Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer, David Wayne Page B

rest and lots of sunshine would nurse her back to health without hospitalization). So Marilyn says to let her sleep for her bad cold and then maybe in the afternoon she can “bake it out” at poolside.
9:30-10:00 AM
Marilyn meets at the house with Larry Schiller of Playboy Magazine regarding a proposal for a photo shoot and cover story on Marilyn. Schiller says Marilyn “looks fresh, unworried and without a care.” 68 Even though it is Saturday, among her plans today, in addition to meeting with Playboy, include a designer fitting with the renowned Jean Louis, a meeting with famed actor/ dancer Gene Kelly regarding the I Love Louisa project (the name was later changed to What A Way To Go! when actually made), and making plans for her upcoming trip to New York City, during which she has planned a meeting with composer Jule Styne to work on Marilyn’s proposed musical version of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, an interview and photo essay with Esquire Magazine, meeting with executives from 20th Century Fox about resuming filming of Something’s Got To Give, and scheduling a meeting with Italian film producers on some possible future film projects. 69
10:00-11:50 AM
A small piece of furniture, a nightstand that Marilyn had ordered, is delivered to her home and Marilyn writes a check for and receives it. 70
Marilyn makes a phone call to friend Ralph Roberts, and they discuss a singer whom Marilyn is trying to help along in his career. Marilyn asks Ralph if he can try to locate an unreleased record of him. They also discuss a possible barbecue dinner at Marilyn’s home tomorrow (Sunday) and agree to talk again a little bit later. 71
Marilyn receives a phone call from Sidney Skolsky. He asks her what her plans are for the evening and she says that she is expecting to see one of the Kennedys at a dinner at Peter Lawford’s home. 72
11:00 AM
A helicopter arrives at the landing pad at 20th Century Fox movie studios. This has previously been the method that Robert Kennedy takes to visit Marilyn; landing at the helicopter pad at Fox, being driven to Peter Lawford’s beach home in Santa Monica, then visiting Marilyn either at her home or at Lawford’s. There are eighteen credible witnesses to Robert Kennedy’s presence in Los Angeles on August 4, 1962, from police officers, to neighbors who were familiar with his comings and goings. He was positively identified arriving at the 20th Century Fox helicopter pad, and also entering the homes of both Marilyn Monroe and Peter Lawford later that day. 73
11:50 am-12:30 PM
Pat Newcomb wakes up and joins Mari-lyn and Eunice in the kitchen. Eunice prepares one of her fresh herb omelets for Pat, but Marilyn does not eat (this is confirmed by the fact that the autopsy also showed that she had not eaten anything on Saturday). Marilyn and Pat end up in an argument. Some of Marilyn’s biographers have theorized that the argument was because Pat had slept so well and Marilyn, who has difficulty sleeping, was jealous of that fact. That simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny—the reason Pat spent the night to begin with was because Marilyn knew Pat had a terrible cold and wanted her to rest. Other reports from witnesses make much more sense—that Marilyn saw Pat as always defending the Kennedys (which was very true; she even went to work with Robert Kennedy after Marilyn’s death). Marilyn was becoming more and more convinced that those closest to her were not taking her side in matters related to the Kennedy brothers (which was also true). 74
12:30-2:00 pm
The tension between Marilyn and Pat cools off and the two spend some time around the house. Pat rests and gets some sun for her cold. Marilyn occupies herself with a bunch of trees that have been delivered for her yard’s new landscaping. Furniture had recently been delivered (in addition to the nightstand that was delivered this morning) and Marilyn concerns herself with these matters around the house. She is in the process of redecorating her