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Oh, uh, I'd like to ask you,

how do you go about writing a life story?

Because...

...the true things rarely get into circulation.

It's usually the false things.

If you ever get any of those things you want to ask, I'll tell you.

All of those things come from the truth, you know?

Because otherwise, it's hard to know where to start

if you don't start with the truth.

After 20 years, it's time to clear up this case.

Monroe died from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Speculation surrounding Monroe's death continues to this day.

The charge is Marilyn Monroe was murdered.

Someone in the CIA killed Monroe.

She was very frightened.

There's a great myth around her.

I hope your phone is clean.

Nobody ever knew everything.

Marilyn Monroe, the Golden Girl of Hollywood.

The dazzling fame of Marilyn Monroe

delights the critics and attracts the public in swarms.

Marilyn Monroe was this era's sex symbol.

Marilyn Monroe trod the summit of her profession.

Something remarkable happened

when she stepped before a camera.

A queen in her own realm of entertainment.

She was adored by millions.

A self-illuminating body, a star.

Tony, I have often said that I could put together

a scenario that would absolutely blow the minds of anybody who read it,

but it would be terribly costly to government agencies,

friends of mine, to people I know.

- Yeah. - I don't think I want to do that.

But I never talk to the press ever, ever, ever.

But I can't say anything, and I knew it all.

- Except it's a waste of your time. - Why?

I don't want to be the one who sets the record straight.

- But, I mean, I don't know you. - Fine.

Let it be.

Hollywood,

brilliant tinsel city of lights and fantasy.

Hollywood,

glorified, glittering, fascinating, fabulous mythical kingdom.

Hollywood, the glamour capital of the world.

When I was a kid, and I remember at the movies on Saturday afternoon...

Let's take a spin down the Boulevard and see what we can find!

...I'd never come out of the movie. They'd have to come get me.

Ah, Garbo!

Bad, good, didn't matter.

Hollywood's playground!

Anything that would move on the screen.

And here inside the gates,

there's more stars than the Milky Way!

If you don't believe it, just follow us!

My favorite was Jean Harlow.

She had white hair.

The one and only Marlene Dietrich!

Cary Grant arrives with his best grin.

As usual, Cary has a genial greeting for everybody!

And Clark Gable.

Clark walked into the forecourt...

The crowd is still shouting for their favorite!

Although I was a kid and I didn't know anything about acting,

I...

I wanted to know.

Talking.

Yup.

- Marilyn Monroe. I knew her very well. - You did?

- I'm talking about in the beginning. - Yes.

- When she was a kid. - At that time...

Well, I was... Al Rosen Agency was one of the top agencies in the business.

- Right. - I handled Cary Grant, Fredric March.

- Jack Oakie, Judy Garland, you know. - Right.

But, you see, the history of this business is

you got one thing, I'll guarantee it, which you didn't know about.

- In this business, in the golden years... - Yeah.

...every casting director, every studio used to have a black book,

you know what I mean?

So, every girl, you know, I'm talking about kids that were breaking in,

like Marilyn Monroe, you know, when they get started,

all the casting directors,

they would write in their black book who could be laid.

You see, the business has changed since then.

Today, it's the buck.

It used to be sex. Remember that.

Calling all girls! Calling all girls!

And now, all those lovely hopefuls have their chance.

The process of selecting just the right girls is a careful one.

My, my, what a smart looking crowd.

Isn't she a honey?

Isn't she sweet?

Neck, 12 and a half.

Bust, 34 and a half.

Pride. Adventure. Ambition.

From the ends of the Earth they come, waiting for the magic call.

Hello?

How can I help you?

Well, my husband knew her first, early '40s.

Oh, yes.

You know, a generous girl, warm girl, really rather lovable.

She was very much on the restaurant scene and the club scene.

- But at Romanoff's. - Yeah. Enormous fun.

And it was quite exotic.

It had a real mélange of people,

and it was sort of the mecca for agents.

It had all of the film VIPs.

- All the pretty girls hung out there. - Right.

And Marilyn was among them, of course.

So young is Hollywood

that many of its earliest pioneers are still active in the industry.

Men like Joseph Schenck, chairman of the board of 20th Century Fox.

Mr. Schenck brought about an era of epic, dramatic screen stories.

Oh, sure. Schenck was a human being.

- You know what I mean. - Yeah.

She had a bunch of 'em. He wasn't the only one.

There were a group who gathered at Schenck's.

- She was always very much at his house. - Yeah.

And she was beginning to make a few strides.

In 1948.

Johnny Hyde,

who was a dear little man, wonderful little man...

- You know about him? - Yes.

- Johnny was in love with her. - Yeah.

Johnny Hyde spoke to me about her first

and then brought her over to Metro.

Just, uh, very fresh.

Very attractive.

Rather timid.

Shy.

And, um we talked to her and gave her a script.

She went away and came back a day or two later,

and, well, Marilyn read her lines,

and she read them very beautifully, very well.

And there was no question.

She was ideal for the part.

- In The Asphalt Jungle? - Yes, indeed.

That was that.

Only once in a decade does the screen come up with

such absorbing characters.

Marilyn Monroe as Angela, the easy-living, green-eyed blonde.

Marilyn went right down into her own personal experience

for everything.

She would reach down and pull something out of herself

that was unique and extraordinary.

She found things about womankind in herself.

She had no technique.

It was all the truth.

It was only Marilyn, but she was Marilyn plus.

An award to the popular new star.

And as best young box office personality, Miss Marilyn Monroe.

Thank you, Mr. Nichols.

It's Marilyn Monroe, skyrocketing to new dramatic heights.

Marilyn Monroe, all the moviegoers of America voted you

the most popular actress of the year. My congratulations.

Thank you, Mr. Sammis.

- Congratulations! - Thank you, Lauren.

And my thanks to Look magazine.

A Hollywood incident that marks another salute

to Marilyn Monroe.

Thank you. I thank you very much.

And now here comes a young lady who has

created a real sensation in the picture business,

having won all kinds of awards as the number one newcomer of the year.

And believe me, a swell gal with a...

Take it from me, I've known her a long time, Miss Marilyn Monroe!

Let's hear it! Come on out here, Marilyn!

With Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.

Yes.

She was very bright, and she wanted to learn

and was interested in everything to,

- you know, help her control her career. - Right.

And every night after work, she would go to the coach.

- Yes. - We were going home exhausted.

She'd go to the coach.

But she wanted to be good.

Then when...

...the camera went on, it was like a whole electric light went on in the, you know...

They just came to life.

I just felt like I was on the outside of the world,

and suddenly everything opened up.

The world became friendly. It opened up to me.

I said, "Gee, what happened?"

If I am a star, the people made me a star.

But I do want to be wonderful, you know.

I want to do the best that I can do in that moment.

When the camera starts until it stops.

That moment I want to be... perfect.

I'll tell you,

I'm terribly grateful

because I remember when...

things weren't like this at all.

I saw her a time or two.

- Years had gone by. - Yeah.

By now she was dressed to the T's, and she'd become the...

The sex symbol of this country.

And it wasn't... It wasn't just a sex thing at all.

Women felt just the same as men.

There was something deeply moving about Marilyn, always.

We were close during the picture,

and then we were... we, you know, considered ourselves friends,

but Marilyn kind of went from one group to another.

She would take off, and it would be another group.

That would become the shell for a time.

She didn't go back and seek out any of the people

that had become close to her.

There was something so vulnerable, so...

Something you felt

could be easily destroyed.

- Hello? - Hi.

Well, I hated Hollywood. My family knew enough Hollywood people.

You know, I had, at times, met movie stars at parties

and found the whole thing to be obnoxious.

My notion was these people were... were phoneys and narcissistic characters.

I hated 'em.

So when I heard that Dad was seeing Marilyn,

I was not jumping up and down and cheering.

He couldn't see her at the office. She was too goddamn famous.

He was seeing her at home. I thought, "What a bunch of bullshit."

I mean, here's the sex symbol of the world.

Here is, you know, what womanhood should be in a nutshell.

I mean, there was something about Marilyn

- that put her apart from everybody else. - Yeah.

But there were times, you know, that I would pick her up in my Hillman Minx,

- you know, and... - Yeah.

Marilyn without makeup and a scarf over her hair and just sitting there,

you know, you wouldn't think would attract any kind of attention,

and yet, you know, I would suddenly have five people washing my windows.

- But there was just something. - Yeah.

It happened to me too.

No! No!

There was an at-homeness with her body

that very... I have never seen anybody else have.

To be sort of almost animallike

in their feel and their movement and...

You know, beautiful and very, in a sense, poetic.

And I'm not calling myself an orphan.

I was brought up a waif.

Yeah, I was never used to being happy.

So that wasn't something I was sort of counting on.

In all the years he'd been doing that,

my father had never had a patient commit suicide.

He never treated anybody as unorthodoxly as he was treating her.

His feeling was that because of who she was, she could never be hospitalized.

So given that he couldn't do that,

his feeling was the best shot he had

was to try to treat her in this highly unusual,

unorthodox kind of way that he did.

She starts hanging out with the family.

That's how a sort of more of a friendliness then came about.

Before dinner, they would have cocktails.

And that would be where the sort of predinner conversation would go on.

She had a... a mind that searched

and an honest mind that tried to find whatever her truths were.

It must have been somewhere along the line

that I began to talk to her.

And it was in that particular setting that I slowly but surely got to know her,

because I certainly know that my opinion changes.

Within that family, I was the new arrived left-winger.

So, but we'd get into these conversations,

and lo and behold, you know, Marilyn would end up on my side.

- Right. - So a friendship developed.

I began to like her and to recognize that there was more to this person

than, uh... than met the eye.

Well, Marilyn told me that there was a new man in her life.

No, that he was just, you know... you know, really terrific.

- Neat. - And he was really neat

and, you know, cute and...

I mean, it was that kind of... I mean, I remember...

- It was girly talk. - It was girly talk.

I mean, the...

She said that this person was so important that she wouldn't tell me who it was.

Calling him "the general."

She was calling him "the general."

The general.

And I remember feeling that it was real...

You know, it was real peculiar that here I'm sitting with Marilyn Monroe.

We're talking about boyfriends, and I'm meeting some schlub at art school.

I know that she's talking about somebody that's very big in the government.

And... and it sort of struck me as...

- Somehow this is bizarre. - You mean, you knew already...

So I didn't know whether it was Bobby or the president.

- Yeah. - It was simply titillating.

I mean, I don't even remember the guy I had a crush on back then,

but it was certainly somebody that wasn't gonna hold a candle to that.

Yeah.

There was more to this person than met the eye.

Family.

The general.

This person was so important.

Joe DiMaggio! Smacked one out of the park!

What a hit! Into the upper deck in left center field!

He was a wonderful athlete.

DiMaggio connects.

I met him... he had already retired.

I had very few friends.

It's just that

I like people,

but for friends, I like few people.

But I think she was quite taken with DiMaggio.

I saw him for around a year and a half, two years, and we married.

Romance that thrills the world!

The marriage of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio.

The girl who starred in How to Marry a Millionaire,

giving another starring performance in How to Marry a Baseball Hero,

and now the pair are off for their happy honeymoon.

He understood some things about me, and...

I understood some things about him.

We based our marriage on it.

And I say some things.

How have you and Mrs. DiMaggio enjoyed your trip to Japan?

Everything has been fine. We've enjoyed our trip.

The only thing that I have to complain about is I haven't seen much of Marilyn.

She is making a trip to Korea,

touring through the camps and so,

maybe after that we'll be able to spend a little time together.

I mean, I really don't think they had a lot in common.

I think she was very touched by his genuine concern for her.

But then quite soon bored...

with his over-possessiveness.

Well, we're here to make The Seven Year Itch.

- That's your latest picture? - Yes.

I'm looking forward to working in it very much.

I hear that you're getting to be quite a cook too.

Joe says you can really broil a mean steak.

Well, I'm learning.

A little slow, but...

Okay.

We were shooting Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe.

And do you remember that famous shot?

Do you remember the wind that is lifting her skirt?

Do you feel the breeze from the subway?

Isn't it delicious?

Oh! Here comes another one!

Well, we were all set up to shoot that scene, you know.

There were five and ultimately 10,000 people.

They were like, uh... and look up Marilyn's skirt.

And...

people were heckling from the sidelines,

and people were running up for autographs.

I did Seven Year Itch.

Yeah. Joe got very upset about it.

- Did he really or was that... - Really!

Joe DiMaggio, you know, he was watching it,

and he didn't like it very much,

his wife making a spectacle of herself.

They had a suite in a real old, beautiful hotel.

- And he... beat her up a little bit. - Huh.

Marilyn said that she screamed and yelled for us.

But we couldn't hear her through those thick walls, you know.

- It was more on her shoulders. - Yeah.

But with a little makeup and everything, she went ahead and worked.

Our marriage wasn't a happy one. It ended in,

uh, nine months,

unfortunately.

I don't know what else to say.

All I can say as her attorney is that

this is what we would say was a conflict of careers.

Has Joe moved out finally?

- Okay, Jerry! - I'm sorry. I have to go.

My dad had told me...

that she got depressed at times.

About how terrible she felt about herself.

"Nothing would ever turn out right."

"Nothing would go my way."

How do you feel about coming back to Hollywood?

A happy time for you...

Yes, it is. It's a very happy time. I'm happy to be back.

- In my hometown. - Yes.

Well, you're a happy girl now?

And she talked about this whole litany of depressive thought.

"Nobody likes me."

"Everything I do turns to shit."

"I don't have anybody."

"I'm a waif."

Marilyn, all we know in New York

is that you and Joe DiMaggio are friends at a distance.

How great a distance?

Well, we haven't seen each other.

Do you hear from each other? Do you write or talk?

- Um, I'd rather not answer. - All right, fine.

Well, when I was put in the orphans' home,

they pulled me, and I kept crying and screaming, "I'm not an orphan."

I called every woman I would see, I'd say, "There's a mama."

If I would see a man, I'd say, "There's a daddy."

I don't think I have really too much to say about it except

I... I liked her, and...

and we'd talk a lot.

I was at the Strasbergs' parties with her a lot.

She... she seemed a little bit, um...

She seemed concerned about, uh,

you know, like childhood memories of...

of being molested as a child, things like that.

She talked about that, I remember.

She felt that she had avoided...

That she knew people who were psychotic from such episodes,

and she felt that at least she'd survived that.

I was a very, very close friend

and was friends to the end.

She wanted to know her father so badly.

I remember a party and this game we'd play.

Everybody said what they'd want most in the world.

And she said she'd want to put on a black wig,

pick up her father at a bar,

have him make love to her,

and then she'd say, "Well, how does it feel now to have a daughter

that you've made love to?"

We all need to get out of childhood in one piece,

but if nowhere along the line did you get that sort of reinforcement

that you are worth love, you're lovable, that there's something in you,

that we're a good person,

what you end up with is a sort of emptiness.

We were friends prior to the marriage.

Many years before that.

See, my father owned half of Republic Studios at one time.

- So I grew up with these people. - Uh-huh.

But, uh, I think the greatest effect of all was Arthur Miller.

Yes.

The Arthur Miller situation.

How long have you known Miss Monroe, Mr. Miller?

I met her a long time ago, but I hadn't seen her in years.

But I think I've got the woman who is going to be my wife.

- You mean Marilyn Monroe? - That's correct.

When are you planning to have children?

Well, I'm not married yet, dear.

This is a personal question.

Is there anything in particular about Mr. Miller that attracted you?

- Have you seen him? - Yes.

Yes!

I think she was quite intrigued by people she thought to be bright.

That would have been my impression.

What I'd like to accomplish, I would like to be a good actress.

A true actress. An artist, with integrity.

She had very strong goals for herself.

She was so bright about acting.

She'd come over, sit with me at the Studio and things like that.

She'd figure out what she wanted to do with the scene.

She really... she really cared.

I think love and work are the only things that really happen to us.

Arthur Miller thought she was intelligent

and had a brain that was never cultivated.

And that's where he courted her.

That's correct.

Ms. Monroe, could you tell us what kind of a wedding you're gonna have?

Very quiet, I hope.

Studio.

- Can I speak to Milton Greene? - Speaking.

Close friend and associate. We loved each other, period.

She was. She really was. She wanted a baby.

In fact, during Prince and the Showgirl,

she said, when it's over, she's gonna go home and have a baby.

And I said, "Well, great."

"Get the white picket fence, and I think it's a good idea."

If you gave her a choice between children and stardom,

it would have been children...

without question.

There were some photographs,

I think it was a picture of her and Miller's father.

And she said to me,

"This is my happiest period."

And I asked her why.

She showed me the picture and said, "I was pregnant then."

Yes, she was pregnant by Miller during Some Like It Hot.

If you watched her

in the picture that I worked with her on called Some Like It Hot...

- Right. One of my favorites. - She was so wonderful.

All the way through.

- From the start? Gosh. - Yes.

She had a very naive quality about her, very soft, gentle quality.

That's the way she could be, you see.

That's the way she was, not could be. She was evanescent.

- ♪ To anything higher... ♪ - And I...

Well, uh, she wasn't happy many times, Mr. Summers.

I... I remember...

Everything connects in a person's life, particularly hers, you know?

And it's sad.

She was slightly discombobulated at all times.

But by God, when you suffered through that scene,

through the 30, 40, 50 takes sometimes,

you had something there, you know.

Something absolutely unique that cannot be duplicated.

I had no problem with Monroe. Monroe had problems with Monroe.

She had problems with herself.

I can give you the reason for that one.

But I can't say anything. And I knew it all.

I'm awfully sorry.

You sound very nice, but I really... It makes me unhappy to talk about it.

It really does.

- You know you... - She's been gone 20 years...

- Oh yes. - ...Mr. Summers.

I can't bring myself to talk about it.

Just being able to be

another human being,

to be someplace...

Having certain kinds of secrets for yourself.

There is a need for aloneness, you know?

I was aware from the... Yes, I was aware from the beginning.

And I saw there was something that she was...

She was not the fresh little girl that I'd known originally.

Very soon we were aware that she was a problem.

She'd be late on the set always.

Sometimes the whole morning would go by.

Sometimes she'd be all right.

Occasionally, she'd be practically non compos mentis.

The narcotics were the problem.

I discovered this in the course of the picture.

I remember saying to Miller one day...

I said, you know, that if she went on at the rate that she was going,

why, she'd be in an institution in two or three years, or dead!

And I said anyone who allows her to take a drug ought to be shot.

It was almost an accusation against him.

An indictment against Miller.

At the end of the shooting of Misfits.

Happiness...

Does one ever know that?

Marilyn!

Marilyn!

I feel wonderful. Thank you.

Here she was now, again divorced and terribly lonely.

That's when the Kennedys came back in there.

Right.

- Were you aware of that? - Oh, yes.

But Jack, that started in the early and mid '50s.

- Yes! - Uh-huh.

Oh, of course it did.

He'd been out here on and off all through the '50s.

'Cause he had lots of friends here, you know,

spending lots of time, you know.

- He used the Malibu Inn. - Yes.

- And drank at the Malibu Cottage. - Uh-huh.

The raunchiest looking thing you've ever seen in your life.

- Oh yeah, because Jack wasn't known... - Yeah.

...here at all.

He was a senator. He was totally unknown here.

I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear...

No one ever expected Jack to become the president or the nominee.

...and I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.

And will to the best of your ability...

He's just some smart-ass rich kid's son that became senator.

Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

So help you God.

So help me God.

After Jack.

Ah, yes.

Yes.

But, in '61,

the meeting headquarters was at Pete Lawford's house

in Malibu.

Just the things that were going on in that beach house.

Not discreet at all.

Of course, there was nothing discreet about any of the Kennedys either.

Mm-hmm. I mean, it was just mind-boggling.

Peter would obviously be, you know, sort of pimping for both Kennedys.

They would do it just as soon in front of anybody.

Yeah, their wives could be in the other room,

and many times were, you know.

Yeah. I mean, I've had a hand up my breasts.

The president owned it.

Yeah.

Not in the terms that Jack was.

They were tacky, they were corny, they were... you know, the father was.

They were chips off the old block.

You know, his father was a bigger wolf than he was!

He came out here, and he had an office here,

which later became RKO.

See, before, any con artist could come into the motion picture industry

and make a buck.

And he used to fuck up in his office.

I used to have to wait outside the door, for chrissakes,

while he was getting laid.

I mean, I'm talking about Joe.

Yeah.

Remember that.

Both.

I do.

It was in the dining room one day,

and she was talking about going over to Lawford's house.

"I want something to talk to him about."

- Robert Kennedy? - Right.

We talked about some political questions. She actually ended up writing them down

and putting them in her purse, and then she went there.

She was seated with Bobby

and had made some little notes,

feeling that she really wasn't quite bright enough for the crowd.

And, um, at one point,

he got up and called his father long-distance

to say that he was seated with Marilyn Monroe,

and would his father like to say hello to Marilyn.

- Who? - This is Bobby.

And I think he asked her to dance.

They did that.

- That goes on... - Yes, that's what she said

on numerous occasions.

Again, she just didn't lie. She just spoke quite openly.

Oh, nothing but love.

Nothing but admiration.

Tonight, we go after the story of a private detective,

who helps Confidential magazine pry into the lives of Hollywood stars.

An ex-cop, now one of the highest-paid private detectives in the United States.

He's Fred Otash.

Now then, Fred Otash, you take any case that pays you money, is that not so?

- Correct? - That's correct.

Any case at all?

I won't take a case for a member of the Communist Party or a communist.

I sort of draw the line there.

How do you justify invading people's privacy like that?

Well, I feel this way, if you can see it or hear it,

you're not invading any privacy.

Being a private detective is a dirty job. There's no two ways about it.

But I do a certain job,

and I try to determine if the facts and the items are true.

- You just want the facts? - That's right. The true facts.

- Fred Otash? - Yeah.

I worked for and against the Mafia. I worked for and against law enforcement.

I worked for and against the White House.

And I worked for Hoffa.

You can't be head of the Teamsters unless you're approved by the Mob.

Hoffa was the Mob.

- Where'd you get the money? - What'd you say?

Do you have any evidence of the $20,000 in cash?

- No. - Did you receive any of this money?

I don't believe that I did.

Suggest anything to you?

It doesn't suggest anything except the fact that you're trying again

to embarrass Hoffa. That's all.

Hoffa, he had a vendetta for Bobby. Kennedy had a vendetta for Hoffa.

Mr. Hoffa, did you say, "That SOB. I'll break his back."

Figure of speech. I don't know who I was talking about.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Hoffa wanted to neutralize Kennedy.

What Hoffa wanted

was for me to develop a derogatory profile on Jack and Bobby Kennedy

and their relationships with Marilyn Monroe.

And the strategy that was agreed upon was to use electronic devices,

and the most logical place to set those devices

was Peter Lawford's home in Malibu.

That was the Kennedy playground.

And wire up Marilyn's home...

in Brentwood.

The house on the Helenas was the first piece of property that she

ever had owned in her whole life.

And my father encouraged the whole idea that

she alone as a person could own and put down roots and have her own place.

It was something that hadn't occurred to her.

And she was, you know, very excited about establishing her own sort of family.

What Pop wanted to do was to have her stand on her own two feet.

But there is something in people, they want solitude for a while.

That I'm quiet and to myself more.

Somewhere in there, my dad went away.

- Yeah. - To Europe.

And he left with her in fairly decent shape.

But I think she was starting that movie.

In a sense, the less important we became in her life, the better off.

That meant that she had her own life.

- All right, camera! - It's 11.

It takes me two seconds. It's taken...

You've... you've had two days. Sorry, George, but we can do it.

Good, good, good.

All right, cameras!

Yeah, one more. That was good though, right?

And she would become even more of a star.

I'd have to look into my journal and see what he said,

- if I wrote it down as a quote. - I'd be interested in that.

This is a quote. "Marilyn will turn out to be

the most popular actress of her generation, probably of this century."

502. Speed.

Mr. Cukor, on this film, has been

very wonderful to me.

Trying to be happy is almost as difficult as trying to be a good actress.

You have to work at both of them.

"Her best films would have come late in her career."

"She had a great untapped dramatic talent."

But anyway, she was making that movie, and... my dad, when he left said,

"You guys should try to pitch in."

He wanted to make sure that she wasn't running into some trouble.

There was always great danger that she might...

get involved with somebody or something.

The bugs were installed in the bedrooms and on the phones.

And there were four bugs altogether installed out there.

They were placed under carpets,

in the chandeliers, and in ceiling fixtures.

You could wire a telephone five miles from the location.

I had sent Danoff out there.

John Danoff.

Yes.

The conversation that came across the receiver,

it would fade in and fade out.

Music, people talking,

and I'm then beginning to recognize the voices,

the Bostonian accent and Marilyn Monroe.

I heard the president call Marilyn "Marilyn,"

or Marilyn calling the president "Prez."

Any conversations on the phone,

some with Jack Kennedy, some with Bobby Kennedy,

some with Monroe, some with other people.

Arrangements for meetings, there were gonna be rendezvous

with Jack Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, and Monroe.

So there were numerous tapes made on Marilyn and Jack at the beach house

in the act of lovemaking.

They went into the bedroom where there was another transmitter,

which picked up cuddly talk and taking off her clothes,

the sex act in the bed.

And someone wired up Marilyn's house

on behalf of Hoffa.

Bobby Kennedy was there many times.

There were more tapes made out of Robert Kennedy and Monroe,

as opposed to Jack Kennedy and Monroe.

This is in '62, shortly before her death.

It must have been that summer.

Whenever she called,

and I would always answer the attorney general's personal calls,

she would talk to me.

It was as though she were reaching out.

And Bob would call her back, and they'd talk.

The entire globe,

yesterday, the site of a momentous conflict.

The conflict which has become known as the Cold War.

The Communist Bloc would like to see the world

under communist domination.

Recently, we've seen it extend into turbulent Cuba.

Does that disturb you? It should.

You are in the crosshairs of the bombsight.

A massive nuclear intercontinental capability.

The communist plan for world domination.

It is a contest unlike any we have ever faced in our history as a nation.

I remember when she sang for the president.

And she was so excited about it.

'Cause, "Why, the president of the United States," you know.

You know, it was one of the most exciting things of her life.

President is winding up his New York day here at Madison Square Garden

in a sort of pre-birthday celebration.

Mr. Kennedy has the best seat in the house at the function,

and it will be starting just about now, the finale for this affair.

Mr. President,

on this occasion of your birthday, this lovely lady, Marilyn Monroe.

Everybody! Happy birthday!

Just being the one to sing.

She was picked.

She was picked.

The one.

We met in Laguna.

A month before she died.

She came down for the weekend.

And... she told us the...

What had really taken place with the Kennedys.

I can... You know, I can go into the dirt,

or I can go into lots of other things,

but she... She was...

She was, uh, hurt.

Terribly hurt when... ...she was told directly

never to call or contact again.

- Robert or John. - Right.

Well, no, that was an order.

- No, Jack didn't contact her. - Yeah.

Bob did.

And that's what killed her.

I don't care what anyone else says.

It was the beginning of the last day, if you will.

Prior to her death?

She had been mixing drink and sleeping pills.

I thought she very definitely was on the downward path.

And I just never could quite understand whether

she understood there was help to be had

and people did care about her.

And whether she was just...

letting go.

I like to stay here and now.

Fame is fickle.

It had its compensation.

But... it also has its drawbacks.

And I know it.

I've had you, fame.

So long!

One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is dead at 36.

Her housekeeper, Eunice Murray,

found the actress dead in bed,

holding in one hand a telephone, which was off its hook.

Bottle of sleeping pills near her bed.

No notes were found.

The coroner ruled the cause of death an overdose of drugs.

It is our opinion, probable suicide.

Well, the official finding will never tell the story

of her life and end.

I will never forget that night

because we were at the Hollywood Bowl,

and someone, I don't know who it was, that came to us,

and all I remember is that we were no longer

at the Hollywood Bowl, if you know what I mean.

About half past ten.

- Exactly. - Right.

That's not true because my husband was there.

That's correct.

- Remember, the official story... - My husband fudged everything off.

I cannot tell you why because he's no longer with us, as you know.

- He didn't tell you why... - Don't forget, that was his business.

To keep the press at bay. He kept everyone in abeyance.

- What happened? - What do you mean?

Did you go into the house?

- Yeah. - Did you see Monroe's body?

Yeah, she was on the bed.

Do you recall whether she was on her back or stomach?

Side.

- She was on her side. - Yes.

Yeah?

- Yeah. - Do you know where it took her?

Took her to Santa Monica emergency.

No, she wasn't.

Yes, that's right.

Yeah.

- comatose, to the hospital... - Right.

It's the truth.

- The other people involved. - Involved.

I don't know who was involved.

Greenson and I were both at a... at a lunch.

I was sitting next to him at the table.

- Yes. - And...

This is after she died. '64, somewhere like that.

Quite closely related to her death.

They took her to St. John's.

And that she died in the ambulance.

Then they took her back to the house. That was what he told me.

Right...

Yeah, he did! He told me that he was in the ambulance.

Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable telling you what he told me.

This sort of thing was not talked about.

- People of that magnitude. - Yeah.

Also, he wouldn't want to burden me with

a knowledge that I would then have to hide.

Hello?

Yes, Tony.

I don't want to go through it with Marilyn again because, uh...

Listen, I don't know really anything else that I feel that I ought to do.

- Tony! - Yeah?

This has not had any interest for me in a long time.

I went in, did my number, took my money and got out of the business!

Find out where Bobby Kennedy was that weekend.

Do you wanna ask me something or...

Yeah, I had heard,

on good authority, that the Saturday that this happened,

Bobby had come into town.

Bobby was in town and supposedly left.

And when I say I heard it, I heard it from a federal agent.

Yes. It was definitely from the FBI.

I think he was at Peter's house at the beach.

Yeah, that's what I...

In fact, I... I must say, yes, I... I do remember that.

- He was. - Right.

- He was at Peter's house at the beach. - Right.

Well, I hope your phone is clean.

- Which is a good question. - Yes.

Did Freddy, uh, corroborate? And if you don't wanna tell me, okay.

But I can call Fred. He'll tell me.

Well, you're talking to a lot of people, and, you know,

you're obviously really intent on getting into this thing.

That Marilyn was murdered is baloney.

- I'll put you straight on it. - Yeah.

First of all, what did Freddy tell you?

There were tapes recorded the day of her death.

Bobby Kennedy called her the night of her death from Lawford's house.

And she said, you know, "Don't bother me. Leave me alone. Stay out of my life."

A very violent argument, that, you know, "I feel passed around, I feel used,

I feel like a piece of meat."

Now, that's true.

- What you just said is true. - Right.

She was raising a stink,

calling the broth... Calling John and the White House

and complaining about the situation.

- Because of the brother. - Yes. The picture that I remember

is that she'd been hot and heavy for... for Bob.

- Yes. - At first.

And then, she'd gotten the cold shoulder, or somehow or other, it had turned.

- Now the details of that, I don't know. - Right.

But she had come to the point where she felt like

- she was just being used. - Yes.

And that's where it was at about the time the end came.

- Right. - She was upset and heartbro...

I don't know whether... I don't think she was heartbroken.

I don't think that it was a thing of being heartbroken.

It was a thing of feeling taken advantage of and feeling

a lot of lies and feeling that she was just being...

Had come to where she said, you know, "I don't even want to see you."

You know, and, "Why did you come here?"

You know, "If you want to see me, you come to see me."

- You know, "I'm not coming down there." - Right.

The call to the White House thing,

I understood it to mean that, like she was calling to say, you know,

"Get your brother away from me. I hate all of you."

- That type of thing. - Right.

There was a turning point in her feelings.

Like a piece of meat, used, passed around.

I don't think she was heartbroken.

Feeling used.

"I hate all of you."

I appreciate very much your calling.

I think about you once in a while.

The Kennedys were a very important part of Marilyn's life.

I wasn't included in this information, but I was a witness to what was happening.

Yes.

And it became so sticky

that the protectors of Robert Kennedy, you know,

had to step in there and protect him.

Not an investigation, but rather a "hush-hush."

Because the man that really was involved was the boss.

He was the attorney general, so he could have the FBI do anything.

People that knew,

they knew that they didn't want Bobby Kennedy's name brought into this,

again, because his brother was president.

They had done everything to hush this up.

We sort of started to piece together what happened.

Press accounts were coming out, and they didn't make a lot of sense to us.

And so we started playing detective.

I pieced together the notion that a helicopter was used

and went out to see the helicopter pilot.

And I said, "Can I look at your log? Have you got a log?"

And he said, "Sure!"

And he produced his log, and I started thumbing through it.

And I saw an entry that said

that he took Kennedy to meet a flight en route to San Francisco.

Two or three in the morning.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Well, also a call was made to Bobby Kennedy's people.

That's right, and that he had been at the beach house and that he had flown out.

That that was one reason for the delay.

The message we got back was that Kennedy

would appreciate it if we didn't do the story.

We decided that we would not go with the story.

Uh... What did Freddy tell you about that?

But I mean, the only people that would know about that

would be the people at the meeting.

Lawford showed up completely disorientated

and in a state of shock, saying that Marilyn Monroe was dead,

that Bobby Kennedy was there,

that they had gotten in a big fight,

that he was spirited out of town back up north,

and that he'd like to have me make arrangements

to have someone go out to the house

and pick up any and all information

that was possible regarding any involvement

between Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedys.

He was convinced there was diaries around and maybe a note.

- One moment, please. - Doyle.

- Yes. - This had occurred?

- Oh yeah. It did happen. - Right.

I was there at the time when she died.

There were some people there that normally wouldn't have been there.

- Bureau people? - Yes.

Immediately. Before anybody even realized what had happened.

It had to be instructions from someone high up, higher than Hoover.

- The general or the president. - Yes.

The only two.

She was raising a stink.

She was...

She...

Well, as far as the Los Angeles District Attorney is concerned,

she killed herself, either on purpose or accidentally.

The Marilyn Monroe case is closed.

The true things rarely get into circulation.

It's usually the false things.

It's hard to know where to start if you don't start with the truth.

I checked the operator for...

- Out of order. - Hmm.

The operator said the phone's off the hook.

She was dead...

I've had to live with it...

I should have got in my car and gone up there.

I should have known better.

When I was a kid,

sitting in the front row...

at the movies on Saturday afternoon...

and I'd think how wonderful it would be to be an actress.

Everything that I would see.

And...

I...

I wanted to know.

I would like to be a good actress.