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TV: This 1988 TV documentary co-produced by the BBC is an insightful investigation in to the death of one of Hollywood’s greatest sex symbols. Marilyn Monroe’s former housekeeper and friends come together to be interviewed predominantly about her final day of life and the events leading up to and surrounding her death. Also interviewed are members of the police and ambulance services and members of the mafia and F.B.I.

The documentary is fleshed out with details of mob connections, MM's affairs with both Kennedy brothers, and lots of archive footage. Each puzzle piece is substantiated by modern interviews conducted with: Eunice Murray - MM's housekeeper, Walter Schaefer - ambulance owner, Sgt. Jack Clemons - first LAPD respondent, Arthur James / Bob Slatzer - MM's friends, Jeanne Carmen - MM's neighbor, Joan Greenson - daughter of MM's psychiatrist, Tom Richter - LA Police Chief Sam Yorty - LA mayor, Bill Romer - FBI agent, Chuck O'Brien - aide to Jimmy Hoffa, Fred Otash / John Danoff - PI wiretappers hired by Hoffa, Peter Summers - JFK aide, George Smathers - Senator and Frank Saunders - Joe Kennedy's chauffeur. Other interviewees include house guests of Peter Lawford, also his ex-wife Deborah Gould, and an LA DJ who met with a despondent MM shortly before she died. Only Sgt. Clemons flatly declares that Monroe was murdered, but his "irrefutable proof" is shown to be erroneous-- a strong case for non-bias on the part of the show's creators. What's undeniable here is that in the final summer of her life, Marilyn Monroe was unemployed, hooked on barbiturates and talking to several people about an imminent death. Her fears (or predictions) became reality in the early hours of August 5th, 1962.

SAY GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT is a 1988 British documentary that was, at the time of its release, quite controversial. Although potentially dismissible as mere "conspiracy theory," the cumulative effect of its many modern interviews with dozens of people directly and peripherially involved in events leading up to Marilyn Monroe's death create an air of believeability. The most serious claim is that on the night in question, Monroe's housekeeper found the star ALIVE some time around midnight. The 82-year-old lady herself here changes long-held testimony that she found MM quite dead, and is backed up by owner of the responding ambulance. The revised story: a comatose Marilyn is removed to Santa Monica Hospital, and either dies there or during the ambulance ride. Next, Bobby Kennedy is given time to leave town, Peter Lawford (the last person to speak to MM on the phone) goes to her home and destroys a suicide note, then Monroe's body is returned to her bed. LAPD receives a call some four hours after all this began to unfold.

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