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Shortly after the attack ended, Israel informed the U.S. that its forces had attacked the Liberty in error—a friendly fire incident. An Israeli inquiry by Colonel Ram Ron concluded that the attack was caused by a chain of mistakes by Israel Defense Force (IDF) personnel. The IDF, in its History Report about the attack, says that an IAF (Israel Air Force) ‘Nord’ reconnaissance aircraft discovered a ship approaching the war-zone area, during early morning hours. A marker for the ship’s location was placed on an IDF control table. The ship was eventually identified as USS Liberty. At about 1100 (local time), the Liberty’s marker was removed from the control table because the ship’s current location was unknown. On June 5, the United States government was asked to inform the IDF of any U.S. ships in the area, they were not told of Liberty’s mission. During the attack, the IDF air and naval forces, respectively, misidentified the Liberty as an unknown destroyer and the Egyptian cargo ship El Quseir. Supporters of Israel’s explanation say that no credible motive existed for Israel to initiate a surprise attack against an important ally and the possibility of such mistakes were inherent in the tense atmosphere of the Six-Day War. The United States government was concerned about such dangers and ordered the Liberty farther away from shore but the order was not received in time due to a series of communication failures. The IDF’s History Report about the attack points out that “though the attack on the armed forces of a friendly nation is a most regrettable and painful occurrence, incidents of this kind do occur in war-time.”.

Some American government officials and others did not believe the attack was an innocent mistake.

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They noted that various aircraft, apparently Israeli, flew over Liberty at regular intervals—some at low altitudes—before the attack; and that Liberty was about twice as large as El Quseir, designated with Latin rather than Arabic letters, displaying the US flag, and differently configured. Proponents include the surviving Liberty crewmen, and some former U.S. government officials, including then-CIA director Richard Helms and then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk as well as Admiral Thomas Hinman Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Johnson administration did not publicly dispute Israel’s claim that the attack had been nothing more than a disastrous mistake, but internal White House documents obtained from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library show that the Israelis’ explanation of how the mistake had occurred was not believed.

Both the Israeli and American governments conducted inquiries into the incident, and issued reports concluding that the attack was a tragic mistake, caused by confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty. The conclusions reached in the inquiry reports remain controversial, and some veterans and intelligence officials who were involved in the incident continue to dispute the official story, claiming Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty remains the only major maritime incident in American history not investigated by Congress. In May 1968, Israel paid US$3,323,500 as full payment on behalf of the families of the 34 men killed in the attack. In March 1969 Israel paid a further $3,566,457 in compensation to the men who had been wounded. On 18 December 1980

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Israel agreed to pay $6 million as settlement for the U.S. claim of $7,644,146 for material damage to the Liberty itself.

On December 17, 1987, the issue was officially closed by the two governments through an exchange of diplomatic notes.

Source: Wikipedia   For a comprehensive report on the USS Liberty incident, please see the Wikipedia article.

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The murder of Donna Lauria on July 29 1976 was one of around 20,000 murders in the US that year and did not merit a great deal of attention in New York, especially as it happened in an area of the Bronx in which the Mafia held power. 

The city’s cynical journalists paid little heed to the killing, assuming perhaps that she had seen something or said something which had annoyed La Cosa Nostra.

Two more murders were committed, and several other people seriously injured, before a press conference at the NYPD’s headquarters at One Police Plaza on March 10 informed the nation that the same .44 caliber revolver had been responsible for the murders of Miss Lauria, and Virginia Voskerichian, a 19-year-old Armenian-American, who had been killed two days before.

Police Commissioner Mike Codd said the gun had also been responsible for the murder of Christine Freund and two other shootings in the Bronx and neighboring Queens. The New York tabloid press seized on the story and within days everyone in the city was aware of the existence of the man known at the time as The .44 Caliber Killer.

In the early hours of April 17 1977, David Berkowitz blasted to death young lovers Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani and left a handwritten letter in the middle of the street nearby, addressed to Captain Joe Borelli, the deputy chief of the task force, which had been set up to hunt down The .44 Caliber Killer.

The sender of the letter claimed he had been ordered to kill by his father, Sam, who he said was a vampire. The letter was not released to the public and only a handful of journalists were told of its contents. 

One of them was New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin, who dropped several hints about it in his articles. On 30 May 1977 Berkowitz sent Breslin a letter and the Daily News published it and dubbed the killer The Son of Sam.

The summer of 1977 was sweltering and the heat only helped to raise the tension on the streets. In the early hours of June 26 a young Italian-American, Sal Lupo, left the Elephas disco in Queens with 17-year-old Judy Placido. They sat in Sal’s car nearby and Judy said “This Son of Sam is really scary. The way that guy comes out of nowhere. You never know where he’ll hit next”.

Suddenly the car’s window exploded and the couple were hit by three bullets from a .44 revolver. Sal staggered out of the car and ran to the disco for help as the killer fled. Miraculously neither Sal nor Judy were badly injured, and four weeks passed with no further incidents – but the detectives were no nearer finding out the identity of the killer.

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On  July 31 1977, Stacy Moskowitz went out on a first date with handsome Bobby Violante. Son of Sam’s hunting grounds were known to be the Bronx and Queens so the young couple (who had been to the movies to see New York, New York) thought they were safe when they pulled up under a streetlight in a lovers’ lane in south Brooklyn just before 2:00am.

Stacy and Bobby were kissing in the front seat when the windows shattered and she jerked forward. The gunfire had burst Bobby’s eardrums. He also lost his left eye and much of the vision in his right eye, but he survived. 

Stacy was taken to hospital and surgeons fought for 38 hours to save her life, but their efforts were in vain and Stacy became Son of Sam’s sixth victim.

But Berkowitz made a mistake which was to prove his undoing . . . He parked his white Ford Galaxy next to a fire hydrant and was given a parking ticket by an eagle-eyed police officer. When he returned to his car around 2:20am he was spotted by a local woman, Cacilia Davis, as he tore the ticket off his windscreen and threw it in the gutter.

When Ms Davis came forward her statement was initially ignored by police, who had been told by other witnesses that the killer was fair-haired and driving a yellow Volkswagen. She was also told no parking tickets had been issued that night.

But Ms Davis persevered and 10 days after the shooting police finally unearthed a ticket which had been issued to a Ford Galaxy, registration number 561 XLB.

The registered owner was David Berkowitz, who lived at 35 Pine Street in the northern suburb of New York.

When armed police swooped on Berkowitz as he got into his car, they demanded to know who he was. He smiled manically and said “I’m Sam”.

He was taken into custody and confessed to all six murders and several other shootings during a 30-minute interview. Detectives quizzed him about references he had made in his letters to Sam. 

As Lennon and Ono walked to their limousine, they were approached by several people seeking autographs, among them Chapman. He silently handed Lennon a copy of Double Fantasy, and Lennon obliged with an autograph. After signing the album Lennon asked him, “Is this all you want?” Chapman nodded in agreement. Photographer and Lennon fan Paul Goresh snapped photos of them both.

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The Lennons spent several hours at the Record Plant studio before returning to the Dakota at about 10:50 p.m. Lennon decided against eating out so he could be home in time to say goodnight to five-year-old son Sean before he went to sleep. They exited their limousine on 72nd Street, even though the car could have been driven into the more secure courtyard.

The Dakota’s doorman, Jose Perdomo, and a cab driver saw Chapman standing in the shadows by the archway. Ono walked ahead of Lennon and into the reception area. As Lennon passed by, Chapman fired five hollow-point bullets at Lennon from a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver. There was an isolated radio and newspaper claim at the time that, before firing, Chapman called out “Mr. Lennon” and dropped into a “combat stance”, but this is not stated in court hearings or witness interviews. Chapman has said he did not remember calling out Lennon’s name before he shot him. One shot missed, passing over Lennon’s head and hitting a window of the Dakota building. However, two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two more penetrated his left shoulder. All four bullets inflicted severe gunshot wounds, with at least one of them piercing Lennon’s aorta. Lennon staggered up five steps to the security/reception area, said, “I’m shot,” and collapsed. Concierge Jay Hastings covered Lennon with his uniform, and removed his glasses; he then summoned the police. Outside, doorman Perdomo shook the gun out of Chapman’s hand then kicked it across the sidewalk. Chapman then removed his coat and hat in preparation for the police arrival to show he was not carrying any concealed weapons and sat down on the sidewalk. Doorman Perdomo shouted at Chapman, “Do you know what you’ve done?”, to which Chapman calmly replied, “Yes, I just shot John Lennon.” The first policemen to arrive were Steve Spiro and Peter Cullen, who were at 72nd Street and Broadway when they heard a report of shots fired at the Dakota. The officers found Chapman sitting “very calmly” on the sidewalk. They reported that Chapman had dropped the revolver to the ground, and was holding a paperback book, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Chapman had scribbled a message on the book’s inside front cover: “This is my statement. — The Catcher in the Rye.” He would later claim that his life mirrored that of Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist of the book.

The second team, Officers Bill Gamble and James Moran, arrived a few minutes later. They immediately carried Lennon into their squad car and rushed him to Roosevelt Hospital. Officer Moran said they placed Lennon on the back seat. Moran asked, “Do you know who you are?” There are conflicting accounts on what happened next. In one account, Lennon nodded slightly and tried to speak, but could only manage to make a gurgling sound, and lost consciousness shortly thereafter.

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Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival in the emergency room at the Roosevelt Hospital at 11:20 p.m. by Dr. Stephan Lynn. The cause of death was reported as hypovolemic shock, caused by the loss of more than 80% of blood volume. Dr. Elliott M. Gross, the Chief Medical Examiner, said that no one could have lived more than a few minutes with such multiple bullet injuries. As Lennon was shot four times using hollow-point bullets, which expand upon entering the target and severely disrupt more tissue as they travel through the target, Lennon’s affected organs were virtually destroyed upon impact. Ono, crying “Oh no, no, no, no… tell me it’s not true,” was taken to Roosevelt Hospital and led away in shock after she learned that her husband was dead. The following day, Ono issued a statement: “There is no funeral for John. John loved and prayed for the human race. Please do the same for him. Love, Yoko and Sean.” Lennon was cremated on December 10, 1980, at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, and his ashes were given to Ono. Chapman pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life. He is still in prison, having been denied parole five times.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

radar equipment. He became a leader in the Young Communist League, where he met Ethel in 1936, before marrying her three years later.

Ethel Greenglass was born on September 28, 1915, in New York. She was an aspiring actress and singer, but eventually took a secretarial job at a shipping company. She became involved in labor disputes and joined the Young Communist League, where she first met Julius. The Rosenbergs had two sons, Robert and Michael.

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The trial against the Rosenbergs began on March 6, 1951. From the beginning, the trial attracted a high amount of media attention and generated a largely polarized response from observers, some of whom believed the Rosenbergs to be clearly guilty, and others who asserted their innocence.

The Rosenbergs were convicted on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death under Section 2 of the Espionage Act. The couple were the only two American civilians to be executed for espionage-related

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activity during the Cold War. Judge Kaufman noted that he held them responsible not only for espionage but also for the deaths of the Korean War, since the information leaked to the Russians was believed to help them develop the A-bomb and stimulate Communist aggression in Korea. Their case has been at the center of the controversy over communism in the United States ever since.

In Rapid City, “he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk… He was undoubtedly painfully aware of how he looked, and he knew that in his condition, he could not perform any significant movement.” His performance in Omaha “exceeded everyone’s worst fears… [giving] the impression of a man crying out for help…” According to Guralnick, fans “were becoming increasingly

The Death of Elvis Presley

The book Elvis: What Happened? was the first exposé to detail Presley’s years of drug misuse, and was apparently the authors’ revenge for them being sacked, and, too, a plea to get Presley to recognize the extent of his drug problems. The singer “was devastated by the book. Here were his close friends who had written serious stuff that would affect his life. He felt betrayed.”

Presley’s final performance was in Indianapolis at the Market Square Arena, on June 26, 1977. According to many of his entourage who accompanied him on tour, it was the “best show he had given in a long time” with “some strong singing”.

Another tour was scheduled to begin August 17, 1977, but at Graceland the day before, Presley was found on his bathroom floor by fiancée, Ginger Alden. According to the medical investigator, Presley had “stumbled or crawled several feet before he died”; he had apparently been using the toilet at the time. Death was officially pronounced at 3:30 pm at the Baptist Memorial Hospital.

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Before his funeral, hundreds of thousands of fans, the press and celebrities lined the streets and many hoped to see the open casket in Graceland. One of Presley’s cousins, Bobby Mann, accepted $18,000 to secretly photograph the corpse; the picture duly appeared on the cover of the National Enquirer, making it the largest and fastest selling issue of all time. Two days after the singer’s death, a car plowed into a group of 2000 fans outside Presley’s home, killing two women and critically injuring a third. Among the mourners at the funeral were Ann-Margret (who had remained close to Presley) and his ex-wife. U.S. President Jimmy Carter issued a statement.

On Thursday, August 18, following a funeral service at Graceland, Elvis Presley was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis, next to his mother. After an attempt to steal the body on August 28, and with no signs of security concerns at the cemetery abating, his—and his mother’s—remains were reburied at Graceland in the Meditation Garden in October.

Presley had developed many health problems during his life, some of them chronic. Opinions differ regarding the onset of his drug abuse. He did take amphetamines regularly in the army; it has been claimed that pills of some form were first given to him by Memphis DJ Dewey Phillips, but Presley’s friend Lamar Fike has said: “Elvis got his first uppers from what he stole from his mother. Gladys was given Dexedrine to help her with her ‘change of life’ problems.” Priscilla Presley saw “problems in Elvis’ life, all magnified by taking prescribed drugs.” Presley’s physician, Dr. Nichopoulos, has said: “[Elvis] felt that by getting [pills] from a doctor, he wasn’t the common everyday junkie getting something off the street. He… thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything.”

According to Guralnick: “[D]rug use was heavily implicated… no one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills… to which he was known to have had a mild allergy.” In two lab reports filed two months later, each indicated “a strong belief that the primary cause of death was polypharmacy,” with one report “indicating the detection of fourteen drugs in Elvis’ system, ten in significant quantity.”

The medical profession has been seriously questioned. Medical Examiner Dr. Jerry Francisco had publicly offered a cause of death while the autopsy was still being performed, but before toxicology results were known. Dr. Francisco dubiously stated that cardiac arrhythmia was the cause of death, a condition that can only be determined in a living person—not post mortem. Many doctors had been flattered to be associated with Presley (or had been bribed with gifts) and supplied him with pills, which simply fed his addictions. The singer allegedly spent at least $1 million annually during his latter years on drugs and doctors’ fees or inducements. Although Dr. Nichopoulos was exonerated with regard to Presley’s death, “In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had [prescribed] more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics: all in Elvis’ name. On January 20, 1980, the board found [against] him… but decided that he was not unethical [because he claimed he'd been trying to wean the singer off the drugs].” His license was suspended. In July 1995, it was permanently revoked after it was found he had improperly dispensed drugs to several patients including Jerry Lee Lewis.

In 1994, the autopsy into Presley’s death was re-opened. Coroner Dr. Joseph Davis declared: “There is nothing in any of the data that supports a death from drugs [i.e. drug overdose]. In fact, everything points to a sudden, violent heart attack.” However, there is little doubt that polypharmacy/Combined Drug Intoxication caused his premature death.

Richard M. Nixon

Richard Nixon had been elected President in 1968, promising to end the Vietnam War. In November 1969, the My Lai Massacre was exposed, prompting widespread outrage around the world and leading to increased public opposition to the war. In addition, the following month saw the first draft lottery instituted since World War II. The war had appeared to be winding down throughout 1969, so the new invasion of Cambodia angered those who believed it only exacerbated the conflict. Many young people, including college students and teachers, were concerned about being drafted to fight in a war that they strongly opposed. The expansion of that war into another country appeared to them to have increased that risk, though the number of troops serving in Vietnam peaked in 1967, well before that time. Across the country, campuses erupted in protests in what Time called “a nation-wide student strike”, setting the stage for the events of early May 1970.

The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or Kent State massacre,

National Guardsmen at Kent State, May 1970

occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio. It involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The Guardsmen shot into the crowd 67 times for 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.

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Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon announced in a television address on April 30. However, other students who were shot had merely been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.

There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of eight million students, and the event further divided the country, at this already socially contentious time, along political lines.

First news reports erroneously reported that three people had been killed with two of them being National Guardsmen (see first newspaper). Much of the confusion was sorted out the next day – May 6th. Please click on the images below to view scalable .pdf reproductions of the newspapers.

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Leaving the British port of Southampton on April 10th, the Titanic was involved in a near miss with the liner New York. The moorings securing the New York broke as the Titanic passed by. The New York was pulled to safety but not before she came within 4 feet of striking the Titanic. The near miss was considered fortunate at the time. However, fate would prove otherwise. Had there been a collision, the delay would have probably have resulted in the Titanic and the deadly iceberg passing each other without incident.

After a port call in Cherbourg, France, the Titanic headed for New York. Although the boilers had not yet been lit, she made very good progress. It is alleged that J. Bruce Ismay, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, wanted Captain Smith to light the boilers so that they would arrive at New York earlier than planned. As a result, it is alleged that Captain Smith then ordered all boilers lit and the Titanic picked up speed.

The ice fields in the North Atlantic are normally kept from moving south by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. However, that year the Gulf Stream had moved further south, allowing ice to drift in a more southerly direction.
The night of April 14, 1912 was a moonless night. During such dark conditions, lookouts normally would spot icebergs by the ripples caused when the wind would break at their bases. Since the night was not only dark, but also calm, the lookouts were virtually blind. At 11:40 PM the iceberg was finally spotted. Although First Officer Murdoch immediately ordered the ship to steer around it, the order came too late. The iceberg grazed the starboard side of the Titanic causing the rivets that held the hull together to snap.

As water began to enter the ship, Murdoch ordered watertight doors to be closed, thus trapping workers in those compartments. The Titanic was designed to stay afloat with four or fewer flooded compartments. However, on this fateful night, five compartments were breached. Titanic was sinking as the forward end of the ship was weighed down by the flooding.

Some lifeboats were launched but, because there was no immediate sign of danger, many were not at full capacity. Gradually the gravity of the situation was apparent as Titanic began to list. Frightened passengers fought for places on the remaining lifeboats, now filled to capacity. By 2 AM only two lifeboats remained and the entire bow of the ship was submerged causing the stern to rise out of the water.

The stern continued to rise at an alarming angle and passengers began leaping into the water, hoping to reach a lifeboat. As the bow sank even lower, the pressure on the ship’s hull caused the ship to break up. The bow, now free from the rest of the ship, plummeted to the ocean floor and the stern crashed back into the water.

By 2:20 AM what was left of the Titanic also sank to the depths of the Atlantic. With the loss of 1517 souls, the sinking of the Titanic was the worst peacetime maritime disaster on record.

First newspaper accounts of the disaster, on April 15th, were optimistic – going so far as to announce that all on board had been rescued. As the days went by, reports were much gloomier and eventually, blame for the disaster was tossed around rather haphazardly.

Presented here are the front pages of the Syracuse Herald from April 15th through April 20th, 1912. As you can see, first reports indicated that all were saved and that the great ship was “limping” along toward Halifax, Nova Scotia. The progression of the news articles tell quite a tale.

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Titanic First Report - April 15, 1912

Titanic News - April 16, 1912

Titanic News - April 17, 1912

Titanic News - April 18, 1912

Titanic News - April 19, 1912

Titanic News - April 20, 1912

The .pdf files in this post are photo reproduction of the newspaper articles reporting the death of the legendary blonde bombshell actress.  Although she died on August 5th, news of her death did not reach the general public until August 6th when the morning papers announced the tragedy.

In the days that followed, Marilyn’s death was ruled to be “acute barbiturate poisoning” by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroners office and listed as “probable suicide.” Many individuals, including Sgt. Jack Clemmons, the first Los Angeles Police Department officer to arrive at the death scene, believed that she was murdered. However, no murder charges were ever filed.

Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death is probably one of the most hotly debated conspiracy theories of our times.  Although all questions were officially answered after Monroe’s death, many conspiracy theorists feel some questions remain.  Of particular interest are the circumstances and timeline of Monroe’s death after her body was found.

Marilyn Monroe Found Dead

A comparison of the contemporary reports of her death with the facts that later surfaced is quite interesting. Here is the timeline of events, from Wikipedia.

* 7:30pm. Peter Lawford telephones Monroe. Lawford claims she sounded depressed, her speech was slurred and became less and less audible so he had to yell in order to wake her. Monroe’s last words to him were “Say Good-bye to the President and say good-bye to yourself, because you’re a really nice guy”. Some of these elaborate theories arrive from:
* 8-9pm. Henry Rosefeld telephones Monroe and states she sounded normal.
* Around 9pm Monroe telephones hairdresser Sidney Guilaroff to arrange an appointment.
* 9:30-10pm. Former boyfriend Jose Bolanos telephones and states Monroe sounded normal.
* Sometime after 10pm Monroe telephones Jeanne Carmen to invite her over for a talk but due to the late hour Carmen declines.
* 10pm. Housekeeper Eunice Murray walks past Monroe’s door and states she saw a light on under the door but decided not to disturb her.
* Midnight. Murray notices the light under the door again and knocks but gets no reply. She tells police she immediately telephoned Dr Ralph Greenson, Monroe’s psychiatrist.

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* Dr Greenson arrives and tries to break open the door but fails. He looks through the French windows outside and sees Monroe lying on the bed holding the telephone and apparently dead so breaks the glass to open the locked door and checks her. He calls Dr Engelberg.

The carpet in Monroe’s room was a thick pile which made it difficult but not impossible for Murray to have seen light under the door and the French windows had blackout blinds which also made it difficult to see inside the room.

* Police are called and arrive shortly after 4:30am. The two doctors and Murray are questioned and indicate a time of death of around 12:30am.
* Police note the room is extremely tidy and the bed appears to have fresh linen on it. They claim Murray was washing sheets when they arrived.
* Police noted that the bedside table has several pill bottles but the room contained no means to wash pills down as there was no glass and the water was turned off. Monroe is known to gag on pills even when drinking to wash them down. Later a glass was found lying on the floor by the bed but police claim it was not there when the room was searched.
* 5:40am. The undertaker, Guy Hockett, arrives and notes that the state of rigor mortis indicates a time of death between 9:30 and 11:30pm. The time is later altered to match the witness statements.

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* 6am. Murray changes her story and now says she went back to bed at midnight and only called Dr Greenson when she awoke at 3am and noticed the light still on. Both doctors also changed their stories and now claim Monroe died around 3:50am. Police noted Murray appeared quite evasive and extremely vague and she would eventually change her story several times. Despite being a key witness Murray travelled to Europe and was not questioned again.
* The pathologist Dr Thomas Noguchi could find no trace of capsules, powder or the typical discolouration caused by Nembutal in Monroe’s stomach or intestines indicating the drugs that killed her had not been swallowed. If Monroe had swallowed the drugs there would have been residue. If Monroe had taken them over a period of time which might account for the lack of residue she would have died long before ingesting the amount found in her bloodstream. Monroe was found lying face down but lividity on her back and the posterior aspect of the arms and legs indicated she had died lying on her back. The body was covered in bruises, all minor except for one on her hip. There was also evidence of cyanosis, an indication that death was very quick. Noguchi had asked the toxicologist for examinations of the blood, liver, kidneys, stomach, urine, and intestines which would have revealed exactly how the drugs got into Monroe’s system. However the toxicologist after examining the blood didn’t believe he needed to check other organs so many of the organs were destroyed without being examined. When Noguchi asked for the samples, the medical photographs and slides of those that were examined and the examination form showing bruises on the body had disappeared making it impossible to investigate the cause of death.
* The toxicology report shows high levels of Nembutal (38-66 capsules) and Chloral Hydrate (14-23 tablets) in Monroe’s blood. The level found was enough to kill more than 10 people .
* An examination of the body ruled out intravenous injection as the source of the drugs leaving only an enema or suppository as a source. These sources were considered unlikely and had no evidence in support so Naguchi reluctantly wrote that the drugs were swallowed.
* The coroner, Dr. Theodore Curphey, oversaw the full autopsy. Apart from the cause of death as listed on the death certificate, the results were never made public and no record of the findings were kept.

The Good Friday Earthquake (also called the Great Alaska Earthquake) of Friday, March 27, 1964 (Good Friday, a Christian holy day), 5:36 P.M. AST (03:36 3/28 UTC) was the most powerful earthquake in U.S. and North American history, and the third most powerful ever measured by seismograph. The epicenter was about 10km east of the mouth of College Fjord, approximately 90 km west of Valdez and 120 km east of Anchorage.

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The epicenter was located at Lat. 61.04N, Lon. 147.73W, at a depth of approximately 25km. The duration of rupture lasted approximately 4 minutes (240 seconds.) The magnitude 9.2 earthquake, which resulted in 131 deaths, was centered in Prince William Sound off the coast of South Central Alaska. The powerful earthquake also caused some parts of Alaska to be liquefied, causing much damage to property and leading to landslides.

At 5:36 p.m. Alaska Standard Time (3:36 a.m. March 27, 1964 UTC), just as people were travelling home, a fault between the Pacific and North American plates ruptured near College Fjord in Prince William Sound. The earthquake lasted for three to five minutes in most areas. Ocean floor shifts created large tsunamis (up to 20 meters (50ft) in height), which resulted in many of the deaths and much of the property damage. Vertical displacement of up to 11.5 m (38 feet) occurred, affecting an area of 250,000 km² (100,000 miles²) within Alaska.

131 people were killed as a result of the earthquake: nine in the earthquakeitself, 106 from tsunamis in Alaska, and 16 from tsunamis in Oregon and California. Property damage was estimated at over $300 million ($1.8 billion in 2007 U.S. dollars). Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area  Ranked 1st  - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²)  - Width 808 miles (1,300 km)  - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km)  - % water 13. …

Most property damage occurred in Anchorage, 120 km (75 mi) northwest of the epicenter. Nine people were killed, the only deaths directly attributed to the earthquake. Anchorage was not hit by tsunamis, but downtown Anchorage was heavily damaged, and parts of the city built on clay or near bluffs, most notably the Turnagain Heights neighborhood, suffered landslide damage. Most other areas of the city were only moderately damaged.mage File history File links Download high resolution version (1000×666, 159 KB)Landslide damage in the Turnagain Heights neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska as a result of the Good Friday Earthquake. … Landslide of soil and regolith in Pakistan A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows. …
The small coastal towns of Girdwood and Portage, located approximately 60 km (40 mi) southeast of Anchorage on

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Turnagain Arm, were destroyed. Girdwood was later relocated a few miles inland, while Portage, which subsided below the high-water level, was abandoned entirely.

Most towns in the Prince William Sound, Kenai Peninsula, and Kodiak Island areas, especially the major ports, such as Seward and Kodiak, were heavily hit by a combination of seismic damage, tsunamis, subsidence, and/or fire. Valdez was destroyed; the town was later moved to more solid ground 7 km (4 mi) west of its original site. Several of the smaller, low-lying Alaska Native villages in the area (such as Chenega and Afognak) were mostly or totally destroyed. The earthquake also caused the ballistic missile detection radar of Clear Air Force Station to go offline for six minutes, the only unscheduled interruption in its operational history.

A 1.4 m (4.5 ft) wave reached Prince Rupert, British Columbia, just south of the Alaska Panhandle, about 3.3 hours after the quake. The tsunami then reached Tofino, on the exposed west coast of Vancouver Island, and travelled up a fjord to hit Port Alberni twice, damaging 375 homes and washing away 55 others. The towns of Hot Springs Cove, Zeballos, and Amai also saw damage. The damage in British Columbia was estimated at $10 million Canadian ($65 million in 2006 Canadian dollars, or $56 million in 2006 U.S. dollars).

Twelve people were killed by the tsunami in Crescent City, California. Other towns along the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Hawaii were damaged. Minor damage to boats reached as far south as Los Angeles. Crescent Citys harbor, with the jetty visible Crescent City is the county seat, and the only incorporated city of Del Norte County, California, USA. It is named after the crescent-shaped stretch of sandy beach south of the city. … The Pacific Northwest from space This page is about the region that includes parts of Canada and the US. For the US only region, see Northwestern United States The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. … This article or section does not cite its references or sources. … Nickname: City of Angels Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Area    - City  498. …
Since the entire Earth vibrated as a result of the quake, minor effects were felt worldwide: several fishing boats were sunk in Louisiana and water sloshed in wells in South Africa.