Joe Hyams, a correspondent for the Herald-Tribune, attempts to obtain a copy of Marilyn Monroe’s phone records, immediately following news of her death on Sunday morning.  His contact at the telephone company tells him, “All hell’s broken loose down here. You’re not the only one interested in Marilyn’s calls. The tape’s disappeared….I’m told it was impounded by men in dark suits & well-shined shoes…somebody high up ordered it.” 

That “high-up” person who most likely confiscated Marilyn’s phone records was Captain James Hamilton, long-time security adviser & friend of both Jack & Bobby Kennedy (he was mentioned in earlier articles).  Hamilton’s friend, crime reporter Jack Tobin, had lunch with Hamilton shortly after Marilyn’s death, & only years later revealed: “Hamilton told me he had the telephone history of the last day or two of Marilyn Monroe’s life.”  It is believed he kept the records as a form of “insurance,” in exchange for which he wanted a post at the FBI or CIA, once the Kennedys got rid of J. Edgar Hoover.

On Monday, August 6th, Coroner Curphey said that Monroe “definitely had not died from natural causes.”  He said that not only would the coroner’s office look into her death ~ but so would the L.A. Suicide Prevention Team.  They would conduct “exhaustive interviews.”  And yet, they never interviewed Peter Lawford, Mrs. Murray, Norman Jefferies, or Pat Newcomb: any of the many people actually at Monroe’s home on August 4th. 

In fact, NONE of these people ever testified, because an inquest was never called for Marilyn Monroe. 

The only person known to have been interviewed was Dr. Greenson; & he was interviewed by John Miner on Monday, August 12th, 1962.  In that interview, he told Miner unequivocally that he knew Monroe had not committed suicide.  He played Miner a half-hour tape recording that Monroe had made at her home, prior to her death.  The evidence on the tape led Miner to conclude that Monroe had not committed suicide.  But Greenson made Miner promise that he would never reveal how or why Greenson knew this, due to a conflict of professional ethics. 

(Greenson would also later tell colleagues that he believed he was responsible, in some ways, for Marilyn’s death.  Friends, family, & business associates said that Dr. Greenson was never the same after her death; he died in 1979).

Miner made a memorandum of his interview with Dr. Greenson & filed it with both the district attorney & the coroner’s office. 

When Coroner Curphey saw Miner’s memo, he was was shocked.  The correct protocol to take at that point would have been to call a formal inquest, & put all witnesses who’d been at Monroe’s home that day under oath.  But that didn’t happen.  Instead, Miner’s memorandum vanished just as Marilyn Monroe’s kidney & urine samples had vanished: seemingly into thin air.  Curphey called Lionel Grandison, coroner’s aide, into his office to sign Marilyn Monroe’s death certificate, indicating the cause of death as “probable suicide.”  Grandison noted, when looking at her file, that several reports & charts he had seen were gone, & the initial autopsy report (taken by Thomas Noguchi) had been changed.  He called this to Coroner Curphey’s attention, but Curphey became very angry, & told Grandison that he needed to sign the death certificate.  Worried for his job, Grandison reluctantly signed it. 

It is these actions taken by Coroner Curphey, & all of the things that mysteriously went “missing” in Marilyn’s files, that make a cover-up seem so obvious.  If Marilyn had simply committed suicide, why would any of her files or organs need to be removed??  The files, perhaps because they showed embarrassing connections to the Kennedys.  But the only possible reason for disposing of her organs could be that they showed, unequivocally, that Marilyn had been murdered.

You can watch Coroner Curphey’s press conference about Marilyn’s death here, wherein he talks more about her past suicide attempts than her actual death.  In this day & age, we might call this behavior “gas-lighting.”

In 1985, a British documentary called “Say Goodbye to the President” is nominated for “Best TV Documentary of the Year,” & receives wide critical acclaim. But American networks refuse to broadcast it, until many years later. It can still be watched on YouTube, which you can find here. In this documentary, we have perhaps the most stark & glaring evidence of a cover-up, when Eunice Murray comes straight out & says it, once she thinks the cameras have been turned off:
“Why, at my age, do I still have to cover up this thing?”

The interviewer asks what she means, & she says, “I was not supposed to know the Kennedy’s were a very important part of Marilyn’s life, but over a period of time, I was a witness to what was happening.” When asked directly if Bobby Kennedy had been in Marilyn’s home on August 4th, 1962, Mrs. Murray replied, “Oh sure, yes, I was in the living room when he arrived. She was not dressed. It became so sticky that the protectors of Robert Kennedy, you know, had to step in and protect him…”

Finally, the admission that we’ve been waiting for, that is a long time coming ~ almost twenty years after both Kennedy brothers have passed away. Only then did Eunice Murray feel she could speak the truth.