Marilyn Monroe was such a iconic lady of the 1950’s. She was loved by many and still idolized today. They found her dead in her room on August 5, 1962 (Welkos). What really happened to the beloved Marilyn? There are many different theories portrayed about her death.
1. Did Marilyn kill herself?
2. Where the Kennedy’s involved?
3. Did the mafia murder her?
Character
Analysis
Let’s take a look at Marilyn Monroe and the
conspiracies theories surrounding her death, with the most possible solution of
death be the Kennedy’s.
Who was Marilyn Monroe? Google “icon” and
Marilyn’s picture would be right there. Marilyn was the women every young girl
looked up to in the sixties. Her beautiful bleached hair and curvy body was
what attracted men and some women to her. As one of her jobs as a play boy
model life was pretty easy we all thought, taking pictures all the time having
everything you could every want, but on that tragic day in 1962 we all wondered
“why did she do this”?
How did the world see Marilyn? She was a
star, a mystery, intelligent, beautiful, shy, determined, and there are so many
more out there but one thing was, she was loved by many (Stewart, Sara). Marilyn was a real woman, and to those who
knew her Monroe was a devoted, if troubled, actress who took her craft
seriously (1). In interviews, they remember her as an exceptionally bright and
determined woman with a sly sense of humor (Susan King, Los Angeles Times)— a
far cry from the sweet but dumb blonds she played in such hits as 1953's
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," 1955's "The Seven Year Itch"
and 1959's "Some Like It Hot.” She was also someone who could be very hard
to work with just because she was so insecure about herself and she wanted to
make everything she did perfect (2).
Marilyn played in the movie “Diamonds
Are a Girls Best Friend”, but what is funny is that she did not actually like
diamonds. She never really liked expensive jewelry, the only thing she really
owned where a string of pearls and a diamond ring givens to her by Joe DiMaggio
(Beauty and Tips Magazine), her second husband. She also had a very hard
childhood. She was put into many different foster homes. Her mother was
mentally and financially not stable enough to take care of little Norma Jean
(3). There were many people that wanted to adopt young Marilyn but her mother
just wouldn’t budge on signing the papers (Chris Wild). After many foster
homes, Monroe finally went back to her mother’s friend, Grace. While living
there, Monroe was sexually assaulted by Graces husband (4). She moved a few
times after that but when she was 16 she moved back in with Grace and Doc (4).
They were wanting to move again but didn’t want to take Marilyn, so she married
the neighbors son at the age of 16 so she wouldn’t have to go back to foster
care (4). They divorced four years later, that same year she began to use the
name Marilyn Monroe (4).
“I am ‘M.M.’ I am not permitted problems,
nervousness, humanness, blunders, mistakes . . . and my own thoughts,” she
writes in one journal entry. In another, “Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I
hope . . . but at least I have hope”. Director Liz Garbus tried to focus on
what Monroe went through they all new she was insecure and somewhat depressed
when she lost her baby. Monroe always tried to better herself not just to the
public but to her husband (4). She had to show people she wasn’t just a dumb
blonde taking pictures and being in movies. “She wasn’t dumb at all,” says
actress one of the film’s readers. “She was smart — and very well-read. She
read all the time, trying to educate herself. But she was fragile. She didn’t
have the strength that someone gets if they have a loving mother and father.
She was knocked around in foster homes, and she just didn’t have any
psychological solidity”. Marilyn wrote every little thing down. She felt like
that helped her express her problems and feelings without rubbing anyone the
wrong way.
Monroe was very confident looking she
presented herself very well mannered, well sometimes. When she would walk into
a room all eyes focused on her, and she knew people were looking right her. She
shined like a big star, people dreamed of being her and looking like her, but
in all honesty Monroe was tired of having to be perfect for everyone and even
herself. These are the famous words of Monroe "I knew I belonged to the
public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but
because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
Conspiracy Descriptions (Main Idea and
Details with Survey Results)
In the death of Marilyn, three main
theories are sought out. One of the theories suggest that she had overdosed on
drugs, and committed suicide, the other two involve two different murders, both
connecting to the Kennedy’s.
The first conspiracy theory composes that
Marilyn was just so depressed about her life she killed herself by taking pills
before she had went to bed. When the investigators showed up the house and saw
Marilyn lying there necked with the phone in one hand and pills scattered all
over the place (A&E Publisher). The police just jumped to conclusion saying
it was a suicide. They knew she was depressed so they really never even
bothered to look further into her death (5). Marilyn had tried to kill herself
a few years before so that made it seem more likely that she had killed herself
knowing this wasn’t the first time. When they did her autopsy they did find
drugs in her system but the thing about it is they were in her blood stream not
her stomach where the pills should have been (5).
The second conclusion is, John F. Kennedy
had killed Marilyn. John and Marilyn had a secret relationship while Kennedy
was serving as the president of the Untied States. John would sneak her into
his room through the secret tunnels in the white house. Monroe was threating to
tell political secrets that had been shared to her by both of the brothers
(Maria Vultaggio). By that time Bobby Kennedy wanted to shut her up so he did
what he had to do and he killed her (6). Supposedly the murder was conducted by
giving her a lethal injection, via enema. Traces of pills where not found on
her stomach during the autopsy, in fact there was also nothing to drink with
the pills to help her swallow them. There also wasn’t any vomit, that usually
happens when you over dose on pills. The Kennedys where very sneaky people,
they didn’t want to ruin their reputation over one women, so they did what they
had to do and killed young Marilyn.
The last and final theory is that the
mafia had killed Monroe. The night before her death she was at the Frank
Sinatra lodge (Daniel Bates). She was spotted with the mafia boss Sam Giancana that night. Kennedy had a little go
around with the mafia. The way things happened it sounds like the Kennedys
hired Sam to do all the dirty work for him so he could keep his hands clean
from the whole situation (7).
Why do the Kennedys still remain the
number one cause of her death? Because all of the things, a president could do
and get away with. John had so much power in is hands when he had committed
this murder that should have had never happened. Yes Monroe should have just
stayed out of the president’s political business, but it should have been just
as right for Mr. President to not say a word to his side girlfriend about what
was going on with his life.
Monroe was such a seductive young women,
she could have just looked at you, and you would have fallen for her in that
split second. To this, day she is still loved and this mystery still remain’s
not unsolved. No one knew really exactly what had happened on that day in
August of 1962. The Kennedys are both dead and the mafia boss went missing in
1975 (7). All this remains unknown, maybe if Monroe just ignored JFK she would
be alive to this very day.
Conclusion
On August 5, 1962, the iconic lady of the
50’s suddenly died. Our beloved Marilyn was dead. The results of her death led
to three conspiracy theories.
1. Did Marilyn kill herself?
3. Did the mafia murder her?
Even
today, 53 years after the beautiful blonde bomb shell had died, her death still
remains a mystery. The Kennedy’s still are in the eye of the public linking
toward her tragic accident.
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