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Authors: Donald Spoto

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Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (116 page)

589

Regarding Eunice’s statement about the ambulance, so she said in a taped telephone conversation with Roy Turner, Feb. 9, 1987.

590

Well, I’ve made: Quoted by William Woodfield to DS, Sept. 20, 1991.

590

I don’t recall: Eunice Murray to Roy Turner, taped telephone conversation, Feb. 9, 1987.

590

I wouldn’t swear:
Ibid
.

591

tried to help: Quoted in McCann, p. 176.

591

Marilyn wasn’t killed: John Huston to Reuters News Service, Aug. 22, 1962.

591

Oh, why do I: Murray, during the filming of the BBC-TV documentary,
Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President
, as heard by the producer, Ted Landreth and reported to DS.

593

Dear Joe: This note was found in MM’s personal address book, removed Sunday by Inez Melson, her business manager. It was included in a box of personal materials later purchased by a private collector—a cache then passed on to DS in 1991.

 

Chapter Twenty-four:
August 6–8, 1962

594

595

The dialogue between MM and Allan Snyder was recalled for DS by Snyder on May 2, 1992.

596

I love you:
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
, Aug. 8, 1962, p. 1.

 

Afterword

600

vastly alluring: Lee Israel,
Kilgallen
(New York: Delacorte, 1979), pp. 338–340.

600

one of the President’s appointees: “The Midnight World of Walter Winchell,”
Photoplay
, Dec. 1962, p. 91.

600
ff

On Frank A. Capell, see the profile in
The New York Times
, Feb. 18, 1965.

600

subversive activities which threaten: William Turner,
Power on the Right
(Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971), p. 224.

601

I’ll tell you a story: This dialogue and the account of the meeting were reported by Clemmons himself in an address in Los Angeles on March 22, 1991, to the group known as Marilyn Remembered.

601

the closeness of their friendship: Frank A. Capell,
The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe
(Zarephath, N.J.: The Herald of Freedom, 1964), pp. 62, 69–70.

601
ff

On Winchell and Hoover, see Natalie Robins,
Alien Ink
(New York: Morrow, 1992).

602

[Capell’s] book: FBI File #77-51387.

602

On Capell, Clemmons, Fergus and the Kuchel case, see, e.g.,
Los Angeles Times
, June 20, 1965.

603

a married man: Fred Lawrence Guiles,
Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969), p. 315.

603

the [RFK] liaison: Guiles,
Legend
, p. 16; like
Norma Jean
, this book also lacks documentation.

603

Guiles’s version: Norman Mailer,
Marilyn
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), p. 237.

603

See Anthony Scaduto, “Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?”
Oui
, Oct. 1975, pp. 35ff.

604

The evidence is as thin: Report of the Los Angeles Police Department Organized Crime Investigation Division, dated Oct. 22, 1975.

605
ff

On the results of the District Attorney’s threshold investigation, see the Los Angeles County District Attorney Bureau of Investigation, Investigator’s Report, File #82-G-2236: this report is treated extensively in the notes to
chapter 22
.

606

a known boaster:
Ibid
.

607

Capell’s role as: Anthony Summers,
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, 2nd ed. (New York: Signet/Onyx, 1986), p. 453.

607

On Parker and Hoover:
Ibid
., p. 374.

607

On Kennedy’s order to Hoover:
Ibid
., p. 405.

607

the most cogent account:
Ibid
., p. 390.

609

I don’t know why: Michael Gurdin, M.D., to DS, Sept. 21, 1992.

610

tangled, disastrous affairs: Brown and Barham, p. 386.

610

Geraldo, Sally Jessy: Ibid
.

611

evidence:
Ibid
., p. 387.

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———.
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