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Texte nº 7
Original Document - http://www.marilynmonroepages.com/essays2.html
Summary
The 4th of August 1962 Marilyn Monroe
died as a result of an overdose of barbiturates. It was stated as a “probable
suicide” although all the evidence surrounding the death indicates a covered-up
murderer.
Besides all the strange sounds and
shouts heard by the neighbours that night, Marilyn lived in a famous world,
which walks together with danger.
Lately she had had liaisons with both
the Kennedys, the president and his brother. Marilyn
threatened to turn public all she knew which could ruin their careers and that
may also have led to her death.
Her best friend, Pat Newcomb, also
reports that the night of her death she left Marilyn without any signs of a
possible tragedy.
Clemmons, the police officer who arrived
at Monroe`s residence after her death found some strange
occurences: the housekeeper had both the washing and
drying machines running; she claims that Marilyn`s
window had been broken, in an effort to get into the room when Monroe`s door was locked. But in that case why had the glass
fallen inside the house rather than to the exterior of the residence, which
means that the criminals broke the window from the inside to make it look as
if that was how they got in.
The psychiatrist, Greenson, claims that she reached the phone for help, but
then why didn`t she call the maid who was right next
door.
The autopsy shows that Marilyn`s stomach or duodenum had absolutely no signs of Nemputal, the fatal drug. There was no drinking glass in the
room so we do not know how she swallowed the pills. Another funny coincidence
is that Monroe`s name was already written on the embalmer’s
tags before the medical examiner had been informed of the autopsy.
In addition to an incomplete investigation,
Nogushi began to observe that his original reports
had been altered, mostly erased facts such as Monroe`s several bruises.
The General Attorney, Robert F. Kennedy
was seen by scores of residents at Monroe`s home late
Saturday Night along with his brother in law, Peter Lawford, and Marilyn`s psychiatrist,
Ralph Greenson.
Eunice Murray and Dr. Greenson
are also suspects, since they took 4 hours to call the police. Although they
say they “ had to get permission from the studio publicity department, they
only called the police at 3.30h. Maybe this was the time it took to get Bobby
Kennedy out of town. The neighboors had, in fact,
complained about the sound of a helicopter.
Also, Monroe`s
mortician says that her body had already reached a stage of rigor mortis. He
estimated that she died between 9.30h and 11.30h on Saturday night, exactly
when dozens of neighbours reported seeing Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford enter the house along with Dr. Greenson.
Nonetheless, the latter defends the
theory that Marilyn did not commit suicide. According to him, she was not suicidal,
at least not in the last few days. She was what he called a typical attempter
person, one that never actually commits suicide.
A private investigator, Otash, had been taping Kennedy for weeks prior to Monroe`s murder. He heard physical blows and a door slamming.
Apparently, Bobby was looking for Monroe`s red diary
where the majority of the information about conversations between Marilyn, JFK
and Robert Kennedy was. The subject matter ranged from Russia and Cuba to the
Mafia and Sinatra. Perhaps, Bobby had given her some drugs so he could look
for the diary, but gave her far too much. Perhaps that is why there are records
of a first ambulance being called before midnight with reports that Marilyn
was still alive and that Bobby had been in the ambulance with her. Maybe that
is why the ambulance turned around instead of going to the hospital. They had
to get Bobby out of town.
Various people were involved in the
cover-up of the murder, but not in the murder itself: evidence was suppressed,
paperwork was taken from files, people who had knowledge of what happened were
not listened to or sought out and someone in the department was removing and
rewriting key material from the Monroe file. Her report is now only comprises19
pages.
To this day, the LA district attorney’s
office does not welcome any investigation into the murder of Marilyn Monroe.
Any person who may have tried to prove her murder publicly has received death
threats from palpable sources.
Lexicon
Covered up:
couvert (couvrir)
Threathned:
menacé
Housekeeper: femme de ménage
Maid: domestique
Stomach: estomac
Swallowed:
englouti
Embalmers:
Tags: étiquettes
Bruises: bleus
Complained:
plaint
Blows: souffle
Ranged: varié
Sought out: résolu
Résumé
Tous les indices relatifs à la mort de Marilyn Monroe le 4 Août 1962 indiquent
un assassinat.
Il y a beaucoup de théories et d’aspects qui conduisent à cette opinion :
- Elle
eut une relation avec la famille Kennedy et a menacé de dire publiquement ce
qu’elle savait ;
- Pat
Newcomb défend que Marilyn ne présentait aucun signe des personnes qui sont
sur le point de se suicider ;
- La
situation trouvée par la police était bizarre : la femme de ménage nettoyait
le linge et elle disait que la fenêtre était cassée, mais il y avait du
verre cassé à l’intérieur de la chambre et pas à l’extérieur ;
- Pourquoi
Marilyn n’a-t-elle pas demandé d’aide à sa femme de ménage ?
- Le
nom de Monroe était déjà inscrit sur les étiquettes avant même que le médecin
ne sache pour l`autopsie ;
- Quelques
aspects dans le rapport ont disparu ;
- Robert
Kennedy, Peter Lawford et Dr. Greenson
ont été vus le samedi soir prés de la résidence de Monroe.
- Murray
et Greenson ont pris 4 heures après la mort de Monroe pour appeler
la police, sans avoir quelque excuse plausible ;
- Greenson classifie Monroe
comme faisant partie de la catégorie des personnes qui tentent commettre un
suicide mais qui ne le commettent jamais ;
- Kennedy
cherchait le journal intime de Monroe où étaient inscrites des informations
confidentielles sur la famille Kennedy, la Russie, Cuba, la Mafia et Sinatra.
Il y a, donc, beaucoup des personnes qui ont couvert l‘assassinat et ils sont
arrivés à le faire, le rapport aujourd’hui a 19 pages et personne n’a l’autorisation
d’enquêter sur le cas.
Commentary
When the world received the news that Marilyn
Monroe had past away it was surely a shock, as it is every time that some famous
celebrity dies, and in her special case because she was still quite young.
What is at first sight something that can be controlled,
in this case has turned into suspicion and curiosity towards the circumstances
surrounding her death.
She was found dead, but how did she die? What
actually happened? Did she really commit suicide? Unfortunately, these and several
other questions will always remain without an answer.
Although the official story is that she committed suicide, the truth is that there are many things that don’t make any sense: different versions of what happened that night, lack of proof, contradictory facts, too many people who had many reasons to want her death, or a lot of important facts that were not taken into consideration by the authorities, and why not?
Too many facts have become clear and bright now.
Looking back and seeing the period and the context when everything happened,
the historical time, the people she was involved with, all the things that she
probably knew, deep down we know that it wasn’t just a simple suicide. Something
lies beneath and, as always, there is someone who knows the truth. The world
knows, although this remains an uncertain knowledge, that she was murdered,
but there is someone somewhere who knows how things really happened that night.
Other links:
- http://www.angelfire.com/va/spresly/marylin.html
- http://www.rylant.org/index2_e/hot_marilyn.htm
- http://pnahay.home.sprynet.com/ufomonro.htm
- http://www.geocities.com/cathycollie/monroe.htm
- http://www.marilynmonroepages.com/howshedied.html
-http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/SS680/Funeral_Marilyn_Monroe.html
- http://foia.fbi.gov/monroe/monroe1.pdf
- http://users.skynet.be/p.pollefoort/pages/ident.htm
Texte nº 8
Original Document - http://www.coverups.com/monroe/theories.htm
Summary
To better understand what happened to Marilyn, it`s important to look at her life in the weeks leading up
to her death.
Marilyn Monroe started shooting the film “Something`s got to give”, only 14 months after she had been
treated for addiction to barbiturates and alcohol. On May, 19 she went to NY
to sing “Happy Birthday” for President John F. Kennedy, which served to prove
what many people already knew: Monroe was the President’s lover.
After this, she made her entrance at a party given by
the theater magnate Arthur Krim,
where Kennedy pulled the actress away from other guests. Robert Kennedy soon
joined them. They stood there for about 15 minutes.
After this, the Attorney General didn’t seem at ease
when a journalist wrote some notes while talking to Marilyn Monroe or when he
knew that a photo had been taken of the Kennedy brothers and Marilyn.
After the party, the Secret Service escorted the President
and Marilyn to the basement of Krim`s apartment house
and through a series of tunnels that led to the Carlyle Hotel. It was the last
prolonged encounter between them.
Monroe returned to filming two days later with severe
infections masked by amphetamines and painkillers. The following week she learned
that the President was about to end their affair, on the urging of his advisers,
who believed that his public flirtation could harm his political future. On
June 8th, Monroe was fired for mental illness.
After Monroe was dismissed, Robert Kennedy arrived at
Brentwood home for a visit that was both personal and political. Later on he
gave her his own private number at the Justice Department so she could stop
calling the White House.
Robert Kennedy was perfect in cleaning up the family
name and he actually had manage to hide all traces of JFK`s
affair with alleged Mafia girl Judith Campbell Exner.
But he soon embarked on a blazing love affair with the most famous woman in
the world. Bobby and Marilyn talked for hours, during those romantic days in
summer ‘62. They may well have talked of Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs, the
Peace Corps or organized crime among other things. Monroe borrowed books on
current events and took notes about their political conversations.
But, in mid-July, Monroe found that her lover had suddenly
disconnected himself from her. Monroe was definitely a liability for the Kennedy
political aspirations. According to some sources, Bobby had been told to drop
her as quickly as possible.
During the summer of 62, Marilyn suffered from insomnia
and had signs of anorexia. In order to heal her, her psychiatrist, Dr. Greenson,
was giving her chloral hydrates at night and a bit of champagne. Besides this,
methamphetamine shots were provided by studio doctors, which combined with alcohol
damaged Marilyn`s health.
By the end of July, the Marilyn question had become a
powder keg for the Kennedys. Monroe was already heartbroken
by her treatment at their hands and she seemingly never understood why the President
and the General Attorney hadn’t the courage to say goodbye to her themselves.
According to several friends, Monroe began threatening
to hold a press conference to discuss her relationship with the Kennedy brothers.
She wasn’t going to be shoved aside just because she had become inconvenient.
On the morning of August 4th, Monroe had been
up for hours with her housekeeper and her publicist. Marilyn had had lots of
phone calls that morning from Peter Lawford, Bob Kennedy
or just a female voice saying “Leave Bobby alone”. She was in a rage.
Some testimonies state that in the afternoon of the same
day, Bobby had been at her place and they had an argument, after which she called
her psychiatrist. He must have given her an injection of barbiturates to calm
her down.
After that she talked with Dimaggio`s
son and her friend Jeane on the phone and none of
them believed she was depressed or on drugs.
Informed sources say that she died
before midnight, but only at 4.25 A.M. did Sergeant Jack Clemmons get a call
saying that Marilyn Monroe had committed suicide.
When he arrived everything seemed to have been obviously
staged as a death scene and it all looked too tidy to be true.
At the time of her death, some things were going very
well for Marilyn. Although she was unhappy with her treatment at the hands of
the Kennedys, that shouldn’t have been enough to drive
her to suicide, which leads on to accidental death or murder. She had threatened
to expose rich and powerful figures and may have paid the price for that with
her life.
Lexicon
Escorted: escortés
Basement: sous-sol
Encounter: Rendez-vous
Amphetamines: amphétamines
PainKillers: analgésique
Dismissed: renvoyé
Alleged: prétendu
Embarked: embarqué
Blazing: en brûlant
Borrowed: prêté
Liability: obstacle / handicap
Shots: piqûres
Damaged: ruiné
Shove (to): pousser ( physiquement )
Résumé
Pour mieux comprendre ce qui est vraiment arrivé,
il est important de regarder la vie de Monroe pendant les semaines précédant
sa mort.
Marilyn a commencé à tourner « Something`s got to Give », elle a été soignée pour son problème de drogue
et d’alcool.
Le 9 mai 1962 elle est allée chanter « Joyeux Anniversaire » au président Kennedy. Durant la fête, qui eut lieu après, Monroe et les frères Kennedy ont parlé en privé environ 15 minutes. Après ça, Bobby n’était pas très à l’aise quand un journaliste écrivit quelques notes lorsqu’il parlait avec Marilyn.
Après la fête, les services secrets ont escorté JFK
et Monroe à l’hôtel Carlyle pour ce qui serait leur dernière rencontre prolongée.
Plus tard elle a découvert que le Président allait
rompre avec elle parce qu’elle pourrait représenter un problème pour sa carrière
politique.
En plus, Marilyn est renvoyée du tournage pour des
raisons de santé.
En essayant d’éloigner Monroe de son frère et de
la Maison Blanche, Bobby Kennedy lui donne son numéro personnel et ils commencèrent
à parler longuement. Sans se rendre compte qu’ils commençaient une autre histoire
amoureuse. Durant cette période, Monroe a beaucoup lu à propos de l’actualité
et elle a pris des notes sur des conversations politiques.
Mais, subitement, Kennedy a coupé tous les liens
avec Monroe et a mis fin à leur relation.
Pendant l`été 1962, la santé de Marilyn se dégradait : elle souffrait d’insomnies et avait des symptômes d’anorexie. Le docteur Greenson lui prescrivait des médicaments trop forts ainsi que les médecins des studios. Elle était vraiment déçue de sa relation avec la famille Kennedy et elle menaça de donner une conférence de presse pour parler de sa relation avec les Kennedys.
Le matin du 4 août elle reçut de nombreux appels
des Kennedys ou anonymes. L’après-midi, Bobby vient
chez elle et les deux discutèrent. Pour se calmer, elle à appelé le docteur
Greenson et peut-être lui a-t-il donné quelques médicaments.
Quelques sources disent qu’elle est morte avant minuit
mais c’est seulement à 4h25 que la police reçut l’appel. Et quand Mr. Clemmons est arrivé au local il a constaté que tout était
trop rangé, comme pour une scène de mort.
On peut dire que, à l’époque où Monroe est morte,
et malgré son problème avec la famille Kennedy, beaucoup des choses allaient
très bien pour elle. Peut-être a-t-elle menacé de dénoncer la vie publique des
personnes très importantes et peut-être l’a-t-elle payé de sa vie.
Conclusion
In this work we have tried to learn
a something Marilyn Monroe`s life and especially about
her death. To some small degree, we have played the role of detectives in order
to find out all the theories, or at least some of them, related to the death
of this famous person. Lots of arguments, and versions were found, and with
so much information it was quite hard to make a selection and know which one
of them actually have a strong logic. There are mainly some facts that everybody
knows, but what was really a pleasure for us was to discover the minute details
which almost nobody knows. As Internet sources almost always comprise a degree
of uncertainty, we have had a difficult time distinguishing which ones may actually
be reliable, including some official sites such as that of the FBI.
We enjoyed doing this review and we
definitely now know more, not only about Marilyn Monroe, but also about all
the people who surrounded her, the time she lived in and all the events which
occurred during that period.