November 1961, JFK is reportedly taped in a sexual liaison with Marilyn Monroe at Peter Lawford’s home in California. One of the men monitoring the bugs at the Lawford house is private investigator John Danoff. “To my amazement,” he says, “I started to recognize the voices -- because of the President’s distinct Bostonian accent and Marilyn Monroe’s voice . . . Then you heard them talking and they were going about disrobing and going into the sex act on the bed . . .” February 1, 1962 Marilyn Monroe meets Robert Kennedy at a dinner party in Peter Lawford’s California beach house. Later this night, the actress will tell a friend, the two of them talk alone in the den. In characteristic fashion, Monroe has prepared questions of topical interest and asks whether it is true that J. Edgar Hoover might soon be fired. Robert replies that “he and the President didn’t feel strong enough to do so, though they wanted to.” Lawford’s house has been bugged by the FBI, so this information goes directly to J. Edgar Hoover. May 19, 1962 Gala celebration of JFK’s forty-fifth birthday is held in Madison Square Garden to raise funds for the Democratic Party. Marilyn Monroe sings her famous rendition of “Happy Birthday” to JFK. JFK apparently never sees Monroe again after this night. According to Peter Lawford, J. Edgar Hoover has warned JFK off, telling him that Lawford’s home in California is probably being bugged by the mafia. Also, during this month June, 1962, Marilyn Monroe begins a series of calls to the Justice Department, the White House and Hyannisport. This is revealed by her telephone bills, confiscated at the time of her death but later made public. The persistency of the calls suggests a panic whose origins are said to have derived from the fact the Marilyn is reportedly pregnant by JFK. June 27, 1962 Robert Kennedy arrives at the California home of Marilyn Monroe driving a Cadillac convertible. The car belongs to FBI agent-in-charge William Simon and has been loaned to Kennedy. Simon dutifully reports the incident. From now on, J. Edgar Hoover has direct information on RFK’s comings and goings at Monroe’s home. July 2, 1962 Marilyn Monroe places 2 telephone calls to Attorney General, RFK. July 20, 1962 Marilyn Monroe undergoes an abortion at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She remains in hospital for four days. Following the abortion, there is one final telephone call (eight minutes) made to the Justice Department. August 3, 1962 In a Top Secret government report is drafted today the subject of which is the transcript of a wiretapped telephone conversation between Howard Rothberg and Dorothy Kilgallen during which Marilyn Monroe and her affairs with both JFK and RFK are openly discussed. Among the statements recorded in this report are the following: “Subject [Monroe] threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.” “Subject [Monroe] made reference to her ‘diary of secrets’ and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures.” There is also mention of the fact that Monroe claims JFK took her to “a secret airbase for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.” August 4, 1962 It is alleged that RFK makes a trip to Los Angeles to secretly visit with Marilyn Monroe in order to explain why she can no longer have a relationship with the President. He reportedly flies down from Northern California where he is to fulfill a speaking engagement before the American Bar Association and to have a vacation with his family at the Bates’ ranch in Gilroy. August 5, 1962 (3:30 AM) Monroe’s housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice Murray, telephones Dr. Greenson. He breaks into the locked bedroom and finds the body. Another physician who has treated the actress arrives fifteen minutes later. He and Greenson spend some time discussing the sources of the pill bottles littering Marilyn’s bedroom perhaps worrying that they might be implicated in the death. (AQOC) (4:25 AM) -- A telephone call is received at the West Los Angeles Patrol Division reporting Marilyn Monroe’s death. Sergeant Jack Clemmons is first officer on the scene. Even twenty-five years later he will still maintain: “It was the most obvious murder I ever saw. Everything was staged.” Ruled a suicide. Monroe is 36 years old. (6:04 AM) -- JFK receives a telephone call at the White House from Peter Lawford in California. This is an hour after Lawford has hired security consultants to bury all evidence of the Kennedy brothers’ affairs with Monroe. According to some sources, the scenario of the death of Marilyn Monroe involved Lawford and RFK. It goes as follows: After desperate calls by Monroe to the Lawford beach house, RFK and his brother-in-law returned to her home. They found the actress either dead or dying and phoned for an ambulance. One or both of them may have joined the ambulance on a last-hope drive to a hospital -- only to turn it around when it became clear Monroe was dead. The body was then replaced in the bed -- nude, face down and with the phone in her hand. RFK left town rapidly the way he had arrived, by helicopter and aircraft. Dr. Greenson, Monroe’s psychiatrist, confirms privately, years from now, that RFK was present that night and that an ambulance was called. 9:30 AM -- RFK appears with his family at mass in Gilroy. It is also alleged that Peter Lawford goes through Monroe’s house, destroying a note - or half-written letter - that mentions the Kennedys, and proceeds to tidy up the place. One or perhaps two other friends are also on hand. Lawford also contacts Hollywood private detective Fred Otash, telling him that Marilyn is dead, that Bobby was at her house earlier, and that they have gotten him out of the city and back to Northern California. Lawford tells Otash that he has destroyed what he could find at Monroe’s but would feel better if a professional looked around for anything incriminating the Kennedys. Before an Otash agent reaches the scene at 9:00 AM, someone has broken open a file cabinet. Monroe’s diary and personal notes are never found. (AQOC) August 7, 1962 W.H. Ferry, Vice President of the Fund for the Republic, set up by the Ford Foundation to promote civil liberties, lambastes J. Edgar Hoover’s scare-mongering about Communism as “sententious poppycock.” Robert Kennedy, several hours later, shocks all those who know him by saying: “I hope Hoover will continue to serve the country for many, many years to come.” It is speculated this is a “thank you” to Hoover and the FBI for their assistance in helping to cover up Marilyn Monroe’s relationship with the two Kennedy brothers. August 20, 1962 An FBI-listening device picks up a conversation between three well-known Mafia figures that make reference to Robert Kennedy’s affair with Marilyn Monroe: “They will go for every name -- unless the brother -- it’s big enough to cause a scandal against them. Would you like to see a headline about Marilyn Monroe to come out? And him? How would he like it? Don’t you know? . . . He has been in there plenty of times. It’s been a hard affair -- and this [deleted name of a friend of Marilyn’s] said she used to be in all the time with him -- do you think it’s a secret?”