Volumes: Nemesis by Peter Evans; Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill; The Fabulous Onassis by Christian Cafarakis; The Onassis Women by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos; Maria Callas by Anne Edwards; The Kennedy Women by Laurence Leamer; Jack and Jackie by Christopher Andersen; All Too Human by Edward Klein; Jacqueline Kennedy by Gordon Langley Hall; The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier.
Articles: “Jackie’s Maid Tells All” by Grethe Nilsen, Screenland, November 1970; “Jackie: Her Loneliest Battle,” Vanity Fair, October, 2009; “Jacqueline Plans Trip to Greece,” Boston Globe, September 17, 1963; “Love Letter from Camelot,” New York Daily News, February 27, 1998; “Mrs. Kennedy’s Blunt Answers,” Boston Globe, January 20, 1963; “JFK Children Romp in Park with Mother,” Boston Globe, June 1, 1963; “Kennedy Baby to Be Born at Otis Hospital,” Boston Herald, July 24, 1963; “Love Letter from Camelot,” New York Daily News, February 27, 1998; “Princess Lee Radziwill” by Peter Evans, Cosmopolitan, March 1968.
Part Six: The Assassination
Assassination of JFK:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Adora Rule; Clint Hill; James Ketchum; Yusha Auchincloss; Taki Theodoracopulos; Janine Rule.
Volumes: White House Nannie by Maud Shaw; The Kennedys by Peter Collier and David Horowitz; The Kennedys in Hollywood by Laurence Quirk; President Kennedy by Richard Reeves; A Lady, First by Letitia Baldrige; First Ladies by Carl Sferrazza Anthony; Maria Callas by G. B. Meneghini; The Christina by January Jones; In Search of History by Theodore White; Just Enough Rope by Joan Braden; The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh; Palimpsest by Gore Vidal; All Too Human by Edward Klein; Jack and Jackie by Christopher Andersen; Beaton in the Sixties by Cecil Beaton and Hugo Vickers; Greek Fire by Nicholas Cage; Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; Death of a President by William Manchester; A Good Life by Ben Bradlee.
Article: “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March, 1975.
Oral Histories: Janet Auchincloss/JFK Library; Maud Shaw/JFK Library; Charles L. Bartlett/JFK Library; Luella Hennessey/JFK Library; Lord Harlech (David Ormsby-Gore)/JFK Library; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis/Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1974, as well as the newly released oral histories for the JFK Library in 2011; Joan Braden/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; Laura Bergquist Kriebel/RFK Oral History Project; Frank Mankiewicz/RFK Oral History Project; Esther Newberg/RFK Oral History Project; Nancy Tuckerman/JFK Library; Kenneth O’Donnell/Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; Pierre Salinger/RFK Oral History Project; George Smathers /U.S. Senate Historical Office; Charles Spalding/JFK Library.
Additionally: “Biography of Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss,” file library, Washingtoniana Division, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington D.C., March 21, 1962.
Video: Clint Hill interview with C-SPAN, May, 2012.
Part Seven: Recovery
Jack Warnecke’s relationship with Bobby Kennedy:
Interviews: Harold Adams; Fred Warnecke; Margo Warnecke Merck.
Volumes: Just Enough Rope by Joan Braden; Nemesis by Peter Evans.
Oral History: Joan Braden/ JFK Library.
Janet’s mission to disinter “Arabella” as per Jackie’s request:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Gerald Monroe, May 15, 2016, not acknowledged but a close friend of Edward Zimny, the late pilot; Rev. Philip Hannan, October 22, 2009; Janine Rule; Oatsie Charles.
Articles: “My Life with the Kennedys” by Archbishop Hannan, Daily Beast, June 1, 2010; “Former N.O. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan, Confidant of JFK, Dies at 98” by Peter Finney Jr., Clarion Herald, June 18, 2014; “Private Camelot” by Sally Bedell Smith, Vanity Fair, May 4, 2004.
Volumes: The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots by Rev. Philip Hannan; Just Jackie: Her Private Years by Edward Klein.
Additionally: “Most Holy Trinity Church, 1894–1969,” pamphlet, East Hampton, New York, 1969.
Correspondence: Jackie Kennedy to Bishop Hannan, December 20, 1963: “If only I could believe that he could look down and see how he is missed and how nobody will ever be the same without him. But I haven’t believed in the child’s vision of heaven for a long time. There is no way now to commune with him. It will be so long before I am dead and even then I don’t know if I will be reunited with him. Even if I am I don’t think you could ever convince me that it will be the way it was while we were married here.”; Jackie Kennedy to Bishop Hannan, June 1, 1964: “You must know how grateful I am to you every day—for believing in and being a friend of John Kennedy when he was alive—and for bringing meaning out of the despair at his funeral and birthday Masses—and for the night in Arlington with our two children—and for your work now at the Kennedy Center. You will always be working for all the things he believes in—and I will always know that and be comforted. I will try so hard to recover a little bit more myself—so that I can be of more use to my children—and just for the years that are left to me—though I hope they won’t be too many. And maybe one day soon I will feel strong enough to come and talk to you.”
Janet’s advice to Jackie:
Interview: Jamie Auchincloss.
Articles: “Jacqueline Kennedy, Part 1,” Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1961; “Jacqueline Kennedy, Part 2,” Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1961; “Jacqueline Kennedy, Part 3,” Ladies’ Home Journal, April 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 concern about Jackie’s state of mind:
Interviews: Oatsie Charles; Janine Rule.
Private Papers: Diaries of Father William McSorley, S.J, Georgetown University Library, Special Collections.
Articles: “The McSorley Connection,” by Colman McCarthy, Washington Post, October 16, 1992; “McSorley and His Famous Friend Go Way Back” by Arthur Jones, National Catholic Reporter, July 28, 1995.
Jackie’s cemetery:
Interviews: Jack Warnecke; Fred Warnecke; Margo Warnecke Merck; Jamie Auchincloss.
Volume: Just Jackie: Her Private Years by Edward Klein.
Part Eight: Transition
Jack and Jackie in Hawaii and then back to Hammersmith:
Interviews: Jack Warnecke; Fred Warnecke; Harold Adams; Bertha Baldwin; John Nash, August 8, 1998; Don Johnston, July 3, 2016; Yusha Auchincloss, describing the relocating of the Windmill.
Note: The Warnecke children were extremely impressed that both John and Caroline received handwritten notes from President Johnson for their November birthdays. For John, the President wrote: “When I was six, I wanted to be sixteen. At sixteen, I couldn’t wait to be twenty-one. But today I wish I was six again, like you!” To Caroline, he wrote, “I remember when my own girls were nine. It is such a pleasant memory that I just wanted to add my happiness to you on this special day. May you have a life of days just like it.” He signed both notes, written on White House stationery: “Lyndon Johnson.” Both can be found at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
Janet Jr.’s wedding:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Virginia Guest Valentine, July 22, 2016; Sylvia Whitehouse Blake; Winthrop Rutherfurd III, October 14, 2016, November 19, 2016.
Articles: “Miss Janet Auchincloss in Church Nuptials Here Becomes Bride of Lewis Rutherfurd,” Newport Daily News, July 30, 1966; “Auchinclosses Host at Daughter’s Dinner,” Newport Daily News, July 30, 1966.
Volume: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephen Birmingham.
Janet’s relationship with Onassis:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; John Radziwill; Adora Rule; Delores Goodwin, June 5, 2016, July 10, 2016, August 8, 2016.
Article: “Union Everyone Said Couldn’t Last” by Fred Sparks, Associated Press, August 1, 1969.
Volumes: In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; Nemesis by
Peter Evans.
Jack’s confession to Jackie about finances; Jackie’s decision to be with Ari:
Interviews: Jack Warnecke; Bertha Baldwin; Harold Adams.
Volume: Jackie: Her Private Years by Edward Klein.
Lee’s acting aspirations: Philadelphia Story and Laura:
Interviews: Jack DeMave, June 9, 2016; John Llewellyn Moxey, October 16, 2016; Garrett Johnston, October 11, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss.
Articles: “How the Remarkable Auchincloss Family Shaped the Jacqueline Kennedy Style” by Stephen Birmingham, Ladies’ Home Journal, March 1967; “Lee Radziwill: Girls Who Have Everything Aren’t Supposed to Do Anything” by Jane Howard, Life, July 14, 1967; “And Starring Lee Bouvier! A Nonfiction Television Play” by Gloria Steinem, McCall’s, February 1968; “Opening Chapters: Enchanting Memories and Photos of Her Early Life with Jackie” by Lee Radziwill, Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1973; “The Public and Private Lee” by Henry Ehrlich, Look, January 23, 1968; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “Princess Lee Radziwill” by Peter Evans, Cosmopolitan, March 1968; “A Princess Writes a Story and That Makes It a Party” by Charlotte Curtis, New York Times, December 20, 1972.
Volumes: Capote by Gerald Clark; In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; Double Life by Alan Shayne and Norman Sunshine.
Correspondence: Email from Nicky Haslam to Cathy Griffin, November 24, 2016.
Janet’s relationship with the Farias:
Interviews: Joyce Faria Brennan, July 16, 2016, September 12, 2016; Gustavo Paredes, September 20, 2016, October 9, 2016; Oatsie Charles.
Jamie’s twenty-first birthday with Jackie:
Interview: Jamie Auchincloss.
Correspondence: Jackie to Jamie, undated note: “Happy birthday dearest Jamie—I am so happy that you are spending your 21st birthday with Caroline and John and Me—Love Jackie.”
Speech: “Mud Wrestling with History: Snapshots of My Life as a Brother-in-Law to John F. Kennedy” by James Lee Auchincloss.
Document: “The Last Will and Testament of James T. Lee.”
Part Nine: Onassis
Jackie’s cruise with Onassis, May 1968:
Interviews: Joan Thring, March 15, 1998; Johnny Meyer, April 25, 1998; Jamie Auchincloss.
Volumes: Maria Callas by Anne Edwards; The $20,000,000 Honeymoon by Fred Sparks; The Spectator by Taki Theodoracopulos.
Correspondence: Jackie to Janet, undated, from 1040 Fifth Avenue: “I thought you’d like the pictures of when Caroline and I went hunting in Virginia in March…”
RFK’s assassination:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Richard Goodwin, May 11, 1998.
Oral History: Joan Braden/JFK Library.
Article: “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March, 1975.
Volumes: Beaton in the Sixties by Cecil Beaton and Hugo Vickers; Jackie, Ethel, Joan by J. Randy Taraborrelli; After Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Document: “Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” New York City, June 8, 1968.
Onassis at Hammersmith:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Adora Rule; Janine Rule.
Volumes: Janet & Jackie by Jan Pottker; The Fabulous Onassis by Christian Cafarakis; Onassis by Willi Frischauer; Heiress: The Story of Christina Onassis by Nigel Dempster; Onassis: An Extravagant Life by Frank Brady; Destiny Prevails by Paul J. Ioannidis.
Document: Hammersmith Farm Guest Book.
Janet’s fiction about her family history:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Adora Rule; Janine Rule; Oatsie Charles.
Private Papers: “Our Forebears: From the Earliest Times to the First Half of the Year 1940,” by John Vernou Bouvier.
Documents: Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation, Stanton, Virginia: Fortieth Annual Council Minutes, October 13–17, 1968, including Board of Directors Roster and Appendix 28; “Report of the Records and Research Committee” Letter from Mrs. Randolph C. (Mary H.) Harrison to Mrs. John B. (Florence) Hollister, July 6, 1968; Janet Auchincloss Memo File, Robert. E. Lee Memorial Foundation; miscellaneous files relating to activities at Stratford Hall, October 1968.
Janet’s dismay over Jackie’s decision to marry Onassis:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Agnetta Castallanos; Garrett Johnston; Mary Tyler Freeman Cheek McClenahan, January 11, 1998; Nancy Tuckerman, March 10, 2007; Mona Latham, May 4, 2009, April 3, 2010, January 11, 2011; Margaret Kearney, March 11, 1998.
Volumes: Ari by Pete Evans; Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Huffington; Aristotle Onassis by Nicholas Fraser, Philip Jacobson, Mark Ottaway, and Lewis Chester.
Lee’s dismay over Jackie and Ari both before and after the wedding:
Interviews: Jamie Auchincloss; Janine Rule; Adora Rule; Agnetta Castallanos.
Volumes: Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clark; Jacqueline Bouvier by John Davis; The Deadly Sins of Aristotle Onassis by Stuart Speiser; Happy Times by Lee Radziwill.
Articles: “Sued by Gore Vidal and Stung by Lee Radziwill, a Wounded Truman Capote Lashes Back at the Dastardly Duo” by Mary Vespa, People, June 25, 1979; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “Lee Radziwill: In Search of Herself” by Charlotte Curtis, McCall’s; March 1975; “Lee” by Andy Warhol, Interview, March, 1975; “Lee Radziwill’s Search for Herself” by John J. Miller, The Column, December 17, 1972.
Video: Truman Capote’s appearance on Stanley Siegel TV show, June 1979.
Janet’s reaction to Jackie’s wedding to Ari:
Interviews: Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, May 15, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; Adora Rule; Janine Rule.
Articles: “Jackie’s Mother Says Newlyweds to Come to New York Within Three Weeks” by Betty Beale, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, October 23, 1968. Note: Beale, a close friend of Janet’s, asked her, “Is Jackie happy?” Janet responded, “I hope she will be. But everyone is so tired. I didn’t have any idea I was going [to Greece] until the night before I came, and I was at Stratford Hall. I had no idea about any of it! Jackie called and said, ‘Could you get on a plane tomorrow afternoon, Mummy? So I very nobly did. I obviously had no clothes to wear. I wore a white wool dress and a coat.” She said that Ari’s wedding gift to Jackie was “a lovely ruby ring.” When asked about a popular rumor at the time, Janet said, “And if he gave her a tiara as reported, I certainly don’t know about it.”
Video: Footage of Jackie Kennedy in the days before the wedding on Skorpios, October 18 and 19, 1968.
Aftermath of Jackie’s marriage to Ari:
Interviews: Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos, July 12, 2016; Jamie Auchincloss; Garrett Johnston; Gustavo Paredes; Letitia Baldrige, May 11, 1998.
Articles: “Onassis Mother-in-Law Denies Divorce Claim,” Boston Globe, April 19, 1975; “Onassis: Memories of an Insomniac,” Washington Evening Star, March 17, 1975; “A Dream Realized” by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1971.
Volumes: The Onassis Women by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos; Jackie, Ethel, Joan by J. Randy Taraborrelli; After Camelot by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Correspondence: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Richard Nixon (undated but sent in February 1971).
Note: In 1970, Janet Auchincloss was one of twenty-two socialites from all over the country who gathered to judge an annual home-decorating contest sponsored by Burlington House, the textiles company. She told Judy Klemesrud of The Fresno Bee (on October 25, 1970): “I think we will help raise decorating standards because when people see pictures of homes that have won the prizes, they will set higher standards for themselves.” Klemesrud described Janet as “a painfully shy woman who kept fumbling with her purse and her sunglasses as she was being interviewed.” She quoted Janet as saying, “Eighteenth century is my favorite [period.] But then, that’s almost everybody’s favorite, isn’t it?”
Part Ten: Shifting Tides
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Interviews: Audrey Cheaver, July 17, 2016; Thomas Cheaver, July 19, 2016; Richard DuPont, August 28, 2016; Peter Beard, May 11, 1998.
Note: Lee has publicly confirmed that her romance with Peter Beard commenced before she was divorced from Stas.
Volumes: Happy Times by Lee Radziwill; In Her Sister’s Shadow by Diana DuBois; America’s Queen by Sarah Bradford. Note: Of Jackie and Ari, Peter Beard told Sarah Bradford, “I saw the biggest fights between them. He would blow up all the time—tantrums about everything. Yelling and screaming at her … what Ari hated most was any kind of mess. I remember once we had all gotten haircuts on the Christina from Marta, the very nice governess. And Ari was stomping around the deck, just exploding with anger at the fact that these little hairs were in the bathroom—John and I hid in the shower bath. When he was mad at Jackie he used to say how he’d given up ‘an artistic cultural international background’ for ‘this American.’”
Janet’s appeal to Jackie and subsequent upheaval relating to the saving of Hammersmith:
Interviews: Garrett Johnston; Oatsie Charles; Adora Rule; Janine Rule; Eileen Slocum.
Lee’s original desire to make a documentary and subsequent Grey Gardens:
Interviews: Eva Marie Beale, August 16, 2016, August 27, 2016, August 29, 2016, and an extensive Q and A on August 29, 2016, about her relatives, the Beales, including a comprehensive family tree. Please visit her excellent website about her family at https://greygardensofficial.com; Adora Rule; Jamie Auchincloss; Sherry Geyelin, October 6, 1998.
Volumes: Andy Warhol: A Biography by Wayne Koestenbaum; The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol; The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett; Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up by Bob Colacello; Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris; Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures by Eva Marie Beale and Anne Verlhac; I Only Mark the Hours That Shine by Edith Bouvier Beale and Eva Marie Beale; Letters of Little Edie Beale by Walter Newkirk; Grey Gardens by Sara Maysles and Rebekah Maysles.
Articles: “For Lee Radziwill, Budding Careers and New Life in New York” by Judy Klemesrud, New York Times, September 1, 1974; “The Complicated Sisterhood of Jackie Kennedy and Lee Radziwill” by Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair, April 26, 2016; “A Princess Writes a Story and That Makes It a Party” by Charlotte Curtis, New York Times, December 20, 1972.
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