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[MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm John Huston.

By chance I directed Marilyn Monroe's first major film

as well as her last.

Marilyn had a strange, a startling impact on the world.

Even today, across the headlines of far greater events,

her gentle, haunted image continues to appear.

There's very few stars that are bigger in death

than they were in life, but Marilyn Monroe

was such a huge star throughout the '50s

that it's hard to imagine she could become even bigger.

But she just goes on and on.

You can ask an old person or a young person.

They all know who she is.

I was researching a film about the 1960s, called "The Times

They Are A Changing," a documentary I was making

and I was going through the FBI archives

and I came across a new release under the Freedom

of Information Act on Marilyn Monroe.

And I started reading it and I couldn't believe it.

Why do you believe there was a cover up?

I think that her death had political implications,

particularly in Washington with the Kennedys.

[MUSIC - MAXI WILD, "GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES"]

The business of Marilyn Monroe is extraordinary.

And you know there are Marilyn Monroe collectibles.

There are books about Marilyn Monroe collectibles.

There are books here of her personal archives

that they've recreated.

Everything you want to buy with Marilyn Monroe on it

is out there, lunch boxes, you name it.

She's still as hot as she ever was

as a piece of merchandising.

As a business, Marilyn Monroe will never die.

I mean there is an endless fascination in any kind of way

that you want to hang on to Marilyn Monroe,

even if it's on your key chain, you can do it.

We are at the Roosevelt Hotel, in Hollywood, California.

Marily Monroe stayed here quite a bit throughout the 1950s.

She would come here, get away from the hustle

and bustle and craziness of Hollywood,

and relax here at the hotel.

We are in what was known as the Marilyn Monroe suite.

Back in the 1950s, this room was a lot smaller.

What had happened throughout the years

when they remodeled the hotel, they

more than likely have taken two rooms

and they bonded them together.

So it's a large suite now.

It's right across from the pool, right out here on the balcony

and the pool is right below us.

And that's where one of Maryland's first photo shoots

took place.

The Roosevelt itself has got a long history of haunts.

And that there's even rumors going around

or word going around that the housekeeping staff has

a large turnover because of all the spirits

that haunt the Roosevelt Hotel.

And Marilyn Monroe was one of the more popular ones.

Yes, well the mystery about Marilyn's death

goes on and on and on.

And, it's I guess never officially, been solved.

There's many, many questions about it.

And so people are always intrigued

by an unfinished story.

NEWS REPORTER: Almost instantly the lurid circumstances

of Marilyn's death made headlines across the world.

And just as quickly came rumors of foul play.

PETE HAMMOND [VOICEOVER]: She died at age 36, 1962,

well over 50 years ago.

And we're still talking about it.

We're still debating what happened.

NEWS REPORTER: Crowds of the curious

are held back at a respectful distance

from the private funeral that Joe DiMaggio

arranged for Marilyn Monroe.

After services in the chapel of Westwood Memorial Cemetery,

in which eulogies and passages from the Scripture were read,

the casket is placed in the hearse to be taken to a crypt--

I remember it very vividly.

I remember seeing that blazing headline on "The Los

Angeles Times" in August.

Marilyn Monroe dies and I was at a dude ranch.

And Dean Martin and his family happened

to be there vacationing.

Dean Martin was making a film with Marilyn at the time,

"Something's Gotta Give," which had

been shut down by 20th Century Fox at that point.

But he was so devastated, I do remember this even as a kid,

that he immediately left.

And everybody at this ranch was talking about it.

I remember, there was a news flash in Australia.

Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood star, found dead apparent suicide.

Newsflash on the radio in Australia.

And I was like-- who's Marilyn Monroe.

I mean, I was 12 years old, you know.

I think it was a big deal.

I think it's still a big deal.

One of the problems is when the death happened.

It's 1962, and things were very different during that era

than they are now.

Keep in mind, this is pre-Watergate

and the press coverage at the time

was very much non-intrusive.

So anything that was a little bit dicey,

you didn't really dig into it.

People are obsessed with Marilyn Monroe.

She was larger than life.

Classic, unfortunate, tragic fairy tale of someone

reaching their peak in success and then tragically being

taken away at such a young age.

The way she was thrust into the limelight and her association

with the Kennedys and with Joe DiMaggio,

she was the first big, beautiful bombshell

that everyone just fawned over.

Madonna, Blondie, Lady Gaga, every major female pop icon,

they all go through their Marilyn phase,

because Marilyn has stimulated their imaginations

and their image.

And it's quite extraordinary the way they all copy Marilyn.

She created something that touches something very deep.

My name is Greg Schreiner.

I'm the president of Marilyn Remembered and the club

itself was found in 1983.

I fell in love with Marilyn at an early age

because my parents had taken me to see "Some Like it Hot"

actually.

And for some reason, her image reached out of that screen

and grabbed my heart and took it.

And from that moment on I started collecting everything

I could on her, every poster, every book, of which there were

not many back at that time.

It's interesting right after her death,

things went dark for a while.

There was no books, no anything published

really for quite a while.

But everything I could find I researched her

and the more I looked into her life, the more I guess

fell in love with her, which seems

to happen to a lot of people.

The fact that this happened to her was unthinkable.

I mean, when you get that kind of blazing headline in "The LA

Times" even to today, that means some big seismic world

event has happened.

She would have made many more great movies.

She never made a bad movie in my opinion.

There's a great scene with her and Groucho

Marx in a very early film.

Is there anything I can do for you?

What a ridiculous statement.

Mr. Graham, I want you to help me.

I've a little sand left, what seems to be the trouble?

The men are following me.

Really?

I can't understand why.

I think "All About Eve" showed if we're going

to see what Marilyn Monroe could become as a comedienne--

Oh, waiter.

That isn't a waiter, my dear, that's a butler.

Well, I can't yell, oh, butler, can I?

Maybe somebody's name is Butler.

Her scenes there with George Sanders are just priceless.

It's a small, tiny role, but it was in an iconic movie.

That movie won the Best Picture of 1950.

And you can sort of tell looking at that now in retrospect

that there is the beginnings of a very fine comedy performer.

Addison, I've been wanting you meet Eve for the longest time.

It could only have been your natural timidity that

kept you from mentioning it.

You've heard of her great interest in the theater.

We have that in common.

Then you two must have a long talk.

I'm afraid Mr. Dewitt would find me boring before too long.

You won't bore him, honey.

You won't even get a chance to talk.

Claudia, come here.

You see that man?

That's Max Fabian, the producer.

Now go and do yourself some good.

Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?

Because that's what they are.

Now, go and make him happy.

The dumb blonde image, I'm not sure where that came from.

But maybe this movie that she did with Cary Grant,

when she played a secretary.

Good morning, Dr. Fulton.

Good morning.

Aren't you here early?

Oh, yes.

Mr. Oxley has been complaining about my punctuation,

so I'm careful to get here before nine.

It's fun to see her with Cary Grant to be sure.

These two major, major stars.

Marilyn Monroe had a very smart intelligence behind her,

an innate sense of what she was doing,

even in a movie where she is really, really plain stupid.

All right, now say terrified.

Terrified.

Now say tissue. Tissue.

Now say them both fast together.

Terrified tissue.

[SMACK]

How dare you?

My name is Brian Chanes.

I'm with the Auction House Profiles in History.

And you know we're the largest auction

houses devoted to entertainment and Hollywood memorabilia.

Marilyn Monroe is a one of a kind.

There's never going to be another.

Her material, and people clamor to it

and it's really unsustainable as far

as there's no other person in Hollywood

history that compares, period.

Oh, do you feel the breeze from the subway?

Isn't it delicious?

"The Seven Year Itch probably contains the most famous scene

of her career, which was where the dress

gets blown up on the streets there in New York.

Ooh, here comes another one.

When the movie opened they had this gigantic blow up of it

above the theater.

That was in the days when they really knew how to sell movies.

Basically we sold that dress for $5.52 million,

which shatters the world record.

Say that again.

$5.52 million.

You know, it shatters any previous Hollywood

costume record by any measure.

And of course, it's Marilyn.

So it's going to be a long time I think before that

one this is topped again.

1926 is when she was born.

She would be in her 80s now, probably

late 80s if she had lived.

Can you imagine a Marilyn still with us

as a senior of Hollywood?

A senior of Hollywood, well, unfortunately, I

don't think it would be as kind to her memories.

Because people love to freeze frame someone

at the zenith of their beauty.

[SINGING] Having a heat wave.

A tropical heat wave.

And that's the first image, oddly enough,

I remember seeing of Marilyn Monroe myself.

They used to have this thing on NBC called "NBC's

Saturday Night at the Movies."

And when I was a kid, I would watch that

and they ran a lot of Marilyn's movies on that.

They would buy them up for national television exposure.

And that's how I saw "There's No Business Like Show Business."

And I certainly don't remember anything

about that movie except that number, "Heat Wave,"

which was super hot stuff.

I mean, you know, we're having a heat wave.

[SINGING] Temperature's rising.

It isn't surprising.

You certainly can, can.

What this is, is a Jean Louis costume design of Marilyn.

I don't know if you've seen "The Misfits."

Arthur Miller wrote the screenplay.

Jean Louis was a costume designer.

This is the famous cherry dress that she wore in the film,

and it sold for over $22,000 this last weekend.

Here's a picture of me at my first movie premiere

when I was 15 and 1/2.

This is the only dress that I found that I liked.

And it just so happened to look like "Diamond's

are a Girl's Best Friend."

I had no idea that you could be a professional Marilyn Monroe

impersonator until I was at that premiere,

and Bernie Wayne who wrote the Miss America song,

wanted to take me to Vegas and make me an impersonator.

And I was like what?

Isn't this great though?

And it just arrived.

Happy Birthday to me.

[SINGING] A kiss on the hand may be quite continental,

but diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1, 1926.

She was an illegitimate baby, and her mother, Gladys Baker,

was uncertain of who the father was.

On her birth certificate, Marilyn

was Norma Jeane Mortenson, but she

grew up as Norma Jeane Baker.

Ida and Albert Bolander were her foster parents

for the first eight years in a tiny house

in Hawthorne, California.

The thing she didn't have was a permanent home.

And she didn't have a permanent family because her mother was

her only family and her mother unfortunately

was committed to an institution for most

of Marilyn's early life.

So she really never had a real mother,

but she certainly had some, I think fairly wonderful

foster mothers that really did care,

they weren't horror stories.

So she had a good upbringing.

But I suspect even that isn't quite the same

as having your own real family.

She wanted to work really, really

hard doing something that she had a chance of succeeding in.

And growing up in Hollywood, she was right here

in the middle of all of that.

And I think that's really what kept her going when she was

at Hollygrove at the orphanage was being able to look

at the RKO water tower and the gates of the studios

right there, and to have that dream to hold

on to when she was feeling so ugly

and her clothes were scratchy.

And she had to wash dishes for hours every night.

She felt like little Cinderella, you know.

MARILYN MONROE: I used to sit up in the window and cry,

because I'd look over and I'd see RKO

and I knew my mother had worked there.

She'd been a cutter there.

What we've read about her in the books

is sort of the way she was.

She was a fairly naive young girl

who had great hopes and aspirations for her life,

but didn't see any way to achieve that.

And of course we know then from the story later

that she's discovered working at an airplane plant

and gets on the cover of a magazine,

and the rest is history.

After that people just started noticing her.

I first met Marilyn, she was living on Doheny.

She was a wonderful influence in my life.

Everything was perfect about her.

She was just an absolutely beautiful human being.

Everything I'm saying is really from what

I know personally from her.

I mean, look what kicked off our relationship closely

was after we were set to do that movie, "A Loss of Roses,"

which is a play I did.

People told her, like Strasberg and people like that,

oh, yeah, what she should read.

But she didn't want to be told.

She didn't want to be told anything, really.

She had a wall against being advised.

Marilyn was an extraordinary person.

She was so different from the Hollywood construct, you know,

that it's almost not recognizable.

She was intelligent.

She was well-read.

She loved the music of Bela Bartok.

I mean that she read Thomas Hardy.

She read James Joyce.

She read Shakespeare.

She was friends with the poet Carl Sandburg.

In fact, he gave her a set of wind chimes

that were hanging on a tree just outside her door,

you know the night she died.

One of the individuals who let's say it gets short shrift

is Jim Dougherty.

James Dougherty, a gun instructor with the Los Angeles

Police, was 21 when he married 16-year-old schoolgirl

who lived down the street.

Now granted, it was more of a marriage of convenience,

him doing her a favor.

Doc and Grace were moving to Huntington, West Virginia where

Doc was being transferred, and Norma Jeane was going to have

to go back to an orphanage.

Grace told this to my mother.

And she was a little big for an orphanage.

So my mother and Grace decided it

might be a good idea if Norma Jeane and I got married.

She was cute.

She was sweet.

War is coming.

Who knows what's going to be happening.

A lot of people were marrying very quickly at the time.

So Marilyn marries basically her next door neighbor.

Didn't quite work out.

Romance that thrills the world, the marriage of Marilyn Monroe

and Joe DiMaggio attracts a record crowd

to the San Francisco court where the ceremony is performed.

While DiMaggio stayed alone in Tokyo,

Marilyn went on to entertain the troops in Korea.

Waves of frenzied approval greeted her.

It was, she said, like an embrace.

[CHEERING]

She married, of course, Joe DiMaggio, the very famous

baseball player, and then a very famous playwright,

Arthur Miller.

Miss Monroe, could you tell us what kind of a wedding

you're going to have?

Very quiet.

Do you feel certain at this time

that you will be able to get away to go to England?

I feel certain I'm going to try awfully hard.

In the event that you are not able to go,

will Miss Monroe still go?

Oh, sure.

She's got to go.

She's got a contract to go.

That means you may not have a honeymoon together then.

I think we will.

I hope so.

And then even, is rumored to have had quite the affair

with the President of the United States,

John F. Kennedy and even his brother, Robert Kennedy,

who was Attorney General.

'73, when Mailer's book came out,

I believe that was possibly the first

in print connection between Marilyn and the Kennedy family.

And so all of a sudden for me at the time,

it was like oh my god, these two people that I really like,

they actually knew each other. '75, Earl Wilson

came out with an article saying that, yeah, the rumors are

true, that Marilyn had been romantically

involved with the president.

From that point on, every single book

that has come out, either on the Kennedy

family or Marilyn Monroe, they're forever interlinked,

I'll tell you it's a real challenge,

painting the most beautiful woman in the world

and trying to improve on the photograph.

I can't imagine anyone with a more perfect face.

I just think that she was so beautiful,

and she projected this vulnerability

and this softness.

And I just think that everybody wanted a piece of her.

Everybody wanted something, to touch her, to kiss her,

to hold her, to possess her, or producers

want her in the movies to make money off of her.

And I think she was a very giving person,

but at a certain point, I think she felt that she

was being passed around.

And I think that Jack Kennedy to Bobby Kennedy if she really

loved Jack, the next thing you know, he fixes her up

with his brother, something like that could have been very

traumatic, where she couldn't go public with the affair

because they're both married men and Catholics and one of them

is the President of the United States.

I used to work for Senator George Smathers

of Florida, who called himself, John

F. Kennedy as his best friend.

And I think he was.

And he talked about it all the time.

So I was very early hearing about this affair.

People got very involved with her, especially people

in some sense of authority, that she

felt were trustworthy people, and they would turn out

not to be trustworthy at all.

Her natural hair color was--

Brown, brown color.

My name is Jimmy Morrisey and I met Marilyn Monroe

through Gloria Lovell, Frank Sinatra's secretary,

when she came out after divorcing Arthur Miller.

She had done modelling as a reddish brown.

But she gradually lightened it.

And it the more she lightened it,

it seemed the more parts that she would get.

So she finally became a platinum blonde.

And I did Marilyn's hair two times

when she's going with the president and two times

when she was going with the president's brother.

And when she was on the phone with the president,

she would always call him that man.

And so when she finished talking and I finished her hair,

Gloria later said to me, you know who that man is,

don't you?

And I said, well I figure it's the president.

And she said, yes.

Her most famous film appearance could well

be when she sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy,

and that piece of film is truly iconic.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President.

Mr. President, the late Marilyn Monroe.

[APPLAUSE]

[SINGING] Happy Birthday--

To look at her that night, you would think there

was absolutely nothing wrong.

You look at this woman who seems at the height of her powers

during that, and now that we know in retrospect that there

was much more to this relationship

with the president, it's quite interesting.

Everybody, Happy Birthday.

They had to keep announcing her.

Here's Marilyn Monroe.

Here's Marilyn Monroe.

And they finally announced, here's the late Marilyn Monroe.

Six months later, she was the late Marilyn Monroe,

because her death happened in August.

It is my conclusion that the death of Marilyn Monroe

was caused by a self-administered overdose

of sedative drugs and that the mode of death

is probable suicide.

Sometimes cliches are accurate.

And one cliche is this account of her death

has more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese.

The focus at that time was on the tragedy, on the loss.

And everything that had been put out officially

was accepted straightforward.

But we had no suicide note.

In fact, an hour before her death according

to Eunice Murray, her housekeeper companion,

she was in a terrific mood.

Fortunately, we have firsthand accounts from eye witnesses.

There is no statute of limitations for murder.

The coroner put down probable suicide.

I have signed off on death certificates, 16,000 autopsies

that I've done myself.

I have never seen probable suicide.

That word probable tells me more than 1,000 words

could possibly explain about the great doubt

that existed in their minds.

There was a biochemical problem here.

She could not have raised her blood toxicity level

to the point that we saw in the time in the toxicology report

by gobbling pills because you just can't

get there without dying first.

The people who make Nembutal said

you can't eat enough of these pills to do that to your blood.

You'll be lying on the floor with your eyes

glazed over first.

You're about a third of the way there, you'll already be dead.

Piecing together the facts of her death

is a very difficult task.

It requires all of the testimony from witnesses who appeared

in dozens of different news shows and documentaries

for over 30 years.

Witnesses range from cops to wire tappers,

from Marilyn Monroe's housekeeper,

to the coroner and deputy district attorney,

from police chiefs to a nephew of one of the biggest

mob bosses of all time.

Some who lied at first changed their stories over the years.

Basically the normal thing would

have been for Theodore Curphey as coroner, to call

for a grand jury investigation.

But he didn't.

We had Jack Clemmons speak, who was

the first officer on the scene the night of her death.

And he was the one that arrived at,

I believe 3:00 something in the morning,

and found her body laying on the bed.

My name is Jack Clemmons.

On the night Marilyn Monroe died,

I was a sergeant on the Los Angeles police department.

I was the watch commander in West LA Division.

And he personally felt that there were some very unusual

things that were happening that night,

including the fact that her housekeeper, Eunice Murray,

was doing the laundry when he arrived.

He found that highly unusual, that she'd be doing something

like that when, number one, at this point

they hadn't determined how she died,

and so one would think you wouldn't

want to be messing with any of the laundry at that point.

Eunice Murray was the one that Greenson

sent to be her housekeeper.

But she was a spy.

He didn't admit to the club that he felt

that she had been murdered.

Dr. Greenson was there at the time when he arrived

and it just felt to him like there was something amiss.

Greenson wasn't acting like you would

expect someone to act who had had a patient who just died.

Clemmons didn't believe that Marilyn had taken an overdose.

There was no glass or water to swallow all the pills.

The caps were neatly placed on the bottles.

The body looked staged on the bed.

There are two things at the scene that disturb me.

One was the time element between the discovery

of the body and the call to the police station.

As I was told, the housekeeper had discovered Marilyn's body

at approximately 11:30 or midnight

but they had not phoned the police until about 4:30 AM.

I was told by Doctor Greenson that this

was because they had checked with the publicity department

at the studio.

That didn't make much sense,

Her doctors, who were stupid, they were incompetent,

they were ignorant.

Well, Ralph Greenson was considered

one of the top people in the field

of psychology and psychoanalysis in tne entire world.

Yes, that's wonderful.

But because of that, does he spend eight to nine hours a day

with his client?

And does he invite his client to have dinner with him

and his family all the time?

I don't think so.

I don't think any psychiatrist in their right mind

would do that.

The other thing that would have obviously occurred had

the situation been as it had represented to me,

was if there would have been vomit from her because you

simply cannot swallow that much barbiturates without throwing

some of it up later on.

It makes-- has a very volatile reaction in the stomach.

Therefore, she could only have gotten it

through another method.

For years, there's been claims of Bobby

Kennedy visiting Marilyn Monroe on the day of her death.

This idea was promoted in a BBC documentary.

The political enemies of the Kennedys,

including Jimmy Hoffa, reserved a special distaste

for Robert Kennedy as Attorney General

Chief of Law Enforcement.

Hoffa heard rumors that the younger

Kennedy had himself now become involved with Marilyn Monroe.

It was difficult to prove at first,

but early on, we had the statement of Deborah Gould,

an ex-wife of President Kennedy's

brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, that she

reported what Peter told her.

She wasn't an eyewitness herself.

Deborah Gould, Lawford's former wife,

says the stories were true.

Deborah Gould was told by Peter Lawford Kennedy did

visit Marilyn that afternoon.

Marilyn was, from what Peter told me,

knew then that it was over.

That was it, over, final.

He got really nitty gritty with her.

And he told her that he had to leave her.

Too many people watching them, Hoover, the FBI, Hoffa, and she

was never to call him again.

A problem with that information was

that Bobby Kennedy had an alibi establishing that he

wasn't in LA on that day.

That alibi came into question when I found a certain document

declassified by the FBI.

I was going through the FBI archives

and I came across a new release under the Freedom

of Information Act on Marilyn Monroe.

And I started reading it and I couldn't believe it.

So I called my editor at the "Sydney Morning Herald"

and I said, I'm not sure what this

is but I found an FBI memo implicating Robert Kennedy

in the death of Marilyn.

And they said, hang on, where are you?

And I said, I'm inside the FBI archive.

They said, can you fax this to us, e-mail it to us?

I said yes.

I did that pretty quickly and they got their lawyers there.

There were like four lawyers involved almost instantly.

So they said, we're going to go with this as a front page story

because this is news.

And this is the first time this has been revealed.

So it was a startling memo.

And the next day it was world wide, front page,

London, Moscow, New York, LA, the whole world, this story

was out.

NEWS REPORTER: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his wife

arrive in Tokyo for a Japanese good

will visit on behalf of President

Kennedy's New Frontier program.

Under the Freedom of Information Act,

the US government is compelled to release classified documents

after a certain period of time.

It's a startling document, particularly

when you see on it who read it.

It had been read by numerous top officials of the FBI, numerous.

And then it had been buried.

The significant thing to me, apart from the fact that it

exists, was that it had been basically banned, not released,

until I found it again.

Someone had seen it in the '80s.

I don't remember the exact date.

It's on the document someone had seen it

and then it had been put back into the file and not released.

Look at the statement that John Bates gave to the BBC.

He says that RFK was visiting him at the Bates Ranch that day

near San Francisco.

Note how long he pauses when asked about Bobby's reaction

to Marilyn's death.

BBC REPORTER: Were you with Bobby when

he heard of Monroe's death?

Yes, I believe we picked it up on the radio.

BBC REPORTER: How did Bobby react to the news?

Well, I don't recall any specific reaction.

BBC REPORTER: Why do you think that so many witnesses in Los

Angeles would have told us and told

the police that Bobby Kennedy was in Los Angeles that day.

I just can't speculate on their misinformation

or their bad information or what they think they saw

or what they think they knew, but there

is no way he could have been in Los Angeles

unless he had a twin.

Isn't it odd that two key members of the police

department of that time, that is the police chief himself

and the chief of detectives would both have been

of the view that Bobby was there if in fact there

was no evidence?

I'd like to cross-examine them.

I can't believe it.

I find it very ironic, John Bates

who was the supposed alibi for Robert Kennedy

is seen in newsreel footage as the attorney

for Sam Giancana, one of the most

powerful mobsters in America.

Why was he covering up for Bobby who once tried

to put his client in jail?

John Bates' claim that Bobby never left his ranch the day

of Marilyn Monroe's death is contradicted

by one of the most decorated cops

in the Beverly Hills Police Department, Lynn Franklin.

I approached Olympic Boulevard at about 12:10 AM.

I spotted a Lincoln Continental diong about 70 miles an hour

eastbound on Olympic Boulevard in a 25 mile zone.

I threw on my red light siren and finally

got the car stopped right here at the curb,

which is a mile away.

I walked up the car recognized Peter Lawford, whom

I'd know for years, driving.

Seated in the back seat was Robert Kennedy, the Attorney

General and there was another man in the front seat

with Peter Lawford.

I asked Peter why he was driving so fast.

He said he was trying to get the Attorney General to the Hilton

Hotel to pick up his luggage.

He had to leave town.

I said, well, Peter you're two miles beyond the turn

off point for the Hilton Hotel and at that time

the Attorney General said, you stupid ass,

referring to Peter Lawford.

Journalist Chris Epting cites 18 witnesses who saw

Bobby Kennedy in LA that day.

You've got a neighbor of Peter Lawford's seeing him.

You've got a neighbor of Marilyn Monroe seeing him.

And the Mayor of LA Sam Yorty, was

briefed on this by this Chief of Police, Chief Parker.

Here's what the mayor of LA told "48 Hours."

Chief Parker told me confidentially

that Bobby Kennedy was supposed to be

north of Los Angeles in some city making a speech

but that actually he said he was seen in the Beverly

Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Where was Bobby Kennedy, the Attorney General of the United

States on August 4, 1962?

Well, our records show that he was in Los Angeles,

and probably that information came to our intelligence

function through the FBI.

He was the Attorney General of the United States.

He could have been on an investigation

and we didn't follow him.

We just knew that came in to the airport.

Another Police Chief, Tom Reddin,

confirmed this in stark terms when he implicated Robert

Kennedy, the Attorney General.

It was treated as an intelligence

division operation.

And logically, it could be so treated

because there was the involvement of the Attorney

General of the United States.

Inspectors Gerry McGee and James O'Hern always

protected Bobby Kennedy when he was in Los Angeles,

but they weren't with him when he left that night.

The BBC tried to question them and reported as follows.

We tried to find them, but one of them is dead

and the other remains silent.

Myth or fact, J. Edgar Hoover hated Robert Kennedy.

And anything he could do apparently,

myth or fact, to screw Robert Kennedy, he would do.

We know that the Kennedy brothers

wanted to fire J. Edgar Hoover, but he had a lot of dirt

on them.

And there were accounts of a meeting where J. Edgar Hoover

laid out all this stuff when he was being threatened by Robert

Kennedy, his nominal boss.

And so he remained head of the FBI.

Obviously Marilyn's political associations

influenced the police investigation

from the beginning.

I was a student of Milo Speriglio

and he turned me on to this case,

being that he didn't believe she died of a suicide.

There was a lot of contradicting evidence.

None of it seemed to add up.

And of course, he wasn't the only one

that came to this conclusion.

The physical evidence, the forensic evidence

acquired on a crime scene has to be reflected

in the coroner's report.

There can't be discrepancies.

There can't be a conflict.

When a person dies, there can only be one coroner's report.

There can't be two.

If there's two, there's a cover up, Well,

Milo showed me both versions.

Of course, both versions indicated

she died of probable suicide.

On this case, Noguchi is overruled.

I mean, he is the coroner.

He's the man in charge.

He inspected her body.

They're overruling him.

And you got politics involved.

Noguchi later sent organ specimens

for microscopic analysis, but the specimens were destroyed

before the tests were done.

That is a part of an autopsy, is doing

the microscopic slides for diagnostic purposes

and evaluation.

BBC REPORTER: And why wasn't that done in this case?

I don't know.

BBC REPORTER: Would you have wished it to be done?

Yes indeed.

BBC REPORTER: And Noguchi wished it to be done.

Yes.

BBC REPORTER: And it would have been normally routine to have

made that kind of examination.

That's true.

BBC REPORTER: What happened to the medical photographs

that were taken.

I have no idea.

BBC REPORTER: But they seem not to exist anymore.

That appears to be true.

Why would Noguchi say that this is a jigsaw puzzle

and there are about a dozen pieces that are missing?

A dozen pieces he had and they're gone.

I should have called for a criminal investigation,

but almost all the evidence had been destroyed.

The police files are gone.

The official explanation, they were destroyed in compliance

with departmental procedures.

Another big riddle is her psychiatrist,

Dr. Ralph Greenson.

His first story to police mentioned

nothing about Robert Kennedy.

In later years, when others started

to there was a Bobby Kennedy connection,

Greenson said, this to a reporter.

Talk to Bobby Kennedy?

That's huge.

That's a huge statement and was never explored,

explained, or elaborated on by Dr. Greenson.

Many of his private notes are still under seal

and will be for decades.

"Don't Bother to Knock" has elements of her past in it.

Her mother and her grandmother were

institutionalized for mental problems,

as well was Marilyn herself.

She personally was only briefly institutionalized.

Joe DiMaggio did get her out of the institution,

but there is that in this character

in "Don't Bother to Knock" that she comes from that.

Even before you came over here, I knew.

Every time you looked at me, I wanted to kiss you, like now.

I did it with a razor.

You did that to yourself?

And you know, with her mother and her grandmother,

it sort of ran in the family of these things

can run in the family.

And Marilyn was probably very affected by that knowledge too.

"Niagara," 20th Century Fox, she did with Joseph Cotten.

She played kind of a femme fatale.

This was the first time I'd seen her do this kind of role

where she was basically out to kill him.

And of course, it's set at Niagara Falls,

and it really did have a feel of Hitchcock.

It is an unsettling image to watch now, knowing

what happened to Marilyn.

But I don't think there is another movie,

I can't think of another movie in which she dies.

And she's murdered in that movie.

And so we do see her laid out flat.

And we've seen those images of Marilyn Monroe

after her real death too.

And so when you watch Niagara today,

it is a little cringe inducing, this beautiful woman,

cut down before her time.

And it's kind of creepy.

Her character in "Niagara" is violently

murdered by a person who was intent on getting rid of her.

In Marilyn's own life, many people

do speculate that it wasn't a suicide, that this might have

been something that happened to her, that somebody

wanted to get rid of her.

Certainly the FBI carried big files on her.

The CIA did too.

Marilyn was being watched.

There's no question about it.

And so when you see this happen, and you see this character

in "Niagara" murdered, when you watch it now,

your head has to go to a certain point

where you think like, well, what happened

to Marilyn in real life, and did this all presage this?

Chopsticks.

I can play that too.

Shove over.

"The Seven Year Itch"

Don't stop.

Why did you stop?

You know why.

Why?

Because, because now I'm going to take you in my arms

and kiss you very quickly and very hard.

Wait a minute.

This movie was a very big success

and really led to her renewing her contract at Fox

and calling the shots and having her own production company.

Because Fox realized she was a hot commodity.

Your host tonight is correctly addressed as Your Grand Ducal

Highness or sir, although as the prince of Hungary, which he was

before he married the late queen of Carpathia, he is, I suppose,

correctly entitled the former Appellation

of Imperial and Royal.

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

In "Prince and the Show Girl," again there are certain ironies

with Monroe's own life.

She plays somebody who really does wrap this very important

prince, this very important person

around her little finger, and she

starts having a little bit of control over what

happens in affairs of state.

But it isn't signed Nicholas at all.

Of course not, darling.

You know, you have those little conditions to agree to first.

Give and take, darling, give and take.

Ah, that's right.

That will help you see it in the best possible light.

Do you not see, you pretty little dummkopf,

that a general election will put the Kaiser's party in power

and there will be a war in Europe in six months?

Well, I don't see how you can be so sure.

I mean, well, what if your party wins?

That's the funny thing about general elections,

you never know who is going to win.

She was not afraid to express her opinion in her own life

and reportedly with the Kennedys themselves,

she gave some strong opinions on Cuba and different things

like that, and wrapped them perhaps

around her finger just the way she wrapped Olivier's

character around her finger.

These things sometimes are so strange,

they seem incredibly hard to believe.

But when you look at "The Prince and the Showgirl"

and you see that character and then

you see what we know of Marilyn and what we've been told

about Marilyn in her own life with very, very powerful men,

you have to ask the question, is life imitating art?

She was definitely engaged in politics.

She married Arthur Miller.

All his work is political, actually.

It's kind of sad that they broke up.

But obviously Marilyn was a handful for anyone,

including the president.

I don't know why she married Arthur Miller.

She doesn't know why she married Arthur Miller.

Father figure.

I mean, how far-- he's pretty close to DiMaggio

in that sense, as far as being a father figure.

When she married Arthur Miller, she converted to Judaism.

It was her choice.

He went along with it but it was her choice,

her being supportive of her new husband.

However, her doing that really freaked the Muslims

throughout the world.

And they just decided to abandon her pictures.

We won't show her pictures over here in all these countries

anymore.

He he was a communist too.

He wrote for the communist newspaper, documented.

Perhaps marrying Arthur Miller, she was fulfilling a void.

She wanted to be thought of as an intellectual,

because everyone thought of her as a dumb blonde.

But in reality, pretty far from the truth.

You know, she could play it well.

She went to Mexico City and she was hanging out

with a Vanderbilt heir, very rich

American family, who was a, if not a communist,

hard core leftist.

And he had communist friends around him.

This was really alarming J. Edgar Hoover

that she was hanging out with these people

down there because he knew there were

Soviet KGB agents down there.

Marilyn Monroe, what a prize.

She'd slept with the President of the United States.

In 1985, 23 years after Marilyn's death,

Eunice Murray, the housekeeper, made startling confessions

and comments to the BBC, which she had kept out of her book.

She did reveal in this crucial testimony

that Robert Kennedy was in fact there

the day of Marilyn's death and in some kind of a fight.

Bobby felt threatened by something Marilyn was saying.

Well, over a period of time, I was not

at all surprised that the Kennedys were a very important

part of Marilyn's life.

And so that I was just a-- I wasn't

included in this information, but I was a witness

to what was happening.

We've already heard this from Deborah Gould.

But this is different.

This is the eye witness account by the housekeeper

who was there.

Yes, Eunice Murray contradicted what

she initially said in her book later on in her life.

She may have not felt comfortable

initially writing it in her book.

It's become very apparent that the delay of five or six

hours after discovering the body and notifying the police

enabled Robert Kennedy a chance to get out of Los Angeles.

News reports later stated it gave time for any written

evidence of the Kennedy's relationships

with Marilyn to be removed.

See the public didn't really know about any of this.

Nobody knew about the Kennedy affair with her or any of that

or that Bobby Kennedy might have been to her home that day.

This came out years after her death.

I was supposed to appear on ABC "Good Morning America,"

and they were flying me to New York.

And then the producer called me and said, look,

we're really sorry.

They're putting pressure on the network not to run with this.

The major London newspapers, "The Telegraph," "The Times,"

had all gone with the story, "The Guardian,"

every major publication had, France.

But in the US the press was basically stopped.

And Philippe was scheduled to go on "Larry King,"

and also to do "Good Morning America,"

but suddenly those two appearances

got canceled out of the blue.

And it turned out that they said,

oh, Larry's got some heart trouble.

And it was Maria Shriver who was taking over his position

that night.

Very interesting.

And the next day, I find this glass framed photo of Marilyn

popped on the floor broken.

My name is Al Babbitt.

I am the owner of the Messenger Art Collection.

We have about 6,000 pieces of art in our collection,

21 of the pieces in the collection

are the color transparencies that you see here.

The significance of these separations

is that they were used in the production

of the first calendar produced by John Baumgarth

Company in 1951, featuring Marilyn Monroe when she was

a relatively unknown actress, in fact,

was not even identified as the model that appeared

in the calendar itself.

The photo that this calendar was based on

was taken by a very famous photographer

of the time in the late '40s and early '50s

by the name of Tom Kelley.

And Marilyn crossed paths initially

with Tom Kelley in October, 1948,

when he happened upon an auto accident

that she had had when she was rushing to get to an audition.

She needed cab fare because her car

was disabled, so he paid her $5 and gave her his business card.

She called up and asked him if there was any work

that she could do for him.

As it turned out, the model that he

had scheduled for a Pabst beer calendar

called in sick just that day.

And so he said, well, if you'd like to make a few dollars,

why don't you come by my studio and be happy to film

you for that or use you for that.

It's basically, she was in a bathing suit with a beach ball.

Now you can imagine in 1949, you're John Baumgarth

and you want to produce a calendar which

is a tasteful nude, but something that you

want to make a big seller.

How do you do it?

He hooked up with Tom Kelley.

He liked the look, and so he asked

if Kelley could ask her if she'd be willing to do

a nude photo shoot.

When I first asked her to do it, she turned me down.

But after thinking it over for a few days,

she came back and said, I would like to do it.

I think was partially a favor.

I had done her a favor once before

and she really did need the money.

May 27, 1949, she showed up at the Kelley Studios.

She would only agree to take the photos if his wife Natalie was

present during the photo shoot.

And so they laid out a red velvet rug essentially.

Kelley spent about an hour doing the photo shoot.

Marilyn received $50.

Tom Kelley received $500.

The calendar ultimately sold 8 million

copies, which made it by far the most popular calendar ever.

It made Marilyn the top pinup girl in history,

really in terms of sales.

But Marilyn only got the $50.

But it became legendary.

It's the most famous calendar shoot of all time.

And it's before she was discovered.

Since it was illegal to send pornography-- they called

pornography back in the day for something like this,

it had a little acetate over her.

It looked like she was wearing negligee.

It would cover her up.

But then you could lift it up and see she was nude beneath.

Now, everyone knew Marilyn Monroe,

and not everyone approved.

She signed the release form, Mona Monroe,

in a half-hearted attempt to disguise who she was.

Folks started to recognize the image on the calendar

because it was very popular.

Well the Golden Dreams photos, those could

have completely ruined her.

She was in a relationship with Joe DiMaggio.

She had "How to Marry a Millionaire" and "Gentlemen

Prefer Blondes" coming out, huge movies

and having these ancient pictures resurfacing

was a publicist's nightmare.

While the calendar, of course, dogged

her throughout her career in different ways,

to do the nude scene.

But for her to admit it, I thought it was smart.

That was way ahead of the time when

publicists suggest, you come out and be up front about things.

She turned it into the, I needed the money, you know,

the desperate sort of angle on the thing.

This was a time when stars were being hidden,

their private life being hidden, certain controversial things

they may have done in their past being hidden.

They arranged a fake marriage for Rock Hudson

in this period of time, because they didn't want it revealed

that he was actually gay and stuff

and that would hurt his image.

This calendar did cause some problems

but ultimately though, you know, the whole idea

of a nude Marilyn and all of this led to Playboy

and that famous Playboy cover and that

really, not only enhanced Marilyn Monroe's sex appeal,

I think, it made Playboy.

It made Hugh Hefner.

And then I learned from a story in the local newspaper

that Marilyn Monroe had posed for these nude calendar photos

and people had heard about the pictures,

but almost nobody had seen them because the post office

took the position that you could not

send nudity through the mail.

And I was the kid who didn't believe

the post office had that right.

I learned simultaneously that the calendar company,

John Baumgarth was located on the northwest side of Chicago,

very close to where I grew up.

So I drove out to North Avenue in my beat up 1940 Chevy

and convinced him that it would be good publicity,

and he sold me the rights to reproduce

the nude image for $500.

I got a very good bargain.

Did Marilyn put Playboy on the map?

Yes I think so.

There is some question as to whether I would

be sitting here talking to you if it

was not for Marilyn Monroe.

That iconic image of Marilyn and its effect on culture

has been enormous.

Some very popular examples would be the famous Seward Johnson

bronze statue of the scene in "Seven Year

Itch" with her dress blowing up, the painting of Marilyn

that Andy Warhol had done.

I don't think Marilyn needed Andy

Warhol's help to make her an icon,

but he certainly didn't hurt.

Of all Warhol's images celebrating pop culture,

I think the one of Marilyn is the Mona Lisa of our time.

Marilyn certainly has influenced musicians,

starting with probably Ray Anthony when she was still

alive, where he wrote a song.

And then after her death, there was a few people like Elton

John, probably is the very first with "Candle in the Wind"

to write a song that honored the late Marilyn.

And I have even heard there's a British singer out there

recently, Maxi Wild, who's written a song about Marilyn,

which shows that Marilyn's influence is still very active

in this world.

In "Some Like It Hot," she did the song,

"I Want To Be Loved By You" in such a poignant

and almost heartbreaking way.

[SINGING] I want to be loved by you, just

you and nobody else but you.

I want to be loved by you alone.

Boop, boopy, do.

That probably is part of the truth of Marilyn Monroe's

own life as she went on.

She just wanted to be loved.

And it's ironic that maybe she never quite was.

You fall for them.

You really love them.

You think this is going to be the biggest

thing since the Graf Zeppelin.

The next thing you know, they're borrowing money from you.

They're spending it on other dames and betting on horses.

The making of "Some Like It Hot" is legendary though.

She was never nominated for an Academy Award,

but she did win a Golden Globe for Best Actress

in a comedy that year of 1959.

So Chuck, you're the proud creator of this mural

of Marilyn Monroe.

I've always had a knack for portraiture

and getting right to the soul of a person.

That's really what a portrait is all about.

With Marilyn, to me it was easy.

The mural by the way, it starts with Norma Jeane and the stars

coming out from the side of her head represent her aspirations,

her dreams.

And those stars are carried throughout the mural,

kind of interwoven.

And if you look at her eyes, see they're young and vivacious.

Uh, huh.

This look here is just wonderful, clean,

sexy, vibrant, beautiful young woman

at the beginning of her career.

Then you see the eyes changing as her career changes.

And about the time you get to her last film,

"The Misfits," the eyes become vacuous.

To me that's the story of this particular piece of art.

It's the transition over her career.

I don't feel that way about you, Gay.

Well now, don't get discouraged, girl, you might.

So Arthur Miller wrote the part for her, right?

Yes he did.

They were married then.

Absolutely.

I do know that by the time that they started

shooting "The Misfits," their marriage

was pretty rocky at that point.

But I didn't know that he was on J.

Edgar Hoover's watch list.

You know it's kind of interesting.

It doesn't surprise me.

Her final completed film, "The Misfits,"

is one of the most fascinating aspects

of Marilyn Monroe's career.

You have Clark Gable, as what turned out

to be the end of his filmmaking career,

and you have Marilyn Monroe at her most fragile.

The film had to be shut down by director

John Huston for 10 days so that she could be hospitalized.

She was taking barbiturates, all kinds of things.

This was another movie that we thought after

"Some Like It Hot," with all those problems,

that she was not going to get through.

To make matters worse her four year marriage to playwright

Arthur Miller had just ended and the actress

was finding consolation from a growing dependency

on pills and alcohol.

Well, a number of years had passed.

She'd been through the Hollywood mill.

A lot has been written and said about this.

Perhaps the whole experience was too much for her.

The pills became the uppers and downers.

You know, she couldn't sleep so you take more pills.

Now it's time to get up and you've got to function,

so you gotta take some pills to get over the pills

that you just took.

It's got to have a devastating effect eventually.

She'd have to be awakened in the morning

by another kind of drug, a benzedrine.

It became obvious that there was a problem because what

would happen is I would hang around the hotel

after the crew had gone, because we were about an hour out

to the desert where we worked.

We didn't have cell phones and all that stuff in those days,

you know.

And so I would stay until I knew that she

was ready to go to the set.

And the way I knew she was ready was the makeup

and hair people would come downstairs and say,

she's all set.

She's just gone to the bathroom.

And we're on our way.

I would say, great I would get in the car

and I'd go on ahead and go to the set.

She'll be here, just a while, don't worry.

Doesn't show.

Doesn't show.

An hour goes by.

Two hours go by.

She's still in the bathroom.

So you know, pretty soon, this gets to be old.

Every day this happens.

There would be fewer and fewer hours a day

when we can work with her.

And it got to the extent where it was decided she should

go to Los Angeles and spend a week to get sorted out,

get over this.

There was talk about replacing her

and Clark took me aside and said, Doc,

you can pass the word.

They're not going to put anybody else in her place.

We will wait til she's able to work.

Because I'm not continuing the film with somebody else.

This wasn't her fault. She made every desperate effort

to-- so far as the picture was concerned and she herself

but one finally had the feeling that she was doomed.

She was splendid in the picture, by the way,

this extraordinary quality that she had, this kind of genius.

I don't mean just an extravagant talent,

but something strange and unpredictable

would come out of her.

I had the impression that she believed what was happening,

that it wasn't a role that she was playing,

that she actually believed it.

People called it a cursed film because all of its key stars

had tragic ends shortly thereafter.

Clark Gable actually died 10 days after finishing

production of the film.

He had a massive heart attack, just boom.

So Montgomery Clift died not long after, Thelma Ritter.

In fact, for the longest time Eli Wallach,

who recently passed away now, was

the only star, the only principal, that

was still alive on this movie.

So was it cursed?

Just the thought of someone as powerful as her,

as beautiful as her, and to see her struggling mentally,

and struggling with the idea that she didn't think she

was as good as she was, or was as deserving.

She was always seeking.

That's just sad, where she couldn't really truly be happy.

Yes, well it was very sad.

They were not treating her right.

The studio just used her and used her until-- I mean,

it's an old story, you know, all the way

back through Hollywood history.

But she wasn't grossly depressed and going through that kind

of a thing, exactly.

No, Marilyn didn't intend to kill herself.

Marilyn's become a myth, a goddess,

an almost unreal creature.

And I think there's a lot of reasons for that.

Partly I think it's due to the fact

that she represents an era that does not exist anymore.

Although the '50s is clearly a time

of very real political repression

and social and sexual repression,

you can see those early signs of changing values.

And Monroe was clearly part of that.

She is buried at Westwood Cemetery.

I will be buried as well in the vault immediately next to hers.

I feel such a kinship and close connection for all

that she's meant to all of us, but most especially to me.

The fact that I will be residing through eternity next to her

seemed very appropriate.

In '93, they wanted to reopen her case

and Milo was really pushing hard for it.

He believed the CIA had her murdered.

Milo Speriglio is a private investigator

who has written two books on the death of Marilyn Monroe.

He makes a stunning speculation, that Marilyn Monroe

was the victim of a contract killing.

It was agreed that the city council of LA

would reopen the case.

And I believe that was in 1993.

And they had decided that there was probable cause

to look into her case again.

The foreman in charge was to make an announcement

regarding this new inquiry.

The very next day he is fired from his job

and the grand jury that was to be assembled was not to be.

When they kept a lid on this in 1993

and killed the grand jury that was going to look into it,

something was stopping this investigation.

The truth about her death was apparently

still a national security risk.

We learned why when documents later emerged,

including the fact that she had been wiretapped.

America's sex symbol, a security threat?

Yes.

And I'm afraid it's not fanciful, because--

It was anything but.

Here you had a woman who is close to both

the President of the United States

and to the Attorney General.

It became apparent that JFK had been

telling the Marilyn national security

secrets of serious importance.

For example, there was a short memo to J. Edgar Hoover

from an agent explicitly saying that Marilyn Monroe had asked

the president about the results of a recent hydrogen

bomb test in Nevada.

This was at the height of the Cold War.

Red flag.

Red flag.

Now Fred Otash, who was the investigator of the stars,

admitted he had tapped her phone.

I know the FBI had tapped her phone.

I think wiretapping, indiscriminate wiretapping

is very dirty business.

And I couldn't agree more strongly.

I think that penalties should be increased for those who

use wiretapping without the control

of some law enforcement agency.

Marilyn was threatening, according to these wiretaps,

was threatening to go public with the way

the Kennedys had treated her.

And she was perfectly capable of going to them.

She would have gotten a lot of attention, going to the press.

I think, what we know as the '60s,

started with the death of Marilyn Monroe.

And the circumstances around it started this cascade

of conspiracies, murders.

When Marilyn died, which was unresolved as

to who killed her, was she killed, the whole thing.

Next, very shortly after was JFK.

We have a parade of strange deaths.

The whole thing starts with Marilyn Monroe.

And that's why I was searching through documents,

Freedom of Information documents on Marilyn.

I never expected to find this memo.

Kennedy's preoccupation had been to destroy

the power of organized crime in America, the mob.

There's a lot of strange things in this saga.

And one of them is the following.

There's no question the mob helped JFK win the presidency.

We know.

It's been documented.

Joseph Kennedy knew them, and they really helped in Illinois.

What's strange is then, JFK and Bobby,

he authorizes Robert Kennedy to go after the mob.

Well, the mob would be going, and they did,

what the hell is this all about?

We helped the guy get into the presidency

and now they're coming after us.

Well this had a lot of ramifications.

And a lot of people believe even one of the ripple effects

was the assassination of JFK himself.

It's a dangerous game Bobby's been playing,

going after powerful gangsters, while his family has

its own tangled relationship with them.

From his father's bootlegging days to JFK's relationship

with a godfather's girlfriend.

Can you refresh your recollection

at all of your history--

The Administration's crusade against the mob back home,

is a slap in the face, a betrayal.

It's the final straw.

In fact this is why Sam Giancana's brother and nephew

called their book "Double Cross" because certainly

from their point of view, they were double crossed.

Robert Kennedy was chief counsel on the McClellan

Committee, which in the late '50s,

interrogated labor leaders like Jimmy Hoffa and mobsters

like Sam Giancana.

When you are dealing with organized crime

and big time gangsters and hoodlums as,

we have to deal with them in the days of Al Capone.

Tell us about your vice operations

down in Lake County, Indiana.

Decline to answer because I honestly believe

my answer might incriminate me.

Would you tell us if you have opposition from anybody

that you dispose of them by having

them stuffed in a trunk, is that what you do, Mr. Giancana?

It is believed that Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana, was linked

to JFK, that not only did he help Kennedy secure

the State of Illinois to win the presidency,

but it's also believe that he was recruited by the CIA

during the Kennedy administration

to help assassinate Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro.

Some have suggested that the mobster

may have been recruited to help assassinate Marilyn as well.

Marilyn Monroe certainly had links through Frank Sinatra.

And she knew the likes of some Sam Giancana.

I always had a question about her death

because it was a perfect storm of people who

would benefit from her death.

There was no one there to protect her.

You can't be the head of the Teamsters Union

unless you're approved by the mob.

It's a whole, big, black circle.

Hoffa wanted to neutralize Kennedy.

He had a vendetta for him.

Kennedy had a vendetta for Hoffa.

One of the most important things

is to understand the role of the mob wire tappers.

Reportedly they bugged Marilyn's house

when she went on her notorious trip to Mexico.

Here we have the actual wire tapper for the mob,

confessing in detail what he was doing.

What Hoffa wanted was me to assist Bernie Spindel

in developing a derogatory profile of Jack

and Bobby Kennedy and their relationships

with Marilyn Monroe.

Peter Lawford's palatial beachfront home

was the scene of many parties attended by the Kennedys

and Marilyn Monroe.

Lawford didn't know his house was bugged.

Fred Otash tells us exactly where

those microphones were hidden.

They were placed under carpets.

They were placed in the chandeliers

and in ceiling fixtures.

You have to look for the logical place, to place the equipment.

You have to gain entry also, by either picking the lock

or making some other kind of entry.

As far as the wiretap was concerned,

that's not something that the Secret Service in that date

and time could pick up.

Because you could wire a telephone

five miles from the locaiton.

You didn't have to be right there.

Otash tells us that Peter Lawford

came to him in desperation the night Marilyn died.

He wanted help purging the house of any evidence that could

be damaging to the Kennedys.

Lawford showed up, completely disoriented

and in a state of shock.

One, saying that Marilyn Monroe was dead,

that Bobby Kennedy was there, that he was spirited out

of town, by some airplane back up north, that they got

in a big fight that evening, 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.

After Marilyn died, the new owners remodeled the house

and discovered extensive evidence of

wiretapping and bugging.

"The New York Times" reported that authorities

seized the wiretap recordings made by Bernard Spindel.

Spindel sued to get the tapes back

and his lawsuit filing stated the tapes

would contradict the official story of Marilyn's death.

Some skeptics claim those tapes never really existed.

Why then file a law suit to get them back?

A book review segment on "Entertainment Tonight"

provided a great breakthrough.

The book was written by two relatives

of mob boss Sam Giancana, his brother and his nephew.

For the first time, the world was told Sam Giancana's role

in the murder of Marilyn Monroe and the CIA's role in it.

Watch Giancana's nephew's face and listen

carefully to what he says.

The untimely death of actress Marilyn Monroe

almost 30 years ago was officially

pronounced a probable suicide.

But an explosive biography of underworld kingpin Sam Giancana

claims the mob boss murdered Monroe

at the request of the CIA.

Today's inside story relates another explosive chapter from

the new book, "Double Cross."

Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe's death

in 1962 of an overdose of barbiturates

was ruled a probable suicide.

Now the shocking claim has come out that her death was

a mob hit ordered by the CIA.

In the book, "Double Cross," the story of Chicago gangster Sam

"Mooney" Giancana, written by his brother, Chuck, and godson,

Sam, Marilyn Monroe is depicted as having scandalous affairs

with John and Robert Kennedy and having access to information

damaging to the CIA.

Giancana's relationship to the CIA

goes back to 1960 when they asked him to kill Fidel Castro.

According to the book, Giancana had men try to poison Castro.

But the Cuban leader had all his food and drinks

sampled by political prisoners.

Even though those attempts were unsuccessful,

the book claims the mobster's ties to the CIA

continued to grow and the CIA called him in to kill Monroe.

According to nephew, Sam Giancana,

the mob and the government both had Monroe under surveillance.

Everyone was watching her because she was perhaps

a loaded gun waiting to go off.

Well once she decided that she was going to go public,

the CIA said, we cannot have her do that.

And the CIA then requested that Marilyn Monroe be eliminated.

And Sam Giancana accepted the contract

to kill Marilyn Monroe.

What gives this credibility is that it's a confession

conveyed by a family member with regret and shame.

It's entirely consistent with the CIA report

that we'll learn about shortly.

At the same time, Giancana hoped

to embarrass Monroe's lover Bobby

Kennedy the attorney general who was

hounding Giancana and the mob.

Giancana states that he sent his assassins to Monroe's house.

They taped her mouth and inserted a doctored Nembutal

suppository.

The dose was lethal.

A suppository was very fast-acting like an injection.

There was no traces of that sedative suppository,

so it was a well-designed method of killing Marilyn Monroe.

The book claims that Giancana did get evidence of Bobby

Kennedy coming to Monroe's house before the murder,

but that the whole conspiracy was covered up

by the government so quickly that his scheme

to embarrass Kennedy failed.

This is also consistent with what we learned from police

chief Tom Reddin, remember?

They treated it as a 100% intelligence operation

and those operations are highly secret.

And frankly, what do you think the national security

consideration was?

I don't see any.

The UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe... fascinating!

I've certainly read accounts of Marilyn

saying that JFK had told her information about aliens, UFOs,

and I think Dorothy Kilgallen was involved in this.

The Project Moondust, hm.

Marilyn Monroe, third of August, 1962.

When did she die?

The fourth.

Jesus.

OK.

Central Intelligence Agency.

I don't see a signature.

Yes, I do.

James Angleton.

James Angleton.

James Angleton was the head of the CIA's counterintelligence

for decades.

He knew so much that no CIA boss or president

could get rid of him.

His lethal career is brilliantly described

in the book called "Cold Warrior." The Wilderness Of Mirrors.

James Angleton had that incredible phrase,

and that phrase comes to mind when we talk about Marilyn.

What the document says is striking in the extreme.

But it was a former CIA archivist

apparently who passed it along.

Keep in mind the document apparently was

never properly declassified.

The classification marks on the document

were never marked out in the customary way.

And so I kind of have the feeling this document was sort

of liberated, if I might put it that way,

without maybe going through official channels.

I think the reason people avoid actually engaging with it so

much is that it's about UFOs.

And I think a lot of people feel that their reputations are

going to be compromised or something if they have too much

to do with that whole subject.

When Jose Belanos was interviewed by Anthony Summers in 1983,

and that was 21 years after Marilyn's death,

and he was kind of a boyfriend of hers.

In fact they went to the Golden Globes award in March of '62,

just a few months before she died.

In the Belanos interview, he says Marilyn told me

something shocking, something that will

one day shock the whole world.

Now by 1983, pretty much most of the things

that Marilyn could have been privy to,

like plans to assassinate Castro and so forth,

were already declassified by then.

You have to ask yourself well, what could she have known

about that would be also maybe suggested by the CIA

memo that was still classified in 1983

and in fact is still classified?

Now according to Belano's testimony,

he was the last person to speak to her.

Yeah.

He called her about 10:00.

And they talked a little bit and apparently she

told them this amazing thing.

There was some kind of commotion at the door

that he could hear on the phone.

And she said something like, well, just a minute.

Let me go see what's going on out here.

And she just put the phone down and went away

and never came back.

And later somebody just hung the phone up without anybody

saying anything.

And that's the last time he ever heard her voice.

The murder theory is laid out here

in its most radical version by a former secret agent,

working for the LAPD.

I gathered some intelligence reports

from the Central Intelligence Agency

and some other intelligence agencies and to my surprise

when I was reading it, here I'd found an intelligence document

written by the CIA regarding this conversation

President Kennedy had with Marilyn Monroe.

And at that time, along with other documents I obtained,

I realized that this was confirmation

that he was, in fact, telling her the truth about this event.

And when I realized that, I was shocked.

And it actually made me nervous, because it's

such a phenomenal event, it would

literally change the world.

What was the top secret event that JFK told Marilyn about?

This really implies something devastating.

It implies that the Roswell incident,

the UFO crash, the famous legendary crash occurred.

And JFK is telling Marilyn Monroe about it.

The CIA's bugging this conversation and freaking out.

Did this really happen?

Well, certainly the newspapers of the day said it did.

And TV reports even now still report this as fact.

Speriglio's document claims Marilyn's wiretap recorded her

describing the visit by the president

to a secret airbase for the purpose of inspecting

things from outer space.

A reference to New Mexico in the late 1940s points

straight to the Roswell incident.

This document was written and presumably

distributed on August 3, 1962.

We're back.

Manny Pacquiao's on the way.

President Bill Clinton is here with us.

So, if I was president, and I won't be, let's be honest,

the first thing I would do after putting my hand on that Bible

and taking that oath to serve the country,

is-- I wouldn't even probably finish the oath.

I would run to the White House.

I'd demand to see all the classified files on the UFOs

because I want to know.

I'd want to know what has been going on.

Did you do that?

Sort of.

It's remarkable that twice within one year,

US presidents have appeared on "The Jimmy Kimmel Show"

to be asked about UFOs.

You'll see that the show use canned

laughter to make the question seem silly and ludicrous.

That's a frequently used device to belittle something

that is really very serious.

We know that there are billions of stars and planets

literally out there.

It makes it increasingly less likely that we're alone.

Oh, you're trying to give me a hint that there are aliens.

If we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.

I just hope that it's not like "Independence Day."

Watch how Bill Clinton answers the question,

an answer partially lifted from a Reagan speech at the UN.

Think of how all the differences among people

on earth would seem small if we felt

threatened by a space invader.

That's the whole theory of "Independence Day."

You're right.

I occasionally think how quickly our differences

worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat

from outside this world.

My hand would just-- it would still

be hot from touching the Bible.

And I would immediately race to wherever they have the files

about Area 51 and UFOs.

And I'd go through everything to find out what happened.

Right.

Did you do that?

Aliens won't let it happen.

We'll reveal all their secrets.

They exercise strict control over us.

Now you know, there are a lot of people that are going

to examine you facial expressions here,

every twitch, everything, and say,

and of course, so did you look?

Did you see?

Did you explore.

I can't reveal anything.

Oh, really?

Notice how uncomfortable Barack Obama is.

First he starts turning it into a joke one thinks,

but then he stutters four times and actually

says that there are things about this that he cannot reveal.

The chief thing that happened was,

I ended up getting the CIA document

authenticated by the CIA itself in effect.

Because what I did was I turned in two Freedom of Information

Act requests, one for the wiretap transcripts

at Marilyn's house.

They said that they had done due diligence and they had searched

and they hadn't found anything in response to my requests

and so forth.

But if you want to file an appeal, then by all means

feel free.

You have to do within a certain number of days and so on.

So I did.

I filed the appeal.

The important thing is, they accepted the appeal.

Now, the CIA doesn't accept an appeal

if it's based on a document that they don't regard as authentic.

I believe that when they knew Marilyn was going to give

a press conference that she planned to give

and stated that the president had

told her about this classified program and gave her details.

And this is like Edward Snowden going public himself

and dumping all this stuff on the internet.

This is what Marilyn is doing.

She said, hell, both these men used me

and I'm going to bring Jack and Bobby down.

Now, somebody on the other end of that line, or somebody

heard her say that.

Probably gets back Jim Angleton.

OK, there's no debate here.

This girl is going to create a lot of problems

for us, because if it comes out that we took her out,

they're going to ask questions.

How many other people were murdered?

How many other people has counter-intelligence

neutralized?

How many?

All it takes is just one little leak and

the whole dam is going to bust.

I think she would have opened the flood gate.

That's my heartfelt belief.

That she would have said things that would have

resonated with people, not just then, but decades later.

And it's tragic.

It makes me sad that she had to learn certain things

that she was not entitled to.

She didn't have to know all this.

And knowing the Kennedys, well at least Jack,

he compromised himself.

And the fact that the death happened hours

after Bobby Kennedy was there, I mean, how could they have known

to coordinate in terms of that?

Because Bobby was being watched.

They had a tail on him.

Bobby was set up, perfect set up for blackmail.

After Sam Giancana died, his family

made a DVD video, a film explaining what

Giancana's strategy was in the events surrounding

Marilyn Monroe's death.

Sam's plan, according to his brother's report,

was to murder Monroe, make it look like suicide.

Then have the police find the letters from Bobby Kennedy.

The Kennedys would be disgraced and removed from office.

Sam opened the papers expecting to see Bobby

Kennedy blamed for the suicide.

But Bobby's name wasn't mentioned.

The Secret Service had gotten there first

and swept the incriminating letters from the death scene.

There's been a lot of speculation

that perhaps Bobby Kennedy wanted her killed or his hand

helped kill her and so forth.

But that's not the case.

Mooney seized this opportunity to try to entrap Bobby Kennedy

in the death of Marilyn Monroe.

The Outfit could have taken any time they wanted to literally

kill Marilyn Monroe.

They selected a time precisely on the heels of when

Bobby Kennedy was there.

Remember when, whenever there's a hit,

you've got to have security.

You gotta have people that come and clean up.

You've got to have people handle the press.

You gotta have people to handle the police.

I mean, this is national security.

And we're not talking about rubbing

out some nobody in Hollywood.

I mean, she's an icon.

I am convinced that Jim Angleton had her murdered.

There, I said it.

I do not hesitate at all to call this what

it simply is, it is a murder.

And I do not hesitate at all to further go and say

that a conspiracy existed between the police department,

between the coroner's office, and between the LA county

District Attorney's office to conceal this murder

and pass it off as a suicide.

The Giancanas say this is one of the saddest stories they've

uncovered in their research, because Monroe

was merely an unwitting political and sexual toy.

She became the quintessential victim.

And as many tragedies as we discuss in "Double Cross,"

I think she is probably the most tragic situation.

You know, we can't bring her back but we can remedy some

of what's been done to her memory.

It's a national disgrace what was done to her.

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