CPT Spirits in the Sky - Marilyn Monroe - A Tribute and a Challenge - "a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."

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Marilyn Monroe born Norma Jeane Mortenson
June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962

It has been 90 years since the most beautiful woman in the world was born, and 54 years since her life was cut short at much to early an age, just 36 years old.  Today she remains nearly as popular as when she was in her prime, and in nations like China she remains the number one Hollywood icon.  She was a breath of fresh air in a time the world needed to recover from World War II.

Candle in the Wind

Goodbye Norma JeanThough I never knew you at allYou had the grace to hold yourselfWhile those around you crawledThey crawled out of the woodworkAnd they whispered into your brainThey set you on the treadmillAnd they made you change your name
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And it seems to me you lived your lifeLike a candle in the windNever knowing who to cling toWhen the rain set inAnd I would have liked to have known youBut I was just a kidYour candle burned out long beforeYour legend ever did
Loneliness was toughThe toughest role you ever playedHollywood created a superstarAnd pain was the price you paidEven when you diedOh the press still hounded youAll the papers had to sayWas that Marilyn was found in the nude

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Goodbye Norma JeanThough I never knew you at allYou had the grace to hold yourselfWhile those around you crawledGoodbye Norma JeanFrom the young man in the 22nd rowWho sees you as something more than sexualMore than just our Marilyn Monroe
(repeat chorus)

Music: Elton JohnLyrics: Bernie TaupinPiano and Vocals: Elton John

 

Who done it?  You Solve the Mysterious murder of Marilyn Monroe

You help solve the mystery of who killed the most famous Hollywood icon of the 20th Century.  When the world awakened on August 5, 1962, the most celebrated actress in Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, was found dead in her home in California at the young age of 36.

It was the end of a tumultuous and meteoric rise from rags to riches for America's sweetheart and Hollywood icon whose name crossed paths with the rich, the powerful, the revered and the most sinister characters in the world.

The medical examiner quickly concluded she died of an overdose of prescription medicine but forensic evidence was insufficient to declare it a suicide so her death was labeled as "probable suicide".

The mishandling of the crime scene, the manipulation of evidence, the inconsistency or her actions prior to the death and the onslaught of media hype pushing the suicide theory by powerful forces triggered a firestorm of suspicion and doubt.

But a series of national and international events the next 15 months would bury her story in the avalanche of media coverage of the Cold War with the Soviets, the Kennedy administration war with the La Casa Nostra, the evolving Vietnam war and the Kennedy assassination.

  

For the past 52 years the American public has been brainwashed with stories of the addictions and depression of film legend Marilyn Monroe that led to her death by suicide.  She has been pictured as an insecure and fragile girl whose mother was sent to an insane asylum as Marilyn was bounced from foster home to foster home to orphanage.

In fact, according to Marilyn she was sent to ten total places, foster homes and the orphanage, before she married a merchant marine when she turned 16 to avoid being sent back to the orphanage.  Because of her shuffling between homes she attended 6 different elementary schools in seven years.

But the vast majority of her experiences were good, she got along well with other children and often created games for her friends to play.  It was during this period she developed her desire to be a star and began to create the persona she believed she needed to be successful.

Her first marriage lasted about 4 years, 1942-1946, although her husband was  away during most of World War II.  She was working in an armament factory toward the end of the war when she was discovered at an assembly line by a photographer searching for the next pin up queen for the soldiers.

By 1946 Norma Jean first began using the name Marilyn Monroe when her popularity as a pin up queen got the notice of movie studios.  Marilyn had already begun singing and dancing lessons and had developed exceptional fitness and diet routines on her own, routines that would result in her being known as the most beautiful woman in the world.

At first it was her voice that got recognized although she did not get along with the movie tyrant Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, her studio most of her short career.  Many of her early film roles were uncredited, even when performing songs, a way the studio could avoid paying performance fees to actors.

Marilyn seemed to know what was expected of Hollywood stars in the golden age of film and she gave the studio what it wanted.  She quickly grew from a $125.00 a week extra to singing and then acting roles as she became more popular but as did most studios at the time, she was treated as a commodity.

In 1952 and 1953 her film roles pushed her to the top of the list in popularity but her studio handlers still insisted she play the dumb blond in comedies and though her films made more money than those of Elizabeth Taylor, Monroe was paid $100,000 per film compared to Taylor at $1 million per film.

Our next installment will review the actions the supposedly dumb blond pulled that turned the movie industry upside down and eventually would force the studios to give her challenging dramatic roles like she wanted along with a salary equal to Elizabeth Taylor.

While she would be known as Marilyn Monroe from the late 1940's on she did not have her name legally changed from Norma Jean Mortensen to Marilyn Monroe until 1956.

As for the mystery of her death, by 1953 she was already acquainted with several people on the list of suspects or collaborators whose connections to others on the list in the immediate future would result in her becoming a serious threat to their careers and would endanger her life.

Probable Suspects, Collaborators and Contributors

Frank Costello, Joseph Kennedy partner and New York mobster

Sam Giancana, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles mob boss

Joseph Kennedy, patriarch of Kennedy family

John F. Kennedy, former president

Robert Kennedy, former attorney general

Peter Lawford, Kennedy in law

Arthur Miller, former husband to Marilyn

Santo Trafficante, Jr., Florida mob boss

Ralph Greenson, Marilyn psychiatrist

Eunice Murray, Marilyn housekeeper

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CPT Twit - Hate and Fear Swept Over the Earth - Soon it was Embraced by All

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Revelations - Apocalypse

We were warned it would be like this!!!

 Are we so caught up in life we became blind to the consequences???

Is this the price to be paid for fostering hate and fear?

Or are there still good ones left among us?

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Terrorism back in America after 14 year absence - Tragedy in San Bernardino - 14 dead, 21 injured

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Not since the World Trade Center disaster September 11, 2001 has the war on terrorism been in evidence here in America.  That all changed in San Bernardino, California this week when fourteen were murdered and twenty-one injured.

Armed to the teeth with assault rifles, hand guns, and pipe bombs, a home grown radicalized Islamic terrorist and his Pakistani wife invaded a Christmas party and left the horrendous carnage of bodies and blood.

Three hours later, when they were most likely returning to their bomb factory for more ammunition, they were spotted and after a short police chase a gun battle ensued and nearly 500 bullet blasts later the two terrorists were dead while just two cops were injured.

The chance encounter at the bomb factory most likely save many, many more lives as a dozen pipe bombs and thousands of more rounds of ammunition remained in the factory.

As of this morning, two days after the slaughter, our president still refuses to call it a terror attack saying it might be a terror attack or it might be a work place dispute.

Of course all evidence points to terrorism since the couple had to spend months preparing the arsenal and making the pipe bombs.  Also, his so called dispute at the Christmas party which is yet to be confirmed took place a couple of hours after he and his wife dropped off their six year old daughter with her grandmother.

In addition, she was from Pakistan, they met in Saudi Arabia, he traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, she was on a green card, and they met through the Internet.

Need I remind the readers all the major participants in the World Trade Center disaster were from Saudi Arabia.

At first Obama, Hillary Clinton and the liberal media ignored the terrorist angle and called for more gun control and restrictions to prevent such disasters.  California has the toughest gun control laws in America and has banned assault rifles but the guns used in the attack were still legal.

After day one Hillary started moving apart from Obama by saying it might be terrorist related.  No one in the media is mentioning the fact the terrorism is directly related to the failed policy of the Obama/Clinton foreign policy.

As usual, the many law enforcement agencies and personnel performed heroically risking their lives to help the victims and end the attack.

If only the politicians (Obama, Clinton and fellow Democrats and liberals) could do the same and declare war on Apocalyptic Islamic terrorists maybe we could begin to rid the Earth of this evil threat.
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