Marilyn Monroe's Death and Kennedy

Sunday is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death. The official cause of Marilyn Monroe's death was suicide, but there are many theories ranging from an accident to murder. An autopsy conducted at the time concluded that the troubled 36-year-old movie star had died of acute barbiturate poisoning, with a psychiatric team terming it a "probable suicide."
Two months before her death, amid complaints of spotty work attendance, the actress was fired mid-shoot from her latest and last movie set.Coming out of this, the public discussion was dominated not by talk of what was up with Monroe, but what was wrong with the modern-day overpaid, overprivileged actor.
Don Draper, his worldview informed by writers possessed of hindsight, may have not been surprised by Monroe's subsequent death from too many sleeping pills, but for the rest of 1962, the picture only became clear after the fact—in retrospect.

Merilyn: "say goodbye to the president".

In the day previous, says Lois Banner (Writer of book Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox), she called Peter Lawford (JFK's procuring brother-in-law) and told him "say goodbye to the president." Robert F. Kennedy visited and was supposedly heard by agents of private investigator Fred Otash (probably hired by either Joe DiMaggio or Jimmy Hoffa, reader's choice) in the act of "rifling her house and asking her 'where did you put it?' " What "it" was may have been a "diary she had kept of her conversations with Bobby about politicians, in which she had written down what he'd told her about such matters as Cuba, the nuclear bomb and his crusade against the Mafia." Banner also believes there was credible evidence Monroe may have intended to call a press conference and blow the whistle on her relationship with the Kennedy boys.

Marilyn's friends agreed that her heart was set on winning the affections of John F. Kennedy. He would often visit her at her home or see her at the Lawfords, where they were said to have conducted their affair. Twenty-two years later, author Anthony Summers conducted an interview with Lawford's widow, Pat Seaton, who claimed that Kennedy and Marilyn frequently made love in one of the baths at the Lawford home.

On one occasion they were caught by a former Kennedy advisor, Peter Summers, who saw them come out from the bathroom together. Marilyn was wearing just a towel. Summers was quoted as saying, "She had clearly been in there, in the shower, with him. It was obvious, but neither of them seemed worried about it."
One of the many disappointments to befall the actress'  tragic life was her struggle to have a child, having suffered multiple miscarriages. Very few images of a pregnant Monroe exist but famed celebrity photograper Phil Stern found himself at the right place at the right time during her last pregnancy with third husband, playwright Arthur Miller.