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The Mysterious Life & Death Of Marilyn Monroe · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: She was born unwanted, and she became unforgettable, and she
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  Speaker 1: died under circumstances that have haunted us for over sixty years.
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  Speaker 1: But to understand the mystery of Marilyn Monroe's death, we
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  Speaker 1: have to start with the girl she was before the
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  Speaker 1: world knew her name. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder,
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  Speaker 1: all things that I love to consume. And I know
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  Speaker 1: you due to you, sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded a
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  Speaker 1: little bit today this is a very highly requested video.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of you guys watched or listened to my
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  Speaker 1: Princess Diana deep dive video and a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: requested I do the lovely Marilyn Monroe next.
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  Speaker 2: So here we are. Please let me know what other
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  Speaker 2: videos you guys want to see. So with that further Ado,
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  Speaker 2: let's unbuckler seatbelts, go mark fare to the highways label
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  Speaker 2: of the brakes, and bust through the windshield into the
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  Speaker 2: life and mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe.
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  Speaker 1: On June first, nineteen twenty six, in the Charity Ward
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  Speaker 1: of Los Angeles General Hospital, a baby girl was born
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  Speaker 1: at approximately nine thirty am, and her birth certificate bore
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  Speaker 1: the name Norma Jean Mortenson, though she would later be
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  Speaker 1: baptized Norma Jean Baker and her mother, Gladys Pearl Baker,
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  Speaker 1: was a twenty four year old film negative cutter who
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  Speaker 1: named her daughter after silent screen star Norma Talmadge, or
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  Speaker 1: so the story went, but Marilyn's half sister, Bernice, would
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  Speaker 1: later dispute this in her nineteen ninety four memoir, claiming
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  Speaker 1: the name came from a family friend, Norma Jean Cohen Seedman,
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  Speaker 1: and the father listed on the birth certificate, Martin Edward Mortenson,
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  Speaker 1: Gladys's estranged second husband, was almost certainly not the biological father,
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  Speaker 1: because he had separated from Gladys months before conception and
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  Speaker 1: would later insist he never cammated the marriage, and the
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  Speaker 1: true father, as DNA evidence confirmed in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: was Charles Stanley Gifford, Gladys's supervisor at Consolidated Film Industries,
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  Speaker 1: and when she became pregnant, he wanted nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with her or the child, and at eighteen, Norma Jean
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  Speaker 1: finally tracked down his telephone number, and his response was devastating, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I'm married, I'd have a family. I don't have anything
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  Speaker 1: to say to you, see my attorney unquote, which is
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  Speaker 1: just so incredibly heartbreaking, like to track down your father
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  Speaker 1: and for him to just tell you to contact lawyers
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to deal with you like you're
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  Speaker 1: a speck of dust that's just annoying to him. At
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  Speaker 1: It's just horrible, not a great way to start out life.
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  Speaker 1: And she would even try twice more to meet him,
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  Speaker 1: traveling to his dairy farm in hemet California in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty and again in nineteen sixty one, and it could
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  Speaker 1: be more meetups, but we don't know for sure. But
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  Speaker 1: both those times he refused to see her. And if
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  Speaker 1: all that wasn't enough already, the mental illness also saturated
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  Speaker 1: Gladys's bloodline, and her father Otis Monroe had died in
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  Speaker 1: an asylum from syphilis, and her mother Della, suffered from
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  Speaker 1: what would today likely be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, and
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  Speaker 1: a great grandfather had also died severely mentally ill. So
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  Speaker 1: twelve days after giving birth, Gladys placed Norma Jean with
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  Speaker 1: Albert Wayne and Ida Bolander, a deeply religious evangelical couple
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  Speaker 1: in Hawthorne, California, who took in foster children for five
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  Speaker 1: dollars a week, and Norma Jean would spend seven years
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  Speaker 1: calling them Aunt Ida and Uncle Wayne, believing for much
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  Speaker 1: of the time that they were her actual family, and
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  Speaker 1: when the child instinctively called Ida Mama, the woman corrected
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  Speaker 1: her sharply, saying, don't call me mother. I'm not your mother.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go down a little bit. It's a fucking child,
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  Speaker 1: all right. But oddly enough, even though she had that reaction,
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  Speaker 1: the Bolanders did want to adopt her, but Gladys refused,
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  Speaker 1: and what Norma Jean didn't know was that she had
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  Speaker 1: siblings as well, and Gladys's first marriage to Jasper Newton
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  Speaker 1: Baker had produced two children, Robert Kermit, Jackie Baker, and Bernice,
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  Speaker 1: and when that marriage collapsed in nineteen twenty three, Jasper
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  Speaker 1: basically kidnapped both children and fled to Kentucky, and Jackie
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  Speaker 1: died in August of nineteen thirty three at fifteen from
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  Speaker 1: kidney disease, shattering Gladys's fragile equilibrium, and Norma Jean and
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  Speaker 1: Bernice finally met in autumn of nineteen forty four and
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  Speaker 1: formed a genuine bond, so in the summer of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, Gladys purchased a small white bungalow at six
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  Speaker 1: eight one two Arble Drive in Hollywood, and she took
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  Speaker 1: in lodgers a British couple named George and maud Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: both actors, to help with the mortgage. For a few months,
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  Speaker 1: mother and daughter lived together, but it would last less
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  Speaker 1: than a year, and in January of nineteen thirty four,
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  Speaker 1: Gladys suffered a complete mental breakdown and would be diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: with paranoid schizoph frontia and committed to Norwalk State Hospital,
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  Speaker 1: and she would spend the rest of her life cycling
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  Speaker 1: in and out of psychiatric institutions, eventually outliving her famous
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  Speaker 1: daughter by more than two decades before dying in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty four. But over the next several years, Norma Jean
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  Speaker 1: lived in approximately twelve different foster homes, so on September thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty five, nine year old Norma Jean became ward
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  Speaker 1: number three thousand, four hundred and sixty three at the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Orphans Home Society at eight one five North
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  Speaker 1: El Centro Avenue in Hollywood, better known as Holy Grove,
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  Speaker 1: and she remained until June twelfth, nineteen thirty seven, and
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  Speaker 1: from the dormitory windows, the children could see the RKO
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  Speaker 1: Studio's water tower. Quote. I used to think there must
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  Speaker 1: be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of
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  Speaker 1: becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry
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  Speaker 1: about them. I'm dreaming the hardest unquote, she would later say,
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  Speaker 1: reflecting on those moments where she was staring at the
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  Speaker 1: water tower and the Atkinsons took her first for roughly
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  Speaker 1: sixteen months, and something happened in the house. She would
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  Speaker 1: never fully articulate, and she developed a severe stutter and
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  Speaker 1: became withdrawn. And psychiatrists say now that there could have
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  Speaker 1: been some abuse in that household that would have caused
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  Speaker 1: her to develop a stutter and to withdraw, but nothing
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  Speaker 1: is confirmed. But in another home, it would be confirmed
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  Speaker 1: that a border did abuse Norma Jean, and when she
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  Speaker 1: reported it, her foster mom slapped her face, saying, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe you. Don't you dare say such things about
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  Speaker 1: that nice man unquote. So just I mean. She had
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  Speaker 1: an incredibly, incredibly rough childhood, and Grace McKee, Gladys's best friend,
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  Speaker 1: became Norma Jean's legal guardian in nineteen thirty six, and
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  Speaker 1: Grace adored movies and was obsessed with Jean Harlowe, saying quote,
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  Speaker 1: someday you'll become an important woman on quot quote she
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  Speaker 1: would tell little Norma Jean quote unquote a movie star.
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  Speaker 1: But Grace's own life was chaotic, and she married Irvine
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  Speaker 1: or Doc Goddard, who allegedly the eleven year old in
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  Speaker 1: Norma Jean in nineteen thirty seven as well. So she's
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  Speaker 1: having she's going to multiple houses, and she's getting taken
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  Speaker 1: advantage of by these men that she thinks she should
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  Speaker 1: be able to trust, and they severely let her down
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  Speaker 1: and cause decades worth of trauma. And Grace's aunt, Anna Lower,
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  Speaker 1: provided the one true bright spot, and Norma Jean would
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  Speaker 1: live with Anna in Sawtel from nineteen thirty eight to
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  Speaker 1: around nineteen forty one, saying quote she changed my life unquote,
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  Speaker 1: Monroe would say later in life. And she would also
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  Speaker 1: go on to say she was a wonderful human being,
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  Speaker 1: but not everything was darkness, because she excelled in English
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  Speaker 1: class and she loved writing and contributed to the school
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  Speaker 1: newspaper at Emerson Junior High. The girl who emerged from
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  Speaker 1: those twelve Foster Holmes, and that Orphanage dormitory was not
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  Speaker 1: merely damaged. She was determined, and at the window of
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  Speaker 1: Holygrove watching the RKAO WaterTower catch the California light, she
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  Speaker 1: had made herself a promise she would dream harder than
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  Speaker 1: anyone and become someone the whole world would want. So
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen forty two, fifteen year old Norma Jean faced
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  Speaker 1: abandonment again and Grace McKee, Goddard's husband, had been transferred
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  Speaker 1: to West Virginia. The California law prevented them from taking
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  Speaker 1: their ward out of the state, and the alternative was Holygrove,
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  Speaker 1: the Orphanage, but Grace would have another idea. The Goddard's
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  Speaker 1: neighbors included the Daughtry family, whose son James was a
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  Speaker 1: handsome twenty one year old working at Lockheed Aircraft, and
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  Speaker 1: Grace approached Jim's mother with a business proposition. If Jim
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  Speaker 1: married Norma Jean, she wouldn't have to return to the Orphanage,
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  Speaker 1: and Jim would later insist. Genuine affection developed between them
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  Speaker 1: after a Christmas dance in late nineteen forty one, but
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  Speaker 1: the primary catalyst was desperate ration, not romance. So now
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  Speaker 1: she's just getting sold off to a random guy. Although
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  Speaker 1: like not to go back to the orphanage, but like
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  Speaker 1: now she's got to be married to this guy, this
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  Speaker 1: random guy. But anyway, On June nineteenth, nineteen forty two,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen days after her sixteenth birthday, Norma Jean became a
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  Speaker 1: missus James Daughtry at four three to two South Bentley
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  Speaker 1: Avenue in Los Angeles, with a reception at the Florentine Gardens.
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  Speaker 1: And to Mary. She dropped out of university high school.
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  Speaker 1: And the marriage wasn't miserable, and Jim was fundamentally decent.
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  Speaker 1: It was just said to be ordinary. And she called
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  Speaker 1: him daddy, which is a term revealing more than she
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  Speaker 1: intended about what she was searching for. She had no
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  Speaker 1: really good father figure in her life. So now her
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  Speaker 1: husband when she's a child right now, but her husband's
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  Speaker 1: kind of becoming her father. It's just really messed up.
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  Speaker 1: And years later she would assess it honestly, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: my marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make
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  Speaker 1: me happy either. Actually our marriage was a sort of
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  Speaker 1: friendship with privileges unquote. But in April of nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: Jim shipped out with the Merchant Marine, and rather than
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  Speaker 1: wait passively, Norma Jean got a job at the Radioplane
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  Speaker 1: Munitions factory in VN News, inspecting parachutes and spraying airplane
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  Speaker 1: parts with fire retardant for twenty dollars a week different times,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what. For the first time, she was
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  Speaker 1: earning her own money, and in late nineteen forty four,
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  Speaker 1: Army photographer David Conover arrived at the factory, dispatched by
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  Speaker 1: Captain Ronald Reagan's first motion picture unit to shoot female
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  Speaker 1: war workers for morale purposes, because those guys needed pictures
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  Speaker 1: of gals. You know, you know what I'm saying, And
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  Speaker 1: Conover spotted a pretty girl putting propellers on airplanes, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: she had curly ash blonde hair, and her face was
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  Speaker 1: smudged with dirt. I snapped her picture and walked on.
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  Speaker 1: Then I stopped, stunned. She was beautiful unquote. And he
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  Speaker 1: spent the next two weeks teaching her how to post
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  Speaker 1: recognizing something she had always suspected about herself. So by
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  Speaker 1: August of nineteen forty five, Norma Jean walked into the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Book modeling agency run by Emmeline Snively and Sniveley's
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  Speaker 1: assessment was measured pretty but not exceptional, better suited for
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  Speaker 1: pin up work than high fashion, but there was something
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  Speaker 1: the camera might capture, and Norma Jean threw herself into
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  Speaker 1: the work with surprising intensity, and by early nineteen forty
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  Speaker 1: six she appeared on approximately thirty three magazine covers, and
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  Speaker 1: Sniveley saw unrealized potential, saying quote, You've just got to
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  Speaker 1: bleach and straighten your hair, because now your face is
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  Speaker 1: a little too round and a hair job will lengthen it.
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  Speaker 1: Unquote different time, I mean not really. Even modeling agencies today,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like they're even more brutal. So maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: actually pretty light. But in February nineteen forty six, photographer
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  Speaker 1: Rafael Wolf paid for the transformation because he needed a
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  Speaker 1: blonde for a shampoo ad and at Frank and Joseph's
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  Speaker 1: beauty salon, her brown curls were chemically straightened and lightened,
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  Speaker 1: and even her widow's peak was removed through electrolysis. But
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  Speaker 1: her blonde hair would become perhaps the most famous physical
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  Speaker 1: characteristic of the twentieth century. So Jim Dawtrey, her husband
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  Speaker 1: at the time, asked her to give up modeling because
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  Speaker 1: he wanted the teenage bride he'd left behind, But she
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  Speaker 1: now had a taste for attention and possibility and the
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  Speaker 1: first glimmers of her childhood dream. Guys wanted to hold
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  Speaker 1: her back, all right, and in nineteen forty six she
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  Speaker 1: filed for divorce in Las Vegas, and the decree was
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  Speaker 1: finalized on September thirteenth, nineteen forty six, exactly eleven years
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  Speaker 1: to the day after she'd been admitted to Holy Grove
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  Speaker 1: as Board number three THY four hundred and sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: and Jim would learn that his marriage was over while
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  Speaker 1: aboard a ship on the Yanksee River. That's rough. God,
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  Speaker 1: that's gotta be rough, like let her liver dreams. But
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  Speaker 1: that's I mean, I guess there's no other way to
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  Speaker 1: tell him, you know. At least she told him. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't go off and run around, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: But he would later become an LAPD detective and the
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  Speaker 1: department's first swat trainer, giving interviews about Norma Jean until
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  Speaker 1: his death in two thousand and five. But by the
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  Speaker 1: end of nineteen forty six, Norma Jean was twenty years old,
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  Speaker 1: newly divorced and standing at a crossroads. The magazine covers
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  Speaker 1: paid the bills, but magazines weren't movies, and the Rko
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  Speaker 1: water tower she'd stare it out through the Holy Grove
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  Speaker 1: window was no longer just a symbol. It was a destination.
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  Speaker 1: So the man who would give Norma Jean a new
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  Speaker 1: name had once starred alongside the original blonde bombshell and
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  Speaker 1: Ben Leon was a Fox executive in nineteen forty six,
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  Speaker 1: but two decades earlier, he'd appeared opposite Jean Harlow in
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  Speaker 1: Hell's Angels, and when the twenty year old model walked
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  Speaker 1: into his office that summer, he felt the past reaching forward.
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  Speaker 1: Quote it's Gene Harlowe all over again, he would say.
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  Speaker 1: Leon arranged a screen test without full approval from studio
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  Speaker 1: head Darryl F. Zanig, and it was filmed in July
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty six at five point thirty am on
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  Speaker 1: a deserted sound stage belonging to a Betty Gravel picture
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  Speaker 1: and cinematographer Leon Shamroy, a four time Academy Award winner,
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  Speaker 1: watched through his viewfinder as Norma Jean walked across the
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  Speaker 1: set sat on a stool and lit a cigarette, and
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  Speaker 1: she wore a floor length, sequined gown, no lines, purely visual,
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  Speaker 1: and Shamroi described what he saw in near mystical terms,
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  Speaker 1: because most people looked worse on screen, like your girl here, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's why I stand so far back from the camera.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, all right, But Marilyn Monroe
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  Speaker 1: looked better. The camera just loved her in a way
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  Speaker 1: that couldn't be taught. But Sanik remained unimpressed, but when
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  Speaker 1: RKO showed interest in signing her, he agreed to a
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  Speaker 1: contract rather than lose her to arrival. So on August
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourth, nineteen forty six, Norma Jean signed with twentieth
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  Speaker 1: Century for seventy five dollars a week, and Leon suggested
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn after Marilyn Miller, the legendary Zegfeld Folly Star, and
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  Speaker 1: for the surname, she chose her mother's maiden name, Monroe,
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  Speaker 1: and other names had been considered, like like Carol Lynde Claire,
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  Speaker 1: Norman Meredith, but Monroe felt right, and the legal change
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't come until February nineteen fifty six, but from August
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty six onward, Marilyn Monroe had taken Norma Jean's place,
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  Speaker 1: so Marilyn Monroe was born, and years later she would
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  Speaker 1: reflect on what the old name represented, saying quote unwanted, shy,
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  Speaker 1: an orphanage slave. Marilyn would later say, but Marilyn Monroe
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  Speaker 1: would be wanted by everyone. So the first six months
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  Speaker 1: at Fox were spent in classes, acting, singing, dancing, and
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  Speaker 1: she also enrolled at the Actor's Laboratory Theater, a school
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  Speaker 1: with progressive political leanings that would later cause problems during
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  Speaker 1: the Red Scare, and there was discouraging which was too
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  Speaker 1: shy and too insecure, So when her contract came up
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  Speaker 1: for renewal in August of nineteen forty seven, Box declined
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  Speaker 1: to extend it, but Columbia Pictures signed her in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight, hoping to create another Rita Hayworth, and she
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  Speaker 1: began working with drama coach Natasha Lettesse, a Berlin born
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  Speaker 1: teacher who would become one of the most important and
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  Speaker 1: controversial figures in her personal life, and Columbia gave her
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  Speaker 1: one film, Ladies of the Chorus, a low budget musical,
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  Speaker 1: and it was her first starring role. She could sing,
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  Speaker 1: she could move, and she had presents, but none of
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  Speaker 1: it was enough, and in September of nineteen forty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Columbia dropped her too, and two studios had now decided
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  Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe wasn't worth keeping. But what saved her career
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  Speaker 1: was a man who fell hopelessly in love with her.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Hyde. Now Johnny Hyde was a vice president at
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  Speaker 1: the William Morris Agency who had helped build the careers
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  Speaker 1: of Rita Hayworth and Lana Turner. And he was fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: married and suffering from a serious heart condition, and when
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  Speaker 1: he met Marilyn in nineteen forty nine, he had around
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  Speaker 1: two years to live. But Hyde became convinced she was
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  Speaker 1: destined for stardom and set about making it happen. And
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  Speaker 1: he paid for acting classes, clothing, cosmetic, dental work, and
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  Speaker 1: he secured auditions impossible for an unsigned actress. And he
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  Speaker 1: begged her to marry him. I feel really bad for
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  Speaker 1: his wife promising his fortune. But Marilyn refused, and she
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't marry a man she wasn't in love with, not
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  Speaker 1: even for security. But the orphan who had married at
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to escape institutionalization had grown into a woman with principles,
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  Speaker 1: and in nineteen fifty Hie delivered the two auditions that
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  Speaker 1: changed everything. To The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston,
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  Speaker 1: gave Marilyn perhaps five minutes of screen time as the
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  Speaker 1: young mistress of a corrupt lawyer, and Huston had resisted
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  Speaker 1: casting her initially suspecting Hyde was pushing his girlfriend, but
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  Speaker 1: when she auditioned, the nervous young woman disappeared, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Marylyn didn't get the part because of Johnny unquote. Hustin
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  Speaker 1: said later quote, she got it because she was damned
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  Speaker 1: good unquote, And critics singled out the unknown blonde as
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  Speaker 1: a revelation, and all about Eve truly announced her arrival
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  Speaker 1: and Joseph Mancowick's masterpiece starred Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: and Celeste Home, and Marilyn played Miss Claudia Caswell, a
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  Speaker 1: graduate of the Copa Cabana School of Dramatic Art, and
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  Speaker 1: it was a small role, but she played the dumb
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  Speaker 1: blonde with such precision that audiences couldn't tell if she
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  Speaker 1: was in on the joke, and that ambiguity suggested depth
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  Speaker 1: beneath the surface, so watching her hold her own among Titans.
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  Speaker 1: Xenik finally understood what Lyon had seen four years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and Fox offered a new contract, but this time they
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  Speaker 1: meant to keep her, so the early nineteen fifties became
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  Speaker 1: a blur of increasingly prominent roles, with Don't Bother to
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  Speaker 1: Knock in nineteen fifty two, which gave her a rare
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  Speaker 1: dramatic lead as a disturbed babysitter, and then came nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, the year that transformed her from promising newcomer
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  Speaker 1: to a phenomenon. Niagara cast her as a fem fatale
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  Speaker 1: plotting her husband's murder, and it was the first time
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  Speaker 1: her name appeared above the title and gentlemen preferred blonde
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Paired her with Jane Russell the centerpiece,
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  Speaker 1: Marylyn descending a staircase in a pink gown, singing, Diamonds
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: are a Girl's best friend. Ah, I love it, Booby.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, you gotta go watch it.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Go watch it all right, and it became one of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the most iconic sequences in cinema history. And How to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Marry a Millionaire teamed her with Betty Grobbel and Lauren
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: bacall So three massive hits in a single year, so
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the orphan from Holly Grove had become the biggest movie
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: star in so Natasha Litis remained her primary drama coach,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: present on nearly every set, and directors despised her constant presence,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: but Marylyn refused to work without her, and in nineteen
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: fifty five that dependence shifted to Lee and Paula Strasburg,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: and Lee ran the Actors Studio in New York, the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Temple of Method Acting, where Brando and Dean had trained.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, the method demanded
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: excavation of personal trauma in service of character, and for Marylyn,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: who had more trauma than most, it was both liberating
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and dangerous, and the Strasburgs would remain central to her
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: life until her death, and Lee would inherit the bulk
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of her estate. And in January of nineteen fifty five,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Maryland did something unprecedented. She announced the formation of Marilyn
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Monroe Productions with photographer Milton H. Green, and Time called
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: her a shrewd businesswoman, and Fox was forced to rena
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: go o. Sheate her contract, granting approval over scripts and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: directors which were rights virtually unheard of for any actor,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: let alone a woman in the fifties, So the company
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: produced Bus Stop in nineteen fifty six and The Prince
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and the Showgirl in nineteen fifty seven, and her performance
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in bus Stopped earned a Golden Globe nomination and the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: best reviews of her career. So by the late nineteen fifties,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Marylyn transcended movie stardom in The White Dress Billowing over
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a Subway Rate in The Seven Year Itch, filmed in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four and was released in nineteen fifty five,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and had become perhaps the most famous image in cinema history,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: also one of my favorites. But she proved she was
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: more than the photograph with Some Like It. Hot and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Billy Wilder's nineteen fifty nine comedy cast her opposite Tony
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Curtis and Jack Lemon as Sugarcane, and the shoot was
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: notoriously difficult, and her insecurities required dozens of takes for
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: simple scenes, but the finished film was a masterpiece, and
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Marylyn won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the only major award of her career, so she had
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: reached the pinnacle thirty three years old, the most famous
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: woman in the world, finally recognized as a legitimate artist.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: But she was falling apart. But to understand why she
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: was falling apart, we need to step back a couple steps.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: So the marriage that America wanted to believe in lasted
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: exactly two hundred and seventy four days is when Marilyn
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Monroe and Joe DiMaggio exchanged vows at San Francisco City
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Hall on January fourteenth, nineteen fifty four. The press called
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: it the marriage of the century, the baseball legend and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the blonde bombshell, two icons joining their lives, and they
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: had met in nineteen fifty two. Marilyn expected a flashy
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: New York sports type and was surprised to find a reserved,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: almost shy man who didn't make a pass at her
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: right away, and that restraint intrigued her. She was so
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: used to people just like throwing themselves at her because
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: she was like the sex icon of the century. But
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Demaggio took her to family dinners, introduced her to his
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Italian relatives, showed her what domestic life might look like,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and for a woman who had never known a real family,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the vision was intoxicating, but Demaggio wanted a wife, not
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a movie star, not a sex symbol. He imagined she
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: would be content with a quiet life in San Francisco,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: away from Hollywood, and he would be catastrophically wrong. As
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: we've seen this in the past with the other guy.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: You wanted to bring her down, Joe, Demaggio was just
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: as bad, if not worse. But their honeymoon took them
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to Tokyo, and when Marilyn made a side trip to
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Korea to perform four troops over one hundred thousand soldiers gathered.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: She returned to the hotel glowing, saying, quote, Joe, You've
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: never heard such cheering, and his reply was, yes, I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: have bump best ecid okay. But this exchange would capture
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: everything that would doom them because Demaggio had walked away
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: from that type of worship and he just couldn't understand
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: why she couldn't. But her career was just starting and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: she was freaking queen. Come on, I mean, obviously you
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: could leave whenever you want to, but don't hold her back, man,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: don't hold her back. But the breaking point came in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: September nineteen fifty four, filming The Seven Year Itch when
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Marilyn stood over that subway grate where a fan blew
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: her white dress up around her thighs, and take after take,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the crowd cheered, but somewhere in the crowd stood DiMaggio,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: watching strangers lear at what he considered his and the
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: fight that night was reportedly savage, and on October sixth,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, Marylyn filed for divorce on grounds of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: mental cruelty. As you've showed, queen, and I mean, you know,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Joe Demagio can be with whoever he wants to be.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is the right thing where it's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: like you can prefer a woman that's not a movie star,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but don't make her feel bad. You married a movie star,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: sex symbol, like amazing woman, Like what do you want?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You know? Just classic controlling man. Come on. So Marilyn
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: would pick herself back up, and she would eventually meet
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: someone else, Arthur Miller. And Arthur Miller was everything Demaggio wasn't, intellectual,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: politically engaged, and celebrated for his mind, and he had
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: written Death of a Salesman and The Crucible and they
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: first met in nineteen fifty one, introduced by Elia Kazan,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: but Miller was married back then, and when Marilyn moved
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to New York in nineteen fifty five, they reconnected, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for her, Miller represented validation, one of America's great literary minds,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: seeing passed the image to the woman beneath, and when
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Variety announced their relationship with Egghead Wed's Hourglass, It's an
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: odd titled but okay, the crude headline captured how the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: world saw them, and they married twice in June nineteen
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: fifty six, a civil ceremony on the twenty ninth and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a Jewish ceremony two days later, and Marylyn had converted
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to Judaism without press from Miller, keeping on Mezuza on
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: her door and a manora that played hat Tikva and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Egypt would ban her films because of this conversion and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: she would describe herself as a Jewish atheist for the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: rest of her life. So on their honeymoon in England
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: filming The Prince and the Showgirl, she found Miller's diary,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: and the specific contents have never been fully revealed, but
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Miller had written something expressing disappointment doubts about who she
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: really was. Perhaps frustration with her insecurities, and the man
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: she married because he saw the real her, had apparently
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: found the real her lacking, and the marriage never fully recovered,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and Marilyn suffered multiple miscarriages, each deepening her depression, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: she would eventually become increasingly dependent on barbiturates to sleep
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and amphetamines to wake, an alcohol to blur her pain.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: So in nineteen sixty filming Let's Make Love, she had
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: an affair with co star Yivis Montent, sorry if I'm
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: saying that run and both were married and the affair
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: was passionate but brief, and Montend returned to his wife
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and Marilyn was left more alone than before, and the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: marriage ended January twenty fourth, nineteen sixty one, and Miller
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: eventually would not even attend her funeral. So after that divorce,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: her career would continue, but she would finally meet the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: famous JFK in nineteen fifty four, introduced by Peter Lawford,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: who was married to Kennedy's sister Patricia, and the most
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: plausible account of intimacy with the President places it on
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, nineteen sixty two, at Bing Crosby's Palm
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Springs estate and hermasur. Ralph Roberts claimed she called him
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that night with JFK's voice audible in the background, and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Roberts said Marylyn told him this was their only encounter
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a single night, not an ongoing affair. But the knight
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that cemented her Kennedy connection in public imagination came on
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: May nineteenth, nineteen sixty two, at Madison Square Garden celebrating
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: JFK's forty fifth birthday, and Marilyn wore a dress so
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: tight and nude colored she'd appeared to be wearing nothing,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: a sheer gown encrusted with rhinestones looked like they were
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: sewn onto her body, and her delivery of Happy Birthday,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: two you was slow, sensual, and almost parodic. If you
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: haven't seen it, you need to go watch it immediately,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and Kennedy would joke afterwards saying, I can now retire
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: from politics after having had happy birthdays sung to me
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in such a sweet, wholesome way, unquote, guy was going out.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: My wife's here all you know, yead damn. And the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: only known photograph of Marilyn and JFK together was taken
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: at the after party, and Robert Kennedy's involvement is Murkier
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and housekeeper Eunice Murray eventually admitted decades later, after years
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of denials, that of course Bobby Kennedy was there, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of course Bobby Kennedy had an affair with her, so
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: she was the Kennedys really liked Marilyn Monroe, but Murray's
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: shifting accounts make her unreliable, so we don't know for sure.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: We don't know for sure. That's its own conspiracy theory.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: But what seems clearer is that in the weeks before
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Marilyn's death, both Kennedy brothers cut off communication completely, So
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: that makes me think maybe there was something going on,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: maybe one brother got jealous of the other brother being
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: with Marilyn Monroe. But who's to say. We'll get into it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So The Misfits released February nineteen sixty one and was
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: supposed to be her triumphant dramatic showcase and screenplay by
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Arthur Miller, cast including Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallack,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: directed by John Hustin, but the shoot was a disaster
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and Marilyn was barely functional, hospitalized mid production, and Miller
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: watched his marriage disintegrate while rewriting scenes to accommodate her incapacity,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and Gable would push through despite a heart condition, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: he would actually die of a heart attack days after
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: filming wrapped, and his widow would blame Maryland's chronic lateness,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and the finished film is haunted by mortality, and it
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: would be the last completed film for both Monroe and Gable.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And Something's Got to Give in nineteen sixty two embodied
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: everything wrong with her final years. Cast opposite Dean Martin,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: she missed a day after day, often incapable of performing
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: when she did appear, and on May nineteenth she left
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the set to sing Happy Birthday to the President, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: on June eighth, Fox fired her for spectacular absenteism. So
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the biggest star of the nineteen fifties was dismissed like
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a temperamental nobody. But remarkably she won, and by late
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: June Fox hired her with a substantial raise, and filming
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: would resume in October, but she would never make another film,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: So in February nineteen sixty two, Marylyn purchased the first
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: home she ever owned, one two three oh five fifth
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Helena Drive in Brentwood, a Spanish style property for around
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: seventy five thousand dollars US, and she decorated it sparsely,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: never really finishing. A tile at the entrance bore a
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Latin inscription hersm Proficio I am finishing my journey, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the phrase has haunted biographers since, and she would live
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: there six months before she died. So her primary psychiatrist,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to doctor Ralph Greenson, began treating her in January of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty and rather than maintaining clinical distance, he integrated
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Marylyn into his family life, believing she needed normal family
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: bonds her childhood had denied, and he prescribed enormous quantities
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: of medication barbituates at three times the maximum recommended dose
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: while trying to wean her off in nembutal by switching
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to chloral hydrate. This guy was off as Rocker and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: her interness to doctor Hyman Engelberg, provided additional prescriptions on
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: top of her other prescriptions, and the doctors had agreed
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to consult each other, but Marilyn learned to manipulate both
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: of them, obtaining medications without the other's knowledge, so she
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: had a way of manipulating both of them as well
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: as them being clearly just not great doctors in my opinion,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: And in February nineteen sixty one, she was committed to
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Paine Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York, believing she was
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: going for rest, but instead she found herself in a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: locked ward, placed in a padded cell, and her letter
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: describing the experience was harrowing cement, blocks, bars on windows,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: screaming women, and she threatens harm if they didn't release her,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: but Joe DiMaggio would rescue her fight their divorce. He
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: flew from Florida, immediately demanded her release and threatened to
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: tear the building apart. He came through, Demaggio came through,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and she would be transferred to Columbia Presbyterian for three weeks.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Because Demaggio had never really stopped loving her, and on
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the months before her death, he was increasingly present, and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he may have even proposed remarrying. This is something her
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: niece would claim Maryland planned to accept, but from early
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: July through August fourth, nineteen sixty two, Marylynd saw doctor
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Greenson twenty seven times in thirty five days, and doctor
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Engelberg thirteen times, and accounts of her mental state are contradictory.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Some describe her as hopeful, energized by her Fox Victory
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Authers described despair and woman unraveling, and Greenson's notes painted
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: dark picture full of fears, depressions, feelings of worthlessness, and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: she told him she felt like a waif, that people
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: only wanted her for what they could get, and both
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Kennedy brothers had cut off contact, and on the night
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: of August third, she dined at Lascala with Peter Lawford
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and publicist Pat Newcombe, and the dinner was tense and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Newcomb stayed overnight, and on the morning of August fourth,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Marilyn called a friend about disturbing overnight phone calls, someone
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: threatening her to quote unquote leave Bobby alone, calling her
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a tramp. So she was naturally nervous and exhausted, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: it would be her last full day alive. So the
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: sun rose over Brentwood on Saturday, August fourth, nineteen sixty two,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: promising another perfect Southern California day, and at one two
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: three oh five fifth Helena Drive. Marilyn Monroe had barely slept,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and she had spent the night tormented by phone calls.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: At least according to what she told her friend Gene Carman.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Around six a m. An unidentified woman had called repeatedly
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: through the night, delivering the same venomous message, quote unquote,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: leave Bobby alone. And the caller had used other words too,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: like tramp at the vocabulary of jealous rage, and Marilyn
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: was shaken, exhausted, and her nerves frayed before the day
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: had properly begun. And Carmen would remember that she sounded
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: quote unquote nervous and exhausted, and this was not unusual
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: for her in those final months, but something about this
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: morning felt different, and the threats had rattled her in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a way that suggested she took them seriously. And by
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: eight a m. Housekeeper Eunice Murray had arrived, and Murray
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: was an unusual presence, hired not through normal channels but
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: on doctor Greenson's recommendation because he wanted someone trustworthy keeping
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: an eye on his most famous patient, and Murray reported
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: back to Greenson regularly, a surveillance arrangement Marilyn may or
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: may not have fully understood, but the morning had folded
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: with mundane rhythms. Handyman Norman Jeffries arrived to continue tiling
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the kitchen floor, and Marilyn drank grapefruit juice, and deliveries
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: came and went, a bedside table and citrus trees for
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the garden, and the actress who had captivated the world
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: puttered around her small house like any other homeowner on
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a Saturday morning. So pat Newcomb had slept over the
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: previous night and didn't wake until nearly noon, and this
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: became a point of friction because Nucombe was Marylynd's publicist
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: and in theory, her friend. But when she emerged having
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: slept soundly, Marilyn's mood curdled, and the star herself had
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: barely slept, and the threatening calls, the chronic insomnia, and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the cocktail of medications that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So seeing Nucomb well rested while she was ragged and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: exhausted triggered something, and the two women argued, and the
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: official explanation was a jealousy over sleep. But those who
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: knew the situation suspected the real tension lay elsewhere, because
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Nucomb had connections to the Kennedy family and she knew
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: things about Marylyn's relationship with both brothers, so whatever words
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: passed between them, the friendship was strained to its breaking point,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and photographer Lawrence Schiller arrived to discuss business nude photographs
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: from Something's Got to Give that might be sold to Playboy.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Even in her final hours, the machinery of her image
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: continued grinding forward, and doctor Greenson arrived at approximately four
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: thirty PM for what would be their final session, and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: he found Marylyn in a state that concerned him because
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: she appeared drugged, sedated, and not quite present. Wonder whose
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: fault that is, and he would ask Newcombe to leave.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: And what transpired between doctor and patient will never be
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: known with certainty, and Greenson would later tell investigators that
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Marylyn seemed depressed, but not alarmingly so, because he had
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: seen her in worse states, and he also had seen
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: her rally from dark moods before. So the session lasted
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: several hours, and when Greenson prepared to leave around seven PM,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: he made two decisions that would haunt him for the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: rest of his life. First, he asked Murray to stay
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: over night, a precaution suggesting he was more worried than
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: his official account admitted. And second, he told Marilyn to
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: take her nimbatole and get some rest. And then he left.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: And then Joe DiMaggio Junior would call between seven and
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: seven fifteen pm, because the son of Marilyn's second husband
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: had maintained a relationship with her after his father's divorce,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and he was calling with news he knew that would
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: please her. He had broken up with a girlfriend Marilyn
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: hadn't approved of, and the conversation was apparently pleasant, even cheerful,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and Young DiMaggio would later tell investigators he detected nothing alarming,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: no slurring, no despair, nothing to suggest a woman on
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the verge of death, and this would become one of
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the central mysteries because of Marilyn was planning something terrible
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: or already succumbing to a fatal dose of medication. How
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: could she have sounded so normal just hours before she
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: had passed away? And shortly after, around seven forty pm,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Marylynd telephoned Greenson to share the good news about Young
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Joe's break up, and her mood again seemed improved, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Greenson would remember being reassured as the Marilyn who rang
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: up him sounded better than the one he had left
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: an hour earlier. And then around eight pm, Marilyn retired
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to her bedroom with her telephone and the cord stretched
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: under the door, connecting her to the outside world. Though
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: sometime between seven forty five and eight pm, the exact
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: time is disputed. The telephone rang at Peter Lawford's house
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: and Marilyn was on the line, and Lawford was hosting
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a dinner party and had called earlier to invite her,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and now she was returning the call, but something was
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: wrong and her voice sounded strange quote unquote weird. Lawford
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: would later describe it, quote unquote fuzzy and sleepy. Her
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: speech was slurred and her words drifting. And then she
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: said something that would be analyzed for decades. Quote say
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: goodbye to Pat unquote, she would tell him, referring to
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: his wife, Petria Kennedy Lawford, quote say goodbye to the president,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. Unquote.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: And then the line went quiet, not dead quiet, though
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: his Lawford could hear something on the other end, but
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Marilyn had stopped speaking, and he called her name, but
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: there was no response, and alarmed, Lawford tried to call back,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: but the line was busy or perhaps simply off the hook,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and he called again and again, unable to get through,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and what Lawford did next, or rather what he failed
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to do, would become one of the most controversial aspects
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: of the case. Because he did not drive to Brentwood,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: he did not call the police. Instead, he called his agent,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Milton Evans and asked for advice, and Evans suggested trying
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: to reach Marylyn's doctor or lawyer, and Mickey Ruden, her attorney,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: eventually called the house between nine thirty and ten PM,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: and Eunice Murray answered and assured him Marilyn was fine.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: She was in her room, the light was on, everything
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: was under control. So Lawford, reassured by the secondhand report,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: returned to his dinner party, which I mean, I guess
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: makes sense if somebody's calling and reassuring, But even then
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I would be like, did you go into the room
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and check on her? Are you hearing her right now?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know hindsight's twenty twenty, but
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: it seems odd and he would spend the rest of
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: his life regretting that decision. But here is where the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: official timeline begins to fracture, because, according to Murray's initial account,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: nothing unusual happened for the next several hours, and she
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: went about her business, assumed Marilyn was sleeping, and eventually
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: went to bed herself, and then around three am she awoke,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: sensing something was wrong, and she would walk to Marilyn's
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: bedroom door and saw lights spilling from beneath it, and
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: she knocked, but there was no response, and she tried
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: the handle but the door was locked. Unconcerned, Murray called
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: doctor Greenson, and on his advice, she went outside and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: looked through the bedroom window, and what she saw through
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the glass was Marilyn lying face down on the bed, unclothed,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: covered partially by a sheet, and the telephone receiver clutched
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: in her outstretched hand, and she was motionless. And Greenson
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: arrived at approximately three thirty am, unable to open the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: lock door, and he broke a window with the fireplace
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: poker and climbed into the room and he checked Marylyn's
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: body and found that she was in fact deceased and
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: briger mortis had already set in and she had been
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: gone for hours at this point, and doctor Engelberg arrived
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: around three point fifty am and officially confirmed the death,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: and at four twenty five am, a full hour after
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the doctor's arrived. Someone finally called the police. But this
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: timeline has never made sense because of Murray discovered Marilyn
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: on responsive around midnight, as she initially told some investigators
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: before changing her story, why did she wait over three
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: hours to call? Greenson ed? Murray's account shifted over the years,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and she eventually admitted the bedroom door hadn't actually been locked,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: contradicting her earlier claims, and she admitted there were aspects
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: of the evenings she hadn't initially disclosed, the most dramatically.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: In a nineteen eighty three interview with journalist Anthony Summers
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: later published in his nineteen eighty five book Goddess, she
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: admitted on tape that Robert Kennedy had visited Marylyn's house
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: that afternoon, so the housekeeper hired to watch over Marylyn
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: was also, it seemed, watching over her secrets. So when
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: police finally entered the bedroom, they found a scene described
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: countless times but never fully explained, because Marilyn lay face
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: down on her bed, unclothed, with a sheet covering part
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: of her body, and her hand was extended clutching a
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: telephone receiver, as if she had been trying to call
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: someone when death overtook her, or perhaps the phone had
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: simply been near her hand when she lost consciousness, and
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: the bedside the table held a pharmacy's worth of medication,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen bottles, and among them was an empty
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: bottle that contained twenty five nembutal capsules prescribed just two
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: days earlier, and a partially empty bottle of chlorohydrate sat nearby,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: with only ten capsules remained from a prescription of fifty.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: So if all that medication was taken, it would have
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: been a massive, unsurvivable dose, because the two drugs together
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: were particularly lethal because each amplified the effects of the other.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: And there was also no note and no signs of struggle,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: and questions were raised about whether she could have taken
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: that many pills without more water present, because there was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: only a little glass of water on the counter, and
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: her stomach when autopsied, would prove empty, no visible residue
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: of the dozens of capsules she had supposedly ingested, and
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the phone records that might have revealed who Marilyn called
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: in her final hours or who called err disappeared conveniently
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: and Captain James Hamilton of the LAPD, who had connections
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: to the Kennedy family, allegedly confiscated them and they were
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: never seen again. So at four twenty five A. M.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Doctor Engelberg dialed the police and spoke the words that
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: would shock the world. Marilyn Monroe has died. She's committed soon.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: And the determination was made before any investigation had occurred,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: before any autopsy, and before any evidence had been properly examined.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And in that first phone call, the narrative was already
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: being established. And within hour's reporters descended on Fifth Helena Drive,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and the news spread across the country and then around
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: the world. The most famous woman of her generation was
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: dead at thirty six, found alone in her bedroom clutching
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: a telephone, surrounded by empty pill bottles. So the sun
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: rose over Brentwood on Sunday, August fifth, nineteen sixty two.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: But for Norma Jean Mortensen, the unwanted child, the orphan,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the foster kid who had stared at the RKO water
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Tower and dreamed the hardest, the journey had ended, and
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: the mystery of how it ended was only beginning. So
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Jack Clemens was the watch commander at the West
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Police Station when the call came in at
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: four to twenty five am. A woman was dead at
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: one two three oh fifth Helena Drive, and the name
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: meant nothing to him until dispatch added the detail. Marilyn
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Monroe and Clemens arrived within minutes, becoming the first law
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: enforcement officer to view the scene, and what he found
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and what he would later claim to have found, would
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: fuel conspiracy theories for decades because the bedroom was small,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: modest by Hollywood standards, and Marylyn lay face down on
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the bed, her body positioned almost two perfectly, and the
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: staging struck Clemens as odd and in his experience, arbituate
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: oposes didn't produce such composed death scenes, and victims typically
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: cost vomited and rushed, so this looked like someone had
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: been arranged and possibly murdered, and doctor Greenson and doctor
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Engelberg were already present, along with Eunice. Murray and Clemens
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: would later claim Murray was operating the washing machine when
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: he entered a very unusual activity for the middle of
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the night, suggesting perhaps that evidence was being laundered along
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: with her linens, but Murray would deny this and the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: discrepancy was never resolved, but Clemens asked questions and received
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: answers that didn't really add up on the timeline discovery
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: around three thirty am, and police called at four twenty
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: five am, left nearly an hour unaccounted for, and when
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: he pressed, the responses were vague. Phone calls had been made,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: people had been notified. The delay was unfortunate but innocent,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: and a sergeant would leave troubled but without authority to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: investigate further. And years later, after retiring, Clemens became one
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: of the most vocal proponents of the murder theory sis
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: he had witnessed a cover up in progress, and his credibility, however,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: proved complicated, and Clemens was a member of the Police
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and Fire Research Organization and anti communist group, and he
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: was later indicted for conspiracy to libel a state senator
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and eventually resigned from the force, and whether his claims
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: reflected genuine observations or ideological paranoia remained an open question.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: So doctor Thomas Nogucci was thirty five years old and
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: still on probation when assigned to perform the autopsy on
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: the most famous woman in the world, and it was
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: an unusual choice. A case of this magnitude typically went
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: to the chief medical examiner, Theodore Kurfey. The chief coroner,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: oversaw the proceedings while delegating the actual cutting to his
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: young deputy, and Nogucci approached the body with meticulous care,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: and he weighed her at one hundred and seventeen pounds,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: and he noticed advanced rigor mortis, consistent with death occurring
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: many hours before discovery. And he examined every inch of
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: her skin for needle marks, checking elbows, forms, between fingers
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: and toes, the scalp, and the thighs, but he would
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: find none and no puncture wounds anywhere. But he found
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: one superficial bruise on her lower back, insignificant enough to
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: have come from bumping into furniture. And her organs appeared healthy,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: no signs of violence, no defensive wounds, and nothing to
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: suggest a struggle. And then he opened her stomach, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: like we said before, it was empty. And this finding
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: would become one of the most debated aspects of this
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: case because Marilyn had supposedly ingested between forty and fifty barbiturates,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: enough to fill a small cup, and the pills should
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: have left some residue, but instead no COUCHI found nothing
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: but hemorrhaging of the stomach lining, indicating irritation consistent with
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: oral ingestion of a caustic substance. But the contradiction seemed
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: impossible because how could someone ingest dozens of pills and
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: l leave no trace, and defenders of this theory pointed
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: out that chronic barbiturate users develop accelerated absorption rates, and
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: critics countered that no absorption rate could eliminate all evidence
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: of such a massive dose, and the liver told the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: different story because pentobarbital levels measured thirteen point zero milligrams,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: dramatically higher than in the blood, indicating chronic or heavy
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: barbiturate use over an extended period. Because Marilyn's body had
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: been saturated with these drugs for so long, they had
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: accumulated in her organs, and the blood work would reveal
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: what had killed her, if not precisely how it entered
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: her system. Chloral hydrate measured eight point one milligrams eighty
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: parts per million, and the therapeutic range topped out at thirty,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: so the lethal threshold was approximately one hundred, and Marylyn
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: was at eighty percent of a fatal dose from the
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: drug and pentobarbitol, The active ingredient in nebutal measured four
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: point five milligrams of forty five parts per million, the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: therapeutic range extending to twelve, so lethality began around forty
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: so she was twelve percent over the lethal threshold. But
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: the numbers alone didn't capture the full picture. Because chloral
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: hydrate and pentobarbidol were synergistic, Each amplified the other, so
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: taking them together was an addition. It was multiplication, and
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: the combined dose was catastrophically unsurvivably toxic, and doctor Nogucci
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: drew samples for further testing stomach contents, organs blood standard
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: protocol for any questionable death, and these were sent to
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: head toxicologists Raymond Abernathy for additional analysis, and then they disappeared.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Abernathy destroyed them before supplementary tests were completed, and his
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: explanation was bureaucratic. The case had been closed, samples were
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: no longer needed, and storage space was limited, but the
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: destruction meant certain questions could never be answered, because had
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: the drugs been introduced orally or was there another route
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: rectal administration? Injection into the muscle tissue, some method that
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: wouldn't leave needle marks. Nogucci wasn't informed of the destruction
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: until years later, saying, quote a great shame unquote, he
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: would say later on, and the loss haunted him for
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the rest of his career, reoccurring in nightmares where he
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: was accused of complicity in whatever cover up might have occurred.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: So Courner Curfey recognized that determining manner of death required
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: more than physical evidence, and he convened a you know
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: what word that YouTube hates prevention team, which were psychiatric
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: experts who would examine Maryland's mental health history and render
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: an opinion on whether she was the type of person
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: who might do that. So the team reviewed her records,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: interviewed her doctors, compiled a psychological profile, and their findings
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: painted a picture of a woman in profound distress, severe
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: fears of frequent depressions, abrupt mood swings, and she had
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: been taking sedative drugs for years and was well aware
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: of their dangers. But most damningly, this wouldn't be the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: first time that she would do this or attempt because
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: on more than one occasion she had taken pills and
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: too many of them, only to call for help and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: be rescued, So the pattern was established crisis gesture salvation.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Perhaps she had followed the same pattern on August fourth,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: ingesting these pills reaching for the phone, but this time
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: the rescue hadn't come, so she might have not actually
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: wanted to do that, and she expected someone to come
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: help her, which is equally as devastating. So on August seventeenth,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two, Kurfey announced the official finding, and that
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: is that Marilyn Monroe had died of acute barbituate poisoning
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: due to of oos. So the manner of death was
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: classified a probable side. And the word probable was crucial
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: because it acknowledged uncertainty and left room for doubt, and
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Nogucci himself was reluctant to rule definitively, but probable I
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: became in the public mind simply so. The investigation was
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: remarkably cursorary by modern standards, and questionable even by nineteen
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: sixty two standards, because reportedly no fingerprints were taken from
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the pill bottles and no forensic analysis was conducted on
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the drinking glass, and the crime scene was not secured
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: as people wandered freely in and out four hours before
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and after the police arrived, and the bedroom was cleaned,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: sheets changed, and potential evidence handled by multiple parties before
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: anyone thought to preserve it, and most critically, Marilyn's phone
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: records vanished, and these records would have shown exactly who
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: she called on her final day and who called her,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and they might have confirmed Peter Lawford's account or contradicted it.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And they might have revealed whether Robert Kennedy he had
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: been in contact with her, and they might have explained
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the threatening calls she reported. And Captain James Hamilton of
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the LAPD Intelligence Division was later identified as the person
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: who confiscated them. And as we said before, Hamilton had
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the connections to the Kennedy family and he had provided
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: security services during their Los Angeles visits, and crime reporter
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Jack Tobin would later claim Hamilton personally told him he
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: possessed quote the telephone history of the last day or
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: two of Marilyn Monroe's life unquote, and the records were
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: never seen again. So Joe DiMaggio would be the one
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: to claim Marilyn Monroe's body despite their divorce eight years earlier.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: He had never stopped loving her, and now he stepped
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: forward to handle arrangements, determined to give her in death
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the dignity denied in life, and his first decision was exclusionary,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: and he banned virtually everyone from Hollywood studio executives, celebrity friends,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: industry figures who have profited from her image while failing
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: to protect the woman behind it, and Demaggio held them responsible,
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: saying quote unquote morally, if not actually, for her death.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: And the service was held on August eighth, nineteen sixty two,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, and only thirty one
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: mourners attended, a startingly small number for the most famous
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: woman in the world, and Amaggio was there with his
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: son and Marilyn's half sister. Bernice Miracle flew in from Florida,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: and doctor Greenson attended with his family and Lee Strasburg
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: delivered the eulogy, and Arthur Miller did not attend. His
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: third wife was nine months pregnant, and he allegedly sent
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: two bouquets instead, and the casket would be bronze lined
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: with champagne colored silk, costing around twenty five thousand dollars
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: paid by Demaggio, and Marilyn wore a green Amelio Pucci dress,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: one of her favorites, and her longtime makeup artist, to
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Alan Whitey Snyder, prepared her face, and she had actually
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: once made him promise that if she died before him,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: he would do her make up one final time, and
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: he needed jin to get through it. And the autopsy
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: had damaged her hair, and Mortitian's wife, Agnes Flanagan, used
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: a wig to restore the famous blonde waves, and after
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the service, Demaggio sat beside her open casket for hours,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: unable to leave, and when the moment came to close
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the lid, he broke down completely, kissing her and whispering
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I love you, over and over, and he would send
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: roses to her grave three times a week for the
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: next twenty years. So the official investigation concluded within weeks,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: but closure proved elusive and almost immediately alternative theories circulated.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: The Kennedy connection was whispered in Hollywood circles and discussed
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: in newspaper columns and investigated by journalists who sensed a
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: larger story and the inconsistencies timeline gaps, missing phone records,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: empty stomach refused to disappear, and Robert Kennedy's whereabouts on
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: August fourth became a subject of intense speculation, and he
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: was in the Los Angeles area that weekend for a
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: family gathering at Lawford's beach house, and his wife insisted
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: he was in San Francisco when Maryland died, but witnesses
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: would later claim to have seen him in Brentwood that afternoon,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: entering her house. And the FBI, which had maintained a
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: file on Maryland since nineteen fifty five due to her
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: connection to Arthur Miller, monitored the conspiracy theories but apparently
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: conducted no investigation. Classic FBI, and if Hoover possessed evidence
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: linking the Kennedys to her death, it remained locked in
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: private archives, and Eunice Murray quietly left the country for
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: several months after the funeral, traveling to Europe, fueling speculations
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: she had been paid to be unavailable for follow up questions,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: and Greenson seemed haunted by his failure to save his
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: most famous patient because he had seen her that afternoon,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: recognized her vulnerability asked Murray to stay overnight, precisely because
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: he was worried, and still she had died, and nearly
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: all LAPD files related to Marilyn Monroe's death were destroyed
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: in subsequent years, officially in compliance with departmental procedures. Yes,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: she hit the fuck up because the timing was never
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: adequately explained, and routine files were purged periodically, but the
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: death of the most famous woman in the world was
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: hardly routine, and investigators who later sought access found almost nothing,
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: and what survived were fragments, copies made by interested parties,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: notes preserved by individual officers, and documents that escaped the shredder,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: and these would become the foundation for every subsequent investigation
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: and every book and every documentary and every attempt to
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: reconstruct what actually happened, and the deconstruction ensured that the
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: full truth could never be established, and whatever secrets those
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: files contained died with them. But beyond the conspiracy theories,
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: there was simply grief because millions of Americans had grown
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: up with Marilyn Monroe watching her on screen, buying magazines
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: with her face, following her marriages and comebacks, with the
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: attention U usually reserved for family, and she had been
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: part of the lives in a way that transcended ordinary celebrity.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: And now she was gone, dead at thirty six years old,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: and the loss felt personal, even to people who had
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  Speaker 1: never met her, And letters poured into newspapers and fan clubs,
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  Speaker 1: and ordinary people tried to articulate what she had meant
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  Speaker 1: for beauty, yes, but also her vulnerability and the sense
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  Speaker 1: that behind the glamorous facade was someone who struggled just
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  Speaker 1: like they did, because she had made failure looks survivable
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  Speaker 1: and loneliness look universal, and then failure and loneliness had
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  Speaker 1: taken her. But Marilyn Monroe had spent her life being wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and in death she was mourned by a nation that
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: had never truly known her, but felt somehow that they
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  Speaker 1: had lost someone essential. But in the immediate aftermath, most
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: Americans accepted the conclusion, but acceptance eroded over time because
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties brought assassinations that shattered public trust and
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  Speaker 1: official narratives. Kay was killed in November nineteen sixty three,
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  Speaker 1: and the Warrens Commission's conclusions satisfied almost no one, and
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy fell in nineteen sixty eight, and Martin Luther
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  Speaker 1: King Junior and Malcolm X and Vietnam. Americans learned to
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  Speaker 1: distrust what their government told them about death, and we
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: still do today. Where are the Epstein files? But in
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: that climate of suspicion, Maryland's probable it looked less like
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  Speaker 1: a careful conclusion and more like a convenient one. And
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: the Kennedy connections that had seemed like gossip in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty two took on a new significance as the brothers
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  Speaker 1: themselves became victims. And if powerful forces had conspired to
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  Speaker 1: kill the president and his brother, might those same forces
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: have silenced the woman who knew too much? And the
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories multiplied and books appeared and documentaries aired, and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the official finding was never quite definitive and became just
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: one theory among many, endorsed by authority but not necessarily
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: by truth. But the conspiracies began before Marilyn Monroe's body
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  Speaker 1: was even cold, and in the hours between her death
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  Speaker 1: and the official announcement, while doctors and housekeeper were still
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: constructing their timeline, whispers had already started circulating through Hollywood
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: because something wasn't right and the story didn't add up.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: And at the center of every widespread theory stood the
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  Speaker 1: same family name Kennedy, and it would take years for
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: these whispers to coalesce into published accusations, and decades for
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: them to become a permanent feature on American conspiracy culture.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: But the essential elements were present from the beginning. The
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  Speaker 1: famous actress, the powerful brothers, and the inconvenient woman who
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: knew too much. And it was a narrative that wrote itself,
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  Speaker 1: requiring only the willingness to believe that official explanations were lies.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: And whether any of it was true remained, six decades later,
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  Speaker 1: impossible to prove and equally impossible to dismiss. But the affair,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: or the affairs that Maryland allegedly conducted with the Kennedy
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: brothers of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert,
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  Speaker 1: became the foundation upon which all the other conspiracy theories
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: were built. And the evidence was substantial, but circumstantial. And
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Maryland had known both brothers since the mid nineteen fifties,
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  Speaker 1: moving in the same social circles through Peter Lawford, and
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  Speaker 1: she had attended parties at the Lawford Beach House, been
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  Speaker 1: photographed at political events, and cultivated connections to power that
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  Speaker 1: went beyond mere celebrity and the happy birthday, mister president.
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  Speaker 1: Performance crystallized public suspicion into something approaching certainty, because no
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  Speaker 1: woman saying to a man that way unless something was
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  Speaker 1: happening between them or something did you know? Some fire
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: was there, some spark was there. It was either a
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: confession or a provocation, or possibly both. But what actually
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: occurred between Marylyn and JFK remains disputed, and the relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Robert Kennedy was even murkier because there was claims
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  Speaker 1: that he was there that day, visiting Marylyn in her
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  Speaker 1: own home. But again, at this point, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: much else other than all of this circumstantial evidence. But
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: if the Kennedys or forces acting on their behalf had
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: wanted Maryland dead, what would have driven them to such extremity?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: Because first, there was the threat of exposure, as Marylyn
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: the theory had grown tired of being used and discarded,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: and she was angry enough to threaten going public. A
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: press conference was supposedly planned at which she would reveal everything,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and this threat was existential for the Kennedys, and JFK's
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: presidency was built partly on his image as a devoted
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  Speaker 1: family man. Aren't they all now in Second, there was
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the question of what Marilyn knew. The Red Diary became
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: a central artifact of conspiracy lore, a journal in which
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: she allegedly recorded sensitive information gleaned from conversations with the
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy brothers, and nuclear secrets and CIA plots to assassinate
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  Speaker 1: Castro and details of the Bay of Pigs disaster. This
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: diary included a lot of insane stuff, allegedly, and Lionel Gradson,
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  Speaker 1: a former coroner's aid, claimed to have seen the diary,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: and his account was detailed a red covered notebook filled
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: with political secrets and intimate confessions. But Grandson had been
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: fired from the coroner's office for stealing from corpses, and
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: his testimony offered years later in exchange for payment, could
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  Speaker 1: not be corroborated. And third, there was the simpler matter
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: of reputation. Even without nuclear secrets, a public relationship between
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: a Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe would have been scandalous because
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: the family had invested too much in their image of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: Catholic rectitude to allow it to be tarnished. And if
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: Marilynd was murdered, how was it done? As the empty
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: stomach presented the central puzzle, and she had supposedly swallowed
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: forty or fifty capsules, yet no residue remained, and one
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: theory pointed to suppository administration and barbituates introduced rectally bypassing
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  Speaker 1: the stomach entirely, but this would have required cooperation or
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  Speaker 1: incapacitation from the victim, and the injection theory ran into
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: a significant obstacle because Nogucci had examined her body exhaustively
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: for needle marks and found none, and theories countered that
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: certain sites might have been missed, or that a fine
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: enough needle would leave no visible mark, and the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of tissue samples meant microscopic analysis could never be performed again,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: how convenient. And Donald Spotto, whose nineteen ninety three biography
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: offered the most carefully researched alternative to proposed accidental death
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: through medical negligence, and his theory held that Marylynd's doctors
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: had failed to coordinate prescriptions and she had manipulated Engelberg
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: into prescribing nebutah without Greenson's knowledge, and that evening she
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: took the nen buttah, and later Greenson, unaware of what
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: she had consumed, administered a chloral hydrate enema, a treatment
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: method he reportedly used with some patients, and the combination
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: would prove fatal. And in Spato's sinnet, the staging of
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: the death scene wasn't a government conspiracy, but a cover
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: up by two physicians desperate to avoid malpractice consequences. This
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: one's interesting as well in the timeline, discrepancies that changed sheets,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: the delayed call to police all could be explained by
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: panicked to doctors rather than CIA assassins. But beyond the
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Kennedys themselves, suspicion fell on the agencies that served and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: sometimes surveiled them, and the FBI had maintained a file
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: on Maryland since nineteen fifty five, like we said before,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: and opened during her relationship with Arthur Miller, and documents
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: released years later showed agents tracking rumors about her death,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: but the Bureau apparently conducted no investigation, and if Hoover
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: possessed evidence linking the Kennedys to her death, he kept
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: it locked away. And the CIA theories were more allurid
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: but less substantiated, and Norman Mahler, in his nineteen seventy
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: three book, speculated that FBI or CIA wrote vague elements
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: might have killed her, perhaps revenge for the Bay of Pigs,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: and Mahler later recanted on sixty Minutes, admitting he had
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: included it primarily to boost his book sales Slimy, That's grouse, Dude.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: But his honesty didn't prevent the theory from taking on
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: a life of its own, and wire tapping allegations added
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: another layer, and Bernard Spindel, an electronics expert who had
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: worked for the Teamsters, claimed he had bugged Maryland's home
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: on orders from Jimmy Hoffa who wanted evidence of Bobby
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Kennedy's affair. And fred O'tash, a former LAPD officer and
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: private investigator, made similar claims, and he had recordings of
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: her final hours that would prove what really happened. But
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: neither man ever produced these recordings, and the nineteen eighty
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: two reinvestigation found the wire tapping claims baseless, but the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: allegations had already embedded themselves into conspiracy lore, and then
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: organized crime offered another set of suspects. Sam Gionsanna was
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: the boss of the ship Cago Outfit, a man who
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: moved between gangster circles and show business, and he shared
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: a mistress with JFK Judith Exner, and he allegedly participated
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: in CIA plots to assassinate Castro, and his connection to
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Marylyn was tenuous. Both had visited Frank Sinatra's chal Nevi Lodge,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: but evidence they ever met remained circumstantial, and Jimmy Hoffa
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: presented a more direct motive, and the Teamster's president despised
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy with a passion bordering on obsession, and an
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: affair with Maryland properly documented and exposed might have been
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a weapon against his enemy. And Milo Sparaglio alleged in
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two that Hoffa and Giasana had conspired to
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: kill Marylyn, and his evidence was then hearsay, speculation and
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: unverifiable sources. And Darwin Porter claimed five mafia hitmen had
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: entered Maryland's home, subdued her with chloroform, and had administered
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: a fatal barbituate enema, and the scenario was cinematically vivid,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: but so reported by nothing resembling credible evidence. But twenty
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: years after Maryland's death, the question had grown loud enough
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: that authorities could no longer ignore them, and Los Angeles
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: District Attorney John Van de Camp ordered a threshold investigation,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: a review to determine whether a full criminal investigation was warranted,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: and lead investigator Ronald h Or Mike Carroll spent more
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: than three months examining documents, interviewing witnesses, and evaluating conspiracy claims.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: And Carroll's thirty page report was definitive in rejecting murder theories,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: and the investigation found no credible evidence supporting a murder theory.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't have a lot of stuff to
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: look at because a lot of it got destroyed, But
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: all right, and no. Gucci's autopsy was deemed competent and
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: the probable ruling was reasonably supported by data, and the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: witnesses who had promoted conspiracy theories were almost without exception
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: on reliable, and the wire tapping allegations were investigated and
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: found false, and the red Diary either never existed or
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: had never been seen by any credible witness according to
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: these people, and Grandson was dismissed as discredited, and the
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: report acknowledged problems with the original investigation, saying quote unquote,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: factual discrepancies and unanswered questions remained, but the discrepancies and
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: missing evidence did not equal murder necessarily, and Carrol's conclusion
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: was stark, and it was. If Marilyn had been murdered,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: the crime would have required a massive in place conspiracy
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: involving everyone at the death scene, the coroner's office, and
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: most of the LAPD officers assigned to the case. And
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: such a conspiracy was theoretically possible, but practically incredible if
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: you know anything about the government. Now, though anything's possible,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: isn't it. But von de comp permitted himself editorial comment quote,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: on the basis of the known facts, permit me to
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: express the faint hope that Marilyn Monroe be permitted to
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: rest in peace. She would not be because the conspiracy
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: theory survived partly because their proponents were skilled at presenting
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: discredited evidence as credible revelation. And Robert Slatzer claimed to
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: have married Marilyn in a secret Tijuana ceremony in October
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: of nineteen fifty two, and the marriage, he said, lasted
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: only three days before being annulled, but it made him
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: a confidante who understood her better than anyone, and based
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: on this knowledge, he concluded she was murdered and the
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: marriage almost certainly never happened, and no documentary evidence supported
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: Slatzer's claim, and friends from that period had no memory
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: of such event. But Slatzer was persistent and persuasive, and
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: his story provided the foundation for books and documentaries and
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty two reinvestigation itself. And John Miner presented
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: a different credibility problem because he had been present at
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Marilynd's autopsy and had interviewed Greenson as part of the
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: original investigation, and decades later, Miner claimed Greenson had played
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: him audio TI tapes recorded by Marilyn herself, tapes providing
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: she was not willing to tap her own life, but
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: the tapes never surfaced and Greenson had died by the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: time Miner was public and Miner's credibility deteriorated under scrutiny,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: and he had lost his law license and lied about
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: working for the Kinsey Institute and gone bankrupt before selling
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: his transcripts. And James Hall claimed to have been an
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: ambulance attendant who responded before her death was officially reported,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: and in his account, she was still alive, the comatose
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: but breathing when the ambulance arrived, and Greenson had injected
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: adrenaline directly into her heart, but the injection killed her. Allegedly,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: that's what this guy's saying. But Hall failed a polygraph test,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: and he had been paid forty thousand dollars by a tabloid,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: and his account contradicted the actual ambulance driver, Ken Hunter,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: who told the nineteen eighty two investigation that Marilyn was
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: clearly dead when he arrived and her body was cold,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: having been lifeless for quite some time. And all the
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theories are still debated today, But at the end
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: of the day, Marilyn Monroe had spent her life being
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: looked at, and in death, she could never stop being
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: examined and autopsy photos analyzed and timeline discrepancies parsed and
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: witness statements compared in an endless search for the truth
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: that remained perpetually out of reach. The girl who had
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: stared at the RKAO water Tower and dreamed of becoming
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: a movie star had achieved something beyond stardom, and she
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: had become a permanent American mystery, with her death as
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: famous as her life, and her final hours as scrutinized
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: as any role she had ever played, and the curtain
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: had fallen, but the performance never ended, and the tile
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: at the entrance to her Brentwood home bore a Latin
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: inscription Curson Proficio, I am finishing my journey, a haunting
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: reminder of what happened. And in the decades since that
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: August night, armies of investigators, journalists, and amateurs sleuths have
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: searched for answers in timeline discrepancies and missing phone records
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: and contradictory statements of witnesses who changed their stories with
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: the years. And they have found theories, but they have
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: not found truth. And perhaps they were looking in the
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: wrong place. But the mystery of how Marilyn Monroe died
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: has eclipsed something more important, and that is how she lived.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: The unwonted child who became the most wanted woman in
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: the world, the girl who educated herself through public libraries
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: and sheer determination, and the actress who out maneuvered studio
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: executives and built her own production company when women were
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: treated as decorative property. And the reader of Dostayevsky who
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: let the world believe she was a dumb blonde because
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: she understood how to weaponize underestimation. She contained multitudes and
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: was reduced to a single image, the white dress, the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: subway grate, the performance of desirability that obscured the performer herself.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: But whatever happened on August fourth, nineteen sixty two, Marilyn
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: Monroe deserved better than she received. Better from her parents,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: her husbands, and her doctors, and better from a culture
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: that consumed her image while dismissing her humanity. And she
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: absolutely deserved to grow old. So remember the girl at
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: the orphanage window, staring at the studio water tower and
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: dreaming harder than anyone. Norma Jean Mortensen came into this
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: world unwanted, and Marilyn Monroe left it alone. The journey
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: is finished, but the questions remain. And that is that
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: on the life and very mysterious, unfortunate and untimely death
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: of Marilyn Monroe. If you guys want me to deep
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: dive into any other topics, let me know down below.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: I always read the comments, and until then, stay safe
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: and I'll see your beautiful face in the next one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Bye,