Mouthfuls of molten lead, wild weather, and insanity: the occupational hazards of an early lighthouse keeper.
Investigator Milo Speriglio claims Monroe threatened to reveal CIA plots to kill Cuban president Fidel Castro after Kennedy, then attorney general, refused to marry her.
Henry Hall, the 94-year-old lighthouse keeper, discovered that a spark, probably from a candle in the lantern, had flown up and ignited the top of the tower. As Hall looked up to throw a bucket of water on the blaze, a stream of molten lead from the roof poured down his face and throat.