They don't make em like Joe anymore.

Joe DiMaggio: Marilyn's real-life
Hero

By Mat Wilson

Joe DiMaggio met Marilyn Monroe in 1952, he was thirty-seven, she was
twenty-five. He was the original, Broadway Joe the dominant force in
the New York Yankees dynasty and the most famous star in Baseball
history. Marilyn Monroe would become the most famous star in Hollywood
history, but when she met Joe, he was the star.

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe On January 14, 1954, and it was the
dawn of the most touching love story in American history.
Unfortunately, the zeal to assassinate the character of President John
F. Kennedy effectively buried the truth about the genuine love that
Marilyn and Joe shared. According to popular misconception, it was the
President, not Joe DiMaggio who was supposed to be Marilyn Monroe's
love interest on the day she died.

The reason behind the depth of the love between Joe DiMaggio and
Marilyn Monroe is succinctly captured by Richard Ben Cramer. According
to the author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life:

Joe and Marilyn had one thing big thing in common. Both were living
inside the vast personages that the hero machine had created for them.
And inside those personages, those enormous idols for the nation,
Marilyn and Joe were only small and struggling, fearful to be seen and
alone always. They were like kids left in a giant house, who must not
be discovered, or it would all come crashing down. In their loneliness
they might have been brother and sister, it was Joe's insistence, made
them husband and wife.
Joe wanted to meet Marilyn as soon as he saw a cute photo of her in a
short-skirted baseball outfit and the attraction proved to be mutual.
They were destined to meet for the sheer publicity of it all. He was a
folk hero, she was the most publicized, swiftly rising movie star in
the world, and an appearance with Joe DiMaggio was just business.
Romance and marriage was personal, and their initial introduction at an
Italian restaurant on Sunset Boulevard turned personal, because in the
words of Marilyn Monroe:

I was surprised to be so crazy about Joe. I expected a flashy New York
sports type, and instead I met this reserved guy who didn't make a pass
at me right away. I had dinner with him almost every night for two
weeks. He treated me like something special. Joe is a very decent man,
and he makes other people feel decent, too. "I don't know if I'm in
love with him yet," Marilyn said, "but I know I like him more than any
man I've ever met."

The flame of the passionate romance that was ignited shortly after they
met was never extinguished. It predictably dampened once or twice, but
it was never extinguished. Joe was the one that Marilyn always called
whenever she needed him and Joe never let Marilyn down.

DiMaggio was the dago who failed to tame the dame during their official
marriage, but when they divorced and Marilyn married Arthur Miller, she
turned nostalgic for Joe. Compared to Joe, Arthur Miller was the wimp
who took her abuse and refused to slug her, because --in her own words,
"Joe never beat me without a good reason." Marilyn did not miss the
physical abuse, but Joe learned to control his anger, and that made it
acceptable to be nostalgic about being slapped around by Joe. If
Marilyn Monroe tormented Arthur Miller, it was payback for his
arrogance. Miller's arrogance was the persistent, psychological abuse
that smothered love, and that made divorce a necessary escape.

The divorce from Miller was an escape, the divorce from Joe, was a
pause. Joe and Marilyn were not just divorced after nine turbulent
months of marriage, as widely reported. A marriage is an affair of the
heart, and the Yankee Clipper and Marilyn Monroe acted like husband and
wife because they wanted to, not because they were married. When
Marilyn died, it was Joe who organized Monroe's funeral and had white
roses delivered to her grave twice a week, the divorce was rather
meaningless because on August 8, 1962, Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio
would marry again, her death, just days earlier, was not the
predictable consequence of her inner-turmoil, as is popularly assumed.
Character assassination-based, rumor and innuendo delayed the
opportunity to understand the genuine nature of the relationship
between Joe and Marilyn, affirming the authority of Mark Twain's adage,
"a lie will travel half way around the world while the truth is putting
on its shoes."

The cold war was not conducive to reporting the truth. It produced
bizarre, government plots like the plan to poison Fidel Castro with the
aid of Chicago gangsters like Sam Giancana, and when that failed to pan
out, the patriotic mobsters who were valued because they were ruthless
and secretive, were even used to distort the truth about the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Likewise, the truth about
Marilyn Monroe is mired in a similar brew of distortion, deception,
mystery and confusion. In the midst of it all, Joe and Marilyn were
merely two grade ten high school drop-outs who fell in love, fought
over colliding ambitions, divorced, fell in love again, and matured to
the point where they planned to spend the rest of their lives as
husband and wife.

When they initially married in a small civil ceremony at San Francisco
City Hall, Marilyn Monroe did not really quite understand why she had
married Joe, but the reason for the divorce was clear. on January 14,
1954, they predictably divorced because, according to Marilyn Monroe,
"Joe wanted me to be the beautiful ex-actress, just like he was the
great former ballplayer. We were to ride into some sunset together. But
I wasn't ready for that kind of journey yet. I wasn't even 30, for
heaven's sake."

DiMaggio had just retired from two decades of stardom when Marilyn came
into his orbit, and she needed the room and the time to meet her own
stride. Divorcing DiMaggio was not the end of their marriage, it was
the beginning of a courtship that blossomed in 1962, after the release
of movies like "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "How to Mary a
Millionaire." When Marilyn Monroe surpassed the celebrity of the Yankee
Clipper, the allure of celebrity faded, and Joe DiMaggio, her only
family, became the only person who really mattered.

Marilyn did not really love Joe when she initially married him, that
came later. Enamored by Joe's celebrity, infatuation trumped love and
her honeymoon with Joe was scarcely over before she decided to marry
Arthur Miller, probably because he was a different kind of celebrity
-and maybe, she thought her marriage to Joe had failed because Joe was
not the "right" celebrity.

Beyond the personal immaturity that made divorcing Joe inevitable, the
interference of those who thrive on the misery of others proved to be
the trigger of the divorce.

Walter Winchell, J. Edgar Hoover's close friend and regular conduit for
celebrity news, stage-managed the timing of the divorce between Marilyn
Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. It was Walter Winchell who called Joe in
Beverley Hills, the evening before, to insist that Joe witness the
incident that caused their breakup. On the prompting of Walter
Winchell, Joe caught a plane to attend the spectacle, the next evening.
When he arrived, Joe was exhausted, tired, frustrated, and Winchell had
to drag him to to view the incident that Richard Ben Cramer, Joe's
biographer, described in the following terms:

Walter Winchell had wanted Joe to come with him, to watch Marilyn strut
her stuff. Joe didn't think it was a good idea. "It would make her
nervous and it would make me nervous too." But Winchell insisted. "Oh
come on Joe, I have to be there. It might make some copy for me." The
scene they went to witness would produce one of the most famous screen
images in history. Marilyn Monroe, in simple summer white, standing on
a subway grating, cooling herself with the wind from a train below. But
what sent Joe DiMaggio into a fury was the scene around the scene. Fans
were yelling and shoving at police barrickades as the train blew
Marilyn's skirt around her ears. Actually it was a wind machine, manned
beneath the street by a special effects crew. Each time it blew, the
crowd would yell, "Higher!, More!" Her legs were bare from her high
heels to her thin white panties. Photographers were stretched out on
the pavement with their lenses pointing at his wife's crotch, the glare
of their flashbulbs clearly outlining the shadow of her pubic hair.
"What the hell is going on here?" Joe growled. The Director, Billy
Wilder, would recall "the look of death" om DiMaggio's face. Joe turned
and bulled his way through the crowd, on his way to a bar, with the
delighted Winchell trodding at his heals. That night, there was a
famous fight on the seventh floor of the St. Regis hotel. It was famous
because none of the guests on that floor could sleep... her husband got
very mad at her and he beat her up a little bit. And that fight would
stay famous as the end of Joe and Marilyn's famous marriage. The fact
that Walter Winchell deliberately produced the famous fight did not get
any press. Indeed, having been raised in a strict, Catholic household,
there was no doubt that Joe would be absolutely enraged by watching air
pump his wife's dress over her head, and Marilyn, who had endured abuse
as a child, predictably refused to tolerate Joe's anger. Joe's
indifference to moviemaking was a further assurance that he would not
share the enthusiasm of the crowds that cheered, and Walter Winchell's
cruel tweak proved that Hoover's treacherous pal was anything but Joe's
friend.

The first marriage to Joe exposed the depth of the solid friendship
between Walter Winchell and J. Edgar Hoover. The Director of the FBI
wanted to destabilize Marilyn Monroe because that's what Hoover did to
everybody who was branded a "Communist." Marilyn Monroe's marriage to
Arthur Miller made her an even bigger target of Hoover's FBI, turning
her already formidable, FBI file into a national security obsession
[impossible to understand unless you are as paranoid as Hoover was] and
according to Marilyn Monroe biographer, Donald Spoto, "J. Edgar Hoover
demanded that every attempt by Marilyn to leave the country be
carefully monitored-travels with or without Miller, and on whatever
apparently personal business. The nation just might be thick with
Russian spies masquerading as movie stars."

J. Edgar Hoover and Walter Winchell were even the hidden face of the
House Un-American Activities. Everybody talks about Joe McCarthy, but
J. Edgar Hoover was the investigative arm that targeted the
"Communists" and Walter Winchell was his minister of propaganda. When
Arthur Miller was summoned to appear before the House Un-American
Activities Committee to respond to accusations about Communist party
affiliations, Hoover's friend, Walter Winchell tried to summon
anti-Miller support by proclaiming that "Marilyn Monroe's new romance
is a long-time pro-lefto."

J. Edgar Hoover and Walter Winchell survived the public humiliation,
embarrassment and censure that Senator Joe McCarthy suffered. McCarthy
was publicly hung out to dry, but the sinister, insane witchhunts
continued to destroy FBI-file targets because the secrecy that J. Edgar
Hoover managed to impose provided the opportunity to evade
accountability.

J. Edgar Hoover erected a Berlin wall around Marilyn Monroe, she was
meticulously tracked, from the east coast to the west, from one
residence to the next, her every move was electronically recorded.

Marylin Monroe initially met Arthur Miller when she was twenty-five, he
was ten years older. Having earned fame and awards for two successful
plays, All My Sons (1947) AND Death of a Salesman (1948) he was
considered one of America's great dramatic talents, along with
Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. When Arthur Miller met Marilyn
he was married to his college sweatheart, Mary Grace Slattery, and had
two children.

Arthur Miller was Director, Eli Kazan's close companion, Marilyn Monroe
was Kazan's lover, and the happy trio developed a close friendship.
Miller would join Eli Kazan and Marilyn Monroe when they visited
writers and composers, and they all frequently socialized, visiting
bookstores, picnicking together and the like. It didn't take long for
Miller to fall in love with Marilyn Monroe, Kazan's "delightful
companion" because "the air around her was charged." An arrogant man
with an air of superiority about him, it is difficult to determine
whether Miller in fact loved Marilyn Monroe or whether he just felt
sorry for her. In his own words, Miller was touched, "not only by
Marilyn's beauty but by her orphanhood -she had literally nowhere to go
and no one to go to." This idea that Miller was granting a privilege
for being the sort who was gracious enough to share his time with an
"orphan" like Marilyn Monroe, ultimately doomed the love affair and
made Marilyn Monroe realize that Joe DiMaggio was indeed the love of
her life.

In the final analysis, it is safe to say that Arthur Miller married
Marilyn Monroe for the same reason that Eli Kazan was having sex with
her.

Marilyn Monroe was more complicated than Miller was and the primary
reason she married Arthur Miller is best summarized by her gifted
biographer, Donald Spoto, who wrote:

Her affinity for the weak was frequently remarked. She felt enormous
empathy for crippled children, for whom she had upset her publicists'
tour schedules, and more than once she inconvenienced others by
stopping to attend a lame or stray animal. The sight of a homeless
drunk on Hollywood Boulevard, the account of a black actor denied
admission to a theater or restaurant, the plight of those at the
fringes of conventional society (like her mother) -all these brought
her to the point of tears and elicited a practical and sometimes
monitor response. Now Arthur Miller seemed to her a champion of the
lost and wounded, of those without a voice to speak of, and so he won
her esteem. While Miller won her admiration, Marilyn Monroe and her
friends earned the wrath of red-baiters because the issues they
championed were deemed to be Un-American. In 1951, Marilyn Monroe
accompanied Kazan and Miller to the office of Harry Cohn, who was
considering Arthur Miller's screenplay, The Hook for Columbia Studios.
The script was turned over to Roy Brewer, head of Hollywood's
stagehands union, and Brewer asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation
to read The Hook "which was immediately labelled inflamatory and
dangerously anti-American (perhaps even treasonous) at a time when the
Korean War required problem-free shipping of men and arms to Asia. Out
of principal, Arthur Miller rejected the demand to re-write the script
to make Communists the villains and anticommunism the dominant theme,
he withdrew the screenplay rather than to submit to absurd demands, and
he won the admiration of Marilyn Monroe in the process -prompting the
maddening irony that Marilyn Monroe fell in love with Arthur Miller
because of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.

When Monroe divorced Arthur Miller, she was physically and mentally
exhausted over a series of personal and professional setbacks that
included feeling guilty over the sudden death of Clark Gable, and on
February 4, 1961, she was admitted by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne
Kris, into Manhattan's Payne-Whitney Clinic and placed in the ward for
the most seriously disturbed. Joe DiMaggio's biographer described the
experience in the following terms:

On February 6, 1961, her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris drove over to
the Cornwell university's medical centre on New York's east side where
Marilyn checked herself in for a rest. Immediately she was taken to the
Payne Whitney Psychiatric division, where she was locked into a cell on
a ward for truly psychotic patients, her screams of protest, her
demands to be released were ignored or taken as evidence of her
sickness. When she broke the payne of glass in her locked bathroom
door, she was threatened with restraint and watched day and night. For
Marilyn this was the worst fear of her life come true, she was locked
away like her mother, a prisoner in a loonie bin. After three days,
when she was finally permitted one call, she phoned to Florida. she
called Joe DiMaggio. He was there the next day, at the Payne Whitney
reception desk, six feet, one-and-a-half inches tall, wide at the
shoulders, glowering darkly, and in no mood for talk. "I want my wife"
DiMaggio said. No one pointed out to him that he and Marilyn Monroe had
not been married for the last 6 years. Instead they tried to tell him
that they had no authority to release Miss Monroe, to him or to anyone
else."I want my wife" Joe DiMaggio said, with menacing precision. His
large hands gripped the reception desk. "And if you do not release her
to me, I will take this place apart, piece of wood by piece of wood."
Suddenly, the Payne Whitney staff discovered that Miss Monroe was free
to go. Joe had his wife transferred to another hospital, Columbia
Presbyterian, where she could have a real rest, in a normal, private
room which he would visit daily, and which he would fill with roses.
Marilyn Monroe was forced to endure six days of hell before Joe
DiMaggio got her out.

Why was Marilyn placed behind bars, where she predictably broke down
weeping and sobbing, shouting to be released and banging on the steel
door until her fists were raw and bleeding? Why was Marilyn Monroe
forced to claw and to scream in agony until Joe DiMaggio rescued her?
Was that supposed to be the end of Marilyn Monroe? Admitted under the
alias "Miss Faye Miller" she was placed behind bars at the
Payne-Whitney Psychiatric Clinic where she was destined to perish, as
her mother had before her, and nobody would have questioned her death
because that's what happens in institutions for the hopelessly insane.
When Marilyn Monroe yelled and screamed, she was not rescued, she was
ignored, because the staff determined that she was indeed a psychotic
case, just as her physician had attested.

Dr. Marianne Kris clearly understood the fact that the Payne Whitney
incident with Marilyn Monroe was a serious error on her part as a
psychoanalyst, and that very same terror that was imposed was revisited
when her replacement, Dr. Greenson produced the "house arrest" version
of the hell at Payne-Whitney. During her four years with Arthur Miller,
Marilyn was continuously seeing Dr. Chris, and Hoover's FBI obviously
followed her to the door of the Doctor's office, every single time, no
doubt, tweaking the impression that "Communists" like Marilyn Monroe
were mentally unstable. Clearly, the decision to lock Marilyn up for
her own safety existed in the minds of tyrants like J. Edgar Hoover, a
caring and competent psychoanalist like Dr. Marianne Kris was obviously
manipulated, she did not invent the obsession to destroy Marilyn
Monroe.

Marilyn's plea to escape her psychological tormentors fell on deaf ears
until Joe rescued her. She was so frantic and disturbed, that a
concerned nurse's aide handed her a notepad and agreed to deliver a
message to friends, Lee and Paula Strasberg, who received the following
note on February 8, 1961:


Dear Lee and Paula,


Dr. Kris has put me in the hospital under the care of two idiot
doctors. They both should not be my doctors. I'm locked up
with these poor nutty people. I'm sure to end up a nut too if I
stay in this nightmare. Please help me. This is the last place I
should be. I love you both.


Marilyn


P.S. I'm on the dangerous floor. It's like a cell. They had
my bathroom door locked and I couldn't get their key to get
into it, so I broke the glass. But outside of that I haven't
done anything that is uncooperative.


The Strasbergs were just friends, they were powerless to help, and
Marilyn Monroe's pleas were all ignored, until Joe DiMaggio rescued
Marilyn Monroe.

In a letter to Dr. Greenson, Marilyn Monroe described her experience in
the following terms:

There was no empathy at Payne Whitney -it had a very bad effect on me.
They put me in a cell (I mean cement blocks and all) for very disturbed
depressed patients, except I felt I was in some kind of prison for a
crime I hadn't committed. The inhumanity ther I found archaic. They
asked me why I wasn't happy there (everything was under lock and key,
things like electric lights, dresser drawers, bathrooms, closets, bars
concealed on the windows -and the doors have windows so patients can be
visible all the time. If Joe DiMaggio had not rescued Marilyn Monroe
from J. Edgar Hoover's Soviet-style Gulag, she would have died there,
and Marilyn Monroe was neither the first nor the last target to be
tormented by Hoover's FBI. Hoover's G-men subsequently encouraged the
suicide of Martin Luther King, who declined to take their advice and
when Hoover's G-men followed Hemingway to the Mayo clinic, they
evidently managed to produce the consequence they had wished upon
Martin Luther King.

Like Hemingway, Marilyn Monroe was treated like a lunatic on the false
pretense that she was being treated for a physical ailment. Indeed, in
a letter to Dr. Greenson, Marilyn Monroe wrote:

I forgot to tell you something yesterday. When they put me into the
first room on the sixth floor I was not told it was a psychiatric
floor. Dr. Kris said she was coming the next day. The nurse came in
after the doctor, a psychiatrist, had given me a breast examination
including examining the breast for lumps. I took exception to this but
not violently, only explaining that the medical doctor who had put me
there, a stupid man named Dr. Lipkin, had already done a complete
physical less than thirty days before. When Joe DiMaggio rescued
Marilyn Monroe, their friends could not help but notice the depth of
the love between them. According to Jerry Coleman, "Joe DiMaggio deeply
loved that woman." According to Lois Smith, "The attraction to Joe
remained great. Marilyn knew where she stood with him. He was always
there, she could always call on him, lean on him depend on him, be
certain of him. It was a marvelous feeling of confort for her." As
Marilyn told a Danish journalist, "To know that Joe is there is like
having a life guard", and Joe DiMaggio certainly proved that.

The basic decency of Joe DiMaggio matured to the point where he even
took Marilyn Monroe's advice and sought therapy to deal with his anger.
Monroe was very proud of Joe for seeking treatment, and she related her
feelings to Dr. Greenson in the following terms:

By the way, I have some good news, sort of, since I guess I helped. He
claims I did: Joe says I saved his life by sending him to a
psycotherapist. Dr. Kris said that he is a very brilliant man, the
doctor. Joe said he pulled himself by his own bootstraps after the
divorce but he told me also that if he had been me he would have
divorced him, too.

Indeed, in March 1961, when Marilyn was rescued, Joe was different,
calmer, and with Marilyn "he showed no swagger of possession." His
years of exile had taught him a few things and he was serious about the
claim that Marilyn had saved his life by sending him to a psychiatrist.
He had stuck with the therapy long enough to convince him that the rage
inside of him could ruin lives -his first and foremost, and at age
forty-six, he meant it when he said, With a rueful laugh, that if he
had been married to that guy he was seven years ago, well, he would
have divorced him too.

The years changed Marilyn as well, and as she approached her 35th
birthday, she was ready to settle down. In Florida, Joe and Marilyn
took care of each other like an old married couple. In conversation,
Marilyn Monroe blasted her New York psychiatrist which she resolved not
to speak to ever again, and began to revere Dr. Greenson, her LA
psychiatrist. Little did she realize that Dr. Greenson would succeed
where Dr. Chris had failed -to facilitate suicide, and Joe DiMaggio was
oblivious to the fact, or he would have taken Dr. Greenson and J. Edgar
Hoover apart, piece by piece.

On Aug. 5, 1962, the body of Marilyn Monroe was found in the bedroom of
her Brentwood home. The 36-year-old movie star was naked and facedown
on her bed.

An autopsy conducted by Dr. Thomas Noguchi, then deputy medical
examiner, concluded that death was due to acute barbiturate poisoning,
and a psychiatric team tied to the investigation termed it a "probable
suicide."

The police did not find a suicide note, and when Joe arrived, he
received his final gift from Marilyn Monroe, a folded love letter
addressed to Joe:


Dear Joe,


If I can only succeed in making you happy, I will have succeeded in the
biggest and most difficult thing there is. That is, to make one person
completely happy. Your happiness means my happiness and... [she did not
get the opportunity to complete her letter]


Marilyn Monroe had scheduled the final fitting for her wedding gown for
Monday August 6, 1962 and the radiant, would-be bride could hardly
contain her joy. She had gone from wanting to conquer the world to
wanting to please Joe, and this was the marriage that would last
forever. Joe called every night from the east coast, they planned the
wedding for Wednesday August 8th, 1962. Marilyn Monroe had even
dismissed Eunice Murray, the spy who reported her every move, but it
didn't make any difference because Marilyn Monroe was murdered before
Eunice Murray left, making her Brentwood home the Soviet Gulag that
Marilyn Monroe had tried, but failed to escape.

Joe and Marilyn had come a long way since 1961, when Marilyn was
repeatedly hospitalized for a gall bladder operation and other health
problems, and Joe DiMaggio was by her bedside as usual. when Marilyn
was finally released from the hospital, Joe went to New York on
business and Marilyn flew to LA, happy to be back in Sinatra's town,
and happier still to be with Dr. Greenson because he cast himself as
her protector and she needed that, but she did not expect him to take
over her life as he did.

Greenson isolated Marilyn from friends, colleagues and staff and what
he called "bad influences."

Writing to a colleague, Greenson justified isolating Marilyn from all
her friends by saying "this is the kind of planning you do with an
adolescent girl who needs guidance, friendliness and firmness, and she
seams to be taking it very well. Of course, she doesn't think about
cancelling several hours to go to Palm Springs to be with Mr. F.S.
[Frank Sinatra]"

While Joe made a charity ballroom appearance on August 4th with Dom and
Vince, a reunion of the famous baseball brothers, Marilyn called the
atelier of her designer, Jean Louis, who had famously dressed her some
three months before...now Marilyn had ordered a new gown, but this one
would be for Joe -her wedding dress. On August 5, 1962, the body of
Marilyn Monroe was found in the bedroom of her Brentwood home. The
36-year-old movie star was naked and facedown on her bed and when Joe
DiMaggio learned about the death, he howled like an animal. Joe rented
a room, locked the door behind him and the roar came out from inside of
him wasn't words at all, it was tears and animal pain. That's how
biographer, Richard Ben Cramer described it.

An autopsy conducted by Dr. Thomas Noguchi, then deputy medical
examiner, concluded that death was due to acute barbiturate poisoning,
and a psychiatric team tied to the investigation termed it a "probable
suicide," a creative way to cover up murder. Dr. Greenson certainly
knew that Marilyn Monroe was not crazy, he was a trained psychiatrist.
If anybody wanted to prove that Marilyn Monroe was mad, it was J. Edgar
Hoover.

Dr. Greenson was not a typical psycotherapist, he was all things to all
people, and that was very dangerous in the midst of a cold war that
sucked the marrow out of unsuspecting targets. In Marilyn Monroe; The
Biograpy, Donald Spoto lists a catalogue of the lectures that reflected
Dr. Greenson's intended audience, and it obviously included a peculiar
mix because he lectured about things like, "Why Men Like War," "The
Devil Made Me Do It, Dr. Freud," "Sex Without Passion," and "People in
Search of a Family." Dr. Greenson sounded like he was in greater need
of therapy than Marilyn Monroe was, and while that may be subject to
debate, the simple fact that he did not live up to the serious
expectations of a serious profession, is conclusive.

Dr. Greenson's professional scruples left a great deal to be desired. A
psychologist is not supposed to bring a patient into his home and to
make her a member of his family, to the exclusion of his or her own
friends and family, and that is what Dr. Greenson did. Any vigilante
psychiatric community or professional body would have censured him for
this blatant, unprofessional conduct. A therapist exercises enormous
power, and in the final analysis, it would be naive to suggest that J.
Edgar Hoover was not the source of Dr. Greenson's power. Indeed, if Dr.
Greenson was not protected by a corrupt, law enforcement authority like
J. Edgar Hoover, he would have been charged with the murder of Marilyn
Monroe.

Like J. Edgar Hoover, who used his professional reputation to abuse his
power, Dr. Greenson used his professional reputation to promote the
claim that Marilyn Monroe was "schizophrenic" [Marilyn Monroe: Donald
Spoto, p. 502] and not capable of making decisions for herself, and
this rather sophisticated smokescreen gave him the opportunity to
bypass the criticism of colleaugues who were not in a position to
determine how crazy or sane Marilyn Monroe was.

When Marilyn Monroe died, Jack Clemmons, the first police officer on
the scene immediately determined that the so-called suicide scene
looked more staged than real and the testimony of Dr. Greenson and
Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray was more evasive than believable.
Marilyn Monroe's blacked out, FBI files, were equally evasive.

The fact that Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray obstructed justice and
covered up the truth about the murder of Marilyn Monroe is so
transparent, it is astonishing that they were able to get away with it.
Indeed, Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray dominated Marilyn Monroe to the
point where they were intercepting her telephone calls, just before she
was murdered. Marilyn Monroe's biographer, Donald Spoto, describes two
of the intercepted calls, in the following passage:

But there were two other calls that Marilyn was not able to intercept.
The first came from Isadore Miller, to whom Eunice said that Marilyn
was dressing and would call him back; Isadore never received a return
call. The second call was from Ralph Roberts, at about five-forty or
five-forty five, just before he drove to Jurgensen's in Beverley Hills
to purchase the food for their barbecue next evening. "But it was
Greenson who picked up the phone," according to Roberts. "When I asked
for Marilyn, he said abruptly, 'Not here,' and immediately hung up on
me without asking if I wanted to leave a message. Nothing else , just a
blunt 'Not here,' and he put down the receiver."

Donald Spoto further indicates, Dr. Greenson and Eunice Murray are
responsible for a "series of inconsistencies, misrepresentations and
outright lies masking the truth of the tragic and unecessary death of
Marilyn Monroe."

Marilyn Monroe was radiant with thoughts about her pending marriage and
her love for Joe on the day she was murdered and only somebody like J.
Edgar Hoover and Dr. Greenson could explain away the bizarre disconect
between the claim that depression claimed the life of Marilyn Monroe
and the fact that she was happier than she had ever been at any time of
her entire life. Even the coroner noted what he called "the strangest
fact of the case" -in his own words:

Monroe was laughing and chatting on the telephone with Joe DiMaggio's
son...and not thirty minutes after this happy conversation, Marilyn
Monroe was dying...This was one of the strangest facts of the case

Marilyn Monroe was dead or near-dead when she or somebody who was
pretending to be Marilyn, placed a frantic and almost inaudible call to
Peter Lawford. Whoever it was that called, inhaled the words, "Say
goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the President, and say goodbye to
yourself, because you're a nice guy." It sounded like Dr. Greenson had
substituted reality with a cheap, phone imitation of "Happy Birthday
Mr. President." Remember that?


In June, Jean Louis, had dressed her famously to sing happy birthday to
the President, and while the entire world thought that was personal, it
was just show business. When Marilyn ordered a new gown for Joe, that
was personal -it was her wedding dress, but she did not get the
opportunity to wear it because she was murdered. Moreover, front page
publicity eclipsed the truth, and that is what the call to Peter
Lawford sounded like -it was front page publicity. The truth is,
Marilyn Monroe was in love and was preparing to Mary Joe DiMaggio, the
President was not even on her mind, unless Dr. Greenson put him there.

On August 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was essentially imprisoned, like
Elian Gonzalez on April 22, 2000, just before Janet Reno authorized
agents from the INS (U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services) to storm
the home of Elian's Miami relatives, to seize the six year old boy and
to reunite him with his father for the first time since November. Elian
Gonzalez had Janet Reno and the INS. Marilyn Monroe had Joe DiMaggio,
but Dr. Greenson and J. Edgar Hoover refused to allow the reunion. If
Hoover and Greenson were not as radical as the Miami relatives who
refused to release Elian Gonzalez, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
would have been married, on August 8, 1962.

Joe DiMaggio did not fail Marilyn, aside from the occasional broohaha
that Walter Winchell joyfully tweaked. On a chilly Christmas Eve,
Marilyn returned alone and lonely from a studio party to her Beverly
Hills Hotel suite, unlocked the door, and was surprised to find Joe,
reaching to place a silver ornament atop a lavishly decorated tree he
had brought for Marilyn. There was champagne in a silver bucket, logs
blazing in the fireplace and the Chrismas tree, which made an otherwise
lonely existence, Marilyn Monroe's merriest Chrismas, and that is what
she had to look forward to, without outside interference.

Marilyn Monroe did not need a therapist to manipulate her, but J. Edgar
Hoover routinely used the psychiatric profession in attempt to
destabilize his targets. He he did it with Hemingway, when his G-men
followed him to the door of the Mayo clinic where shock therapy
treatment was bizarrely administered, to treat liver disease, he did it
with Martin Luther King, when FBI agents encouraged the civil rights
leader to commit suicide and he did it with Marilyn Monroe.

When Marilyn Monroe was murdered, right wing fanatics like Frank A.
Capell promoted the claim that Marilyn Monroe and Robert Kennedy were
in love -forget about Joe. Robert Kennedy had allegedly promised to
marry Marilyn Monroe and when he changed his mind, the Kennedys
allegedly murdered Marilyn Monroe to shut her up.

Hoover's friend, Walter winchell, used his column to promote Capell's
book and J. Edgar Hoover gleefully wrote to Robert Kennedy: "Capell's
book will make reference to your alleged friendship with the late Miss
Monroe. Mr. Capell stated that he will indicate in his book that you
and Miss Monroe were intimate, and that you were in Monroe's home at
the time of her death."

J.Edgar Hoover's defamatory, political attacks established a
"Kennedy-killed-Monroe" crescendo that smacked the summit in 1973 when
Norman Mailer joined the chorus with his trashy book, Marilyn. The
compendium of lies that has been repeated without pause since Marilyn
Monroe was murdered is routinely embellished and in 1985, even Anthony
Summers promoted nonsensical gossip in his book Goddess: The Secret
Lives of Marilyn Monroe. The truth is not that intriguing.
Hoover-killed-Monroe and it's not a chorus. It's a tragic murder that
should have been solved in 1962.

It is easy to get sidetracked by all the disinformation about Marilyn
Monroe, and in Preserving the Legacy erroneous claims about the death
of Marilyn Monroe were prompted by the common failure to acknowledge
the significance of the fact that Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were
wildly in love and planned to remarry on August 8, 1962.

The character assassination of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy
refuses to abate. The compassionate civil rights champion has been
converted, in the public's mind, into an amoral character who murdered
to save his reputation. ABC News commentator, Hugh Downs loftily claims
that Marilyn's affairs with both Kennedy brothers are "not in dispute
and known to everyone." To be expected. This is the same organization
that censures journalists like Dan Rather for demonstrating the courage
to tell the truth. It does not behoove the credibility of any
organization to parrot J. Edgar Hoover's treachery or to attack the
credibility of competent journalists who struggle to expose the truth.

Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahuue and Hard Copy have all produced
segments about the "historically accepted fact" that Monroe and both
Kennedy brothers had a tempestuous relationship. The lure of this
storytelling is obvious and Norman Mailer frankly admitted it when he
said he wrote Marilyn for the money. Marilyn's biographer, Donald
Spoto, recorded the genuine cost of this whoresome conduct when he
said, "the price runs higher than cash paid for shameful books. The
cost includes the erosion of ideals, a loss of faith in good men and
women, a cavalier disregard for the reputations of decent people and a
profound indifference to the truth."

Armed with a Ph.D. from Fordham University, Donald Spoto has lectured
and taught worldwide, he is the author of nineteen thoroughly
researched, published books, including International, bestselling
biographies of Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hirtchcock,
Tenessee Williams and MaIrlene Deitrich, amongst others and he wrote
the unrivalled work, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography because he opposed
the otherwise "grim cyclorama of deceit and sensation."

Donald Spoto is an exceptional biographer with advanced skills best
understood by what he has to say:

The biographer is obliged to tell the truth --even at the risk of
saying something good about someone. I know it's not popular today, for
we are part of a culture of gossip and innuendo, and professionalism in
writing has taken a back seat.

Good biographers understand the necessity to give a human context to
the mere facts of a person's life. It's not enough to say "she went
there or made this movie or traveled here and there." Rather, the
biographer must ferret out the motifs, the themes of a life. A good
historian doesn't impose his own ideas from the beginning, certainly I
never do. As I go along in my interviews, travel, archival studies, the
life of my subject emerges. It is a constant series of astonishments
and surprises. If there are no surprises, then you're not doing the
research.

It is, therefore, almost impossible to be objective, and perhaps it may
not even be desirable. What is important is to have an understanding of
a human life, the patterns of meaning of the life lived according to a
certain value system, theirs.

We live our lives, you and I, by interaction of what happens to us and
the inner workings of our reactions, stirrings, and motivations. These
are so much more useful to understanding a character than just the bare
facts. If you just want the facts you can get those in any almanac or
encyclopedia.

The un-American Activivities, Paranoia Period was a time when official
norms were trumped by secret alliances with the Mafia and unethical
psychiatrists were merely a tool that was used to torment the "enemy."
It was not uncommon for a target who warranted a huge FBI file to
become the victim of an unsolved homicide or a staged suicide, Marilyn
Monroe is merely the most famous target of all.

The murder of Marilyn Monroe is not filled with nonsense, mystery and
Mafia-style intrigue by accident. In Double Cross it is alleged that
mobsters nicknamed Needles and Mugsy traveled to Los Angeles on orders
from Giancana and slipped into her home to administer a fatal
barbiturate suppository. The Mafia sponsored book blames Robert Kennedy
for the murder of Marilyn Monroe, but the trail of manufactured
disassembly leads to J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover was the source of
Giancana's power, because as long as he did not recognize the existence
of organized crime, the murder of a target like Marilyn Monroe was an
unsolved homicide, by design.

Hoover's lackey, Dr. Greenson did not provide a live-in housekeeper/spy
who oversaw every move that Marilyn made and reported every detail
about her personal life, because he was an ethical psychiatrist. Eunice
Murray was placed in the homes of Dr Greenson's most important clients
as "monitor, companion and nursemaid", and according to Greenson's
instructions, she was to obediently report every detail of his clients'
private lives. Pat Newcomb, who saw Murray tag along when she and
Marilyn went shopping, described the intrusive set up in the following
terms: "It wasn't hard to understand. Eunice was simply Greenson's spy,
sent down to report everything Marilyn did. Soon even Marilyn began to
see this."

When Marilyn Monroe's FBI files were released for public scrutiny,
every single word, except for the word "Marilyn Monroe" was covered in
black ink.

Between July and August 4 when she died [police were not notified until
August 5], Dr Greenson treated Marilyn on twenty-eight separate
occasions, according to his own records. And after this intensive
psychiatric treatment, Dr. Greenson officially claimed that Marilyn
Monroe committed suicide. Eunice Murray allegedly discovered Marilyn's
lifeless body and instead of contacting the police, she obediently
called Doctor Greenson and he did not call the police until at least
four and a half hours after the body was allegedly discovered.

Greenson's phony suicide verdict was flatly disputed by Police Sergeant
Clemmons who said: "It was unquestionably a murder. The reason being
quite simply the fact that the coroner's report did not show a trace of
barbiturates any place in the digestive tract."

Her empty stomach indicated that the drugs in her bloodstream were
administered, not through the empty pill box deliberately placed by her
bedside to promote a fraudulent suicide verdict but through an
alternative method like a hypodermic needle or a suppository. The death
scene, fraught with an empty pill bottle to suggest suicide, was
staged.

Using words that echo the secrecy that Hemingway's butcher, Dr. Rome
maintained, when he refused to explain the reason behind unecessary
shock therapy treatment, Greenson exposed the fact that he was subject
to the control of an authority like Hoover's FBI when he said: "I can't
explain myself or defend myself without revealing things that I don't
want to reveal. It's a terrible position to be in, to say I can't talk
about it. I just can't tell the whole story."

The whole story is that Marilyn Monroe was not suicidal, she was deeply
in love with Joe DiMaggio and J. Edgar Hoover decided that it was time
for her to commit suicide. Did Greenson administer shock therapy
treatment and try to re-program her brain, to convince her that the
Kennedys were in love with her and that she should not marry Joe
DiMaggio? It would be unthinkable to suggest, if another prominment
target, Hemingway had not been a victim of unecessary shock therapy
treatment. At the very least, Dr. Greenson discouraged the relationship
between Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, how far he went in that
regard, he refused to say, but Hemingway's experience provides plenty
of food for thought.

On November 30, 1960, suffering from high blood pressure, liver and
kidney diseases and haemochromatosis, Hemingway entered the Mayo clinic
and hoped to return home by Christmas. The FBI was carefully monitoring
Hemingway's treatment at the Mayo clinic and "a letter from special
agent in Minneapolis to J. Edgar Hoover on January 13, 1960 reported
that Hemingway had secretly entered the Mayo Clinic and the FBI knew
about his treatment." Indeed "the FBI had, in fact, tracked Hemingway
to the walls of the Mayo Clinic and discussed his case with his
psychiatrist."

At the Mayo Clinic, Hemingway was given a series of electric shocks to
the brain. Electro-convulsive therapy treatment is for hopeless
psychiatric patients and Dr. Bonnie Burstow, an outspoken critic of
ECT, describes the treatment in the following terms.

Why am I opposed to shock treatment... To begin with, because of what
it is, intrinsically a brain damaging treatment. To understand this, it
is important to know how the treatment works. Shock treatment is one in
which sufficient electricity is passed through the brain to produce a
grand mal seizure, thereby resulting in cell death. This is what it
does; this is all it does. Brain damage, to be clear, is not a
side-effect of shock treatment. It is the primary effect.

Hemingway did not voluntarily submit to such a radical method of
treatment, his lifelong scorn of psychiatrists prompted him to say that
his analyst was "portable Corona No. 3." and the treatment he received
at the Mayo Clinic was a direct violation of everything Hemingway
believed in. Clearly, Dr. Rome was not legitimately authorized to treat
Hemingway and Anthony Burgess has in fact indicated, Dr. Rome "was a
psychiatrist but did not present himself as one."

Hoover's FBI manipulated psychiatrists in effort to destabilize their
targets and the police state that J. Edgar Hoover produced was as
treacherous as any Soviet Gulag. According to former FBI agent, Gordon
Liddy, illegal FBI operations were always staged in a manner that made
it appear as though the FBI was absolutely blameless and the suggestion
that the psychiatrists who tortured Hemingway and Monroe were acting on
their own free will is not credible. In fact, they admitted otherwise.

Sadly, Dr. Greenson controlled Marilyn Monroe and isolated her from the
people she cared about. Monroe was not treated in a psychiatrist's
office as most legitimate patients are but at Dr. Greenson's own house,
on a daily basis. After her treatment, she often stayed for dinner, and
after dinner she stayed for drinks. Dr. Greenson even tried to control
the movies that Marilyn was allowed to star in. In particular,
philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who believed that Marilyn Monroe was "one
of the greatest actresses alive" wanted her to star in his screenplay,
Freud which John Huston was about to make into a film, but Dr. Greenson
objected. Needless to say, a legitimate psychiatrist who was not
controlled by J. Edgar Hoover's bizarre paranoia, would have agreed
with Jean Paul Sartre -what a missed opportunity.

The love affair between Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio has been
distorted beyond recognition because Marilyn Monroe's life and death
was supposed to be prescribed by her FBI file. Ideally, from J. Edgar
Hoover's perspective, her life should have ended as expected, in the
mental asylum that claimed her mother -but Joe DiMaggio forcefully
thwarted that particular plan. In the end, her death was used to
assassinate the character of President John F. Kennedy, and that is
rather ironic because red-baiting zealots disturbed and angered Monroe
and it was her hatred of anti-Communist rabble-rousers like Hoover and
Nixon, that drove her towards the Kennedy camp. In her own words: "Some
of those *******s in Hollywood wanted me to drop Arthur. Said it would
ruin my career. They're born cowards and want you to be like them. One
reason I want to see Kennedy win is that Nixon's associated with that
whole scene."

Indeed, "that whole scene" publicizes non-stop distortions. Mimicking
lies about the phantom affair between Robert Kennedy and Marilyn
Monroe, Robert Blackey and Judith Campbell alleged a two-and-a-half
year, sexual relationship, between Mafia Party Queen, Judith Campbell
and President Kennedy. Judith Campbell is a self-admitted perjuror who
had a great deal of trouble keeping her lies straight. According to
Judith Campbell:

Kennedy met with Giancana [the murderer] at the Fontainbleau on April
12. "I was not present," says Exner [Judith Campbell], "but Jack came
to my suite afterward, and I asked him how the meeting had gone. He
seemed very happy about it and thanked me for making the arrangements.
He then stayed with me for an hour or so, and we talked about the
campaign. Jack told me that if he didn't get the nomination in July, he
and his wife would get a divorce. He didn't say he was leaving her for
me or for any other woman, or that Jackie was leaving him for any other
man. He simply said their marriage was unhappy and the divorce was a
mutual decision between them." As Kennedy was leaving, he handed Exner
an envelope, telling her not to open it until he was gone. Inside, she
found two $1,000 bills. "Jack said he wanted to pay for the new mink
coat that I had worn to his house in Georgetown," says Exner, "or if I
wouldn't let him do that, then he wanted me to buy something special."
She kept the cash and later deposited it in her checking account.

According to Blakey, "not known for being a lavish gift-giver, Kennedy
made at least one contribution to Campbell's livelihood in the form of
a check for $2,000.47."

The glaring contradiction between the claim that Kennedy donated
money/no he donated a cheque, speaks for itself. The delightful Kennedy
aide, Dave Powers, who was not kidding when he said, the only Campbell
he knows is "chunky soup," deserves the final word.

It is childish to claim that President Kennedy was having a
two-and-a-half year relationship with the lunatic who had a nervous
breakdown because Robert Kennedy's war against the murdererous thugs
she slept with [sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli] drove her up the wall.
Judith Campbell and John F. Kennedy were not lovers, they were enemies,
and if she called White House switch board operators, hoping to receive
lavish gifts from the President, she didn't get any.

Judith Campbell certainly proved that hell hath no fury like a Mafia
Queen's scorn, when she said, "I was followed, hounded, harrassed,
accosted, spied upon, intimidated, burglarized, embarrassed,
humiliated, denigrated, and... finally driven to the brink of death."
Reasonable people applauded Robert Kennedy's war against organized
crime, Judith Campbell falsely claimed that the President was in bed
with the Mafia and the Mafia Queen was supposed to be the fringe
benefit.

Robert Blakey, who was Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on
Assassinations when it determined that Hoover's FBI was "morally
reprehensible, illegal, felonious, and unconstitutional," should know
better than to give credence to the Hoover-sponsored, Mafia-supported
falsehoods that are designed to assassinate the character of President
John F. Kennedy.

The Kennedys had declared war against the Mafia, but according to
Campbell, for eighteen months between 1960 and 1961, she regularly
carried envelopes back and forth between President Kennedy and Sam
Giancana, giving the Mafia direct access to the White House. According
to federal wire taps however, as late as December 6, 1961, Giancana was
angry over the fact that Frank Sinatra had failed to use the Kennedys
to get them off his back and the allegation that Campbell was a direct
link to John F. Kennedy was just a Mafia pipe dream. The following
surreptitiously recorded conversation between Sam Giancana and Johnny
Roselli speaks for itself:

Roselli: ... He [Frank Sinatra] was real nice to me... He says:
"Johnny, I took Sam's name, and wrote it down, and told Bobby Kennedy,
'This is my buddy, this is what I want you to know Bob'. "Between you
and I, Frank saw Joe Kennedy three different times-Joe Kennedy, the
father. He called him three times... He [Frank] says he's got an idea
that you're mad at him. I says: "That, I wouldn't know".

Giancana: He must have a guilty conscience. I never said nothing...
Well, I don't know who the **** he's [Frank's] talking to, but if I'm
gonna talk to... after all, if I'm taking somebody's money, I'm gonna
make sure that this money is gonna do something, like, do you want it
or don't you want it. If the money is accepted, maybe one of these days
the guy will do you a favour.

Roselli: That's right, He [Frank] says he wrote your name down...

Giancana: Well, one minute he [Frank] tells me this and then he tells
me that and then the last time I talked to him was at the hotel in
Florida a month before he left, and he said, "Don't worry about it. If
I can't talk to the old man [Joseph Kennedy], I'm gonna talk to the man
[President Kennedy." One minute he says he's talked to Robert, and the
next minute he says he hasn't talked to him. So, he never did talk to
him. It's a lot of ****. Why lie to me? I haven't got that coming.

Roselli: I can imagine... Tsk, tsk, ...... if he can't deliver, I want
him to tell me: "John, the load's too heavy.

Giancana: That's all right. At least then you know how to work. You
won't let your guard down then, know what I mean... Ask him [Frank] if
I'm going to be invited to his New Year's party.

Campbell's fraudulent claim that she was a conduit between Giancana and
Kennedy is clearly a reflection of Mafia frustration. Indeed, when the
Kennedys had placed the FBI on the tail of Sam Giancana, he would
angrily denounced the scrutiny with comments like, "Hey, we're supposed
to be on the same side aren't we?" and "Why don't you ****s go out and
investigate Communists?" The difference between Hoover's FBI and Robert
Kennedy's Justice Department was driving Sam Giancana and Judith
Campbell crazy.

Robert Blakey was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in 1963
and the fact that he promotes Mafia propaganda betrays the unofficial,
sinister loyalties that Hoover cultivated -the kind that made people
like Judith Campbell, Sam Giancana and J. Edgar Hoover, covert,
sinister allies in the illegal war against Communists, real or
perceived..

As the Director and Chief Counsel of the Select Committee that studied
the Kennedy and King murders, Robert Blakey diverted attention away
from J. Edgar Hoover's obvious complicity in the Kennedy assassination
cover up by asking questions like: "Why did Yuri Nosenko, the KGB
defector, lie about his knowledge of Oswald?" and "Did anti-Castro
Cuban exiles put Oswald up to killing the president?" Blakey sowed the
seeds of future propagandists who continue to blame Fidel Castro for
the assassination of President Kennedy. Indeed, Robert Blakey even
claimed that Carlos Marcello and Fidel Castro were responsible for the
assassination of John F. Kennedy --you know, all the traditional, bad
guys.

Castro and the Mafia did not murder President Kennedy. J. Edgar Hoover
used Mafia assets to destroy "Communists" like Marilyn Monroe and if
Justice Department officials like Hoover and Blakey did not ignore
their authorized duty, thugs like Carlos Marcello would not be in a
position to murder anybody. We are supposed to believe the Mafia that
allegedly did not even exist, had the motive, the means and the
opportunity to murder the President of the United States. The truth is,
J. Edgar Hoover manufactured the false premise which was the source of
Mafia power [the Mafia did not exist]and he was rabidly motivated to
exploit all the means to cover up the truth, not only about the murder
of Marilyn Monroe, but of the Kennedy assassination as well.

What is most egregious about the perpetual plot to assassinate the
character of President John F. Kennedy is that former, Justice
Department officials like Robert Blakey encouraged the distortions of
self-admitted perjurors like Judith Campbell, and that is not
acceptable.

In the last interview before her death, Marilyn pleaded unsucessfully
with a reporter to end his article like this: "What I really want to
say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship.
Everybody: stars, labourers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe".
The media always ignored Marilyn Monroe's genuine feelings. In 1960,
Marilyn Monroe sponsored the SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear
Policy. Her strong feelings for civil rights, for black equality and
for peace had made her J. Edgar Hoover's mortal enemy, but nobody
reported that. The fact that she was the target of every red-baiter in
town, was the fiercely ignored reality which explains the Soviet Gulag
that she was rescued from in 1961, and that is not supposed to be what
the United States of America is all about.

In 1961, J. Edgar Hoover should have been placed in Marilyn Monroe's
locked and padded room for the most disturbed patients, that is where
he belonged. In 1962, Hoover was directly responsible for the lapse
that Donald Spoto described in the following terms:

An explanation is still required of exactly what happened in Marilyn
Monroe's bedroom between the end of her conversation with Joe DiMaggio,
Jr., at seven-twenty or seven twenty-five, and her almost incoherent
replies to Peter Lawford at seven-forty or seven-forty-five.
Despite the official claim that Marilyn killed herself, even Dr.
Greenson admitted the fact that in 1962, Marilyn Monroe "had put
everything bad behind her and could now go forward with her life." She
was, in the words of Donal Spoto, so absolutely sane that "she
recognized her popularity was caused by an image she hated-and that
now, for the first time in 1962, was openly admitting-showed how
clearly she realized the split in herself. This can hardly, however, be
called 'schizophrenic'; in fact it reveals a remarkable clarity of
self-perception." J. Edgar Hoover on the other hand, epitomized the
self-delusion of the most hopeless, psychiatric patient -and that is
why he is obviously responsible for the psychiatric, Whitewash
Committee that deliberately mischaracterized Marilyn Monroe's emotional
maturity.

Indeed, it would be naive to suggest that J. Edgar Hoover was not
directly responsible for misrepresenting Marilyn Monroe's emotional
maturity on the day she was murdered. Moreover, when J. Edgar Hoover
approached Robert Kennedy to plant the false suggestion that the
Attorney general was having an affair with Marilyn, the glaring attempt
to obstruct justice is merely an extension of the plot to use
psychology to get away with the murder of Marilyn Monroe and to blame
the Kennedys in the process. The truth is not that complicated.

J. Edgar Hoover is the law enforcement official who is directly
responsible for stalking, torturing and staging a false suicide verdict
to blame the Kennedys for the murder of Marilyn Monroe. The Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation was indeed the cold blooded
murderer who scripted the death of Marilyn Monroe and it is not even
remotely plausible to suggest the well publicized alternative.



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