The Murder of Marilyn Monroe (48 page)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 10 MARCH 2014: “The police interviewed me afterwards . . .”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 MARCH 2014: Irene Gizzi identified to Jay Margolis two CIA agents George Joannides and David Sanchez Morales. Also, she saw Unidentified Man in Profile, who according to Ms. Gizzi, may or may not be the man with “blonde hair and horn-rimmed glasses” on page 452 of Shane O’Sullivan’s book.)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 442–443: “Joannides was born in Athens in 1922 . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 446, 452: A possible identification for Unidentified Man in Profile witnessed by Irene Gizzi, Shane O’Sullivan wrote on page 446 how the bottom photograph on page 452 “showed a third man . . . with blonde hair and horn-rimmed glasses.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 459: “The last leg of [David] Talbot and [Jefferson] Morley’s journey took them to see Joannide’s former station chief in Saigon, Tom Polgar. Word came back that before Talbot and Morley mentioned his name, Polgar identified Joannides in the photograph. Polgar also identified the blonde man in horn-rimmed glasses in the other ballroom photographs as James Critchfield, the CIA’s chief in the Middle East at the time . . . When he was shown the ballroom photographs, Polgar told Talbot and Morley—and later confirmed to me—that the man at the Ambassador was ‘not incompatible’ with the Joannides he knew in Saigon, but he couldn’t positively identify him. Polgar identified the third man [with blonde hair and horn-rimmed glasses] as ‘not incompatible with James Critchfield.’”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 25 MARCH 2014: “When I saw them [Tarrants, Ainsworth, Joannides, Morales, and Unidentified Man in Profile], they were to the right of the entrance to the lower ballroom . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 454: “Robert Kennedy and five others were shot in the pantry. Twenty-one seconds later, [David] Morales is first spotted in the footage . . . at the back of the Ambassador Room . . . This makes sense. Kennedy was due to go downstairs for another speech. If he wasn’t diverted into the pantry and Plan B had to be activated, Morales was ready and waiting.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 436: “[O’Sullivan] interviewed Robert Walton, a good friend of Morales’s who had also acted as his lawyer during the seventies . . . [and Walton quotes David Morales as saying:] ‘I was in Dallas when we got that motherfucker [JFK] and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard [RFK].’”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 426: Robert Walton relayed, “[David Morales] started yelling about what a wimp Kennedy was, and talking about how [Morales] had worked on the Bay of Pigs and how he had to watch all the men he had recruited and trained . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 425–426: “David Sanchez Morales was a legendary CIA operative” who was employed at “JMWAVE in 1963. Morales was chief of operations.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 428, 526: Bradley Ayers said, “I transferred to South Florida, to JMWAVE . . .”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, pp. 36-37: “Acquaintances in the Birchers told me of a mysterious figure involved in anti-Castro guerrilla activities . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 470: “Michael D. Roman [a.k.a. CIA agent Gordon Campbell] . . . shared a birthday with Robert Kennedy—born on November 20, 1918, and died suddenly on December 22, 2002.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 469–471: “When I showed Bradley Ayers this footage, it reinforced his identification of Campbell . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 428: Bradley Ayers said, “I met the assistant chief of station, a fellow by the name of Gordon Campbell . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 473: “The Roman family recognized the figure of Joannides in the photographs . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 473: Michael Roman’s son relayed, “Both my sister and mother confirm the darker-haired man is Frank Owens [actually spelled Owen which was a cover name for Joannides] . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 473: “Owens was a regional sales manager for Michael Roman, and seems to match a ‘Frank S. Owen’ from New York interviewed by the FBI on October 21 . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 470–471: “Campbell [under the name Michael D. Roman] was working [as vice president of the Bulova Watch Company] for [Gen. Omar N. [Bradley], for a watch company that was having its sales conference at the hotel where Kennedy would be assassinated? It boggles the mind.”)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: Shane O’Sullivan stated, “Forty percent of Bulova’s revenue came from the defense industry . . .”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 12 MARCH 2014: “I still don’t understand why the police kept trying to say that it was only Sirhan Sirhan . . .”)

(GIZZI, IRENE. INTERVIEW WITH JAY MARGOLIS. 13 MARCH 2014: “Unless the cops got all the footage, there’s a bunch of people that have footage because there were television crews . . .”)

(MELANSON 1994, p. 69: “Three drawn guns were reported by witnesses . . .”)

(MELANSON 1994, p. 68: Don Schulman told Special Counsel Thomas F. Kranz, “I had thought I saw three guns [but only witnessed Sirhan’s and Cesar’s actually being fired].”)

(Pease, Lisa. “The Other Kennedy Conspiracy: The Assassination Of Robert Kennedy Never Received The Scrutiny It Deserves.”
Salon
. 21 November 2011: “Fact: Donald Schulman, a young runner for a local TV station, claimed he saw security guard Cesar fire his gun. Schulman also told the LAPD he saw three guns in the pantry. (Some authors have mistakenly suggested Schulman wasn’t in the pantry, but LAPD records confirm that he was.)”

(MELANSON 1994, p. 69: “Martha Raines asserts that a gun besides Sirhan’s or Cesar’s was fired . . . Martha Raines told the author of seeing a man fire a gun in the pantry.”)

(MELANSON 1994, pp. 65–66: “According to Raines, the man fired a handgun of some kind . . . ‘And, as I recall, one of them [the shots from Tarrants’s gun] was high and should have gone into the ceiling . . .’”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, pp. 199–200: “[Ted] Charach states that Sirhan could not have shot the bullets that penetrated these [ceiling] panels. Rather, he states, someone behind Kennedy and facing in Sirhan’s direction could have fired shots that would have hit those [ceiling] tiles.”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 33: Thomas Tarrants explained how he had “a dislike for John Kennedy and his policies on race and federal intervention . . .”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 81: “My defiance of authority began when authority placed itself on the side of federal intervention to integrate . . .”)

(TARRANTS III 1979, p. 82: “As I saw it, America was being undermined by the communist-Jewish conspiracy.”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: In 1969, Thane Eugene Cesar said, “I definitely wouldn’t have voted for Bobby Kennedy because he had the same ideas as John did . . .”)

(Moldea, Dan E. “Who Really Killed Bobby Kennedy?”
Regardie’s
. June 1987, p. 72: “The evidence to support Cesar’s possible role in the shooting is extensive and clearly demonstrates means, opportunity, and motive.”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, p. 54: Sgt. Paul Sharaga relayed, “The woman stated that she and her husband were just outside the Embassy Room when a young couple, in their late teens or early twenties . . .”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, p. 55: Sgt. Paul Sharaga communicated on the LAPD logger tapes, “12:28:53 ‘2L30, description of the suspect; at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard; male Caucasian, 20 to 22, 6 ft. to 6 ft. 2, very thin . . .”)

(NELSON 1993, p. 17: “It was evening, June 29, 1968 . . . Thomas Albert Tarrants III was twenty-one years old . . . tall and trim—about six feet three and 170 pounds—with brown eyes and black hair combed straight back. Women were attracted to him.”)

(NELSON 1993, p. 17: “It was evening, June 29, 1968 . . . Kathy Ainsworth . . . was twenty-six years old, five feet four and buxom, with a pretty oval face and brown eyes that matched her thick brunette hair . . . [and was employed by] the Lorena Duling Elementary School” teaching fifth grade.)

(MELANSON 1994, p. 65: Noting Martha Raines’s observations, Professor Philip Melanson wrote, “He [the third gunman] was approximately 6-feet 2-inches tall, Caucasian, with dark, wavy hair and wearing a suit (not a uniform).”)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: To NBC reporter Sander Vanocur, an hour-and-a-half after the shooting, Sandra Serrano relayed, “This girl came running down the stairs in the back and said, ‘We’ve shot him! We’ve shot him!’ . . .”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 21: “Campaign worker Sandra Serrano was still sitting on the fire escape below the southwest corner of the Embassy Room.”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, pp. 53–54: “Serrano’s interview [with Sander Vanocur] occurred about 1 ½ hours after the shooting.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 469: “As Kennedy left the stage, the crowd began to disperse, and a minute or so later, Kennedy was shot. As cries from the pantry ignited panic in the Embassy Room, we see Campbell walk forward from the back of the room toward the commotion. It’s clear he was not coming from the pantry but had been watching the speech from the back of the ballroom. The Latin man with the mustache had also been watching the speech, a little closer to the stage. When I obtained a new, clean transfer of the original Campbell footage, it was also clear that he was holding his right hand across his chest as he walked through the room but his hands were empty. There was no container and no disguised weapon [because it was presumably hidden underneath his dress shirt as Campbell held it in place with his right hand across his chest]. Why he held his hand across his chest and why the Latin man was waving toward an exit remain a mystery.”)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: Shortly after the shooting of RFK, Ambassador Hotel footage shows CIA agent Gordon Campbell using his right hand to hold onto what may be Tarrants’s murder weapon carefully hidden underneath his dress shirt as he is guided towards an exit by a Latin man.)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 405: “The two men [Enrique ‘Hank’ Hernandez and Manuel ‘Manny’ Pena] who had effective day-to-day control of the RFK investigation also had CIA connections.”)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: The late Larry Teeter, Sirhan’s former attorney, stated, “The LAPD does have a history of ties with the CIA and we know that [from] two people who played a critical role in the investigation Manuel Pena and Enrique ‘Hank’ Hernandez.”)

(
RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy
(An Investigative Documentary by Shane O’Sullivan). E2 Films, 2007: On a recording, Enrique Hernandez told Sandra Serrano, “I had been called to South America, to Vietnam, and Europe and I have administered tests. The last test I administered was to the dictator in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a big man, a dictator. Perez Jimenez was his last name. And this is when there was a transition in the government of Venezuela. And that’s when President Betancourt came in . . . but this is all behind. But there was a great thing involved over there . . . and I tested the gentleman.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, p. 409: On a recorded 1992 interview, Manuel Pena explained to attorney Marilyn Barrett, “The way they’ve written it, it sounds like I was brought back [out of retirement] and put into the [RFK] case as a plant by the CIA . . .”)

(JOLING AND VAN PRAAG 2008, p. 229: “In early November, 1967, Manny Pena officially retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He had served the LAPD for 22 years . . . By January 17, 1968, however, Pena was back on duty with the LAPD . . . Following the assassination, Pena was appointed to the SUS [Special Unit Senator] . . . Both official and unofficial accounts credit Pena with a considerable role in the direction of the SUS’s work and daily management. This role continued during the major period of the [RFK] investigation. In 1969, at some time following the conclusion of the Sirhan trial, Pena once again retired from active LAPD duty.”)

(O’SULLIVAN 2008, pp. 405–406: “FBI agent Roger LaJeunesse had known Pena for years and was the FBI liaison to the LAPD during the RFK case. LaJeunesse said Pena left the LAPD for a ‘special training unit’ at CIA’s Camp Peary base in Virginia . . . Pena had been doing special assignments for the CIA for a decade, mostly under AID [Agency for International Development] cover.”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: Dr. Thomas Noguchi stated, “It is scientifically highly unlikely. In this case, there was an abundance of powder burn embedded deep in the tissue.”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, p. 96: “Because of the soot in the hair . . .”)

(NOGUCHI 1984, pp. 97, 102: “I now knew the precise location of the murder weapon at the moment it was fired . . . Thus I have never said that Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy.”)

(
The Second Gun
documentary, 1973: Directed by Theodore Charach and co-produced by Theodore Charach and Gérard Alcan: In 1969, Thane Eugene Cesar said, “When the shots were fired, I reached for my gun [and got it out of my holster] . . . I had it in my hand.”)