Did Marilyn Really Kill Essay

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The 1960’s were a time of glitz, glamor, and change. It includes events such as the Cuban missile crisis, civil rights movement, colored television, and the infamous space race. In this era there was also the death of Hollywood's most notorious leading lady, Marilyn Monroe. She was famous for her roles in the movies “Gentlemen prefer Blondes” and “The Seven Year Itch”. On August 5th, 1962, Marilyn was found dead in her bed surrounded by her opened prescription pill bottles, prescribed to her previously for her insomnia. Her housekeeper found her at around 4am that morning, dead, and called her doctor straight away. Her doctor then deemed her death a suicide almost instantaneously, instigating no further investigation (Did Marilyn Really Kill …show more content…

There is evidence to claim that Marilyn herself documented state-classified secrets while partaking in the relationship, one being the planned assasination of Fidel Castro (Marilyn Murdered). With learning about these government agendas, she recorded them in an alleged diary lost to the media long ago. With this classified information acquired, JFK and RFK were worried about Marilyn’s indiscretion, and what she’d do with the newly received information (Staff, Us Weekly). The Kennedy’s didn’t want this affair to become a public spectacle, yet Marilyn wanted it to become common knowledge. When RFK threatened to end the affair, Marilyn threatened to release the classified information uncovered during the affair, and make it public. This already would be sufficient enough to mark both JFK and RFK as suspects in the case, since they obviously had a deep-rooted …show more content…

Her doctor was named Hyman Engelberg and treated more than 100 hollywood celebrities including herself. Because of his popularity, it would have been quite easy to get a hold of him by the Attorney General of the USA, Robert F Kennedy. The locations of the doctor, the Kennedys, and Marilyn Monroe perfectly line up to where the Kennedy brothers could have easily gotten a hold of Marilyn’s doctor to have her prescriptions laced with an untraceable drug like Oxycodone, which began its rise in popularity in the early 1960s. This drug is one of many untraceable drugs that are unseeable on a standard Opiate Drug test, therefore unseeable on a toxicology report. Once she got her prescription refilled that day, the laced pills would have taken effect later that night to early that next morning. You’re probably asking, “What about the consequences of partaking in a murder?” Well, if it was a favor from the United States government, then who was powerful enough to say no, especially if it's from the Attorney General of the United States of America to an ordinary medical physician.
In the end, however, when Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her house early that morning her doctor investigated the body and deemed her death as suicide (Marilyn Murdered). There was no further investigation after the doctor’s verdict, which likely suggests that his word was