Cassettes 37 & 45: Robin Thorne, George Cukor’s Nurse
I must confess to a certain confusion regarding Robin Thorne’s testimony, both its content and its purpose. What does the testimony actually reveal? Additionally, the testimony is not exactly accurate.

If George Cukor, who directed Let’s Make Love along with Marilyn’s final but incomplete movie, actually thought very highly of Marilyn, he chose an odd manner of exhibition. According to biographer, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Cukor engaged in an act of sabotage while filming Something’s Got to Give: the director told Fox executives, after watching prints of Marilyn’s scenes, he considered her acting inferior: she absentmindedly floated through her performance, Cukor asserted, on a drug or an alcohol induced cloud, possibly both. Cukor’s sabotage, combined with Marilyn’s frequent absence from the set due to illness, and her appearance at President Kennedy’s May 1962 birthday gala, prompted Fox to terminate her employment. Citing breach of contract, the studio sued both Marilyn and Marilyn Monroe Productions for financial redress in the amount of $750K.

What followed was a scorched Earth attack by 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation against the movie star that had earned the movie makers many piles of money; and based on evi­dence that was hidden by Fox in a vault for practically four decades, nine hours of exposed film and production documents, the studio’s campaign to ruin Marilyn’s career, using any and all means available, including false accusations and labeling her completely insane, was unnecessary and unsupported by all the evidence available at that time; but following two weeks of defending their decision to fire Marilyn, Fox withdrew their law suit and quietly reinstated her, partly due to intervention by former studio head Darryl Zanuck, but primarily because Dean Martin, the male lead and Marilyn’s friend, refused to proceed without her. Martin would not make the movie with any other actress. Marilyn finally agreed to return to the movie sets starting in October, for which the studio agreed to more than double her salary. She wanted George Cukor replaced with Jean Negulesco, who had directed How to Marry a Millionaire. The studio agreed; but unfortunately, due to Marilyn’s untimely death, she never returned to the sets of Something’s Got to Give.

Cassette 18B: Angie Novello
According to the accepted mythology involving Marilyn and her telephones, the attorney general, once he succumbed to romance, provided the actress with an exclusive telephone number, a private line directly into his office at the DOJ. They talked constantly, walked around with sixties vintage telephone receivers hooked to their mouths and their ears. As usual, not one tiny fragment of evidence ever existed that confirmed such silliness; but that fact did not matter to the many authors that promoted the private telephone line mythology. The well-known fact that Marilyn and Robert Kennedy conversed via the national telephone wires became proof that the celebrities were lovers and gave the conspiracist writers another way for a heartless Robert Kennedy to reject and humiliate his movie star paramour―he extinguished her private line―gave an angry Marilyn another reason to retaliate, to dramatically pursue the attorney general, to threaten her former lover’s exposure in the press. Angie Novello’s twenty seconds worth of testimony established for Summers that actress and attorney general communicated by telephone; but it must be noted that Angie intercepted the telephone calls routed to the attorney general through the DOJ’s switchboard, RE7-8200. If Marilyn knew Robert Kennedy’s private number, why didn’t she use it?―an obvious question never posed by Summers or any other conspiracist.

With the release of Marilyn’s 1962 telephone records for the months of April through July, the ones allegedly confiscated and then destroyed by the LAPD, the FBI and the SS, Marilyn placed a grand total of six telephone calls to Washington, DC, to the above noted Justice Department number. She called RE7-8200 initially on June the 25th, twice on July the 2nd, once on July the 16th and twice on July the 17th. Three of her conversations lasted one minute, two lasted two minutes and one of her July the 2nd conversations lasted five minutes. According to Donald Spoto, Marilyn used the call of June the 25th to confirm that Robert Kennedy would be at the Lawfords’ on Wednesday evening [June 27th] and to invite him and the Lawfords to visit her home for a drink before dinner. During that call, Marilyn spoke with Angie Novello. Not one person alive today knows the identity of the person to whom Marilyn spoke during the other calls to the Justice Department; but more than likely, that person was Angie Novello.

Many of Robert Kennedy’s friends and advisers over the years confirmed that the attorney general and Marilyn were telephone buddies. Edwin Guthman confirmed that Marilyn called the DOJ several times over the summer of 1962 and spoke with Robert Kennedy, who was interested in Marilyn’s life and her many problems. According to Guthman, the attorney general was not a man inclined to chit chat or idle talk with anybody; and so his tele­phone conversations with Marilyn were invariably short and concise. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. also confirmed that Marilyn called the attorney general, noting that Marilyn usually called Robert Kennedy when she was troubled and also noting that Angie Novello, who, I repeat, intercepted Marilyn’s telephone calls, talked to the actress more than the attorney general.

During a 1984 interview, Angie stated that the attorney general always accepted Marilyn’s telephone calls, if he was not occupied; and if he was occupied, he returned her calls as soon as he could, if time allowed. Marilyn was, after all, Marilyn Monroe! Angie also remarked dur­ing the interview that Robert Kennedy was a sympathetic person, aware of Marilyn’s many problems. He was also an excellent listener. In Angie’s opinion, that is exactly what Marilyn needed the most: a sympathetic ear. The content of those conversations between Marilyn and the attorney general remain unknown; but they are often characterized, by those with a vested interest, as impassioned conversations between impassioned lovers, as if those offering such a characterization actually know or knew, as if they, too, were involved in the dialogue flying with the speed of light from coast to coast.

Finally, Angie also remarked that actress and singer Judy Garland was a close friend with whom the attorney general spoke frequently, but not one person has ever suggested that they were involved in a love affair. Why is that so? The answer is obvious.

Cassette Unnumbered: Natalie Trundy
The evening of August the 4th in 1962 was slightly cooler than normal; so Arthur Jacobs, Marilyn’s publicist, along with his fiancé, the actress Natalie Trundy, attended a Ferrante and Teicher concert in the Hollywood Bowl. According to Natalie, just before the concert was scheduled to end at 11:00 PM, an usher arrived and informed Jacobs that Marilyn was either dead or close to death. Therefore, according to Natalie’s account, Marilyn died sometime prior to or slightly after 11:00 PM on August the 4th.

According to Natalie, Jacobs left almost immediately, drove to Fifth Helena Drive where he conferred with some persons who were already at the hacienda. Jacobs left the hacienda only after a few minutes of conversation. A few days later, Arthur told Natalie that the situation at Fifth Helena Drive was horrendous. Natalie admitted to Donald Spoto that Jacobs never provided any details, commenting only that it was too dreadful to discuss; and Natalie never asked for details: her knowledge of what transpired that morning was, therefore, limited, an inarguable fact.

I would be remiss if I failed to note that Natalie Trundy’s testimony qualified as hearsay that could not be corroborated by interviewing Arthur Jacobs: he died from a sudden heart attack in 1973.

Cassette Unnumbered and 126A: Ken Hunter and Walt Schaefer (respectively)
The tape recording of Ken Hunter was not the product of an interview conducted by Anthony Summers. The district attorney’s lead investigator, Al Tomich, conducted the Hunter interview; but Summers did not make that fact perfectly clear before he played the tape. The Hunter interview, and then Walt Schaefer’s interview generally began an unfolding of what has come to be designated The Ambulance Theory. During the years following Marilyn’s death, this theory has been continually retold and  has been reshaped with each retelling. It has appeared in many complex iterations, involving many persons: Peter Lawford, Pat Newcomb, Dr. Ralph Greenson, and in one imaginative scenario, the attorney general, who, along with Peter Law­ford, rode in the ambulance with the dying movie star, only to be returned, along with the movie star’s corpse, to Fifth Helena Drive.

However, Summers’ presentation of The Ambulance Theory clearly indicated that Ken Hunter, former ambulance man, contacted the Los Angeles County District Attorney. Ken Hunter, along with Walt Schaefer, became parts of the theory’s evolution, but Hunter was not the first former ambulance man to contact the district attorney; and in fact, Ken Hunter did not contact the district attorney’s office. Even though Summers did not provide any context relative to calendar dates, the initial contact with the LADA’s office arrived in 1982 at the start of the threshold re-investigation into Marilyn’s death. The former ambulance man asserted that his name was Rick Stone. Even­tually, Stone revealed that his actual name was James Hall, a desperate man on a pecuniary mission. Hall needed to rescue his family from financial troubles by selling a Marilyn Monroe story that involved him and an ambulance. The former ambulance man asserted that he would share his astonishing ambulance story with the district attorney’s investigators only if appro­priately compensated for any incurred expenses. More about Ken Hunter and James Hall will appear later.

Cassette HH: John Sherlock
Evidently, John Sherlock was a reporter. In Goddess, Anthony Summers identified his source as such: Significant corroboration that an ambulance was called came following the publication of this book’s first edition from reporter named John Sherlock. Sherlock also appeared in the book that closed Marilyn’s case, written by Jay Margolis and Richard Buskin. They identified Sherlock as an American writer and noted that a documentary featuring Anthony Summers surprisingly endorsed Walt Schaefer’s and Murray Leib’s original testimony via a key player the night [Marilyn] died. American writer John Sherlock relayed what his friend Dr. Greenson had told him. The television tabloid program, Hard Copy, known for its use of dubious material, produced the referenced documentary in 1992.

Amazon lists four books written by a John Sherlock, published during a seven year interval between 1981 and 1988. However, Amazon does not have any information about the writer; and I have not been able to learn any-thing at all about John Sherlock, which means I have not been able to confirm, as alleged by Margolis and Buskin, that Sherlock was, in fact, Dr. Green­son’s friend. Despite the concussive quality of Sherlock’s testimony, it is gross hearsay; and Sherlock is not mentioned in any of books about Marilyn in my possession other than the two mentioned above. Not even Donald Wolfe, who often repeated hearsay testimony, mentioned Sherlock. Perhaps Sherlock’s hearsay was even too gross for Wolfe.

I admit that I am a skeptical person; and regarding stories about Marilyn Monroe’s death, I am a complete, almost a querulous cynic, primarily because I have uncovered more fabrications, prevarications, con­tradictions, and downright lies about that sad event than Carter’s got little liver pills. So, I am more than incredulous when I read or hear secondhand, uncorroborated statements, particularly one purporting that Dr. Ralph Green­son, while seated at a table during a luncheon in 1964, or thereabouts, simply volun­teered, admitted that he was in an ambulance transporting Marilyn to a hospital when she died and that the ambulance merely reversed course and returned Marilyn’s corpse to her bed at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, unquestionably a story that should have generated several hundred questions never asked by either Sherlock or Summers. I’ll pose but one: did Dr. Greenson whisper his story to Sherlock so any person seated nearby would not hear it?

Cassette 18A: Bill Woodfield
Photo-journalist Bill Woodfield was an acquaintance of Marilyn’s. She invited him to photograph the swimming pool scene on the set of Something’s Got to Give, Marilyn’s final but unfinished movie. Woodfield and another photo-journalist, Joe Hyams, also an acquaintance of Marilyn’s, doubted that she had committed suicide, or Woodfield so alleged; and as a result of their doubt, the photo-journalists claimed that they investigated the circumstances surrounding the movie star’s death, an investigation that included a retired police officer. A rumor that a helicopter had been dispatched to and landed on Santa Monica beach early Sunday morning, August the 5th, prompted the investigation. Certainly an abbreviated one, the investigation endured for slightly more than three days.

Woodfield claimed that he saw a helicopter log when, on August the 8th, the day of Marilyn’s funeral, he visited Hal Conners Helicopter Service, a ser­vice frequently employed by Peter Lawford and other celebrities. The random act of journalism, for which Summers expressed his respect during Woodfield’s interview, was the purported discovery of that log. There is only one prob­lem: Woodfield did not obtain a copy of the mysterious log. It has never been published. It has never been seen by anyone other than Bill Woodfield. There is no tangible evidence or verifiable proof of any kind that this helicopter log ever existed.

Additionally, in Goddess, Summers noted that the rented helicopter landed to collect a passenger and then to deliver that passenger to the main Los Angeles airport. According to Woodfield, the log clearly confirmed Robert Kennedy’s presence in Los Angeles on August the 4th and his departure from Santa Monica Beach by helicopter during the early morning hours of August the 5th. Clearly confirmed? How precisely? Not at any time did Summers or Woodfield, or anybody else for that matter, assert unequivocally that Robert Kennedy’s name was written on that helicopter log. It appears as if  Woodfield or Summers made a quantum leap from passenger to Robert Kennedy. Either the photo-journalist or Summers simply wanted Robert Kennedy to be the passenger.

Additionally, the testimony attributed to Woodfield in the 1985 version of Goddess is apprecia­bly and suspiciously different than the testimony attributed to Woodfield in the 2012 version. Also, none of Woodfield’s taped testimony, as presented in the Netflix movie, appeared in the 1985 version of Goddess; and according to Summers’ source notes, he interviewed Woodfield in 1983 and 1984. Furthermore, Based on Summers’ 2012 source notes, the investigative jour­nalist did not re-interview his photo-journalist source following the original interviews; and Wood­field died twenty-one years ago.

In the 1985 version of Goddess, Summers quoted Woodfield as follows: The time in the log was sometime after midnight―I think between midnight and two in the morning. The booking is a blur in my memory now, but it was definitely in the name of either Lawford or Kennedy (emphasis mine). Odd use of the word definitely, at least in my opinion, considering that Woodfield’s recollection was definitely not definite; but then, according to Goddess 2012, Woodfield reported this: The time in the log was sometime after midnight―I think between midnight and two in the morning. It showed clearly that a helicopter had picked up Robert Kennedy at the Santa Monica Beach. Odd. Why the difference. No attempt to explain or account for the contradictory statements Summers attributed to Bill Woodfield; and I repeat: Woodfield died twenty-one years ago. Furthermore, why did Summers exclude the testimony of Woodfield’s partner, Joe Hyams? The author’s source notes indicated that he interviewed Hyams in 1983, 1984 and 1985. Did Summers fail to tape record Woodfield’s partner? Likewise, Summers asserted in Goddess that he interviewed the retired policeman who assisted Woodfield and Hyams with their investigation; but Summers did not reveal anything at all about the policeman’s testimony, neither in Goddess nor the Netflix movie. We are left to speculate regarding why Summers excluded the policeman’s pertinent testimony.

The story appertaining to Conners’ helicopter log is complex, convoluted and lengthy and involves two other chopper pilots who flew for Connors in 1962, James Zonlick and Ed Connelly. Zonlick was Conners’ chief pilot. During Summers’ interviews with both pilots, they repeated for Summers what they recalled Conners had told them in 1962. According to Zonlick, Conners stated that he had picked-up Robert Kennedy at Santa Monica Beach and delivered him to the Los Angeles International Airport. Ed Connelly testified only that Conners talked about landing on the beach without the aid of landing lights. Summers then reported that Zonlick could not re-member the exact date of the Robert Kennedy flight Conners had mentioned; and likewise, Connelly could not pin point the date of the flight that Conners had mentioned to him. So the exact dates of those flights have never been confirmed; and by the time Summers interviewed Zonlick and Connelly, Hal Conners was already dead. Zonlick believed, however, that the trip to collect and deliver Robert Kennedy occurred during the right time frame, probably during the latter half of 1962, meaning what, exactly, that Conners might have flown Robert Kennedy during the months of June, July, August, September, October, November or December of the correct year? Not exactly compelling evidence or proof that the Conners’ flight with Robert Kennedy actually occurred on August the 5th in 1962.

At any rate, the pull quote from Woodfield’s taped testimony is this: Find out where Bobby Kennedy was that weekend. Well, in fact, Summers did find out where the attorney general was that weekend; but those niggling facts do not appear in the Netflix movie. Those facts will appear in this commentary later; but now, suffer a brief biography of Bill Woodfield.

Woodfield’s first true love was magic along with hypnosis. In 1946, at the age of eighteen, the fledgling magician and hypnotist founded a newsletter that he described as a trade paper for magicians, Woodfield’s Magicana. He only published two issues. In September of 1947, The Conjuror’s Magazine featured a condensed version of Woodfield’s first two issues; and then from January of 1948 until April of 1949, Genii Magazine featured a total of sixteen articles written by Woodfield. It became painfully clear that he could not support himself with magic or hypnosis, so he turned to photography as the mid-fifties approached, a profession he left in the mid-sixties when he began to write for several television series, the most important of which was Mission: Impossible. Along with his writing partner, Allan Balter, Woodfield has been credited with changing the story lines of Mission: Im-possible while also incorporating scams and complex cons into the methods used by agents of the Impossible Missions Force to defeat their adversaries. The Big Con, written by David Maurer, became a guide for Woodfield and Balter as they prepared plot lines and scripts. A con devotee, Woodfield often referred to him­self as an apprentice cheat, meaning a con artist in training. It is entirely possible, I suggest, that Bill Woodfield’s helicopter log story was a scam, his version of the big con, keeping in mind, once again, that the helicopter log has never been published, has never been seen.

Cassette 77: Harry Hall
Summers identified Harry Hall as a Law Enforcement Informant, as if that title suggested a category of professional endeavor that a fellow might declare on a job application. Former Employer: Law Enforcement. Position: Informant. While at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January the 24th in 1984, Summers interviewed law enforcement’s informant. Summers wanted to learn if Hall had learned anything about Bobby Kennedy’s movements the weekend Marilyn died? Hall replied that he had heard, on good authority, that the Saturday that this happened—the day Marilyn died—Bobby had come into town. Bobby was in town and supposedly left. And when I say I heard it, I heard it from a federal agent, an FBI agent that nei­ther Hall nor Summers deigned to identify (emphasis mine).

Summers questioned Hall regarding a possible FBI investigation into Marilyn’s death. Did the FBI investigate what actually happened? What the FBI performed, according to Hall, was not an investigation as much as it was a hush-hush, a cover-up orchestrated by Robert Kennedy: He was the Attorney General of the United States, Hall reported, so he could have the FBI do anything. Besides, the attorney general had to protect the president, and as a result, they had done everything to hush this up. One question: if Robert Kennedy could have FBI agents jump at his beck and call, do anything for him, why, then, did he and Pete Lawford need to rely on Fred Otash, as is often reported, to sweep clean, to sanitize Marilyn’s hacienda?

Summers used the preceding tactic throughout Goddess, repeating hearsay testimony from Los Angeles Police Department informants while also relying on persons of authority, former mayors, for instance, police chiefs or others identified as agents of various authorities, to re­peat hearsay testimony; and just like the testimony offered by Harry Hall, none of Summers’ other testifiers could offer a firsthand sighting of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles on August the 4th in 1962. There is an invariably ignored but nonetheless overwhelming reason why, which I will discuss later. Also, not only was the testimony offered by Harry Hall hearsay, it represents an illogic, one that appeared in the testimony of both Reed Wilson and Jim Doyle, whose testimony will appear in sections following hereafter.

Cassette 28: Reed Wilson
The taped testimony of Reed Wilson was presented by Summers, and his Netflix producers, primarily to confirm two aspects pertaining to Marilyn’s purportedly mysterious case: 1) Fred Otash procured dozens of salacious tape recordings on which Marilyn and the middle Kennedy brothers could be heard engaging in sexual activity; and 2) Robert Kennedy traveled to Los Angeles on August the 4th in 1962.

According to Summers’ exposition, he was advised on more than one occasion that he needed to have a confabulation with Reed Wilson, renowned in government and business circles as one terrific snoop; and yet, Reed Wilson’s name does not appear anywhere in the Marilyn canon, not in her legitimate biographies and not in the many publications that promoted a murder orthodoxy, at least, perhaps I should clarify and qualify, not that I have been able to discover. For an example, though, Matthew Smith, who wrote two books about Marilyn, and her secret tapes, did not mention Reed Wilson. Additionally and remarkably, in the 2012 Kindle edition of Goddess, Reed Wilson does not even receive a friendly doxing. Anthony Summers did not mention Wilson, either. We are left to ponder why? To maintain secrecy? Reed Wilson was still among the living in 2012, living in Solvang, California, at the age of eighty-three years. By that time, Marilyn had been dead for fifty years, John Kennedy for forty-nine and Robert Kennedy for forty-four. Virtually all of the principle characters in the Marilyn death saga had been dead for many years. Reed Wilson lived until 2015.

Of course, the main problem with Wilson’s testimony is his assertion regarding Robert Kennedy’s location on that Saturday in 1962. While Wilson did not assert that the attorney general visited Marilyn, he asserted that Robert Kennedy telephoned Marilyn from Peter Lawford’s beach house; but then, the following question seems more than pertinent: why would Marilyn’s former lover travel to Los Angeles only to telephone her from Peter Lawford’s beach house? He could have telephoned her from Washington or Hyannisport or Nome, Alaska. At any rate, Robert Kennedy’s location on that Saturday is more than just a niggling issue for Anthony Summers and one he chose to ignore. That ignored issue will appear again later.

Cassette 93B: Eunice Murray
The taped testimony offered by Eunice Murray, at least the testimony included by Summers, appeared to confirm that Robert Kennedy visited Marilyn on August the 4th; but did Marilyn’s housekeeper actually say that? Well, no she did not. Summers did not ask Eunice if Robert Kennedy visited on August the 4th: the term the author used was that day, along with that afternoon. We know that Robert Kennedy visited Marilyn, accompanied by Pat and Peter Lawford, on the 27th of June in 1962. Eunice Murray recounted the attorney general’s brief visit on that Wednesday for biographer Donald Spoto: the Lawfords arrived at Fifth Helena that afternoon to collect Marilyn, and Robert Kennedy was with them: Marilyn wanted them to see her new home. After a brief tour of Marilyn’s humble hacienda, the group proceeded to the Lawford’s beachside mansion for a dinner party. That June visit, residential tour and dinner party was the fourth and final meeting of Bobby and Marilyn. The rumor of a fifth meeting at Fifth Helena Drive, based on an unsubstantiated story by the photographer Lawrence Schiller, has never been confirmed.

Even though Mrs. Murray asserted that the Kennedys were a very important part of Marilyn’s life, an assessment that can be interpreted many ways, Mrs. Murray also admitted that she wasn’t included in this information. To what information was she referring? If she lacked information, how could she know just how important the middle Kennedy brothers were to Marilyn, despite being a witness to what was happening. And what exactly was happening? Evidently, Anthony Summers did not ask Mrs. Murray for any specifics and she did not volunteer any. Likewise, her comment pertaining to the activation of Robert Kennedy’s protectors was equally vague and lacked specificity; but apparently, though, vagueness was what Summers wanted. Vagueness allowed ample space for his viewer’s imaginations to plug any holes with their own speculations. Additionally, the taped testimony offered by Summers did not represent the totality of Mrs. Murray’s statements about Marilyn and Robert Kennedy. Those specific declarations will appear later in this commentary.

Cassette 106: Jim Doyle
James Edward Doyle began his career with the FBI following WWII. He received special training at Quantico, Virginia, which prepared him to function as an Organized Crime Specialist. According to his obituary in the Cap-ital Journal, Pierre, South Dakota, where Doyle was born and raised, he spent most of his FBI career in Indiana and Illinois, and then later, in Nevada and New Mexico. In 1979, While serving in the FBI’s Albuquerque Office, he retired from the FBI and founded his own investigative company, James Edward Doyle Investigation (JEDI). After operating JEDI for twenty-nine years, Doyle retired and relocated to Henderson, Nevada. He died in 2019 at the age of ninety-four. His obituary noted: Jim’s FBI stories with the likes of Frank Sinatra, JFK, William Randolph Hearst, and Marilyn Monroe, to name a few, could be made into movies! His friends considered Jim to be the best storyteller ever. Sadly, the forty seconds of Doyle’s taped testimony that Summers selectively included in his Marilyn movie did not include any of Doyle’s movie-worthy stories, the ones involving JFK and Marilyn. We are left to wonder about those stories: with what could the best storyteller ever have regaled us?

Summers posed the following question to Doyle: As far as the actual records being removed, you were aware of that from your colleagues (emphasis mine)? Doyle answered: O yeah. Yes. This happened. Doyle did not offer any exposition, and Summers did not ask about the nature of the removed records. Also, based on Summers’ question and Doyle’s response, it is clear that the FBI agent learned about the alleged record removal from his colleagues. Summers, therefore, passively accepted hearsay testimony, possibly even second or third hand hear-say; but Doyle’s closing statements raise many pertinent questions: I was there at the time when she died, an assertion that can only be interpreted one way. Jim Doyle was inside Marilyn’s hacienda at the moment of the movie star’s death, certainly an incredibly explosive assertion that Summers evidently did not even pursue. Why? But then Doyle reported an equally explosive occurrence: There were some people there that normally wouldn’t have been there. Agents, bureau people. Doyle did not mention any names, and Summers did not pose any probing questions. Was J. Edgar Hoover there? Clyde Tolson? Who was there? Doyle then informed Summers that these bureau people, who normally would not have been there, due to their elevated position in Hoover’s fiefdom, one assumes, arrived immediately, before anybody even realized what had happened, one of the more remarkable assertions I’ve ever heard about the night of Marilyn’s death; and I’ve heard some real doozies. Summers’ lack of curiosity re­garding what Doyle actually asserted was and is remarkable, to say the least.

Summers included Doyle’s testimony as confirmation that people, agents, bureau people materialized at Fifth Helena Drive in order to confiscate information that compromised the middle Kennedy brothers, proved that they were romantically and sexually involved with the World’s Sex Symbol; but a major illogic is lurking in the testimony of both James Doyle and Harry Hall.