Read Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Online
Authors: Donald Spoto
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Entertainment & Performing Arts, #Women, #Performing Arts, #Film & Video, #History & Criticism
Regarding Eunice’s statement about the ambulance, so she said in a taped telephone conversation with Roy Turner, Feb. 9, 1987. | |
Well, I’ve made: Quoted by William Woodfield to DS, Sept. 20, 1991. | |
I don’t recall: Eunice Murray to Roy Turner, taped telephone conversation, Feb. 9, 1987. | |
I wouldn’t swear: | |
tried to help: Quoted in McCann, p. 176. | |
Marilyn wasn’t killed: John Huston to Reuters News Service, Aug. 22, 1962. | |
Oh, why do I: Murray, during the filming of the BBC-TV documentary, | |
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: |
The dialogue between MM and Allan Snyder was recalled for DS by Snyder on May 2, 1992. | |
I love you: | |
| Afterword |
vastly alluring: Lee Israel, | |
one of the President’s appointees: “The Midnight World of Walter Winchell,” | |
600 | On Frank A. Capell, see the profile in |
subversive activities which threaten: William Turner, | |
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. | |
the closeness of their friendship: Frank A. Capell, | |
601 | On Winchell and Hoover, see Natalie Robins, |
[Capell’s] book: FBI File #77-51387. | |
On Capell, Clemmons, Fergus and the Kuchel case, see, e.g., | |
a married man: Fred Lawrence Guiles, | |
the [RFK] liaison: Guiles, | |
Guiles’s version: Norman Mailer, | |
See Anthony Scaduto, “Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?” | |
The evidence is as thin: Report of the Los Angeles Police Department Organized Crime Investigation Division, dated Oct. 22, 1975. | |
605 | 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 |
a known boaster: | |
Capell’s role as: Anthony Summers, | |
On Parker and Hoover: | |
On Kennedy’s order to Hoover: | |
the most cogent account: | |
I don’t know why: Michael Gurdin, M.D., to DS, Sept. 21, 1992. | |
tangled, disastrous affairs: Brown and Barham, p. 386. | |
Geraldo, Sally Jessy: Ibid | |
evidence: |
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