Photo of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Released

by Amy Judd | June 1, 2010 at 08:10 am

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A Photo Taken in 1962 of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Together Has Surfaced

This photo, taken shortly after Marilyn Monroe sang Happy Birthday Mr. President to John F. Kennedy on May 19 1962 is one of the only public photos of the two together and was Monroe's last major public appearance before her early death.

The photograph was taken by Cecil Stoughton, the White House photographer at the time and shows JFK with his back to the camera and his brother Robert Kennedy looking at the couple.

"There is no other known photo of Bobby (Kennedy) with Marilyn or JFK with Marilyn and it's not because they were never photographed together," said filmmaker Keya Morgan, who now owns the only original prints of it. "In fact, they were photographed together many times, but the Secret Service and the FBI confiscated every single photograph."

According to Morgan, Stoughton told him that the FBI missed this one negative when they were confiscating all the photos of Robert and JFK with Marilyn. This one was missed because it was in the dryer.

Arthur Schlesinger Jr. an historian who can also be seen in the photo wrote of the photo:

"The image of this exquisite, beguiling and desperate girl will always stay with me," Schlesinger wrote. "I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating."

Tuesday June 1 would have been Marilyn Monroe's 84th birthday. There is still much mystery surrounding her death and how exactly she died.