The lethal injection that killed Marilyn
- The cause of her death would be a 12-inch needle stuck in her chest
- Robert Kennedy would have given the order
- She would have threatened to air her relationship with him and JFK
"Life is about having her determination not to be overwhelmed by it." The phrase could perfectly be Albert Camus. But the quote is from the person we've turned into the quintessential dumb blonde: Norma Jeane Mortenson, better known by her stage name Marilyn Monroe, famous for how hot she was. Or because of her phrases in the style of "I did not pose without wearing anything, I had the radio on", when asked about her Playboy photos of her. And she for having had sex with practically all the iconic men, by power or popularity, of the 50s, including the president of the United States and paradigm of the idea of "exemplary husband and father", John Jack F. Kennedy.
That relationship between silly blonde (and slut) and perfect man was never fully recognized officially in the US until four decades after the death of both. The admission that they had been in a long relationship added a touch of suspense to the end of Marilyn's life. In popular mythology it is hard to imagine a dumb blonde committing suicide at 36 with Nembutal indigestion. Even more so if there is a horny mess with the White House. And, as we've discovered in recent years, perhaps with the Department of Justice as well. Because she could have had another relationship with the US Attorney General, which is the position that is equivalent in this country to that of Minister of Justice in Spain: Robert Bobby Kennedy. That, above all, he was the brother and political right hand of the president.
The Jack-Bobby-Marilyn triangle has never been very well explained despite the fact that the then president's advisers spoke of Los Angeles as the West Wing of the White House in reference to the president's endless list of sexual affairs (Hollywood, which is in Los Angeles, it is located in the Western United States). Now, the book Marilyn Monroe: A case for Murder by journalists Richard Buskin and Jay Margolis, which goes on sale Tuesday, June 3, takes that relationship one step further, and claims that Bobby gave an explicit order to murder Marilyn when she threatened to call a press conference and disclose urbi et orbe her relationship with him and his brother.
"Bobby, with the help of his brother-in-law, the actor Peter Lawford, ordered Marilyn's psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, to administer a lethal injection before orchestrating a plan to make believe it had been a suicide," Buskin explained to Chronicle . Greenson was a psychiatrist, and his knowledge of how to give an injection appears to have been very limited. So, according to Buskin and Margolis, who quote members of the Los Angeles Emergency Department, the injection was a carnage in which the psychiatrist split a rib from the actress in order to reach Marilyn's heart with the needle.
The reason why, according to Buskin and Margolis, the US attorney general decided to assassinate Monroe is fundamentally political. In the summer of 1962, Jack sent Bobby to talk to Marilyn about getting Marilyn to stop nagging him. Apparently the president had had enough sex with the actress and was tired of her calling him at the White House. In fact, according to Christopher Andersen in her book These Few Precious Days, published last year, the actress had gone to the extreme of calling Jackie, the first lady of the United States, to reveal that her husband was cheating on her with she.
Having Marilyn - depressed, addicted to alcohol, sleeping pills and tranquilizers - out of control was a danger to the Kennedys. So Bobby traveled to the West Wing of the White House and met Marilyn at the home of the actor's brother-in-law - linked to the Las Vegas mob - Peter Lawford. The attorney general was going to control the actress. According to Buskin and Margolis, after two days of conversation, they ended up in the same place as many of those who treated Marilyn (including Greenson): in bed. And the actress repeated the same scheme as with Jack. She began obsessively calling Bobby at the Justice Department. It was then that the brothers decided that they should take action on the matter.
According to the Marilyn Monroe account. A case for Murder, on August 4, 1962, Bobby stands in the actress's house. He is not alone. He is accompanied by Lawford and several members of the so-called Los Angeles Police Gangster Squad, an irregular group made up of gangsters that operates as a kind of vigilante force in the city to keep organized crime under control. Given the good relationships the Kennedys - including Lawford and his friends like Sinatra - had had with some prominent crime families, it is likely that the attorney general could have support in that group.
What happened then is more of a horror movie. Bobby demanded that Marilyn leave the Kennedys alone. She responded with a fit of hysteria and attacking the attorney general with a knife. It was then that Bobby ordered his companions to inject him with Nembutal and to call in the actress's psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, an unrepentant character whose patients included Tony Curtis, Vivien Leigh and Frank Sinatra, "to take care of her."
The Nembutal injection had not been enough to calm an overexcited Marilyn, who continued to threaten to reveal her relationships with the Kennedys, so Bobby had the Gangster Squad resort to a more expeditious method: shredding several dozen of them. Nembutal pills, forcibly undressing the actress and inserting them through her anus. That could explain the enema signs on her body discovered at autopsy. By then, the problem had reached such a magnitude that it was virtually impossible for Bobby to trust her to forget the savage incident.
Emergency services from Los Angeles had also arrived. Nurse James Hall tried to revive her. When she was beginning to show signs of regaining consciousness from her, Greenson arrived and Bobby ordered her to stop. According to Hall, Greenson opened her briefcase and pulled out a syringe with a 12-inch needle. So, he “drew a liquid from a bottle that had a rubber cap and filled the syringe. He groped between the ribs like an amateur. He then he pushed the syringe into her chest. But he didn't get it right. She got stuck in the bone, in a rib. Instead of trying again, he pushed, his face taut from the physical effort of pushing. He pushed very hard until the needle went through the rib, with a click when the bone was broken.
The Buskin and Margolis theory tries to explain why the autopsy found no signs of barbiturates in Monroe's digestive system, but found in his blood, in addition to the enema signs mentioned above, although it does not offer a reason why the wound in the rib was not detected in the post mortem analysis. What it does offer, with its brutal description of the sordid fight and abuse the actress was subjected to before she died, is justification for a stain, possibly blood, on the wall of the room in which the movie appeared. Monroe's corpse, and that it was conveniently deleted from the photographs that were made public.
Likewise, it brings light - although not too much - to the cryptic statements of Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Miller, in 1985, when she told the BBC, at a time when she believed that her words were not being recorded, that she had been lying. on the death of the actress more than two decades. According to Miller, when the emergency services arrived at Monroe's home, she was alive, which flagrantly contradicts the official version of her. An official version that, in reality, is not such. In 2007, an FBI report, signed by the Governor of California when Monroe died, Pat Brown, stated that the actress had a propensity to carry out false suicide attempts. But that on August 4, Bobby, Miller and Greenson encouraged her to do so. It is not as harsh a version as A case for murder. But it is, for want of a better one, the official one.
Five decades after Marilyn's death, virtually all of the protagonists have passed away. The only thing that remains is their myth, that it has survived them. Perhaps because, as Buskin explains, “Marilyn's appeal is eternal. Women admire her and men fantasize about having been able to save her.
