Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio

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The character assassination of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy refuses to abate. The compassionate civil rights champion has been converted, in the public's mind, into an amoral character who murdered to save his reputation. ABC News commentator, Hugh Downs loftily claims that Marilyn's affairs with both Kennedy brothers are "not in dispute and known to everyone." To be expected. This is the same organization that censures journalists like Dan Rather for demonstrating the courage to tell the truth. It does not behoove the credibility of any organization to parrot J. Edgar Hoover's treachery or to attack the credibility of competent journalists who struggle to expose the truth.

Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahuue and Hard Copy have all produced segments about the "historically accepted fact" that Monroe and both Kennedy brothers had a tempestuous relationship. The lure of this storytelling is obvious and Norman Mailer frankly admitted it when he said he wrote Marilyn for the money. Marilyn's biographer, Donald Spoto, recorded the genuine cost of this whoresome conduct when he said, "the price runs higher than cash paid for shameful books. The cost includes the erosion of ideals, a loss of faith in good men and women, a cavalier disregard for the reputations of decent people and a profound indifference to the truth."

Armed with a Ph.D. from Fordham University, Donald Spoto has lectured and taught worldwide, he is the author of nineteen thoroughly researched, published books, including International, bestselling biographies of Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Tenessee Williams and Marlene Deitrich, amongst others and he wrote the unrivalled work, Marilyn Monroe: The Biography because he opposed the otherwise "grim cyclorama of deceit and sensation."

Donald Spoto is an exceptional biographer with advanced skills best understood by what he has to say:

The biographer is obliged to tell the truth --even at the risk of saying something good about someone. I know it's not popular today, for we are part of a culture of gossip and innuendo, and professionalism in writing has taken a back seat. Good biographers understand the necessity to give a human context to the mere facts of a person's life. It's not enough to say "she went there or made this movie or traveled here and there." Rather, the biographer must ferret out the motifs, the themes of a life. A good historian doesn't impose his own ideas from the beginning, certainly I never do. As I go along in my interviews, travel, archival studies, the life of my subject emerges. It is a constant series of astonishments and surprises. If there are no surprises, then you're not doing the research.

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It is, therefore, almost impossible to be objective, and perhaps it may not even be desirable. What is important is to have an understanding of a human life, the patterns of meaning of the life lived according to a certain value system, theirs.

We live our lives, you and I, by interaction of what happens to us and the inner workings of our reactions, stirrings, and motivations. These are so much more useful to understanding a character than just the bare facts. If you just want the facts you can get those in any almanac or encyclopedia.

The un-American Activities, Paranoia Period was a time when official norms were trumped by secret alliances with the Mafia and unethical psychiatrists were merely a tool that was used to torment the "enemy." It was not uncommon for a target who warranted a huge FBI file to become the victim of an unsolved homicide or a staged suicide, Marilyn Monroe is merely the most famous target of all.

The murder of Marilyn Monroe is not filled with nonsense, mystery and Mafia-style intrigue by accident. In Double Cross it is alleged that mobsters nicknamed Needles and Mugsy traveled to Los Angeles on orders from Giancana and slipped into her home to administer a fatal barbituate suppository. The Mafia sponsored book blames Robert Kennedy for the murder of Marilyn Monroe, but the trail of manufactured disassembly leads to J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover was the source of Giancana's power, because as long as he did not recognize the existence of organized crime, the murder of a target like Marilyn Monroe was an unsolved homicide, by design.