Marilyn Monroe died on the night of August 4 in her bedroom across the country. Attorney General Kennedy attended Mass the next morning at the Church of St. Mary in Gilroy, California, outside San Francisco. Already there were reports of mysterious phone calls and gaps in Monroe’s last hours, and subsequent decades lent more credence to the Hollywood gossip. Following later disclosures about President Kennedy’s associations with Frank Sinatra’s friends, as intercepted by J. Edgar Hoover, investigators of various quality unearthed glimpses of Monroe’s star-crossed liaisons with both Kennedys.
