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A review by kait_lost_in_books
Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe by Douglas Thompson, Mike Rothmiller
3.0
One for book club and the conspiracy theorists! Did Marilyn Monroe really commit suicide? What happened in the weeks and months leading up to her death? Who was there when she died and could it have been a massive cover up?
Mike Rothmiller was a detective with the LAPD OCID, an independent team within the force charged with collecting information on all the big players in Hollywood, LA and California. His time with the OCID he claims to have found evidence which proves without a shadow of a doubt that both the mafia and the Whitehouse had connections with Marilyn and that her death had been decreed long before she supposedly overdosed on sleeping pills.
This book is really interesting if a bit clunky to read. The inner workings of LAPD From the 1920s up to the 1980s are examined in detail and the levels of corruption discussed are both fascinating and appalling. Reading this post #MeToo also put some real context on Marilyn’s victimhood in Hollywood and the way female stars in particular were viewed as chattel by both the studios and their co-stars.
Mike Rothmiller was a detective with the LAPD OCID, an independent team within the force charged with collecting information on all the big players in Hollywood, LA and California. His time with the OCID he claims to have found evidence which proves without a shadow of a doubt that both the mafia and the Whitehouse had connections with Marilyn and that her death had been decreed long before she supposedly overdosed on sleeping pills.
This book is really interesting if a bit clunky to read. The inner workings of LAPD From the 1920s up to the 1980s are examined in detail and the levels of corruption discussed are both fascinating and appalling. Reading this post #MeToo also put some real context on Marilyn’s victimhood in Hollywood and the way female stars in particular were viewed as chattel by both the studios and their co-stars.