JFK was murdered 3 1/2 months later……
Marilyn Monroe was the most captivating, glamorous movie star of her time, and her 1962 death at the far-too-young age of 36 remains one of Hollywood’s most tragic losses. Perhaps that’s why the rumors surrounding her death—and the belief that her passing was somehow more nefarious than it appeared to be on the surface—have persisted for 60 years.
In 1985, journalist Anthony Summers published the book Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, for which he compiled hundreds of recorded interviews with more than 600 people: showbiz insiders, Monroe’s inner circle of friends (and friends of those friends), law enforcement officers, private investigators and more. It was an immediate bestseller—and now, 60 years after Monroe’s death, Summers is publishing an update to his book which promises to include new information. Netflix has also premiered a documentary special on Monroe that draws from Summers’ work and puts his investigation into her lifeand death at the forefront, with actors giving lip readings of his previously undisclosed interviews. The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which arrived earlier in 2022, isn’t the only Marilyn Monroe movie on Netflix this year.
Was the CIA involved in Marilyn Monroe’s death?
Speculation that the Central Intelligence Agency was behind Monroe’s death originated in the late 1960s, drawing their tenuous support from rumors about Monroe’s romanticinvolvement with Robert Kennedy, who was the U.S. Attorney General at the time. There were also rumors of her involvement with President John F. Kennedy, which started when he was a senator. The theory posits that the CIA arranged to have Monroe killed either because the Kennedy brothers shared too many state secrets with her, thus making her a threat to national security, or because they were “getting even” with the Kennedys for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This theory gained traction with Norman Mailer’s 1973 biography of Monroe, in which he speculated that she was killed by either the FBI or CIA to put pressure on the Kennedys. However, Mailer publicly retracted his theory on 60 Minutes later that year and no evidence exists to support any theory that a government agency was involved in Monroe’s death.