[nmh]

I have no doubt that she was murdered. She knew to much. Being passed around like a cheap tissue with the Kennedy family wasn't ideal for the self esteem of anyone. One relationship with JFK was ending and another with his brother and from what friends said this was going over well and she was wanting to TALK about it and threatened to go public with it. So I have no doubt she was used, abused and discarded when it threatened them - specifically the Kennedy's. Imagine what it would have done to their phony image! In those days JFK would slip out the back door for his affairs and the press ignored it. To have someone like MM go public would have been problematic.

[Niuhuru]

I think that Marilyn let her fantasies control her perceptions too much. This isn’t politically correct, but back then, as is quite a bit now still, if you are an actress, people will think of you as a sex object, not a person to get to know for your mind. Back then, it was doubly reinforced. The Kennedy men all married for social prominence and ambition and had showgirls and actresses on the side. Prominent men didn’t marry them or leave their wives for them.

I don’t know if you know this, but Dorothy Dandridge, the first black woman to be nominated for an academy award, was wooed by a wealthy Argentine banker. Dorothy had fantasies of marriage, but the banker was married and wanted to keep her as his mistress, “concubina” in Spanish. He said to her (Dorothy) that to marry an actress would ruin his professional and social standing. Say the least that he was already married.

I think that IF they did bump her off, it was because of that phone call she made to Jackie, threatening to break up the marriage or something. Either that or threatening Jackie herself. But I personally believe that Marilyn simply self destructed and couldn’t live with herself in the end. Couldn’t live with facing reality. She was on a downward spiral for a long time I think.