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AMBULANCE
One of the many mysteries surrounding Marilyn's death concerned some allegations about an ambulance supposedly called at the 5th Helena Drive, during the night of August 4 to 5, 1962.
Some biographers claim that a private company answered an anonymous call in the morning of August 5, and sent an ambulance at Marilyn's home.
This story had several versions. One of them pretends that the Shafer Ambulance Service Company
(
)
sent a vehicle driven by one of its employees named Murray
Leibowitz. They supposedly took Marilyn, comatose, but had managed to
resuscitate her during their drive towards the Santa Monica Hospital. Another version says that Dr Ralph Greenson would have taken the helm at Marilyn's home, and tried himself to resuscitate her, giving her an intra-cardiac injection.
In May 1986, James E.Hall (
) wrote an article in Hustler magazine,
in which he pretended that he was the driver of the Shaefer Company
ambulance this particular night, but that Dr Greenson had prevented him
and the nurse, to take Marilyn.
He claims that on August 4, with his team-mate Murray Leibowitz, they were just a few minutes far from 5th Helena Drive when they received the call. When they arrived, he remembers he had recognized Pat Newcomb as an hysterical woman, and remembers the presence of Peter Lawford and Dr Greenson. He assures that he had found Marilyn comatose on the couch of the house, making clear that they had put her on her back, trying to resuscitate her.
Another version pretends that, after the discovery of the lifeless body, Dr Greenson who couldn't reach Marilyn's G.P Dr Hyman Engelberg, called an ambulance. This one arrived too late for a resuscitation.
Then the ambulance men would have been fired.
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