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Hi, this is a surprise reply to your post on Marilyn Munroe. I am writing this over a year after your post. I just finished reading a book entitled “Marilyn” by Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham , it was written in the early nineties. I had also read “Goddess” by Anthony Summers which was written in the eighties. Both books are very good especially concerning her explosive affairs with the Kennedys. Reading this book has made me think about what would have happened if she had not been murdered.

Did you know that she had revealed her Kennedy affairs to a number of her friends? She had also revealed this to several big gossip columnists of the time, they had been holding on to the story for weeks, not knowing what to do with it. Finally Dorothy Kilgallen’s column appeared with this blind item just one day before Marilyn Munroe died: “Marilyn Monroe is cooking in the sex appeal department. She has appeared vastly alluring to a handsome gentleman. A handsome gentleman with a bigger name than Joe DiMaggio in his heyday—so don't write her off.”

I have been thinking about this for a couple of days and wondering what America would have been like if Marilyn Munroe had not been murdered? No doubt the story would have gotten out to the general public. If she had not been killed, the gossip would have spread throughout the country with the average American finally knowing about the affairs. That would have been the end of “Camelot”, Kennedy would have lost the 1964 election and we would not have had Ted Kennedy as the standard bearer of the Kennedy myth for forty years. I think America would have been far less liberal because the Democrats would not have had the great Camelot, Martyred President emotional power they used to sweep their starry-eyed vision of America as the “Camelot” dream of JFK.

This “Marilyn” book that I just finished contains a reference to another book in the bibliography. It is titled: “The Kennedy Neurosis”. I have just ordered it on Amazon.