. The doctor, ready with the syringe, pounced. Lawford panicked,
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Speaker 1: nearly pissed his pants. Bobby held Marylyn firm. Marilyn screamed.
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Speaker 1: The doctor stuck his needle into her armpit, delivering a
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Speaker 1: fatal injection of nembutal and CHLOROHYDRAE and Marilyn Monroe will
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Speaker 1: be found dead the next morning with little explanation. But
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Speaker 1: the shot to the armpit explained some things, like how
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Speaker 1: when the autopsy reported the crucial detail that there was
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Speaker 1: no pill residue in Marylyn's system, the effects of the
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Speaker 1: nembutal and chlorohydrate were visible in her system, but there
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Speaker 1: was no indication that the drug was delivered in pill
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Speaker 1: form because there was no pill residue in her stomach.
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Speaker 1: So how then did Marilyn Monroe kill herself from taking
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Speaker 1: all those pills from the containers on her bedside table?
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Speaker 1: How did she die? Probable suicide? Operation Mute Blonde aka
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Speaker 1: was she murdered by the Attorney General? No? And no, No,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't probable suicide. And no, she was not murdered
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Speaker 1: by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. There was a third way.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. We're were were death
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Speaker 1: number three, the Unie scenario. Marilyn Monroe was a lot
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Speaker 1: of things in nineteen sixty two, the most famous woman
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Speaker 1: in the world by most men's account, the most beautiful,
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Speaker 1: the most desired in a Hollywood trailblazer. But suicidal she
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Speaker 1: was not. She had reconnected with Joe DiMaggio and renegotiated
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Speaker 1: her latest contract with Fox, and she had roles in
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Speaker 1: the Gene Harlowe story and a black comedy was assumed
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Speaker 1: to be ironic title What a Way to go to
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Speaker 1: look forward to? Despite recent troubles on the set off
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Speaker 1: Something's got to Give over Marilyn's inconsistent availability. She was not,
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Speaker 1: as has been saliciously reported and accepted as fact hung
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Speaker 1: up on either Kennedy, at least not in any sort
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Speaker 1: of dangerous or reckless way. She never slept with her therapist,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greenson either or with Bobby Kennedy. She did sleep
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Speaker 1: with Jack. These are facts backed up by evidence, phone records,
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Speaker 1: travel records, personal journals, and first hand corroborated accounts that
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Speaker 1: are confirmed by people close to not only the Kennedys
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Speaker 1: but also to Marilyn, people without anything to gain by
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Speaker 1: telling the truth. These aren't publicists or journalists spinning tales
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Speaker 1: together to sell books or command lucrative speaking in interview fees.
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Speaker 1: The temptation of making a quick buck from the what
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Speaker 1: if surrounding Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys is just too much.
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Speaker 1: The star power is just too high wide hell, even
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Speaker 1: renowned Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mayler admitted that he built
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Speaker 1: wild speculation about Bobby Kennedy's role out of unverified sources
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Speaker 1: in his book about Marilyn's death simply titled Marylyn, copying
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Speaker 1: later to sixty Minutes that he'd gone all in on
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Speaker 1: sensationalism because quote I needed money very badly. What Marilyn
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Speaker 1: Monroe was in nineteen sixty two, was dependent dependent on
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Speaker 1: prescription drugs to level her out emotionally, most important, to
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Speaker 1: help her sleep to slay the insomnia and anxiety, and
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Speaker 1: she was dependent on her physician, Heiman Engelberg and her therapist,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greenson, to prescribe and administer her the drugs. Of
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Speaker 1: the two doctors, she was more dependent on doctor Greenson,
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Speaker 1: not just for the pills, but for emotional support. House
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Speaker 1: calls were normal, and Marilyn was a frequent guest of
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Speaker 1: his and his families. Marilyn expected doctor Greenson to be
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Speaker 1: there for her as a significant part of her emotional
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Speaker 1: and physical support system. She was in near constant contact
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Speaker 1: with him to get her right when the anxiety and
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Speaker 1: the insomnia had her out of sorts. Doctor Greenson knew
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Speaker 1: what to say, what strings to tug at to get
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Speaker 1: Marilyn to feel better, and what drugs and how much
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Speaker 1: to prescribe and how to administer them. It was a
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Speaker 1: burden caring for one of the most famous, but most
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Speaker 1: complex and emotionally vulnerable women in the world. Tonight, on
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Speaker 1: August fourth, nineteen sixty two, doctor Greenson had other plans.
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Speaker 1: Dinner with friends, a night away from work, and more specifically,
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Speaker 1: a night away from Maryland. Imagine that an American man
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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty two not wanting to spend time with
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Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe on a Saturday night. But Marilyn did not care.
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Speaker 1: She'd slept poorly the night before, hardly at all. It
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Speaker 1: was overtired and extremely anxious, worried it would be another
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Speaker 1: sleepless night, and she couldn't have that, so she called
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Speaker 1: doctor Greenson to come by and administer one of the
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Speaker 1: sedatives he'd prescribed her. So around mid afternoon, doctor Greenson
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Speaker 1: did just that. Hold up, it needs to be directly
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Speaker 1: said that all the details herein that make up the
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Speaker 1: unis scenario come from the highly credible Marilyn Monroe, a
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Speaker 1: biography by author Donald Spotto. His details are derived from
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Speaker 1: hard facts, irrefutable source materials, official medical documents, national state
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Speaker 1: and local government records, first hand accounts from studio heads,
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Speaker 1: business partners, friends, service people like her stand in in
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Speaker 1: her masseuse, her first husband, and her stepsister from her
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Speaker 1: young life. In short, people who stand to gain nothing
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Speaker 1: from denying the conspiracies I outlined in the conspiracy Theory
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Speaker 1: involving Bobby Kennedy murdering Marilyn Monroe, or in the accepted
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Speaker 1: narrative I outlined that explains Marilyn Monroe's death as a
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Speaker 1: quote unquote probable suicide. So the question then remains, who
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Speaker 1: did stand to gain from the public believing that Marilyn
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Speaker 1: Monroe killed herself? Well, doctor Greenson had been weaning Marilyn
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Speaker 1: off nembutah in favor of chlorohydrate to sedtr. From Marylyn's perspective,
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Speaker 1: the chlorohydrate wasn't working, not doctor Greenson's problem, not tonight
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Speaker 1: he had plans. Doctor Greenson claims that he was called
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Speaker 1: by Eunice Mari sometime after three am, well after his
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Speaker 1: night out, and then he ran over to Marylyn's, found
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Speaker 1: her locked in her bedroom unresponsive, broke her bedroom window
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Speaker 1: from the outside to gain entry, found her dead, and
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Speaker 1: then called the cops, who arrived on the scene at
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Speaker 1: four thirty five am. There was only one actual fact
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Speaker 1: in that entire paragraph that I just read you.
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Speaker 2: I blew up, I brow brow up, I brow I
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Speaker 2: blow blow, I blow.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear that again. Doctor Greenson had been weaning Marilyn
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Speaker 1: off nembutah in favor of chlorohydrate to sedate her. From
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Speaker 1: Marylyn's perspective, the chlorohydrate wasn't working. Not doctor Greenson's problem,
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Speaker 1: not tonight he had plans. Doctor Greenson claims that he
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Speaker 1: was called by Eunice Mari sometime after three a m
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Speaker 1: well after his night out, and then he ran over
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Speaker 1: to Maryland's, found her locked in her bedroom unresponsive, broke
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Speaker 1: her bedroom window from the outside to gain entry, found
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Speaker 1: her dead, and then called the cops, who arrived on
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Speaker 1: the scene at four thirty five am. There was only
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Speaker 1: one actual fact in that entire paragraph that I just
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Speaker 1: read you, and it is this. The first cop, Sergeant
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Speaker 1: Jack Clemens, did indeed arrive on the scene at four
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Speaker 1: thirty five am, and when he did, he found Marilyn
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Speaker 1: Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, doing laundry at four thirty five am.
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Speaker 1: Why was Unis Murray doing laundry at four thirty five
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Speaker 1: am at the exact moment the police were arriving to
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Speaker 1: deal with the matter of her dead boss lying naked
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Speaker 1: in the bedroom. Here's another fact. Sergeant Jack Clemens reported
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Speaker 1: that Eunice Murray told him upon arrival that she found
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Speaker 1: Marilyn dead at around midnight. Of course, Sergeant Clemens wanted
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Speaker 1: to know why it took Unis so long to call
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Speaker 1: the police. It was now past four thirty in the morning,
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Speaker 1: according to the sergeant. It was at this time that
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Speaker 1: doctor Greenston interjected man, explaining that Marilyn's helplesses had to
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Speaker 1: be notified first, and the permission from the studio needed
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Speaker 1: to be granted before the police could be informed. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Within minutes, Detective Sergeant Robert E. Byron arrived and assumed
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Speaker 1: control of the scene. Eunice Murray, and giving her statement
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Speaker 1: to the new detective in charge, amended the time she
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Speaker 1: supposedly discovered Marilyn's body to say it was about three
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Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, not midnight. Detective Byron found Unis
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Speaker 1: Murray to be evasive, and some years later her record
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Speaker 1: turned up in the Attorney General's office of an ambulance
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Speaker 1: being summoned and arriving at Marylyn's home at midnight. California
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Speaker 1: law prohibits ambulances from retrieving dead bodies. It must be
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Speaker 1: done by the coroner's office, So the ambulance split and
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Speaker 1: with its departure, opportunity arrived. Opportunity for doctor Greenson, who
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Speaker 1: was very much on the scene by midnight to clean
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Speaker 1: up his mess. God damn it Hi gave her a prescription.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know about Hi being Marilyn's other doctor, her physician,
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Speaker 1: doctor him In Engelberg. This was the comment doctor Greenson
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Speaker 1: reportedly made when he made the scene around midnight to
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's attorney, Milton Rudin, who was also on the scene,
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Speaker 1: having been tipped off about Marilyn's declining state by Peter
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Speaker 1: Lawford's manager, whom Peter had called frantic earlier in the night,
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Speaker 1: believing something was gravely wrong with Marilyn. God damn it
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Speaker 1: Hi gave her a prescription. I didn't know about what
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Speaker 1: was doctor Greenson, referring to doctor Greenson was unaware that
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Speaker 1: Marilyn had in her possession nembutal that doctor Hyman Hi
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Speaker 1: Engelberg had prescribed her. After all, doctor Greenson and doctor
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Speaker 1: Engelberg were supposedly in close communication regarding Marilyn's prescriptions due
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Speaker 1: to the fact that doctor Greenson was trying to wean
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Speaker 1: Marilyn off nembutah with chlorohydra. When doctor Greenson came by
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Speaker 1: late that afternoon to sedate Marilyn at her request with
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Speaker 1: chloro hydra. He wasn't aware that she already had nembutah
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Speaker 1: in her possession. Marilyn then went for a walk on
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Speaker 1: the beach, and then she visited the law Ferds for
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Speaker 1: a brief moment. When she returned to her home, she
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Speaker 1: was in a state of anxiety again and once more
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Speaker 1: called doctor Greenson at his home, who was now readying
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Speaker 1: himself for a much needed night out away from Marylyn.
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Speaker 1: And Marilyn wouldn't take no for an answer. He must
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Speaker 1: come by and help her. Doctor Greenson annoyed, relented, and
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Speaker 1: swung by at some point during the early evening. When
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Speaker 1: he did, he tried to console Marylyn, but did not
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Speaker 1: administer any more drugs, likely because she already had too
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Speaker 1: many in her system. It needed some time to elapse
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Speaker 1: before taking another dose. The problem was that when the
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Speaker 1: time finally rolled around for that other dose, doctor Greenston
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be there to administer it. He would be at dinner,
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Speaker 1: so he enlisted Eunice Murray, the maid, to administer the
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Speaker 1: chlorohydrate when the time was right via enema. Doctor Greenson
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Speaker 1: went to dinner and Eunice Murray went to work and
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Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe died because of negligence, not suicide, not mere
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Speaker 1: her negligence. Marilyn Monroe, like a lot of female actors
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Speaker 1: at the time, was accustomed to enemas as a weight
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Speaker 1: loss trend. So Eunice gave Marilyn the enema of chlorohydrate,
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Speaker 1: not knowing Marilyn had already taken nembutal prescribed from doctor Engelberg.
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Speaker 1: Once the drugs interacted, Marilyn almost immediately began to fade.
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Speaker 1: It was during this time that Peter Lawford called heard
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Speaker 1: her voice and became so alarmed he called his manager,
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Speaker 1: who called Marilyn's lawyer, who called Eunice Mari who did
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Speaker 1: not check on Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was likely dying at
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Speaker 1: that exact moment. How do we know this. The amount
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Speaker 1: of chlorohydrate in nembutal and Marilyn's system was enough to
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Speaker 1: kill her, yes, but not by pill, so there goes
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Speaker 1: the acceptatist fact suicide theory. And it wasn't enough to
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Speaker 1: kill her by injection either, so there goes the conspiratorial
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Speaker 1: murder theory as well. The autopsy showed that drugs were
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Speaker 1: in her system, but there was no pill residue in
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Speaker 1: her stomach, and there would have been had she killed
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Speaker 1: herself with the pills from the many empty pill bottles
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Speaker 1: that were placed on her nightstand. The autopsy also uncovered
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Speaker 1: the fact that there was a discoloration of Marilynd's colon,
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Speaker 1: which would have been the case had she been given
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Speaker 1: an enema. John Minor, deputy district attorney in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: is on record saying that both he and doctor Thomas Negucci,
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Speaker 1: the deputy coroner who performed the odutopsy, were quote convinced
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Speaker 1: that an enema was absolutely the route of administering the
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Speaker 1: fatal drug dose, and sometime after the chlorohydrate enema, the
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Speaker 1: interaction with nembutah would have caused Marilyn's body to expel
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Speaker 1: its contents during the overdose, and that would have resulted
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Speaker 1: in soiled sheets, which explains why Eunice Murray was doing
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Speaker 1: laundry when the cops showed up at four twenty five
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Speaker 1: in the morning. It also explains other lies from Unice,
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Speaker 1: like the fact that she stated that Marilyn's bedroom door
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Speaker 1: was locked, thus necessitating breaking the outdoor window to gain
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Speaker 1: entry to find her body. The door wasn't locked because
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Speaker 1: the bedroom door's lock was inoperable. Also, carpeting in the
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Speaker 1: home had just been installed and the pile was so
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Speaker 1: high that the door wouldn't actually shut. Additionally, Units correctly
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Speaker 1: stated to the police that she found Marilynd dead around midnight,
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Speaker 1: which is the truth. She later amended the statement, but
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Speaker 1: the statement didn't amend the fact that it's on record
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Speaker 1: that around midnight an ambulance was called and dispatched to
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's and then sent away. Also, there is the testimony
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Speaker 1: of Marilyn's lawyer, Milton Ruden, who claims he was informed
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Speaker 1: of Marilyn's death around midnight as well and made the
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Speaker 1: scene to see and hear doctor Greenson on the scene
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Speaker 1: claimed that God damn ith I gave her a prescription
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Speaker 1: I didn't know about. And finally there's Peter Lawford, who
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Speaker 1: claims that he was called by Milton Evans, a producer
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Speaker 1: in their social circle who had been in touch with
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Speaker 1: Marilyn's lawyer, the other Milton Milton Ruden, and told his
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Speaker 1: worries were reality that yes, Peter Lawford, your friend Marilyn
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Speaker 1: was indeed in trouble. In fact, she was now dead.
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Speaker 1: Lawford noted the time on his clock at one thirty am,
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Speaker 1: he hung up and called.
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Speaker 2: It to night.
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Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe was found dead sometime around midnight. The cops
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Speaker 1: weren't called until around four point thirty, plenty of time
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Speaker 1: for doctor Greenston and Unice Murray to clean up their
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Speaker 1: mess and get the suicide story right, which they did. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: America never did get the story right and none this disgrace.
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