Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Marilyn by Jon Palomeque

                                                                
Marilyn Monroe became a sex symbol during the 50’s as well as a very popular actress. From her popularity in films and her sensuality, she got the name The Blonde Bombshell (Denny Jackson). Alongside her acting career was her personal life that was full of events and controversies, some of which involved very well-known people. Her death revealed many secrets, raised many mysteries, and fore came many speculations and theories of how she died. The media and press believe that she was very stressed with her personal life and could have been mentally unstable at the time of death causing her to commit suicide. Others believe that it was not self-inflicted death, by barbiturate overdose, but that she was murdered out of revenge or to possibly silence her from revealing truths that could harm personal images of very important people in politics. An examination of various sources should help shine some light or at least make a crack in the cocoon which holds lies, secrets and incriminating evidence (Biography.com Editors)
Details
   Ms. Monroe was a beautiful, elegant woman yet she had various issues in her life that clouded her judgement. She had several problems in her life both internally and externally. Along with being a grand movie star, came side effects that some may not be able to handle.
     In her acting career, she would have conflicts with directors due to her tendency to be late to the set costing the directors thousands in delays. In effect to the mal habits she got fired from productions and her career was plummeting to the ground faster than Al Capone could have someone killed. She was also troubled in her personal life by her marriages due to her dedication to her career.  Ms. Monroe was only married with pro baseball player, Joe DiMaggio for about a year and 10 months while with writer, Arthur Miller she was married for about 4 and a half years (Denny Jackson).  
     Beside her external conflicts with her marriages and problems with her career, she also was diagnosed with mental issues (Education.com Editors). Her psychoanalyst came to the conclusion that Marilyn would be on the edge of suicide if not admitted to an institution. With the conclusion made by her shrink, Marilyn was deadly afraid of mental institutions (Biography.com Editors). Previous family members had been in mental institutions, like her mother and grandmother, although her grandmother never made it out of there alive. She eventually got taken out of the institution and prescribed medicines which she used in an abusive manner.
Ideas
   As with the passing of the great actress came many speculations as to how she died. They are many ideas about how she died and the truth behind her death. Three of these theories are the most notable and most reasonable to society. I asked 20 random individuals their thoughts about how this blonde diva lost her life. The majority of them believed she was murdered.  They couldn’t explain how or why but they all did believe she had been murdered.
   Many speculate that her death was caused by herself, that she committed suicide. It is said that she committed suicide by taking on overwhelming large amount of sleeping pills (Maria Vultaggio). The pills found on the bed were in a sketchy arrangement that did not seem accurate to the situation. She was also found naked in her own bed next to the telephone. This idea was brought to life (such irony) because of her mental issues that she had in her life.
   The next death conspiracy is thought to be that her death was not her intention. Some individuals believe that her death was caused by a barbiturate overdose. Other information, such as her previous encounters with medication misuse, helped created this idea of how she died. The press and other official offices found that this was the cause of her death as it was the most probable. Now this conspiracy has other smaller theories within in. the overdose could have been accidental or deliberately done to cause death.
   Now, the third conspiracy theory is that she was…murdered. This theory came forth due to many ties she had in many high places. The most popular theory of murder involves, political family, the Kennedys (Maria Vultaggio). It was known that, but not confirmed; Monroe had an affair with President John F. Kennedy and his sibling Robert Kennedy, thus giving the motive for wanting her dead. To make matters worse she threatened to tell the world about political secrets they had told her.
   After her death there was guilt shown amongst one person, Peter Lawford. Given the evidence that was found at the scene, there was no way her death was caused by overdose. Part of this conspiracy is that she was given a lethal injection via enema (Denny Jackson).
   All these conspiracies have been investigated by various people trying to find the truth about how she Marilyn Monroe, the blonde bombshell, died. Now let’s go in more depth as we investigate all the deep crevices of this conspiracy to find the facts. The facts will reveal why she died, how she died, as well as where.

Conclusion
   Now will all these contradictions and commotion brought up by these theories people want the truth. These three theories are how the public views the death of the impeccable star we know as Marilyn Monroe.
•           Suicide- People say her private life drove her crazy multiple times and and she had already tried to kill herself. With her prior activity in a mental institution she proclaimed she was okay and got released when her mind was still very unstable.
•           Accidental overdose- This was found to be the cause of death by officials but still remains uncertain. The the officials found sleeping pills on her bed and presumed that as the cause cause she already had a  prior drug abuse problem an assumed this must have been part of that.
•           Murder- It is believed that the Kennedys might have wanted her dead. She knew about political secrets about the president and his brother. As any real boss knows in a business you can’t have loose ends so it is believed that they took care of it. To take care of her the simply just killed her. The conspiracy is based off of that she was killed with lethal injection via enema.
This concludes my investigation into this web of deception, lies, secrets, and politics. The death of the beloved Marilyn will always be a secret that only she knows and the world will never hear it. The people who loved her and idolized her will never know why. With her death, were buried mysteries and secrets that only she will ever know. 

 Works cited
•           Website Title: International Business Times
Article Title: Marilyn Monroe Death Conspiracy Theories: How Did Norma Jean Die? [PHOTOS]
Electronically Published: May 30, 2015
Date Accessed: December 09, 2015
•           Website Title: IMDb
Article Title: Biography
Publisher: IMDb.com
Date Accessed: December 09, 2015
•           Website Title: About.com Education
Article Title: Marilyn Monroe: From the Orphanage to an American Icon

Date Accessed: December 09, 2015

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