#996 – Donald R. McGovern, Jim DiEugenio

 

  • Author of Murder Orthodoxies: A Non-Conspiracist’s View of Marilyn Monroe’s Death:
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  • Article: The Marilyn Monroe/Kennedys Hoax – Part 1: The Mythology is Launched by Jim DiEugenio
  • Article: The Marilyn Monroe/Kennedys Hoax – Part 2: The Mythology Soars into Outer Space by Jim DiEugenio
  • A two-part review of Don McGovern’s Murder Orthodoxies by Jim DiEugenio
  • How Don got interested in the Marilyn Monroe case
  • Don has been investigating the case since 2012
  • Authors like Norman Mailer and Anthony Summers have spread the hoax
  • Marilyn was the biggest star in Hollywood in the 50s and 60s
  • Video: Some Like It Hot movie trailer
  • Monroe died on Aug 4, 1962
  • Pills on Marilyn’s bedside table on the night of her death
  • Two toxicology reports were issued on 6th and 13th Aug
  • Drugs: Nembutal, Chloral Hydrate, Librium, Phenergan and Triavil
  • Monroe bought 796 pills over 57 days
  • Sgt. Jack Clemmons was the first police officer to arrive at the scene
  • Eunice Murray, Monroe’s housekeeper
  • Clemmons said that there wasn’t a drinking glass but there was
  • Clemmons also testified in the 80s that he saw Eunice Murray washing Marilyn’s sheets
  • Marilyn didn’t own a washing machine or a dryer
  • J. Edgar Hoover’s pal, columnist Walter Winchell
  • Maurice Reis, Frank Capell and Jack Clemmons propagated the RFK-Monroe affair hoax
  • There is no evidence backing their claims; just gossip and innuendo
  • Video: Marilyn Monroe – Happy Birthday Mr. President
  • There were around 25 other entertainers performing for John Kennedy
  • But it’s always presented as if Marilyn Monroe was the only celebrity there
  • Monroe didn’t spend the night with the Kennedys
  • Monroe last visited Washington DC in 1956
  • George Smathers, an unreliable witness in this case
  • Monroe killed herself
  • She swallowed the pills that killed her
  • She had 3 times the amount of barbituates in her liver than in her blood
  • That is consistent with an oral ingestion of pills
  • Taking Nembutal with Chloral Hydrate precipitated her death
  • Thomas Noguchi performed the autopsy on Monroe
  • Eunice Murray was Dr. Ralph Greenson’s spy
  • Greenson was Marilyn’s psychiatrist
  • No needle marks were found anywhere on Marilyn’s body
  • FREE EbookThe Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe by Frank Capell: Read OnlineScanned PDFSearchable PDF
  • This book is a political hatchet job on Robert Kennedy
  • Jack Clemmons was forced to resign from the LAPD
  • Norman Mailer’s book Marilyn: A Biography
  • In his book, Mailer admits that there is no evidence for his theories
  • Mailer admitted on 60 minutes that he did it for money
  • Robert Slatzer and his books The Marilyn Files and Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe
  • Will Fowler, a fairly celebrated journalist, news director and publicist in Los Angeles
  • Slatzer was never married to Marilyn Monroe
  • Slatzer never produced any proof of him being married to Marilyn
  • Robert Slatzer is a fraud
  • How Fowler tried to blow up the ABC tv movie
  • Slatzer has been mentioned 169 times in Anthony Summers’ book and over a 100 times in Donald Wolfe’s book
  • Marilyn’s career was not sanctioned by the mafia
  • Marilyn’s red diary
  • Her journals were published in 2010
  • The hoax that Marilyn attended high level meetings with the Kennedys and mafia to discuss plots to kill Castro
  • Marilyn had trouble memorizing her dialogs
  • The Kennedys are mentioned only once in her journals
  • There were 4 times that Bobby Kennedy was in proximity to Marilyn Monroe
  • And JFK was in proximity to her 3 times
  • There’s no way that the Kennedys could be in an affair with Marilyn
  • There is no evidence that RFK was intimate with Marilyn
  • FREE Borrowable EbookOf Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties by Harris Wofford
  • The law of libel can’t be applied after somebody’s death
  • C. David Heymann, author of Joe and Marilyn, attributed quotes to people after their death
  • Marilyn attempted suicide 4 times
  • Marilyn did not call for a press conference the week she died
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