Jackie, Janet & Lee
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Documents: Last will and testament of John Bouvier III.
Part Three: Heady Times
Lee’s courtship and marriage to Stas:
Interviews: John Radziwill; Julian Balridge; Jamie Auchincloss.
Volumes: In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; The Radziwills: The Social History of a Great European Family by Tadeusz Nowakowski.
Jackie’s early days as wife of JFK presidential candidate:
Interviews: Julian Balridge; Jamie Auchincloss.
Volumes: The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An America Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Rose Kennedy’s Family Album: From the Fitzgerald Kennedy Private Collection by Caroline Kennedy; Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy and Michael Beschloss; John Fitzgerald Kennedy: As We Remember Him by Joan Meters and Goddard Lieberson; My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy by Mary Barelli Gallagher; Those Few Precious Days: The Final Year of Jack with Jackie by Christopher Andersen; Kennedy: The Classic Biography by Ted Sorensen; Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years by Barbara Leaming; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer; Sons of Camelot by Laurence Leamer; Torn Lace Curtain by Frank Saunders; The Kennedy Case by Rita Dallas; The Kennedy Men by Laurence Leamer; The Kennedys: A Chronological History by Harvey Rachin; Our Special Summer by Lee Bouvier and Jacqueline Bouvier.
Articles: “Mrs. Kennedy Improving After Loss of Child” Boston Globe, August 24, 1956; “Mrs. Kennedy Learned Politics by ‘Osmosis,’” New York Times, July 15, 1960; “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s, January 1975; “Ahhh Paris” by Lee Radziwill, McCall’s, November 1962.
Correspondence: Rose Kennedy to Janet Auchincloss, December 30, 1960.
Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library (for all of Janet’s memories of stumping for JFK, early Jackie and Jack homes, etc.); Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (interview conducted by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1974, as well as the newly released oral histories for the JFK Library in 2011); Joan Braden/JFK Library; Charles L. Bartlett/JFK Library; Edward Berube/JFK Library; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy/Herbert Hoover Library Foundation; Cardinal Richard Cushing/JFK Library; Paul B. Fay Jr./JFK Library; Dun Gifford/RFK Oral History Project; Roswell Gilpatric/JFK Library; Louella Hennessey/JFK Library; Robert Francis Kennedy/JFK Library.
Additionally: “Hugh D. Auchincloss Personal Papers”/JFK Library: personal correspondence with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, a memoir of their relationship, and mementos from President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration and trip to Paris in 1961.
Speech: “Mud Wrestling with History: Snapshots of My Life as a Brother-in-Law to John F. Kennedy” by James Lee Auchincloss.
Lee’s bout with postpartum depression:
Note: This subject was first broached in In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DubBois. Also, Lee alluded to it in her letter to Pope John XXIII, July 18, 1961: “Faith and hope in justice gave me unquenchable strength and saved me twice in my lifetime. I was gravely ill, mortally ill [her emphasis] in these last two years. Perhaps my faith was the miracle that saved me.”
Articles: “Lee Radziwill: Reluctant Princess” by Eddy Gilmore, Associated Press, July 5, 1960; “Lee Radziwill’s Search for Herself” by John J. Miller, The Column, December 17, 1972; “Princess Lee Radziwill” by Peter Evans, Cosmopolitan, March 1968.
Volumes: Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Barbara Leaming; Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West; The Bouviers by John Davis; Nothing to Declare by Taki.
Details of Stas’s affair of 1960:
Told to the author by an anonymous family source.
Part Four: The White House Years
Jackie’s romance with Jack Warnecke:
Beginning with the chapter “A New Love for Jackie?” and throughout this book, details of this relationship are culled from interviews with John Carl (Jack) Warnecke, March 1, 1998, April 1, 2007; Fred Warnecke, June 25, 2016; Margo Warnecke Merck, June 25, 2016; Harold Adams, July 29, 2016; Bertha Baldwin, July 8, 2016; Don Johnston, June 26, 2016.
Articles: “Jackie Kennedy—World’s Most Eligible Widow, Will She Marry Again?” by Lloyd Shearer, Detroit Free Press, December 4, 1966; “Jackie Aloha: When Jacqueline Kennedy Lived in Hawaii for Seven Weeks,” by Carl Anthony, CarlAnthonyOnLine.com, June 5, 2012.
JFK’s inauguration:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss, Adora Rule.
Oral History: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Letitia Baldrige/JFK Library; Charles Bartlett/JFK Library; Luella Hennessey/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library.
JFK’s visit to Hammersmith:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Eileen Slocum; Chauncey Parker III; Stelio Papadimitriou, June 8, 1998; Taki Theodoracopulos, June 20, 2016, July 15, 2016, September 8, 2016, October 22, 2016; Agnetta Castallanos, June 4, 2016, July 5, 2016, October 5, 2016, September 15, 2016.
Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Joan Braden/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis/LBJ Library.
Private Papers: “The First Lady as a Leader of Public Opinion,” PhD dissertation, Norma Ruth Holly Foreman, University of Texas at Austin, May 1971.
Articles: “Mother-in-Law for Kennedy,” Boston Globe, November 3, 1960; “Mrs. Kennedy Says Criticisms of Her Wardrobe Are Unfair,” New York Times, September 15, 1960.
Volumes: The Kennedy Legacy by Theodore Sorensen; With Kennedy by Pierre Salinger; Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West; Diamonds and Diplomats by Letitia Baldrige; Power at Play by Betty Beale; Ethel Kennedy and Life at Hickory Hill by Leah Mason (unpublished manuscript); The Kennedy Women by Laurence Leamer; Jack and Jackie by Christopher Andersen; All Too Human by Edward Klein; The Sins of the Father by Ronald Kessler; Seeds of Destruction by Ralph C. Martin; First Ladies by Carl Sferrazza Anthony; Jacqueline Kennedy by Gordon Langley Hall; The Kennedy White House Parties, by Ann H. Lincoln; Jacqueline Kennedy: La Première Dame des États-Unis by Peter Peterson; Jackie: The Exploitation of a First Lady by Irving Shulman; Reporter by Maxine Cheshire; Jackie Oh! by Kitty Kelley; The Bouviers by John Davis; Jacqueline Kennedy: Beauty in the White House by William Carr; Jackie: The Price of the Pedestal by Lee Guthrie; The President’s Partner: Beaton in the Sixties by Cecil Beaton and Hugo Vickers; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; Aristotle Onassis: The Fabulous Onassis by Christian Cafarakis; The Onassis Women by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos; Maria Callas by Anne Edwards; JFK: Day by Day by Terry Golway and Les Krantz; Rose Kennedy and Her Family by Barbara Gibson and Ted Schwartz.
Correspondence: Jackie Kennedy to Janet Auchincloss, October 1, 1960; Jackie Kennedy to William Walton, 1962.
Janet’s work with the National Cultural Center:
Interview: Jamie Auchincloss
Articles: “Drive Set for Fall for Cultural Center,” Washington Evening Star, July 14, 1962; “5000 Pay Half Million to Put Culture in Capital Letters,” Washington Post, November 30, 1962; “Civic Group Seeks to Shift Location of Cultural Center,” Washington Post, February 15, 1964; “President to Wield Historic Spade” by Tom Kelly, Washington Evening Star, November 21, 1964; “Culture Was Seen but Not Always Heard,” Washington Daily News, November 30, 1962; “Kennedy Cultural Center Washington’s Home for the Arts,” The Georgetowner, November 19, 1964; “Labor Pledges to Aid Culture Center Telecast,” Washington Evening Star by Jerry Landauer, November 3, 1962; “Cultural Center Staff Has Impressive List of Likeliest Donors,” Washington Post, September 18, 1960; “Mrs. Auchincloss Aids Cultural Center Drive,” Washington Evening Star, March 25, 1962; “Groundbreaking Ceremonies Are Held for the Kennedy Cultural Center,” The Georgetowner, December 10, 1964; “Ground Breaking Ceremony, December 2, 1964,” Footlight, December 22, 1964; “Shape of Cultural Center Is Changing” by Marjorie Hunter, Washington Post, January 7, 1962; “Mrs. Eisenhower Visits Redecorated White House,” New York Times, June 23, 1962. “Mrs. Auchincloss Rallies Cultural Center Interest,
” Washington Evening Star, April 25, 1962; “Time Is Now on the Center,” Washington Post, November 18, 1962; “Cultural Center Campaign Begins ‘Arm-Twisting’ Phase,” Washington Evening Star, November 3, 1962; “Cultural Center Drive Advances on 3 Fronts,” Washington Post, June 11, 1963; “Cultural Center Post Goes to J. C. Turner,” Washington Post, February 19, 1963; “Cultural Center Site,” Washington Evening Star, March 13, 1962; “Dig D.C. Wallets,” Washington Post, March 22, 1962; “Downtown Site for Cultural Center, Not Foggy Bottom, Urged by Builders,” Washington Post, February 22, 1962; “Drive-in Culture,” Washington Post, December 9, 1962; “First Lady Leads Drive for Center,” Washington Evening Star, February 25, 1962; “Capital’s Culture Gets Lift from Gifts,” Washington Post, May 6, 1962; “Franklin Square Urged as Site for Kennedy Cultural Center,” Washington Post, March 7, 1964; “Mrs. Auchincloss Heads Cultural Center Drive,” Washington Post, March 23, 1962; “Mrs. Kennedy Unveils Cultural Center Model,” Newport Daily News, September 12, 1962. “Planners Find Flaws in 6 Cultural Center Sites,” Washington Post, March 12, 1964. “President Names 3 to Arts Group,” Washington Evening Star, May 31, 1962. “Stone Says Center Site Is Close to Social Hub,” Washington Evening Star, April 30, 1964. “The John F. Kennedy Center Location Plans Are Defended,” The Georgetowner, April 16, 1964. “12 Named to Center’s Art Group,” Washington Post, September 16, 1960; “Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss,” Vogue, November 15, 1962.
Oral History: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library.
Speeches: Janet Auchincloss, Merrywood, January 1962 re: The National Cultural Center; Janet Auchincloss, The Elms, Newport, February 1962 re: architectural model of the Arts Center; Janet Auchincloss, Merrywood (undated) re: Cultural Center plans.
Additionally: A pictorial scrapbook compiled by Janet for Hugh when the Auchinclosses sold Merrywood, entitled “Hugh D. Auchincloss, Merrywood, 1960,” and inscribed: “For Hugh D.—A Souvenir of 18 Years Together at Merrywood, with all my Love, Janet, June 21, 1960.”
Video: Jackie and Lee on a boat cruise on Lake Pichola, Udaipur, March 17, 1962; Lee Radziwill on Larry King Live, March 27, 2001, including this interesting anecdote of being at the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis: “… it was the most memorable, extraordinary time of the White House years that I knew, because I was staying there at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. And there was one moment nearing the end, when we—that’s Jackie, the President, and myself—were in their private rooms upstairs, and the phone rang and it was McGeorge Bundy saying that there was extreme trouble ahead. And then, when the President put down the phone, he said, ‘In three minutes, we’ll know if we’re at all-out war or not.’ And I can’t tell you how long those three minutes seemed. I’m sure you can imagine, but you pictured missiles rising all over the world, submarines submerged … And then the phone rang and the President had an extraordinarily tense expression on his face and hung up and said, ‘The Russian ships turned back.’ And there was such relief.”
Part Five: Trouble Brewing
Interviews: Agnetta Castallanos; Karina Brownley, May 1, 2016, November 11, 2016; Adora Rule, October 11, 2016; David Powers, January 11, 1996; Lt. Nancy Lumsden, October 1, 1998; Taki Theodoracopulos; Robert Wentworth, June 11, 2012 (for my book The Hiltons: An American Dynasty); Patricia—(Trish) Skipworth Hilton, February 27, 2012 (for The Hiltons: An American Dynasty); Stelio Papadimitriou; Chauncey Parker III; Sherry Geyelin, October 6, 1998.
Articles: “An Exclusive Chat with Jacqueline Kennedy” by Joan Braden, Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 1962; “Women Who Make World Fashion” by Robin Douglas-Home and Wilhela Cushman, Ladies’ Home Journal, October 1961; “Ahhh Paris” by Lee Radziwill, McCall’s, November 1962; “Lee Radziwill” by Leslie Field, Daily Mail, November 16, 1971; “A Princess Writes a Story and That Makes It a Party” by Charlotte Curtis, New York Times, December 20, 1972.
Volume: Of Diamonds and Diplomats by Letitia Baldrige.
Oral History: Joan Braden/JFK Library.
Correspondence: Truman Capote to Cecil Beaton, February 2, 1962: “My God, how jealous she is of Jackie…”
Lee Radziwill’s annulment:
Details were culled from the cover story about the proceedings found in the Italian magazine ABC (published in Milan), November 12, 1967. The Italian police confiscated all newsstand copies of that issue when it was discovered that documents from the ecclesiastical tribunal of New York had been used to generate the report. Also, I referenced Lee Radziwill’s letter to Pope John XXIII, July 18, 1961. I also referenced White House records of Jackie’s and Lee’s visit to the Pope, March 11, 1962.
Stas’s affair with Charlotte Ford:
This subject has been written about in the past, most notably in In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois.
Volume: Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts by Taki.
The death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy:
Interviews: Clint Hill, January 4, 1998, March 5, 2010, June 4, 2010, April 3, 2011; Jack Walsh, March 9, 1998; Joseph Paolella, September 11, 1998, September 17, 1998; Anthony Sherman, September 29, 1998; Robert Foster, August 11, 1999; Larry Newman, September 29, 1998, September 30, 1998, October 7, 1998.
Volumes: Patrick Bouvier Kennedy: A Brief Life That Changed the History of Newborn Care by Michael S. Ryan; The Kennedy Baby by Steven Levingston and the Washington Post; Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill; Sons of Camelot by Laurence Leamer; The Kennedy Women by Laurence Leamer; The Kennedy Women by Pearl Buck; Among Those Present by Nancy Dickerson.
Articles: “Mother Cool, Calm in Crisis,” Boston Globe, August 9, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy Awaits News on Discharge,” Boston Globe, August 13, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy ‘Fine,’” Boston Globe, August 8, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy Gets News of Death from Doctor,” Newport Daily News, August 9, 1963; “Bibs and Bootees Flood White House” by William Blair, Boston Globe, July 12, 1963; “2d Son Born to Kennedys; Has Lung Illness,” New York Times, August 8, 1963; “Funeral Mass Said for Kennedy Baby,” New York Times, August 11, 1963; “President at Wife’s Bedside” by Kenneth D. Campbell, Boston Herald, August 10, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy to Have Baby at Walter Reed,” Boston Globe, June 5, 1963; “News Stirs Cleveland Daughter,” Boston Globe, August 8, 1963; “Tragic Reunion for Kennedys,” Boston Globe, August 9, 1963; “… Waits in Grief,” Boston Globe, August 11, 1963; “Washington’s Best-Kept Secret,” Boston Globe, April 16, 1963; “Wexford Sends Silver Cup to Baby Kennedy,” Boston Globe, February 12, 1961; “Onassis Eased Jackie’s 3 Tragedies” by Frank Falacci, Boston Globe, October 20, 1968; “JFK Gift to Wife? CIA Not Told,” Boston Globe, July 29, 1963; “Most Kin on Cape During Blessed Event,” Boston Globe, August 8, 1963; “Family Rejoins Mrs. Kennedy,” Boston Globe, August 10, 1963; “Happy Days for Jacqueline,” Boston Globe, May 28, 1963; “3d Baby Due for JFKs,” Boston Globe, April 16, 1963; “It Started Out as Cape Outing,” Boston Globe, August 9, 1963; “Jackie May Have Her Baby on Cape,” Boston Advertiser, June 9, 1963; “Jackie Wants Another Baby, and Would Like It at Otis,” Boston Herald, August 17, 1963; “Jacqueline Ordered to Curb Activities,” Boston Globe, August 15, 1963; “Jacqueline Plans Quiet 34th Birthday Fete Today,” Boston Globe, July 28, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy Given Blood,” Boston Globe, August 8, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy Has Visitors,” Boston Globe, August 12, 1963; “Mrs. Kennedy Never Knew Pat Worse ’Til JFK Said He’s In…,” Boston Globe, August 9, 1963.
Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Luella Hennessey/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library.
Private Papers: Dr. Samuel Levine, Professor of Pediatrics at Cornell University (1938–1971), Medical Center Archives of New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
JFK’s relationship with Janet Jr.:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Yusha Auchincloss, October 12, 1998.
Oral History: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library.
Articles: “Janet Jennings Auchincloss Presented in Newport,” New York Times, August 18, 1963; “Newport Debut Revelry Carries Over to 2nd Day,” Boston Globe, Augu
st 19, 1963; “John Kerry: A Privileged Youth, a Taste for Risk” by Michael Kranish, Boston Globe, June 15, 2003.
Speech: “Mud Wrestling with History: Snapshots of My Life as a Brother-in-Law to John F. Kennedy” by James Lee Auchincloss.
Jackie and Jack’s anniversary at Hammersmith:
Interviews: Adora Rule, November 11, 2016; Ben Bradlee, October 1, 1995; Sylvia Whitehouse Blake, January 2, 1998, November 13, 2016; Yusha Auchincloss, October 12, 1998.
Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library.
Volumes: A Good Life and Yours in Truth, both by Ben Bradlee; With Kennedy by Pierre Salinger.
Articles: “Kennedys Come Here for 10th Anniversary,” Newport Daily News, September 12, 1963; “City, Navy Prepare for Kennedy Vacation from September 22 to October 4,” Newport Daily News, September 18, 1961; “Kennedy Is Facing a Busy Weekend Before Leaving Newport on Monday,” Newport Daily News, September 30, 1961; “Kennedy Swears in Customs Official at Hammersmith Farm,” Newport Daily News, September 29, 1961; “Kennedys Devoting Time to Rest and Relaxation,” Newport Daily News, September 28, 1961; “Kennedys Go Yachting in Summer,” Newport Daily News, March 18, 1961; “Kennedys Go on Cruise after Visit to Beach,” Newport Daily News, September 14, 1963; “President Plans for Vacation Here,” Newport Daily News, September 16, 1961; “President Ends Visit Here,” Newport Daily News, October 9, 1961; “President at Hammersmith Farm for Weekend with His Family,” Newport Daily News, October 2, 1961; “Mrs. Kennedy in Newport with Caroline and John Jr.” New York Times, June 28, 1961; “Sunset Days of Camelot: An Interview with Cecil Auchincloss” by G. Wayne Miller, Providence Journal, September 8, 2013; “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s, January, 1975.
Jackie and Lee’s trip to Greece:
Interviews: Mari Kumlin, September 8, 1998; Stelina Mavros, October 8, 1999; Clint Hill.
Note: I also interviewed a Secret Service agent for this section who asked for anonymity.