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and another doctor a drug meant to wean her off the prescriptions. she was seeing both doctors separately every day. aside from them, her circle was small. >> multiple people were around marilyn the last knew days of her life. one of them was pat newcom. she was a loyal protector of marilyn>> after dinner friday n, pat decided to stay overnight. senator kennedy was in gilroy, california. he was enjoying a quiet weekend. the kennedy family settled in and marilyn and pat newcom got
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ready for bed. friday night turned to saturday morning. the last morning marilyn would ever see. >> there are a lot of different accounts about what happened august 4. even the people that were present contradicted themselves over the years. >> ways known is that marilyn monroe spent the day in and around her spanish bungalow:mrs. murray. >> mrs. murray documents marilyn's last day. she woke around 9:00. remained in her house coat. had may not shah howard or bathed. she was spiritless. hadn't eaten. she was pulling weeds in her garden. toward the end of july, marilyn
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and pat newcom and i were in serious discussions about doing the cover of "playboy" magazine. i didn't want to keep hefner hanging. >> marilyn told schiller that pat didn't have the authority to make that call. >> it was like a light switch. somebody had thrown a light switch. and all of a sudden she was referring to herself as just a piece of meat. then the light switch would go back and she was polite. >> it was at this time that newcom had woken up. >> i hi she was upset because pat interfered where she shouldn't have interfered. even though they were good friend, marilyn had boundaries.
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>> she wasn't ready -- a normal average day. >> peter lawford was league dinner party that evening, but marilyn had yet to confirm she was going. here is where the story gets murky. some people believe lawford paid an unannounced visit to the house along with his brother-in-law, robert kennedy. conspiraciy theories are kennedy left gilroy by helicopter and flew to los angeles. the rumors were that robert kennedy came to the house to break off the affair or to obtain marilyn's diary. >> this is the most of controversial aspect of the case, whether bobby kennedy had any interference or cause of her
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death. that brings up the most of triggering emotions for people. >> a cryptic recorded phone call service, the call was to marilyn's psychiatrist, dr. greenson. because of the hippocratic oath, he couldn't say anything about what happened. >> there is no actual evidence the attorney general visited that afternoon. >> marilyn's neighbors reported they did not see robert kennedy that day. >> even though people have tried to insert bobby kennedy into this day. if he had come there there was
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no way he could have walked on to that property without being noticed. >> but just days after losing her 21th century fox contract, marilyn made several phone calls to his office. >> we only know of the durations of two phone calls. one was for the duration of a minute, and the last one was 8 minutes. >> the truth about rfk's visit may never be known. but what happened next is clear. by mid-afternoon marilyn was not doing well. >> american called dr. greenson because she was in distress. and he asked mrs. murray to stay the night. >> she told mrs. murray she just wanted to sleep. >> she had eaten anything that
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dimaggio, jr. he was going through a breakup with his fiance. and she was supportive. she didn't like his fiance. >> peter lawford called the house to see if marilyn was going to come over for dinner. and she sounded groggy. >> he had concerns about how marilyn sounded on the phone. he thought she sounded overmedicated. >> she said supposedly say good-bye to pat and the president, he's such a nice guy and the phone went dead. >> the word say good-bye to the president and say good-bye to yourself are legendary as the last words she ever said. no matter what was said --
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>> he told other guests about the phone conversation. one of the persons he spoke to was his agent milton evans. evans contacted dr. greenson's brother-in-law. >> that call came in at 8:25 w.m. eunice murray told police it was 9:00 p.m. when the phone rang in marilyn's house. >> it was a phone call from marilyn's attorney and he asked if marilyn is all right. i said as far as i know she is. i went into the room and the telephone cord was under the door. these were indications that she was sleeping. >> if you think about eunice murray's disposition. she wasn't one to make waves. if marilyn was in her room and didn't want to be disturbed, she
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her. at 3:00 a.m. she went to the door and found it locked. she went to the window and saw marilyn lying on her stomach and looked unnatural. >> the doctor came in and finds her dead. she was nude. but as time went on, the timeline shift. >> the other story is she woke up in the middle of the night and it was closer to 2:00. >> i thought something was wrong. so i tried the door and it was locked. i knocked at the door and called marilyn's name several times. >> there are many versions of how, when and where marilyn died as there are witnesses. times of death run from
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>> there is a lapse of time between when they discovered the body and when they called the police. was it three hours or an hour? it's not really clear. >> when the call finally came into the west los angeles police department it was answered by a sergeant. he decided to investigate. greenson lead him to the bedroom where marilyn's corpse is and there the investigation begins. >> i was shown the night stand by her bed, it was about 8 or 10 empty bottles that contained
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medicine. he said she must have swallowed them all. >> here is the issue with any doctor prescribing that amount of medication. it's either a disaster waiting to happen or a death sentence. >> there were quite a high volume of pills discovered. >> dr. engelberg went on record saying he never prescribed choryl hydrate to marilyn. he actually did. it was a direct lie. >> it's a lethal combination.
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it really was a case of medical negligence. and i think we should try to get her destiny to change. >> the early morning sun starts to dip into the darkness. the world would soon know that marilyn was dead. >> it was tragic. but she obviously was being chased by a lot of demons. far from allowing her to rest i- in peace. the scandal soon kicked into high gear. >> know other star can command that kind of attention even after her death.
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>> the official version of her death raised startling questions. >> the marilyn myth. >> any time you have a controversial figure in life and they have an untimely death you have conspiracies. >> i think there were large motives for her to be murdered. >> she ier jects the cia and fbi into it. >> there was a calculated attempt by criminals to set up robert kennedy. she had information in her about the plot to kill castro. >> marilyn was stretched out face down on the bed. obviously she had been placed in that position. >> marilyn died by injection and
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