#996 – Donald R. McGovern, Jim DiEugenio

Author of Murder Orthodoxies: A Non-Conspiracist's View of Marilyn Monroe's Death:
Paperback, Hardcover
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 Ebook: The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe by Frank Capell: Read Online, Scanned PDF, Searchable 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 Ebook: Of 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