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Marilyn Monroe: A Targeted Suicide

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A Targeted Suicide “Diamonds are a girl's best friend” she sang, but for Marilyn, pills and sedatives were her best friend too. Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer, and model. It always seemed like her career and image was on a roller coaster. They say sometimes she was loved, other times she was hated, sometimes she was to world´s best sex symbol, and other times she was a brute of a woman. Marilyn dabbled in drugs men, politics, rumors, stardom, and struggle. Ultimately, the mystery behind the death of Marilyn Monroe comes down to suicide and government secrecy. Though she tried her hardest to grow out of her revealing past, it seemed she just couldn’t let go of the title “Marilyn the hooker”. “ She was born Norma Jean Mortenson” but …show more content…

For starters, the FBI was in association with and under control of president JFK. Monroe had an affair with the president's brother RFK and “she had been attempting to blackmail RFK” by exposing that JFK only won because of a cote fixing aid(The FBI, Unsolved Mysteries). FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover was said to have taken care of the Kennedys problem, and when time came for questioning he blamed the mafia. Unfortunately almost every crime in the era was blamed on the mafia, so the police turned to an odd suspect… the catholic church (Unsolved Mysteries). Though it may seem strange, police reported that. “The Catholics would do anything to keep one of their men (JFK) in office” (unsolved mysteries). Additionally, when they were under questioning they blamed the men in black, but “the prospect of he men in black were catholic priests” (unsolved mysteries). Finally, it had seemed as if they had figures out the case when the catholics dragged in the CIA. It was said that “The CIA was keeping Marilyn Monroe under surveillance because her intimate relationship with JFK/RFK meant she had knowledge that made her a potential threat” (unsolved Mysteries). All of this to say, she knew too much and they wanted her gone. Unfortunately with such contradicting evidence the police failed to crack to

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