Posted on 03/16/2007 7:36:53 AM PDT by Mike Bates
For four decades there have been rumours that Marilyn Monroe's death was not a simple suicide. Now a Los Angeles-based Australian writer and director, Philippe Mora, has uncovered an FBI document that throws up a chilling new scenario.
BOBBY KENNEDY'S affair with the screen idol Marilyn Monroe has been documented, but a secret FBI file suggests the late US attorney-general was aware of - and perhaps even a participant in - a plan "to induce" her suicide.
The detailed three-page report implicates the Hollywood actor Peter Lawford, Monroe's psychiatrist, staff and her publicist in the plot.
The allegations suggest the 36-year-old actress, who had a history of staging attention-seeking suicide attempts, was deliberately given the means to fake another suicide on August 4, 1962. But this time, it is suggested, she was allowed to die as she sought help.
The document, hidden among thousands of pages released under freedom-of-information laws last October, was received by the FBI on October 19, 1964 - two years after her death - and titled simply "ROBERT F KENNEDY".
It was compiled by an unnamed former special agent working for the then Democrat governor of California, Pat Brown, and forwarded to Washington by Curtis Lynum, then head of the San Francisco FBI. Despite a disclaimer that it could not be sourced or authenticated, it was considered important enough to immediately circulate to the FBI's five most senior officers, including director J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man, Clyde Tolson.
The report was in effect buried for decades as a classified document, and even the released version contains censored sections. Never before mentioned despite thousands of articles, books and documentaries about her death, it details aspects of Kennedy's on-and-off affair with the movie star, including sex parties and a lesbian dalliance. . .
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Yes, I've heard that, too. I read that she was trying to impress JFK by learning more about politics so that when it came up in conversation she could sound knowledgeable; so when he talked to her about political things she would write it down in her diary so she could remember it.
this might get coverage, right after Rove passes wind and CNN and the AP get whiff of the story
this might get coverage, right after Rove passes wind and CNN and the AP get whiff of the story
Which means, of course, that while Teddy is offensive, he isn't much of a threat.
You seem to forget Ted Kennedy's coverup of the girl he killed in a car accident. You also seem to forget the coverup of his nephew's rape on his compound.
pinging me after nap time.
Her fatal dose was administered by a fLeets enema. Read "Goddess" which came out in the 70s or early 80s. Absolute, direct link to RFK.
I'm familiar with the book Goddess and not persuaded by its argument. Having written true crime books myself, I know its easy to stretch the facts a bit and -- voila! -- rank speculation comes out sounding like the only possible interpretation.
I don't doubt that RFK was involved somehow. But neither do I buy the story that he and Lawford personally visited Marilyn's home that night.
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