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14 Jean Kennedy Smith affair: Laura Lippman, “Two Books Unveil Details, from Sex to Silverware,” Baltimore Sun, August 12, 1994.
15 “Very often distraught”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 591.
16 Robert Slatzer claims of marriage: “‘Marilyn and Me’ dramatizes possible fourth marriage,” Baltimore Sun, September 22, 1991.
17 “Robert Kennedy promised to marry”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 591.
18 “I like him”: Schlesinger, 591.
19 “talk to Monroe about putting a bridle on”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 104–5.
20 “you’ll marry Jack, that’s great”: Julie Miller, “Jackie Kennedy Gave Marilyn Monroe Her Snarky Blessing to Marry J.F.K., New Book Claims,” Vanity Fair, August 5, 2013.
21 “say goodbye to yourself”: Ellis S. Conklin, “Marilyn Monroe’s Last Words Were a Farewell to President…” United Press International, September 24, 1985.
22 “the feeling of violence”: Sam Kashner, “Marilyn and Her Monsters,” Vanity Fair, October 5, 2010.
23 “a minute fracture”: Joan Kron, “The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe’s Plastic Surgery,” Allure, October 9, 2013.
24 “a mini–phone listening device”: Stephen Galloway, “Rock Hudson’s Wife Secretly Recorded His Gay Confession,” Hollywood Reporter, June 6, 2013.
25 Monroe’s house: Lindsey Campbell, “Inside Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood Home,” House Beautiful, October 28, 2014.000 Fred Otash: Myrna Oliver, “Fred Otash; Colorful Hollywood Private Eye and Author,” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1992.
26 “on behalf of Howard Hughes and Nixon”: Galloway, “Rock Hudson’s Wife Secretly Recorded.”
27 “I did not trust him not to dissemble”: Galloway.
28 “Well, I think I made his back feel better”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 413.
29 “I listened to Marilyn Monroe die”: Galloway, “Rock Hudson’s Wife Secretly Recorded.”
30 “passed around like a piece of meat”: Galloway.
31 “sounded like Marilyn”: Tracy Connor, “Spotlight Gave a Jolt to Joe’s First Family,” New York Post, March 9, 1999.
Chapter 25
1 Monroe’s housekeeper calls Greenson: J. I. Baker, K. C. Baker and Liz McNeil, “Why Marilyn Monroe’s Death Is Still a Mystery,” People, June 29, 2017.
2 “remove anything incriminating”: Myrna Oliver, “Fred Otash; Colorful Hollywood Private Eye and Author,” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 1992.
3 “misinterpreted as a cover-up”: Baker, Baker, and McNeil, “Why Marilyn Monroe’s Death Is Still a Mystery.”
4 “most obviously staged death scene”: Richard Belzer and David Wayne, Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country’s Most Controversial Cover-Ups (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), Chapter 4.
5 Nembutal capsules: Howard Hertel and Don Neff, “Marilyn Monroe Dies; Pills Blamed,” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1962.
6 “affair with Bobby Kennedy”: Baker, Baker and McNeil, “Why Marilyn Monroe’s Death Is Still a Mystery.”
7 “I can’t flat out fire her”: “John Miner” (Obituary), Telegraph (UK), March 4, 2011.
8 Dr. Noguchi’s impression of Monroe: John Preston, “Dr Thomas Noguchi: LA Coroner Confidential,” Telegraph (UK), September 10, 2009.
9 “might be a murder victim”: Preston, “Dr Thomas Noguchi.”
10 “acute combined drug toxicity”: Baker, Baker, and McNeil, “Why Marilyn Monroe’s Death Is Still a Mystery.”
11 “I tell you, doctor”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 104.
12 “Robert Kennedy came to inhabit”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 591.
13 “no room in my life for him”: “John Miner” (Obituary).
14 “eyes wide and hurt”: Alexandra Pollard, “Something’s Got to Give: The Story of the Marilyn Monroe Film That Never Got Made,” Independent (UK), March 29, 2019.
15 “The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 323.
16 she and Jack bought the place: Matt Blitz, “Hickory Hill and the Kennedy Mystique,” Arlington Magazine, June 4, 2018.
17 “no credible evidence”: Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (New York: Random House, 2016), 192.
18 “got out of her misery”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
Chapter 26
1 Rededication of Idlewild: Ted Reed, “Fifty Years Ago, Idlewild Airport Became JFK,” TheStreet.com, December 20, 2013.
2 “Those who knew him well”: “An Excerpt from ‘The Revolution of Robert Kennedy,’” MSNBC.com, June 6, 2017.
3 “seventh of nine children”: Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (New York: Random House, 2016), 13.