Date: 08-20-12
Host: George Noory
Guests: Richard Belzer, Joyce Riley
In the first half, registered nurse and talk show host, Joyce Riley, talked about war vets' illnesses and increased rate of suicide. Among troops, suicides are up 22% from a year go, and this past July was the worst month on record. We have a military that has more deaths from suicides than from war, she noted. The problem is even more severe, if you include those who aren't tracked in studies-- the Guard and Reserve, and vets who have left the military, Riley added. The Dept. of Defense denies any involvement, and says those who killed themselves were just troubled people, she said. They do however hand off money for the VA to research the problem, who in turn report that they can't single out a cause, so they give funding to the Rand Corp. and Instit. of Medicine and other organizations to further look at the problem, and yet nothing is done to actually help the soldiers, Riley bemoaned.
In the latter half, stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Richard Belzer, (best known for his role as John Munch on the hit NBC show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) discussed his new book, Dead Wrong, co-written with researcher David Wayne, which looks at various controversial cover-ups. Rather than commit suicide, Marilyn Monroe was actually murdered, he asserted. The first police officer on the scene declared that it was a "staged suicide," and "it's literally impossible that she swallowed the pills they say that killed her because there were no refractive crystals in her digestive system," Belzer reported. He believes she was murdered to embarrass the Kennedys (Bobby Kennedy was said to visit Marilyn on her last day), and subsequently the murder scene was cleaned up, so it would not be investigated as a murder, and bring attention to the Kennedys.
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