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to the Nembutal injection that Case or Ahern gave Marilyn during the last afternoon of her life.
    A confidential source revealed, “Bobby said in his deposition that he and Peter Lawford went to Marilyn’s house late in the afternoon of August 4. There was a violent argument, and Marilyn was grabbed by Bobby and thrown to the floor . . . Then she was given an injection of pentobarbital in her armpit, which settled her down . . . RFK said in his statement that the doctor [Case or Ahern] gave Marilyn the shot under her left arm. He even named the artery on the tape. He said the shot that went into her was pentobarbital.”
    Talking with Jay Margolis about an event that took place in 1986, George Barris recalled, “Gloria Steinem and I were signing the book we did together in Brentwood in a big book store, and a woman came up to me. She was elderly. She wanted me to autograph a book. She said, ‘Mr. Barris, I was a neighbor to Marilyn. I was playing bridge with my friends, and there were people coming and going. That afternoon was Saturday. I saw someone who I believed was Bobby Kennedy and another man go into Marilyn’s home and they came out a short while later.’ She could see people who came and went. She didn’t know who the other man was but she assumed he was a doctor and he had a little black case. Doctors carry it . . . It probably was not Greenson because the psychiatrist came later to her house.”
    Since the bridge party hostess Mary W. Goodykoontz Barnes and guest Elizabeth Pollard were not the only two ladies at the bridge party, there must be another neighbor of Marilyn’s who spoke with George Barris in 1986. This third woman only identified herself to Mr. Barris as Marilyn Monroe’s neighbor. All that is known about her is that she was a guest at the bridge party at 12304 Fifth Helena Drive that last Saturday. In addition, there must have been a fourth person as a guest or an additional neighbor because including the hostess Mrs. Barnes, it takes four people to play bridge. The names of the third and fourth guest may never be known.
    It was in 1974 when Elizabeth Pollard’s daughter Betty relayed her mother’s story about the Saturday afternoon card party and the sighting of Bobby Kennedy. Biographers Brown and Barham wrote: “The Attorney General and another well-dressed man [Case or Ahern] came to the house sometime late in the afternoon. Women at a card party were able to see the man from an upstairs window. One of them, referring to Kennedy, said, ‘Look, girls, there he is again .’”
    Mrs. Murray explains how an author “related sensational rumors about Bobby Kennedy’s arriving at the house that afternoon with a physician, reportedly to sedate a hysterical Marilyn.” Mrs. Murray continues to comment how the “story stems from reports of a card party on Fifth Helena that afternoon at which the ladies were supposed to have looked out the window and seen Kennedy walking through Marilyn’s gate with a man carrying a doctor’s black bag.”
    Anthony Summers wrote, “I tracked that story to its source, a woman called Betty Pollard. She says her mother [Elizabeth Pollard] was playing bridge at a neighbor’s home that day, when her hostess drew the players’ attention to a car parking outside. Kennedy, immediately recognizable, emerged from the car and went into Marilyn’s house.”
    That afternoon, the card-playing friends saw Kennedy bring Case or Ahern. They did not see Greenson. Importantly, Greenson was not qualified to give intramuscular injections. The ladies witnessed Bobby Kennedy leave Marilyn’s, then quickly return again with “another well-dressed man” [Case or Ahern] carrying a black bag. Furthermore, the unidentified neighbor who spoke with Mr. Barris said she saw “Bobby Kennedy and another man go into Marilyn’s home and they came out a short while later.” In fact, since Greenson arrived nearly an hour later, it simply couldn’t have been him. Logistically, what