On October 13, 1962, he made his first claims of seeing the “prophetic vision”, more than two months “after the fact”, as follows,

 

“I was in the mountains a few weeks ago. And way back when I was coming home, we went back (the family and I) to rest a little, where we're going again, the Lord willing, next week. And then, back there one night, I saw a vision. And it was a--a lovely, pretty woman, looked young woman running; she had her hand here, and she was perishing with a heart attack, a beautiful woman. And she dropped and was gone. And the Angel of the Lord said, "Now, when you hear of this, remember, they're going to say that she committed suicide, but she died in a heart attack. And it's almost 4:00, so you just say 4 o'clock," and then He left me.

And I didn't wake the family up in the little cow camp (or where the cowboys stay, where we'd go back there to round up the cattle), I--I just let them sleep until morning. And then, the next day I mentioned it, and I said, "Some young woman, very attractive, is going to die in a heart attack." And on the road out two days later, there it come in on the radio that this Miss (I can't think of her name.) Monroe, Mrs. Monroe. I think that was her stage name, or whatever it was; her name was something else. And she had died, and they said she committed suicide.

Now, it don't make any difference how much I'd say it; they're still going to say she committed suicide. But the child did not; she died in a heart attack. And if you'd watch, she had her hand, trying to get to the phone--the phone in her hand. She'd had a heart attack. They said sleeping pills was there; she'd been taking them for a month (See?) or more, out of that bottle. She died in a heart attack, and she died about four or five seconds before 4 o'clock, exactly.” “The Influence of Another” (62-1013).

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On November 24, 1962 (six weeks later), William Branham contradicted his claims that he “didn't wake the family up” and waited until the next day to tell them about “the vision” by stating that he told them about it a “couple hours” later,

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“Setting up in Colorado a few months ago in a--a little cabin, I went and said to my son, my wife, my daughter-in-law, and them: "Last couple of hours something happened.

I saw a young lady, a beautiful woman, and she had kind of thick lips, looked like I'd saw her somewhere. And she's--she was trying to get to a doctor, and she died."

And the Spirit that was speaking to me, said, "Now, they will say that she committed suicide, but she died with a heart attack." And said, "It's just a little before four, but you can say it was four o'clock," and the vision left me. I told them, "What did that mean?" I didn't know. "Somebody's fixing to die."

When we come out of the mountains two days later, that movie star (What's that woman's name?), Marilyn Monroe, she was kind of a striptease or...” “All Things” (62-1124E).

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Then on June 1, 1963, he made no mention of the Spirit or Angel of the Lord talking to him in the “vision”, but just seeing Marilyn Monroe “dying, reaching, trying to get help”,

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“When I seen that girl that I... other night in the vision, young pretty girl, Hollywood actress, and I seen her dying, reaching, trying to get to help. She died in a heart attack, Miss Monroe. And then that's been two years ago, and I seen her dying. And two days later she did die.” “Come Follow Me” (63-0601).

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On June 23, 1963, William Branham contradicted his claims further by stating that he saw the vision about a week before her death,

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“And then I remember this Marilyn Monroe, the girl that I saw die about a week before she died, and how that they said she committed suicide, when she didn't. I told them about it, before, what would happen, and it did.” “Standing in the Gap” (63-0623M).

 

Because William Branham made the above claims “after the fact” and provided contradictory and ever-changing versions of them, they are not credible, especially without any evidence to substantiate them.

 

His claims that Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide, but died of a heart attack, are also not credible because the Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, Theodore J. Curphey, M.D., specifically determined that Marilyn Monroe died from either a massive overdose of barbiturates or Nembutal (a barbiturate) or chloral hydrate (a sedative), which were found in lethal doses in her system.[1] In Dr. Curphey's August 17, 1962 official statement, he specifically determined that the “mode of death” was suicide, which is consistent with her death certificate that is provided at the end of this page. As indicated therein, her cause of death was due to “acute barbiturate poisoning”, “ingestion of overdose” and “probable suicide.” 

 

William Branham's claims that she died from a heart attack are also contradicted by her autopsy report, which identifies no abnormalities, defects or problems with her cardiovascular system and contains no indications of heart failure.

 

​The autopsy was conducted by the then deputy medical examiner, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, who, like Dr. Curphey, determined that her cause of death was suicide. So high were the lethal amounts of medicine in her liver that Dr. Noguchi's made the following findings,

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“Monroe’s liver actually had a level of stored barbiturates three to four times that of her blood. Yet her blood level was high enough — equivalent to about forty or fifty capsules of regular-strength sleeping pills. For the average person, ten to fifteen are potentially lethal.”[2]

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Throughout time, Noguchi never changed his professional opinion that her cause of death was suicide.

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“Almost 60 years on, Noguchi, now 82, sits in his salmon pink mock Tudor house in Los Angeles and all this talk of his having come under pressure makes him wave his hands dismissively. He believes now – as he believed then – that Monroe’s death was suicide. As for the purportedly suspicious aspects to her death, he carefully picks them off one by one.”[3]