President Kennedy's Birthday Gala (with Marilyn)

[+ WilliamM]

[+ WilliamM]

[BabyBoomer]

 

And 11 weeks after this performance she was "the late Marilyn Monroe".

 

~Boomer~

[+ WilliamM]

I remember hearing MM had died early on Sunday morning (east coast time). Very surprising then.

[+ azdr0710]

very pricey tickets for 1962.....but I know it was a star-studded fund-raiser

[+ WilliamM]

John and Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Marilyn Monroe and many others went to the New York home of the very wealthy Hollywood big shot, Arthur Krim, after Madison Square Garden. Years later, Mathilde Krim, his scientist wife, founded amFAR, the major national organization fighting HIV AIDS.

[JayCeeKy]

10 days before Kennedy's actual birthday of May 29.

 

And yes, because she was late coming on stage that night at the Garden (she was backstage arguing with Peter Lawford and also having trouble fitting into her skin-tight dress), she was introduced as "the Late Marilyn Monroe."

[Kippy]

very pricey tickets for 1962.....but I know it was a star-studded fund-raiser

 

I would agree-- $100.00 was a two week pay check for my Dad in 1962!

[+ WilliamM]

 

Marilyn Monroe, Robert and John Kennedy after MSG at the with the Krim family in Manhattan