Joe DiMaggio died convinced JFK had Monroe killed

The Scotsman ^ | February 11, 2003 | ANNETTE WITHERIDGE

[MadIvan]

I wonder how the "Hero of Chappaquiddick" will respond to this, if at all. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Commander8]

Another crack in the Camelot myth.

[rs79bm]

The Kennedy's seem to be involved in a lot of peoples deaths. As are the Clintons.

[DoughtyOne]

He'll just down a boatload of whiskey and foget aboud't.

[Republic]

I wonder if Mary Jo and Marilyn are up there somewhere, comparing notes (along with JFK and Robert's sister, who was lobotomized on orders from dear ol dad).

[Happygal]

I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories.

But I admire a man who WILL NOT shake the hand of someone more 'powerful' than he out of principal.

[yarddog]

I love conspiracy theories although I don't actually believe many of them. I do think Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK and I don't think the Air Force is hiding UFO's.

On the other hand I think it is entirely possible that one of the Kennedy's is responsible for Marilyn's death. I have seen too many people who knew her well including Jeanie Carmen who are convinced of it.

[Miss Marple]

My goodness! We certainly live in interesting times!

[DoughtyOne]

ShamALOT myths!

Look back over the last fifty years. Look at the Democrats we've had for President. There isn't a one of them worth kissing Nixon's shoes including Kennedy.

Look at what happened to Nixon, and the free ride the other's got. We now now John was a drugged up basket case most of the time. Geez, I cann't believe how the wool was pulled over the American public's eyes regarding that guy. Carter made foreign policy blunders we'll be dealing with for another thirty years or so. Clinton, hell what didn't that guy do?

Starting with Ford on, the Democrats played it up that every Repubican President was stupid. Ford was supposedly a bumbler, Reagan was a tottering old fool, President Bush was vilified by Clinton as if he was dirt under his toenails, and now the current President is called stupid.

Look at what the Democrats gave us. Look at the men the Republican party gave us. I may not agree with some of what they do, but at least they aren't subversive traitors, inept country bumpkins or drug addicts.

[waterstraat]

If anyone knows, if anyone read her diary, it would have been Joe. Where is the diary?

[DoughtyOne]

I don't know what the full scoop on Marilyn was, but Robert stated he was on the east coast the night she died. Later on I saw an interview with Lawford who admitted that Robert stayed at his LA home the night she died. Lord knows the Kennedy's were involved in some pretty sordid stuff from Exner to vote theft to who knows what.

[You Dirty Rats]

Sounds like Morrie the Lawyer is upset that his meal ticket died, so he writes a book linking everyone who was anyone in the early 1960's to cash in one more time.

None of this can be proved or disproved.

Book is waste of tree.

[amused]

Morris Engelberg is a real POS but it does not surprise me that Joe D. thought JFK whacked Marilyn. He hated the Kennedys.

About the only consistent thing I have seen about conspiracies dealing with Marilyn Monroe's death is that it was via anal suppository.

[Commander8]

I agree, when Harry Truman called Nixon an SOB and said that everyone who voted for him should go to Hell, the media thought it was cute and witty and to this day public school history teachers remember the episode with an almost teary-eyed nostalgia.

Now imagine if President Reagan said that about Clinton and his supporters, you'd hear words like mean-spirited and crude.

[jd777]

According to the book, which contains a foreword by Henry Kissinger...

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, mean spirited. Har But it wasn't mean spirited for Saturday Night Live to skewer Ford every Saturday night for years. The humor wasn't lost on me, but the premise didn't stop there. The media supported that persona whenever possible. Every time Ford made a misstep it was run over and over. Clinton made some missteps during his Presidency, but you seldom saw them once, let alone over and over. And the media acted as if he was the smartest President in US history. Hell he was so smart he actually tried to parse "is". LMAO, what an ignorant fool that guy was and is.

[GeneD]

Publishers Weekly's review:

The New York Yankees made Joe DiMaggio a household name, but it took Brooklyn-born, Florida-based attorney Morris Engelberg to make DiMaggio wealthy. Now, Engelberg puts his personal spin on the life and times of the Yankee Clipper, who died in 1999, with Engelberg by his side, after a short battle with lung cancer. But contrary to the book's provocative subtitle, Engelberg's effort is little more than a paean to DiMaggio, his childhood idol turned dream client. Engelberg writes that he regarded DiMaggio, whose affairs he managed for the last 16 years of the slugger's life, as his "best friend" rather than a client. Not surprisingly, the book reads as though it were written by a best friend, heavy on deference and light on detail-except when it comes to Engelberg's record-setting success in peddling DiMaggio to memorabilia dealers. Indeed, more baseballs are signed than swatted in this version of DiMaggio's life, while DiMaggio's legendary 13-year Hall-of-Fame career, which includes a record 56-game hitting streak and nine World Series rings, is recalled in a brisk 60 pages. Off the field, DiMaggio's famously complicated relationships, including those with his brother and rival, Red Sox outfielder Dom DiMaggio, and Yankee teammates like Gehrig and Mantle, are largely unexplored. Even chapters devoted to DiMaggio's relationships with ex-wife Marilyn Monroe, and his estranged son, Joe Jr., are shallow and disappointing. To his credit, Engelberg clearly made DiMaggio a rich man. But his almost unsettling reverence for and loyalty to his subject overwhelm any attempts, however timid, to truly understand one of the game's greatest and most enigmatic icons.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Wonder if John and Robert helped Marilyn out of the dress that was sewn onto her body.

[SevenofNine]

Ivan hey sacracsim aside it is known fact that Sinatra and his Rat Pack help stole the 1960 elections thanks to Chicago Family vote on Teamsters if you know what I mean and I think you do