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I do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone conspirator in the killing of President Kennedy.For several reasons that I will list below then provide examples of further conspirators Oswald was associated with or impersonated by that prove he was not a lone gunman:Oswald was a “Patsy”. Just like he said. Carolyn Arnold, a secretary who worked in the Texas School Book Depository, placed Oswald in the second floor lunchroom eating his lunch between 12:15 p.m. and 12:25 p.m. This is exactly where Oswald said he was at that time.Oswald described two negro employees that he saw while eating his lunch on the second floor. One of these employees, Junior Jarman, later told detectives that he was on the second floor during this time which vouched for Oswald’s statement. It is hard to imagine that the presidential assassin was in the second floor lunchroom eating lunch instead of in position on the sixth floor when the motorcade was supposed to be coming by the building at that time.NOTE: The motorcade was running late because of delays at Love Field when the Kennedy’s approached a fence line to greet supporters who had come to see him.Arnold gave her statement following the assassination and only discovered years later that what she told authorities had been changed without her knowledge or approval.Eye-Witnesses. Amos Euins and Arnold Rowland witnessed the assassination from Houston and Elm Street across from the Texas School Book Depository. They both described a shooter with different clothing than Oswald was wearing as well as described a bald spot on the persons head that didn’t apply to Oswald, either. Rowland told police that he saw two men on the sixth floor. The Warren Commission chose to discredit and disbelieve Euins and Rowland’s testimony because they witnessed someone other than Lee Harvey Oswald in the sixth floor window as the shooter (s).Howard Brennan was another eye-witness on Houston and Elm Street who told authorities he saw a gunman in the sixth floor window firing shots at the motorcade.Brennan later identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the man he thought he saw holding the rifle during a police lineup that featured several Dallas police detectives and teenagers.However, Brennan later said he couldn’t positively identify the man as Oswald. He later said he saw Oswald on television after the assassination and was afraid of a conspiracy and that he would be harmed.He later changed his story and said Oswald was the man after further queries by Warren Commission attorneys.Because of Brennan’s ambiguity of his identification of Oswald, the Warren Commission ruled his testimony as probative rather than conclusive evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sixth floor gunman.90-Seconds. Dallas policeman Marion Baker and TSBD superintendent Roy Truly both entered the building approximately 90-seconds after the gunshots.They proceeded to run across the first floor to the far northwest staircase and began running toward the top floors.As Truly reached the second floor and continued up the stairs, Baker saw a motion in the door window on the second floor landing. Baker stopped and entered the doorway and immediately drew his revolver on a suspect.Truly noticed Baker was no longer following him and returned to the second floor and found Baker aiming his gun at Lee Harvey Oswald. Truly told Baker that Oswald was an employee and they both continued their trek upstairs.Baker described Oswald as calm, not out of breath and holding a Coca-Cola bottle when he approached him.It is difficult to believe that Oswald could have run down four flights of stairs, purchase a Coke and then appear calm and not out of breath while a policeman pointed a gun at him 90-seconds or so after killing the president.By the way, Oswald was exactly where he told authorities he was and also exactly where Carolyn Arnold said he was minutes before the assassination.No Fingerprints. Nada. None were found on the rifle although Oswald’s palm print was later discovered on the understock of the weapon several days later after the FBI had taken possession of all assassination evidence. By the way, the FBI immediately commandeered all of the evidence and whisked it away to Washington, D.C. Which was illegal under Texas law.Parafin Test. Oswald also passed a parafin test on his face in Dallas police custody which indicated he did not fire a rifle. He did have traces of metallic residue from his hands but that could have been caused by handling books in the book depository. After all, Oswald’s fingerprints were found all over the sixth floor of the TSBD because as Oswald said in his own words, “…naturally, if I work in that building.”Top Cop. Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry was driving the lead car of the motorcade. After driving through the triple underpass, immediately ahead of the gunshots behind him, he radioed to get men up on the overpass and see what happened up there. He later told interviewer Tom Johnson that he was not convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy:“We don’t have any proof that Oswald fired the rifle, and never did. Nobody’s yet been able to put him in the building (TSBD) with a gun in his hand.”Assassin Rifle. There is no evidence of Oswald’s continued possession of the assassin rifle. Warren Commission Staff attorney Wesley Liebeler argued against a draft report that said the murder weapon had been in Oswald’s possession from the time it was brought from New Orleans in the late summer of 1963 in Ruth Paine’s station wagonNOTE: Paine was the woman whose house Marina Oswald and her daughters were living located in Irving, Texas at the time of the assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald also once lived there but was renting a bedroom in a boarding house in Dallas at the time of the assassination.Both Ruth Paine and Marina Oswald told investigators that the rifle was stored in the garage. They only discovered it was missing during a police search. Liebeler successfully argued that the Warren Commission could not state the continuous possession without further evidence.Here is what Leibeler wrote in an unpublished, internal Warren Commission document questioning some of the statements the Commission was trying to pass off as fact in its final report:“The conclusion is even worse when it states that “the rifle was kept among Oswald’s possession from the time of its purchase until the day of the assassination.” I do not think the record provides any real evidence to support that broad statement. The fact is that not one person alive today ever saw that rifle in the Paine garage in such a way that it could be identified as that rifle.”HSCA JFK Exhibit 36 “Memorandum re: Gallery Proofs of Chapter IV of the Report.” From: Wesley J. Liebeler. DATE: September 6, 1964Police would show Oswald photos presumably taken of him holding the rifle and a revolver with Russian magazines in the back yard of his Dallas apartment on Neely Street.Marina Oswald told investigators that she took the photos.After she initially said she had never seen them or taken them. Later she maintained her husband’s innocence.There were a lot of problems with Marina Oswald’s testimony incriminating her husband in the assassination. And more than just her broken-English. The F.B.I. brought in Russian translators to decipher Marina’s answers to their questions.Marina Oswald’s veracity was questioned and debunked by none other than the Warren Commission itself.Commission attorney Norman Redlich wrote this memo to J. Lee Rankin, Lead Counsel, dated February 28, 1964 titled JFK Exhibition No. 13:“Neither you nor I have any desire to smear the reputation of any individual. We cannot ignore, however, that Marina Oswald has repeatedly lied to the Service, the F.B.I. and this Commission on matters which are of vital concern to the people of this country and the world.”Oswald was non-plussed by the photos and said that was his head superimposed on someone else’s body.He would know.One of his first jobs in Dallas was at a local graphics company, Jaggers Chiles Stovall, a high-security company that did photographic work for the U.S. Government. The company provided photo identification of Russian nuclear launch sites in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. Oswald worked there from October 1962 to April 1963.The photos have been investigated ad nauseum.Both the Warren Commission and HSCA found the photographs authentic. Additional tests done with more sophisticated equipment were done in the 21st century and also confirmed the authenticity of the photos.However, Oswald denied he was in the photos and said they were forged. His wife later recanted her testimony saying she took the photos.Like many instances in this case, it doesn’t make any sense an assassin would take such incriminating photos with the rifle he would later use in the assassination.Wesley Buell Frazier. No one saw Lee Harvey Oswald carry a rifle down the street from the parking lot into the TSBD. His neighbor in Irving and co-worker, Wesley Buell Frazier, and his sister, told the Warren Commission they saw Oswald had a large package wrapped in brown paper when Frazier drove Oswald to work on the day of the assassination (Oswald had spent the night at the Paine household on Thursday).Frazier told the police that Oswald told him the package was curtain rods for his boarding room in Dallas. However, the problem with Frazier’s story is twofold:1) Frazier and his sister both told police that the package was too small (28″) to have been the disassembled rifle (38″);2) and no one else saw Oswald carry the package down the street and into the TSBD.Well, correction. One person, Jack Dougherty saw Oswald enter the TSBD on November 22, 1963. However, he told the Warren Commission that Oswald was not carrying “anything in his hands” when he arrived for work that morning.The Girl On The Stairs. Victoria Adams was 22-years old on November 22, 1963 and watched the motorcade from the fourth floor of the TSBD, where she worked, with another employee.They both immediately ran down the northwest staircase after the final headshot. Adams and the other woman didn’t see or hear anyone else above or below them on those same stairs Oswald would have covered at that exact time if he had been running down from the sixth floor.The Warren Commission immediately recognized Adams and her co-workers testimony would cause them serious timeline problems with their “Oswald did it” theory if Adams and her friend were to be believed.So, just as one might expect, The Warren Commission chose to disregard Adams and her friends’ story, discredited her, altered her testimony and didn’t include her co-workers corroboration.Adams went into hiding for 35-years until she was found by author Barry Ernest. His book, “The Girl On The Stairs” tells Victoria Adams story that the Warren Commission didn’t want you to hear.So, does all of this prove Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent of killing President John F. Kennedy?No.However, a competent defense attorney armed with eyewitnesses and Oswald’s own denial would of had a field day discrediting the official version and posited reasonable doubt into the minds of the jury.They also would have been undoubtedly helped by the following revelations:NOTE: Many of these stories were uncovered over the years and released to the public through follow up investigations such as the Church and Rockefeller Committees and the House Select Committee On Assassinations, release of assassination documents through the 1992 JFK Act through the Assassination Records Review Board and investigative work.Carl Mather. The Oswald Imposter. Castro & The Rex. This story came to light immediately following the assassination.Dallas television sports reporter Wes Wise covered the assassination during the all-hands on deck weekend coverage and was asked to speak to a local organization a few weeks later at an Oak Cliff El Chico restaurant. Wise was approached afterwards by Mack Pate, a repair shop owner whose shop shared a parking lot with the El Chico, who said he had suspicious information concerning activities following the assassination.Pate introduced Wise to one of his mechanics, T.F. White, who told Wise that after the assassination he observed a man sitting in a 1961 Ford Falcon in the El Chico parking lot who drew his attention. As police sirens were reporting to the Oak Cliff area following the J.D. Tippit murder 5-blocks southeast of the parking lot, at approximately 2 p.m. (NOTE: The real Lee Harvey Oswald had already been arrested and was sitting in Detective Will Fritz’ office being interrogated), this man seemed to lower himself down in the front seat as to not be seen. White approached the man who noticed White and immediately quickly drove off east down Davis Street.Wise asked White if he could identify the man and White said it was Lee Harvey Oswald who he had seen on television over the weekend of the assassination. White even had taken the time to write down the license plate of the car.Wise took this information to the FBI who traced the license plate to a 1957 Plymouth registered to Carl Mather of Richardson, Texas.However, when the FBI contacted Mather he became uncomfortable and refused to talk to them about the incident citing his top secret CIA-linked security clearance with his employer Collins Radio.Collins Radio was a major CIA contractor and Mather had done high-security communications work including installing special electronics equipment in Vice President Johnson’s Air Force Two plane.Later, in an odd twist, it would be discovered that Collins Radio had leased a World War II submarine destroyer, The Rex, from a Miami oilman named J.A. Belcher, that made national headlines.Belcher told The Miami Herald he leased The Rex for oceanographic research to the international division of Collins Radio of Dallas. Apparently, Collins Radio was using The Rex for sophisticated radio surveillance for marine technology not necessarily for spying on Cuba.On November 1, 1963 The New York Times featured a story and a photo of The Rex docked in Palm Beach, Florida, with two slips on board that were empty, following an overnight raid on Cuba.Earlier Fidel Castro had gone on television in Cuba for a 3-hour televised rant and told the nation that his soldiers had repelled the attack by The Rex and had captured four U.S. soldiers who had admitted they were C.I.A. employees and were singing like canaries. He also claimed he had the two boats missing from The Rex complete with the words “The Rex” painted on their sides. Castro went on to say the U.S. soldiers told him the ship was based in Palm Beach, Florida.But not before Soviet MIG-15’s were airborne and mistakenly attacked the G. Louis, a Liberian ship carrying minerals from Jamaica to Texas. The Rex escaped through the darkness to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and although the Soviet MIG’s eventually found The Rex and attacked it, they were short on fuel and returned to the safety of Cuban bases.U.S. Navy Phantom fighters were launched from Florida based upon distress signals that the G. Louis had radioed during the attack. However, they were soon recalled avoiding a potential fight with the Soviet Union.Just a little Cold War hi-jinx in the Caribbean between nuclear powers that found themselves smack-dab in the middle of the JFK assassination!Back to Carl Mather.Mather’s wife was more cooperative than her husband and told the F.B.I. that the car had been parked at Mather’s employer, Collins Radio in Richardson, all morning.That is until the Mather’s drove the car to officer J.D. Tippit’s home in south Dallas to console the mourning widow of officer Tippit. The Mather’s had once lived next door to the Tippit’s and were good friends.Although Wise’s tip had discovered a license plate of a car belonging to a man with CIA-linked security clearance on another car driven by a Lee Harvey Oswald double 5-blocks from the J.D. Tippit murder scene, 45-mintues later, the F.B.I. said White was simply confused not only by the car make and color but doubted his positive identification of Lee Harvey Oswald as merely coincidence.They didn’t think anything sinister with Mather’s knowing J.D. Tippit or a Lee Harvey Oswald look-a-like in a car bearing his license plate being seen a few blocks from the Tippit murder scene 45-minutes afterwards or his presence at Tippit’s home afterwards. More on this in a few minutes.Regardless of what the F.B.I. said, Collins Radio’s cover was blown with the discovery of The Rex incident.And, additional research has revealed the real role of the CIA in the attempted overthrow of the Castro Government including assassination plans to kill Fidel Castro.The top-secret CIA base JMWAVE in Miami has been exposed along with its efforts to infiltrate Cuba with secret assassination teams in “Operation Pathfinder” and its’ “Operation 40” whose counterintelligence efforts composed of anti-Castro Cubans were formed to seize control of the Cuban government after the Bay of Pigs invasion.Robert Vinson and The Oswald Imposter. Robert Vinson was an Air Force sergeant in 1963. Vinson told authors James Johnston and Jon Roe, “Flight from Dallas: New Evidence of CIA Involvement in the Murder of President John F. Kennedy”, (2003) and James Douglass, “JFK and the Unspeakable” Why He Died and Why It Matters”, (2008), that on November 22, 1963, he hitched a ride on a C-54 cargo plan from Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. heading to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver.His eventual destination was Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs but he was told the cargo plane to Denver was his only option. Vinson said he and two pilots were the only passengers on the plane, which he said lacked the usual Air Force markings.At some point, the pilot announced over the intercom that the president had been shot and the plane immediately turned south. At approximately 3:30 p.m., the plane landed in a rough patch of land in the Trinity River basin between Oak Cliff and downtown Dallas. The exact location is on the western edge of the river floodplain between the Corinth Street and Cadiz Street bridges that go over the Trinity River. Vinson recognized downtown Dallas from photographs he had seen.And, it is conveniently located 1.3 miles east from the El Chico parking lot that T.F. White observed the Oswald look-a-like at 2 p.m. Interestingly, Davis Street turns into Corinth Street.Vinson said that two men in beige overalls emerged from a Jeep and came running from the corner of the Corinth Street Bridge to the plane.Neither men spoke to each other or acknowledged Vinson’s presence in the plane which took off and landed later after dusk on a proper runway at Roswell Air Force Base in New Mexico.Vinson eventually made his way to Colorado Springs the next day and was watching television coverage of the assassination when he was startled by a resemblance between Lee Harvey Oswald and one of the two men who had got on the plane in Dallas.Early in 1965, Vinson worked in an administrative role for the CIA at a secret base north of Las Vegas. He retired a year and a half later and kept his story close to the vest for nearly 30 years to save his pension. He only gave an interview to a local television station after passage of the 1992 JFK Act which freed him from any restrictions imposed by his former employment.The Roger Craig Story. Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Detective Roger Craig watched the motorcade from Houston and Main street outside the new Dallas County Courthouse.He immediately ran across the street to Dealey Plaza following the gunshots. Craig was on the south side of Elm street when he heard a shrill whistle behind him. Craig turned and looked across Elm Street where he saw a Nash Rambler station wagon pulling over to the curb. He observed a Latin-looking, husky man driving and leaning over looking out the passenger side window. Craig saw a young white man in his twenties, approximately 5′8″ or 5′9″ and 140–150 lbs. running down the grassy incline from the TSBD who entered the car which immediately drove off westbound on Elm Street.Craig later appeared in Dallas Police Homicide Detective Will Fritz’ office after he learned that a suspect had been arrested. Craig said he went into Fritz’ office and identified the man sitting there as the same man he saw leaving the TSBD and entering the Nash Rambler station wagon. Fritz told Craig this man was Lee Harvey Oswald who had been arrested earlier inside the Texas Theater on suspicion he had murdered Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit.Craig said that Oswald became visibly upset upon his identification and the mention of his leaving the TSBD and getting into a Nash Rambler station wagon. Craig said Oswald said,“that station wagon belongs to Mrs. Paine…don’t try to tie her into this. She had nothing to do with it” and later exclaimed, “everyone will know who I am now.”He even said Oswald rose out of his chair and leaned over the desk toward Detective Fritz to hammer home his point.Craig said Fritz received a call from Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker around this time who summoned Fritz back to Dealey Plaza for a discussion in his office.Afterwards, Fritz completely denied Craig was ever in his office and disputed his entire story about the Oswald conversation.Dallas County Sheriff Roger Craig’s description of Lee Harvey Oswald leaving the TSBD and entering a Nash Rambler Station Wagon was verified by two men who were in cars immediately behind the vehicle when it pulled over to the curb as well as others who saw the same thing as Craig did.Marvin Robinson was driving his car west on Elm when he saw a man come down the grassy incline and enter the station wagon.Mrs. James Forrest was standing near the Grassy Knoll and said she saw a man suddenly run from the rear of the TSBD, down the incline and then enter a Nash Rambler station wagon. She said if the man she saw enter the station wagon was not Lee Harvey Oswald “It was his identical twin.”Roger Craig was named Man of the Year by the Dallas Sheriff’s office in 1960 and had a successful career being promoted four times. His eye-witness account of Oswald leaving the TSBD was verified by four other witnesses who saw the same thing.Because Craig’s story was at odds with the known movements of Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination, the Warren Commission chose to believe Detective Will Fritz and not Craig.It is suspicious upon reflection because Craig’s version was not only supported by other witnesses but would blow the entire Warren Commission lone gunman theory out of the water.The Warren Commission simply said that although it was plausible that Craig and the witnesses did see a man running down the incline who entered the station wagon, they were mistaken that it was Lee Harvey Oswald.The Mexico City Problem. Immediately after the assassination F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover learned that the CIA in Mexico City had surveillance photos and an audio recording from the Soviet Embassy of a man who they claimed was Lee Harvey Oswald.Hoover told Johnson during a phone conversation on Saturday, November 23, that the man the CIA said was Lee Harvey Oswald did not look like the suspect who had been arrested in Dallas. Hoover also told Johnson the voice recording of the man who called the Soviet Embassy while in Mexico City and claimed to be Lee Harvey Oswald was not the voice of the man the Dallas police had in custody.This was indeed a major problem for Hoover and Johnson because it meant that someone was impersonating the accused presidential assassin in Mexico City in September of 1963.Shortly thereafter on Monday, November 25, Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach sent a memo to Bill Moyers, a Johnson confidant, that said in part:“The public must be satisfied that Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have confederates who are still at large; and that evidence was such that he would have been convicted at trial”.Katzenbach’s memo continued,“Speculation about Oswald’s motivation ought to be cut off and we should have some basis for rebutting thought that this was a Communist conspiracy or (as the Iron Curtain press is saying) a right-wing conspiracy to blame it on the Communists. Unfortunately, the facts on Oswald seem about too pat—too obvious (Marxist, Cuba, Russian wife, etc.). The Dallas police have put out statements on the Communist conspiracy theory, and it was they who were in charge when he was shot and thus silenced.”Katzenbach advocated a public F.B.I. report to satisfy this objective though he noted the possible need for,“the appointment of a Presidential Commission of unimpeachable personnel to review and examine the evidence and announce its conclusions.”(Mary Ferrell Foundation, “The Katzenbach Memo”).President Johnson would announce the formation of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy through Executive Order #11130 four days later on November 29, 1963.The Odio Incident. Silvia Odio was the daughter of an Anti-Castro Cuban dissident. Her father Amador Odio was imprisoned by Fidel Castro for his attempt to assassinate Castro.Ms. Odio provided testimony to the Warren Commission that Lee Harvey Oswald was one of three men who visited her apartment in Dallas in September of 1963.Odio claimed the men were attempting to solicit money for the anti-Castro effort in which she was involved, The Cuban Revolutionary Junta or JURE. Odio testified that two of the Cubans identified themselves as “Leopoldo” and “Angel” and that the American was introduced as “Leon Oswald”.“Leopoldo” told Odio the next day over the phone that the American was a Marine and was an excellent shot. He said the American had said,“Cubans don’t have any guts…because President Kennedy should have been assassinated after the Bay of Pigs, and some Cubans should have done that, because he was the one that was holding the freedom of Cuba actually.”Odio said the men told her that they had come from New Orleans and were about to leave on a trip.Odio testified that “Leon Oswald” was most certainly Lee Harvey Oswald and that the meeting occurred prior to October 1, likely on the preceding Thursday, September 26 or Friday, September 27.The Warren Commission asked the F.B.I. to investigate Odio’s claims. The F.B.I. interviewed two men who were anti-Castro Cuban leaders who denied knowing anything about Odio’s allegations.However, they interviewed another man named Loran Hall who stated he had visited Odio in September 1963 with Lawrence Howard and William Seymour.The Warren Commission final report said the F.B.I. had not yet completed its’ investigation of the Odio matter but the Commission “concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was not at Mrs. Odio’s apartment in September of 1963”.The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) stated in its final report in 1979 that it was “inclined to believe Silvia Odio” and that at least one of the men (Hall, Howard and Seymour) looked like Oswald. The Committee also disagreed with the Warren Commission that Oswald could not have been in Dallas during the timeframe specified in Odio’s allegations.The HSCA said,“Oswald’s actions and values were consistent with someone who would favor the Castro regime, and speculated that Oswald may have associated with anti-Castro activists in order to implicate that movement in the assassination for some unrelated reason.”Further corroborating evidence for the veracity of the Odio visitors as JFK co-conspirators comes in the form of Richard Case Nagell, as told by James Douglass in “JFK and the Unspeakable”.Nagell was the featured person in Dick Russell’s book “The Man Who Knew Too Much” published in 1992.Nagell was a U.S. Army counterintelligence officer from 1955 to 1959. He was a Field Operations Intelligence officer which he described as a “covert extension of the CIA policy and activity designed to conceal the true nature of CIA objectives”.In the 1950’s, Nagell began his Army/CIA role as a double agent in liaison with Soviet Intelligence. It was in Tokyo in this capacity that Nagell crossed paths with another counterintelligence agent named Lee Harvey Oswald.Nagell was working with Soviet Intelligence in 1963 in Mexico City in his role as double agent. He was reporting to the CIA and assigned by the KGB to monitor Lee Harvey Oswald in the United States after his return from Russia.During this time, Nagell confirmed that he became involved with Oswald and two Cuban exiles in what he saw was a “large” operation to kill JFK. The Cubans were known by their “war names” of “Angel” and “Leopoldo”.Nagell told Russell that Angel and Leopoldo “were connected with a violence-prone faction of a CIA-financed group operating in Mexico City and elsewhere”. He identified Angel’s and Leopoldo’s CIA-financed group as Alpha 66, a group of Cuban exile paramilitaries who were directed by David Atlee Phillips, Chief of Covert Action at the CIA’s Mexico City Station.In early 1963, Phillips deployed Alpha 66 in attacks on Russian ships in Cuban ports. The purpose was to draw JFK into a war with Cuba.Nagell would eventually try to convince Lee Harvey Oswald that he was being duped by Angel and Leopoldo as the assassination patsy. However, Oswald was evasive and unresponsive to Nagell’s appeal. He was ordered by the KGB to kill Oswald to prevent the assassination patsy scenario and to keep them from becoming scapegoats themselves.Nagell would eventually send a registered letter to J. Edgar Hoover on September 17, 1963 warning of the impending assassination. He later removed himself from any possible connection in the assassination plot by shooting up an El Paso Bank to place himself in federal custody rather “than commit murder and treason“.He was later convicted and served 4–1/2 years in prison.SummaryThese are just a few of the examples of conspiracy involving the real or fake Lee Harvey Oswald. Many others have been researched and reported over the years which further substantiate the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was being impersonated leading up to the assassination.Further reading about these and other acts of conspiracy in the JFK Assassination case can be found in the following:James Johnston and Jon Roe, “Flight from Dallas: New Evidence of CIA Involvement in the Murder of President John F. Kennedy”, (2003).James Douglass, “JFK and the Unspeakable” Why He Died and Why It Matters”, (2008).David Talbot, “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government”, (2016).Dick Russell, “The Man Who Knew Too Much: Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK”, (1992).Joseph McBride, “Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J.D. Tippit”, (2013).William Kelly, “JFKcountercoup.blogspot.com”Mary Ferrell Foundation, “maryferrell.org”Gary Cornwell, “Real Answers: The True Story Told by Gary Cornwell, Deputy Chief Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee On Assassinations, in Charge of the Investigation of the John F. Kennedy Assaassination”, (1998).In the final analysis, the Warren Commission was a political body established to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy and did not have any accomplices.Just like the Katzenbach Memo had outlined on November 25, 1963.The Warren Commission Report was inept and incomplete and relied completely on evidence submitted by the F.B.I. and CIA, two organizations who had plenty of reasons to keep their association with Oswald under wraps.Such as the CIA/Mafia assassination plots to kill Fidel Castro and the fact that CIA officer George Joannides, who in 1963 was the Chief of Psychological Warfare branch of the agency’s JMWAVE station in Miami, directed and financed the Directorio Revolucionario Estudantil (DRE). The DRE was a student revolutionary group of Cuban exiles whose officers had contact with Lee Harvey Oswald in the months prior to the assassination.Clearly Warren Commissioner Allen Dulles, former CIA Director who was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs invasion debacle, was aware of these efforts within the CIA. As were CIA officials fully aware that Joannides’ role in the DRE was hidden from officials with the HSCA in 1978 when the CIA appointed him as the agency’s liaison to the committee.And, many of the remaining documents being withheld from the public by the government concerning the JFK assassination involve the CIA and Joannides’ work with the DRE.One only has to listen to J. Edgar Hoover’s phone conversation with President Johnson on November 24, 1963 just hours after Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald on national television to learn what his top priority was,“The thing that I am most concerned about…is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin.”Robert E. Blakey was the Chief Counsel of the HSCA investigation and he described the Warren Commission as:“The Warren Commission was a political body, not a scientific or even historical commission. The single shooter was a political judgment. It is not necessarily what happened.”Blakey continued:“The evidence is complex, difficult to put together, and it points in more than one direction, particularly if you are troubled by what happened in the Plaza. The single shooter was one theory, but hardly the only one.”And, HSCA Chief Counsel Robert E. Blakey wrote in 2003 about CIA obstruction of the HSCA inquiry after learning that the CIA had put retired CIA official George Joannides, who secretly ran the anti-Castro Cuban student organization called the D.R.E., in the summer of 1963 when Oswald was interacting with the group, as the main liaison with the HSCA and the CIA regarding all requests for information,“I now no longer believe anything the Agency told the committee any further than I can obtain substantial corroboration for it from outside the Agency for its veracity”.So you can choose to believe The Warren Commission Report hook, line and sinker.Just like many have done over the years and still do today despite overwhelming evidence that points in other directions that has been revealed over the years, some of which I have reported here.Many authors have made a living keeping The Warren Commission myth alive by simply cherry-picking its findings and using its own slanted evidence to support its claims.Others will pop up in chat rooms with superiority-complexes and blast anyone who tries to counter its claims with derogatory charges of “conspiracy theorists”.And that’s ok.Just remember that it has long been known that the CIA has regularly used mainstream reporters as plants to support its disinformation to counter any negative claims against the agency, especially its work on the JFK Assassination. In 1967, the CIA actually wrote an internal memo, “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report”, instructing employees on how to discredit its critics who challenged the “official narrative”.And, none other than Watergate-sleuth Carl Bernstein revealed an official CIA program called “Operation Mockingbird” in a 1977 Rolling Stone article titled “The CIA and The Media”, that sponsored CIA-plants within major newspapers, television networks and magazines in an attempt to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes.So keep reading and researching.Thanks to the on-going research of people and organizations, we know more now about the assassination than we did in 1963.Enough to know that the Warren Commission was incomplete and inept in its findings regardless of what its mouthpieces say to discredit the so-called “conspiracy theorists”.I prefer “conspiracy realists”!

In my my opinion the actress that had the hardest life was Marilyn Monroe- (June 1 1926- August 4 1962) who was famous for playing blonde bombshell charachters and and was one of the most famous sex symbols throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1st 1926 in Los Angles County Medical Centre located in the city of Los Angles California. Monroe’s mother Gladys Pearl Baker-(1902–1984) came from an improverished American family from the Midwest who originally had immigrated to California in the beginning of the 20th century. When she was 15 she wed John Newton Baker a man 9 years older than her and had two kids Robert- (1917–1933) and Berniece (1919-). They finally divorced in 1923 but the kids were kidnapped by Baker and moved to his native state Kentucky. Monroe wasn’t told that she had a half- sister as a child and was only able to meet her as an adult woman. Gladys worked as a film cutter in a studio after the divorce. In 1924 she married Martin Edward Mortensen but legally seperated months later and divorced in 1928. The identity of Monroe’s biological father is unknown and most often used Baker as her last name. Despite the fact that Gladys was not ready for a child the first part of Monroe’s childhood was happy. Gladys sent her daughter to live with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender in the small of town of Hawthorn where she lived in for 6 months until she was forced to move back to the city due to work. Gladys started to visit Monroe during the weekends. In summer 1933 Gladys purchased a house in Hollywood and relocated there with her 7 year old daughter Norma Jean with her. They shared the house with tenants George and Maude Atkinson and their daughter Nellie. In early 1934 when Monroe was 8 years old Gladys suffered a mental breakdown. She spent a couple of months in a rest home and was locked in the Metropolitan State Hospital. Gladys spent the majority of her lifetime inside and outside of hospitals and facilities with no contact with Monroe. Monroe became a ward of the state and Glady’s s friend Grace Goddard assumed responsibility over Monroe and Gladys’s errands. In the next couple of years Monroe’s situation often changed. For 16 months she lived with the Atkinson family where she was sexually abused. In 1935 she stayed with Grace and her husband and two other families and in the September of the same year Grace settled her in the Los Angles Orphans home where she felt alone.Motivated by the Orphanage workers who taught that Monroe will be happier living in a family Grace became her legal guardian in 1936 however did not take her from the orphanage until 1937. Her second stay with Grace lasted for a few months because her husband sexually abused her and afterwards lived with her relatives and Grace’s friends in Los Angles and Compton. Her experiences as a child is what made her want to be an actress in the first place. Monroe discovered a more permanent home in 1938 when she started living with Grace’s aunt Ana Lower in Sawetelle. She started attending Emerson Junior High School and attended Christian Science services with Lower. She was a good student succeeded in writing and contributed to the school newspaper. As a result of Lowe’s health issues she was forced to come back to live with Grace in Van Nuys around 1941. Thaht exact year she was enrolled in Van Nuys High School. One year later in 1942 the company that employed Grace’s husband moved him to West Virginia. However California’s child services laws didn’t allow them to take Monroe outside of the state boundries so she was faced with the possibility of having to come back to the orphanage. In order to prevent this possibility from occuring she married her neighbour’s 21-year old son James Dougherty on June 19th 1942 after her 16th birthday. This ended up with Monroe dropping out of high school and becoming a housewife. In 1943 her husband enlisted in the Merchant Marine and was assigned on Santa Catalina Island where she accompanied himThe day of Monroe’ s marriage to James Dougherty in 1942- age 16.In 1944 Dougherty was sent to the Pacific where he would stay for two years. Monroe relocated to her in-laws and found employment at the Radioplane Company a munitions comapany in the neighborhood of Van Nuys. Near the end of 1944 she met photographer David Conover who was sent by the US Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit to the factory to take morale improving photographs of women workers. Even though none of her pictures were used she quit her job at the factory in 1945 started modeling for Conover and his associates. She Betrayed her husband and Monroe relocated without him and and signed a contract with the Blue Book Model Agency in August 1945. The agency came to the conclusion that Monroe’s body shape was more suitable for pin-up than high fashion modelling and was showcased in various men’s magazines. In order to make herself more fit for employment she straightened her hair and dyed it blonde. By 1946 Monroe had already appeared on 33 magazine covers. She sometimes used the alias Norma Jean.Monroe during her early modelling days- Circa 1945Owing to Snively Monroe signed a contract with an acting agency on summer 1946. Her interview with Paramount pictures was a failure and was given a screen test by Ben Lyon a 20th Century Fox executive. Sadly for Monroe head executive Darryl F. Zanuck wasn’t too optimistic about it however he gave her a valid six-month contract to prevent her from being signed by the RKO studios. Her contract started in August 1946 and that summer Monroe selected the stage name Marilyn Monroe. It was first picked and suggested by Lyon which reminded him of the star Marilyn Miller and Monroe was Norma Jean’s mother Gladys’ s maiden name. In the autumn of the same year Monroe got a divorce from Dougherty who was opposed to her career. She spent the first 6 months learning singing, acting, and dancing, while carefully observing the process of movie making. Her contract was renewed in 1947 and was assigned her first roles which were bit roles in Dangerous Years (1947), and Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948). The studio therefore registered her in the Actors Labaratory Theatre an acting school teaching the techniques of the Group theatre. Even though she was eager her instructors thought her too insecure and shy to have any prospect in acting. Monroe returned to modelling while also doing smaller jobs at film studios like a dancing pacer behind the scenes to keep the leads on point at musical sets. Monroe had set her mind to succeed as an actress and continued her studies at the actors lab. In order to establish a network she frequented producers offices and aquantinted with gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky and became the sex partner of Fox executive Joseph M. Schneck who convinced his associate Henry Cohn the head executive of Colombia Pictures to sign her in March 1948. While at Colombia Monroe’s apperance was inspired after Rita Hayworth and her hair was dyed platinum blonde. She started to work with studio’s head coach Natasha Lytess who remained her mentor until 1955. Her only film at the studio was Ladies of the Chrous (1948) where she had her first starring role as a chorus girl who is courted by a rich man. The film was released the following and wasn’t popular. She got back to modelling after her contract with Columbia expired. She shot a commercial for Pabst beer and posed in artistic nudes. She also became the mistress of Johnny Hide who was the vice head of the William Morris Agency. Owing to Hyde Monroe got small film roles in couple of movies including Joseph Mankiewicz’s drama All About Eve (1950) and and John Huston’s noir The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Even though her screen time was only being a few minutes she was mentioned in the fan magazine Photoplay which opened her path to become a serious actress. In the Christmas of 1950 Hyde negotiated a 7 year contract for Monroe with the 20th Century Fox. In its terms it mentioned that Fox could choose not the renew the contract after every year. Hyde suddenly died of a heart attack days after which left Monroe in a shocked sorrowful state. In 1951 Monroe recieved supporting roles in three moderately successful Fox comedies “As Young as you Feel” and “Love Nest” and Let’s Make it Legal. Her popularity started to rise and recieved thousands of fan letters every day and was declared Miss Cheesecake of 1951 by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes reflecting the preferences of soldiers in the Korean war. During this time she was in a short relationship with Greek-American director Elia Kazan and a couple of other men. In the beginning of 1952 Monroe commenced a romance with former NYC Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio who was one of the most renowned people of the period. She later found herself in the middle of a scandal in March 1952 when she confessed that she had posed for a nude calendar in 1949. The Studio found out about the photos and that she was thought to be the model for some weeks and alongside with Monroe in order to avoid ruining her career it was the most logical thing to do to confess it. This tactic earned her affection from the public and interest in her movies multiplied. Afterwards the scandal she appeared on the cover of life magazine. Fox released three of Clash by Night, Don’t Bother to Knock, and We’re not married soon after to capitilise on the public interest.Marilyn Monroe in 1950- at the age of 24Monroe starred in three movies that were released in 1953 and became known as a major sex symbol and Hollywood’s most famous performer. The first one was Technicolour movie Niagara where she played a femme fatale scheming to murder her spouse played by Joseph Cotton. By that time period her make up artist Allan Synder developed her trademark look: dark arched eyebrows, pale skin, glistening red lipstick and a beauty mark. When Niagara was released in 1953 women’s clubs thought of it as immoral however proved to be popular with audiances. After Niagara Monroe played on her second film of 1953 which was the satirical musical comedy Gentleman Prefer Blondes which established her screen persona of a Dumb Blonde. The film based on Anita Loo’s novel and its Broadway version focuses on two gold digging showgirls played by her and Jane Russel. The movie was released shortly after and became one of the largest box office successes of 1953. Monroe was amongst the annual top ten money making stars poll in 1953/1954. Her image as a sex symbol was confirmed when Hugh Hefner feautered her on the cover of Playboy.Marilyn Monroe in 1954- at the age of 28.Monroe had transformed into one o20th Century Fox’s most famous actresses however her contract had not changed significantly since 1950 so she was paid a far less significant amount of money than other actresses of her position. Her wish to star in movies that would not focus on her as a pin-up was rejected by the studio head executive Darryl F. Zanuck who disliked her and did not think that she would earn the studio as much as a revenue in roles other than pin up. With pressure from studio’s owner Zanuck decided that Fox should focus on entertainment to maximize profits and and cancelled the production of serious movies. In early 1954 Zanuck suspended Monroe when she didn’t want to shoot another musical comedy named The Girl in Pink Tights. On January 14th she married Joe DiMaggio in San Fransisco City Hall and travelled to Japan and combined his business trip along with their honeymoon. From Tokyo she went to Korea and took part in a USO show singing songs from her movies for over 60,000 USA Marines. When she came back to the US she was given the Photoplay’s Most Popular Female Star prize. On March Monroe settled with Fox and and was promised a new contract and a bonus of 10,000 Dollars and a role in the movie adaptation of The Seven Year Itch. In the fall of the same year Monroe began shooting Billy Wilder’s comedy The Seven Year Itch with Tom Ewell as a woman who becomes the tool of her neighbors sexual fantasies. Despite the fact that The Film was shot in Hollywood the studio decided to get advance publicity by staging the filming of a scene where Monroe was standing still in front of a subway grate with the air blowing the skirt of her white dress on Lexington Ave. in Manhattan. The shoot lasted for several hours and got the attention of 2,000 viewers. That scene became one of Monroe’s most famous scenes. The Publicity stunt placed Monroe in International newspapers and resulted in the end of her marriage to Joe DiMaggio who was furious by the incident. Their marriage was not stable from the start as a result of his jelaous attitude and was also physically abusive. When she returned to Hollywood from New York on October 1954 she filed for divorce after less than 12 months of marriage. After she finished filming the Then Seven Year Itch she left Hollywood and travelled to the East Coast where she along with the fashion photographer Milton Greene established their own production company Marilyn Monroe Productions- (MMP). After establishing MMP she moved to Manhattan and spent most of 1955 acting. She took classes from Constance Coller and participated in workshops on method acting at the Actors studio run by Lee Strasberg. Monroe continued her relationship with DiMaggio even though they were divorcing she also dated actor Marlon Brando and and playwright Arthur Miller. She first met Miller though director Elia Kazan in the early 1950s. The affair between Monroe and Miller became more serious after 1955 when her divorce was finalized and Miller got a legal seperation from his wife. The studio begged her to end it as Miller was investigated by the FBI for rumours of Communism but she declined which led the FBI to open a file on her. By the end of the year she signed a 7 year contract with Fox as MMP would not be able to finance films alone and the studio was happy to have Monroe working for them again. Fox would pay Monroe 400,000 dollars to make 4 films and and gave her the right to choose her own projects, directors, and cinematographers. She would also be free to make one film with MMP per each completed film for Fox.Marilyn Monroe in 1955- at age 29In March 1956 Monroe started the production of Bus Stop which was her first movie under the new contract. Broadway director Joshua Logan agreed to direct despite knowing that she was difficult to work with. The filming took place in Idaho and Arizona where Monroe was in duty as the head of MMP sometimes making decisions on cinematography and Logan having to get used to Monroe’s habit of being late, and her perfectionisim. On June 29th of the same Monroe married Arthur Miller at White Plains New York. With marrying Miller Monroe converted to Judaisim which caused Egypt to ban all of her movies. However due to Monroe’s image as a sex symbol and Miller’s image as an intellectual they were seen as a mismatch by the press. Bus Stop was released in summer 1956 and became a critical success. For her exceptional performance she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. In August, Monroe also began filming MMP's first independent production, The Prince and the Showgirl, at Pinewood Studios in England.[174] Based on a 1953 stage play by Terence Rattigan, it was to be directed and co-produced by, and to co-star, Laurence Olivier.[160] The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe.[175] Olivier, who had also directed and starred in the stage play, angered her with the patronizing statement "All you have to do is be sexy", and with his demand she replicate Vivien Leigh's stage interpretation of the character.[176] He also disliked the constant presence of Paula Strasberg, Monroe's acting coach, on set.[177] In retaliation, Monroe became uncooperative and began to deliberately arrive late, stating later that "if you don't respect your artists, they can't work well."[175]Monroe also experienced other problems during the production. Her dependence on pharmaceuticals escalated and, according to Spoto, she had a miscarriage.[178] She and Greene also argued over how MMP should be run.[178] Despite the difficulties, filming was completed on schedule by the end of 1956.[179] The Prince and the Showgirl was released to mixed reviews in June 1957 and proved unpopular with American audiences.[180] It was better received in Europe, where she was awarded the Italian David di Donatello and the French Crystal Star awards and was nominated for a BAFTA.[181]After returning from England, Monroe took an 18-month hiatus to concentrate on family life. She and Miller split their time between NYC, Connecticut and Long Island.[182] She had an ectopic pregnancy in mid-1957, and a miscarriage a year later;[183] these problems were most likely linked to her endometriosis.[184][j] Monroe was also briefly hospitalized due to a barbiturate overdose.[187] As she and Greene could not settle their disagreements over MMP, Monroe bought his share of the company.[188]. Monroe returned to Hollywood in July 1958 to act opposite Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in Billy Wilder's comedy on gender roles, Some Like It Hot.[189] She considered the role of Sugar Kane another "dumb blonde", but accepted it due to Miller's encouragement and the offer of ten percent of the film's profits on top of her standard pay.[190] The film's difficult production has since become "legendary".[191] Monroe demanded dozens of re-takes, and did not remember her lines or act as directed—Curtis famously stated that kissing her was "like kissing Hitler" due to the number of re-takes.[192] Monroe herself privately likened the production to a sinking ship and commented on her co-stars and director saying "[but] why should I worry, I have no phallic symbol to lose."[193] Many of the problems stemmed from her and Wilder—who also had a reputation for being difficult—disagreeing on how she should play the role.[194] She angered him by asking to alter many of her scenes, which in turn made her stage fright worse, and it is suggested that she deliberately ruined several scenes to act them her way.[194]In the end, Wilder was happy with Monroe's performance and stated: "Anyone can remember lines, but it takes a real artist to come on the set and not know her lines and yet give the performance she did!"[195] Some Like It Hot became a critical and commercial success when it was released in March 1959.[196] Monroe's performance earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and prompted Variety to call her "a comedienne with that combination of sex appeal and timing that just can't be beat".[181][197] It has been voted one of the best films ever made in polls by the BBC,[198]. fter Some Like It Hot, Monroe took another hiatus until late 1959, when she starred in the musical comedy Let's Make Love.[201] She chose George Cukor to direct and Miller re-wrote some of the script, which she considered weak; she accepted the part solely because she was behind on her contract with Fox.[202] The film's production was delayed by her frequent absences from the set.[201] During the shoot, Monroe had an extramarital affair with her co-star Yves Montand, which was widely reported by the press and used in the film's publicity campaign.[203] Let's Make Love was unsuccessful upon its release in September 1960;[204] Crowther described Monroe as appearing "rather untidy" and "lacking ... the old Monroe dynamism",[205] and Hedda Hopper called the film "the most vulgar picture [Monroe's] ever done".[206] Truman Capote lobbied for Monroe to play Holly Golightly in a film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but the role went to Audrey Hepburn as its producers feared that she would complicate the production.[207]The last film that Monroe completed was John Huston's The Misfits, which Miller had written to provide her with a dramatic role.[208] She played a recently divorced woman who becomes friends with three aging cowboys, played by Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift. The filming in the Nevada desert between July and November 1960 was again difficult.[209] Monroe and Miller's marriage was effectively over, and he began a new relationship with set photographer Inge Morath.[208] Monroe disliked that he had based her role partly on her life, and thought it inferior to the male roles; she also struggled with Miller's habit of re-writing scenes the night before filming.[210] Her health was also failing: she was in pain from gallstones, and her drug addiction was so severe that her make-up usually had to be applied while she was still asleep under the influence of barbiturates.[211] In August, filming was halted for her to spend a week in a hospital detox.[211] Despite her problems, Huston stated that when Monroe was acting, she "was not pretending to an emotion. It was the real thing. She would go deep down within herself and find it and bring it up into consciousness."[212]Estelle Winwood, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, Monroe, and Clark Gable in The Misfits (1961). It was the last completed film for Monroe and Gable, who both died within two years.Monroe and Miller separated after filming wrapped, and she obtained a Mexican divorce in January 1961.[213] The Misfits was released the following month, failing at the box office.[214] Its reviews were mixed,[214] with Variety complaining of frequently "choppy" character development,[215] and Bosley Crowther calling Monroe "completely blank and unfathomable" and stating that "unfortunately for the film's structure, everything turns upon her".[216] It has received more favorable reviews in the twenty-first century. Geoff Andrew of the British Film Institute has called it a classic,[217] Huston scholar Tony Tracy has described Monroe's performance the "most mature interpretation of her career",[218] and Geoffrey McNab of The Independent has praised her for being "extraordinary" in portraying the character's "power of empathy".[219]Monroe was next to star in a television adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Rain for NBC, but the project fell through as the network did not want to hire her choice of director, Lee Strasberg.[220] Instead of working, she spent the first six months of 1961 preoccupied by health problems. She underwent a cholecystectomy and surgery for her endometriosis, and spent four weeks hospitalized for depression.[221][k] She was helped by ex-husband Joe DiMaggio, with whom she rekindled a friendship, and dated his friend, Frank Sinatra, for several months.[223] Monroe also moved permanently back to California in 1961, purchasing a house at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles in early 1962.[224]Monroe on the set of Something's Got to Give. She was absent for most of the production due to illness and was fired by Fox in June 1962, two months before her deathMonroe returned to the public eye in the spring of 1962; she received a "World Film Favorite" Golden Globe Award and began to shoot a film for Fox, Something's Got to Give, a remake of My Favorite Wife (1940).[225] It was to be co-produced by MMP, directed by George Cukor and to co-star Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse.[226] Days before filming began, Monroe caught sinusitis; despite medical advice to postpone the production, Fox began it as planned in late April.[227] Monroe was too sick to work for the majority of the next six weeks, but despite confirmations by multiple doctors, the studio pressurized her by alleging publicly that she was faking it.[227] On May 19, she took a break to sing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" on stage at President John F. Kennedy's early birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York.[228] She drew attention with her costume: a beige, skintight dress covered in rhinestones, which made her appear nude.[228][l] Monroe's trip to New York caused even more irritation for Fox executives, who had wanted her to cancel it.[230]Monroe next filmed a scene for Something's Got to Give in which she swam naked in a swimming pool.[231] To generate advance publicity, the press was invited to take photographs; these were later published in Life. This was the first time that a major star had posed nude at the height of their career.[232] When she was again on sick leave for several days, Fox decided that it could not afford to have another film running behind schedule when it was already struggling with the rising costs of Cleopatra (1963).[233] On June 7, Fox fired Monroe and sued her for $750,000 in damages.[234] She was replaced by Lee Remick, but after Martin refused to make the film with anyone other than Monroe, Fox sued him as well and shut down the production.[235] The studio blamed Monroe for the film's demise and began spreading negative publicity about her, even alleging that she was mentally disturbed.[234]Fox soon regretted its decision and re-opened negotiations with Monroe later in June; a settlement about a new contract, including re-commencing Something's Got to Give and a starring role in the black comedy What a Way to Go! (1964), was reached later that summer.[236] She was also planning on starring in a biopic of Jean Harlow.[237] To repair her public image, Monroe engaged in several publicity ventures, including interviews for Life and Cosmopolitan and her first photo shoot for Vogue.[238] For Vogue, she and photographer Bert Stern collaborated for two series of photographs.During her final months, Monroe lived at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her housekeeper Eunice Murray was staying overnight at the home on the evening of August 4, 1962.[240] Murray awoke at 3:00 a.m. on August 5 and sensed that something was wrong. She saw light from under Monroe's bedroom door, but was unable to get a response and found the door locked. Murray then called Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who arrived at the house shortly after and broke into the bedroom through a window to find Monroe dead in her bed.[240] Monroe's physician, Dr. Hyman Engelberg, arrived at around 3:50 a.m.[240] and pronounced her dead at the scene. At 4:25 a.m., the LAPD was notified.[240]Monroe died between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on August 4,[241] and the toxicology report showed that the cause of death was acute barbiturate poisoning. She had 8 mg% (milligrams per 100 milliliters of solution) chloral hydrate and 4.5 mg% of pentobarbital (Nembutal) in her blood, and 13 mg% of pentobarbital in her liver.[242] Empty medicine bottles were found next to her bed.[243] The possibility that Monroe had accidentally overdosed was ruled out because the dosages found in her body were several times over the lethal limit.[244]The Los Angeles County Coroners Office was assisted in their investigation by the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Team, who had expert knowledge on suicide.[243] Monroe's doctors stated that she had been "prone to severe fears and frequent depressions" with "abrupt and unpredictable mood changes", and had overdosed several times in the past, possibly intentionally.[244][245] Due to these facts and the lack of any indication of foul play, deputy coroner Thomas Noguchi classified her death as a probable suicide.[246]Monroe's crypt at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood VillageMonroe's sudden death was front-page news in the United States and Europe.[247] According to Lois Banner, "it's said that the suicide rate in Los Angeles doubled the month after she died; the circulation rate of most newspapers expanded that month",[247] and the Chicago Tribune reported that they had received hundreds of phone calls from members of the public who were requesting information about her death.[248] French artist Jean Cocteau commented that her death "should serve as a terrible lesson to all those, whose chief occupation consists of spying on and tormenting film stars", her former co-star Laurence Olivier deemed her "the complete victim of ballyhoo and sensation", and Bus Stop director Joshua Logan stated that she was "one of the most unappreciated people in the world".[249] Her funeral, held at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery on August 8, was private and attended by only her closest associates.[250] The service was arranged by Joe DiMaggio, Monroe's half-sister Berniece Baker Miracle and Monroe's business manager Inez Melson.[250] Hundreds of spectators crowded the streets around the cemetery.[250] Monroe was later entombed at Crypt No. 24 at the Corridor of Memories.[251].Source: Marilyn Monroe - WikipediaImages from Google Images