Back in the Oval Office: Mahoney, JFKLOH; Mahoney, pp. 284–85.
It called for improving relations: Hilsman, p. 352.
He had told Marie Ridder: Ridder, author interview.
Dean Rusk said they often discussed it: Rusk, p. 283.
“You know, Mr. President”: Mahoney, JFKLOH.
“I just want to tell you”: Ibid.
and picked up an article: George Mills, “JFK Could Lose,” Look, December 17, 1963 (printed and on sale before November 22, 1963).
“What do you think of that?”: Mahoney, JFKLOH.
Attwood called Bundy’s assistant: Attwood (Twilight), p. 262.
Chase wrote in a memorandum: National Security File, Country File, Cuba, Contact with Cuban Leaders, 5/63–4/65. The memorandum was dated November 19, 1963, headed “Approach to Castro,” and filed under “Top Secret-Sensitive.”
Bundy called Attwood back later: Attwood (Twilight), p. 262.
Castro told Jean Daniel: “When Castro Heard the News,” New Republic, December 7, 1963.
Kennedy studied the photographs: Beschloss (Crisis), pp. 666–67.
“I’m sure glad the Secret Service”: Helms, p. 227.
He held a final briefing on Tuesday: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 389.
“When you come back”: NBC White Paper on Vietnam, December 1971, cited in Newman, pp. 426–27; Schlesinger (Robert Kennedy), p. 722. The Forrestal-Kennedy conversation is also recounted by Brandon (Anatomy), p. 30.
“Wayne, I want you to know”: Boston Globe, June 24, 1973, cited by Schlesinger (Robert Kennedy), p. 722.
“I’m still very much in favor”: Heller Papers, Box 6 (Kennedy-Johnson files), JFKL.
Lewis Weinstein, a distinguished: Lewis H. Weinstein, “John F. Kennedy: A Personal Memoir, 1946–1963,” American Jewish History 75, September 1985.
He called Weinstein the next day: Ibid.
“I wish I weren’t going”: Salinger, p. 3.
“Don’t let the President come”: Ibid., p. 1.
But Lincoln had no qualms: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 305.
“If they are going to get me”: Ibid.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20
During their weekly White House breakfast meeting: Manchester (Death), p. 14.
His mind was wandering, and he drew doodles: JFKPP, Box 12, JFKL.
He complained to Dr. Burkley: JFKPP, Box 48 (medical), JFKL.
signed a lease: Manchester (Death), p. 14.
asked Lincoln to check on the forecast: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 305.
told Turnure to make sure: Manchester (Death), p. 10.
“A bit of old-fashioned Boston”: Bishop (A Bishop’s), p. 386.
He added some words of friendship: U. Alexis Johnson, JFKLOH.
Joan Douglas noticed: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
“You’re going off to Japan”: Ibid.
Dillon thought he was “in wonderful form”: Ibid.
The Supreme Court justices also remarked: Ibid., Box 44.
Ethel Kennedy thought he seemed withdrawn and preoccupied: Manchester (Death), p. 18.
Bobby Kennedy spent almost forty-five minutes: Ibid., p. 619.
Bobby told one of his guests: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
He asked O’Donnell if he had seen: Mahoney, p. 288; Manchester (Death), p. 33.
O’Donnell said he had decided: O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 18–19; Manchester (Death), p. 34.
Jean Daniel delivered Kennedy’s message: “When Castro Heard the News,” New Republic, December 7, 1963.
she read him a letter from her mother: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library; Sally Bedell Smith, p. 435.
he showed her a tongue-in-cheek letter: Ibid.
“There are going to be all these rich”: Manchester (Death), p. 10.
She held up some dresses and outfits: Ibid.
After dinner he received a call from George Ball,: Ball, p. 310.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21
Kennedy was edgy: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 305.
As soon as he arrived at the Oval Office: Ibid., pp. 305–6.
He met briefly: Darlington, JFKLOH.
“I feel great. My back feels better”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 4.
Nanny Maud Shaw was opposed: Manchester (Death), p. 59.
she and Shaw waved from the roof: Shaw, p. 160.
He grinned and scrawled: Bundy Papers, Box 34, JFKL.
Hale Boggs . . . was passing the White House: Manchester (Death), p. 60.
spent the short flight teasing his son: Lincoln (My Twelve), p. 306.
When John learned: Manchester (Death), p. 63.
Kennedy tucked a file card: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 4.
Johnson planned to introduce him by saying: Wright, p. 47.
“You two guys aren’t running out”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 20.
He poked his head into Jackie’s compartment: Gallagher, p. 312.
“I don’t think Barry is going to have time”: Reston, pp. 262–63.
Gonzalez now took him aside on Air Force One: Ibid., p. 263.
“Oh, and by the way, Henry”: Ibid.
Teenagers filling the observation deck: San Antonio Express, November 22, 1963.
Gonzalez had been standing: Reston, p. 265.
San Antonio in 1960 . . . motorcade: San Antonio Express, November 22, 1963.
“despite the conglomeration of Secret Service agents”: Ibid.
He kept a close eye on Jackie: Manchester (Death), p. 75.
Seeking shelter from the wind: Reston, p. 266.
There were some sour notes: San Antonio Express, November 22, 1963.
A constable on traffic duty overheard: Ibid.
The Secret Service failed to keep a mental patient: Ibid.
Asked by a reporter to comment: ES, November 22, 1963.
JFK speech at Brooks: JFKL Web site.
Five minutes later he stood in a laboratory: O’Donnell and Powers, pp. 21–22.
Before leaving Brooks, he invited: Cooper, p. 179.
Kennedy was jubilant: John Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,” Life, November 22, 1967.
He asked Powers to estimate: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 22: Powers Papers (Vanocur interview), Box 9, JFKL.
As they pulled into the Rice Hotel: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
Johnson had told his friend Horace Busby: Thompson, p. 253.
His meeting with Kennedy was so acrimonious: Manchester (Death), p. 82; Reston, pp. 269–70.
He had complained to Bobby earlier: Dallek (Johnson), p. 41.
After Johnson stormed out of the suite, Kennedy told Jackie: Manchester (Death), p. 82; Reston, pp. 269–70.
“I just can’t bear him sitting there saying”: Jacqueline Kennedy, LBJLOH.
He doodled on a sheet of hotel stationery: Greenberg, pp. 156–57.
He and Jackie dined in their suite: Reston, p. 268; Yarborough, JFKLOH.
The atmosphere was more cordial: Leaming (Mrs. Kennedy), p. 332.
“Mrs. Kennedy, on her first official”: ES, November 22, 1963.
“Gosh, Mary, you’ve been such a great help”: Gallagher, p. 314.
From this vantage point he could see: Valenti, JFKLOH.
Nerves may have caused him to flub: Houston speech transcript, JFKL Web site.
Kennedy chewed her out for a slip-up: Gallagher, pp. 316–17.
They could not sleep in the same bed: Leaming (Mrs. Kennedy), p. 333.
“You were great today”: Manchester (Death), p. 87.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Kennedy woke to hear:
Bishop (The Day), p. 5.
Then he slipped on the white shirt: Manchester (Death), p. 112.
“Gosh, just look at the crowds”: Gallagher, p. 318.
“Just look at the platform”: Lawrence O’Brien, pp. 156–57.
He showed O’Brien the front page: Dallas Morning News, November 22, 1963.
“Christ, I come all the way down here”: Gillon, p. 20.
“I don’t care if you have to throw”: Lawrence O’Brien, p. 156.
“Some Texans, in taking account”: Chicago Sun-Times, November 22, 1963.
“And weren’t the crowds great”: Manchester (Death), p. 112.
Speech at the parking lot rally: JFKL Web site.
“These are my kind of people”: Manchester (Remembering), p. 18.
“Things are going much better”: Brandon (Special), p. 196.
339As Jackie walked into the ballroom: Speech in Hotel Texas ballroom: JFKL Web site; film at Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas.
Back in their suite she said: Bergquist and Tretick, p. 172; O’Donnell and Powers, p. 24.
Ted Dealey, had come to the White House: Manchester (Death), pp. 48–49.
Kennedy fired back: Ibid.; NYT, November 5, 1961.
He answered Dealey again: Schlesinger (Thousand), p. 753.
“Oh, you know, we’re heading”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 25; Manchester (Death), p. 121; ES, November 22, 1963.
Some residents of “nut country” had woken: Manchester (Death), p. 64.
“You know, last night”: Ibid., p. 121.
He and Jackie had been in the suite: Ibid., pp. 120–21; Pottker, p. 213; William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.
“Isn’t this sweet, Jack”: Ibid.
Instead, he grabbed a telephone book: Ibid.
“You can be sure of one thing”: Wicker, p. 158; Reston, p. 273.
Secret Service Agent Roy Kellerman told O’Donnell: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 25.
“They put me in a bubble top thing”: Martin (Seeds), pp. 452–53.
he thought the space program “needed a boost”: Logsdon, p. 218.
“Equal choice / not any reflection”: JFKPP (addition 2005), Box 50, JFKL.
“How can anyone say no”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 26.
“Please, when we go to Dallas”: McHugh, JFKLOH.
When he landed at Love Field in 1961: Manchester (Death), p. 47.
“This trip is turning out”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 26.
“You two look like Mr. and Mrs. America”: Ibid.
A reporter watching her emerge: MacNeil, p. 187.
This was the first time that most at Love Field: Jerry Crow, OH, Sixth Floor Museum archives.
A Dallas woman said she was amazed: Van Buren, p. 74.
“I can see his suntan”: Bugliosi, p. 27.
“He’s broken away from the program”: Film archives, Sixth Floor Museum.
The Texas journalist Ronnie Dugger: Manchester (Death), p. 131.
It was the first time: Lieberson, p. 222.
Sorensen’s observation: Sorensen (Counselor), p. 102.
Laura Bergquist’s “fascinating human animal”: Bergquist Papers, Boston University Library.
what Sidey called “a serious man”: John F. Kennedy (Prelude), p. xxii.
A local broadcaster called his welcome: Film archives, Sixth Floor Museum.
Some high school students: Manchester (Death), p. 128.
“You’re a traiter”: Ibid.
“Help JFK Stamp Out”: Ibid.
“Mr. President, because of your”: ES, November 23, 1963.
“It’s wonderful”: Roberts, JFKLOH; MacNeil, p. 186.
As they were pulling away, Kennedy noticed: Jerry Crow, OH, Sixth Floor Museum.
Connally had wanted him to speak: Bruno and Greenfield, pp. 89–92.
Connally might have forgotten: John Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,” Life, November 22, 1967; testimony of John and Nellie Connally to House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), available on National Archives Web site.
Yarborough might not have remembered thinking: Yarborough, JFKLOH.
Nor would John and Nellie Connally have recalled: Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,” Life, November 22, 1967; testimony of John and Nellie Connally to HSCA, available on National Archives Web site.
or that he had stopped to greet some children: Ibid.
or that a teenaged boy had darted: Sixth Floor Museum archives.
“Thank you, thank you”: Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,” Life, November 22, 1967.
they had spilled into the street: Clint Hill, OH, Sixth Floor Museum.
“How pleasant that cool tunnel”: Manchester (Death), p. 154.
“You sure can’t say that”: Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 7; Manchester (Death), p. 154.
“No, you can’t”: Manchester (Death),p. 154.
He heard some loud bangs: Trask, p. 32.
Nellie Connally remembered his eyes: Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 7.
Agent Kellerman thought he said: Manchester (Death), p. 157.
His back brace kept him upright: Dallek (Unfinished), p. 694; James Reston, Jr., “That ‘Damned Girdle’: The Hidden Factor That Might Have Killed Kennedy,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2004.
Jackie cried out: Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 8.
AFTER DALLAS
Jackie wept first: Semple, p. 27; Manchester (Death), p. 163.
In New York, there was a murmur: Fries and Wilson, p. 13.
Advertising men in tailored suits hurried: Reaction in New York City: NYT, November 23, 1963.
Chorus girls rehearsing: Fries and Wilson, p. 162.
a rookie police officer wept: Van Buren, p. 9.
In his Senate office, Senator Hubert Humphrey: Fries and Wilson, p. 226.
Senator Fulbright jumped up: Fleming, pp. 23–24.
“That Dallas!”: McKeever, p. 539.
Medgar Evers’s widow thought: Fleming, p. 158.
In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley: Semple, p. 83.
in the Solomon Islands: Hamilton, p. 602.
At Harvard, a girl wept: Salinger and Vanocur, p. 153.
When the captain of a transatlantic jet: Manchester (Death), p. 498.
When Rusk announced: Salinger, p. 8.
President Truman cried so much: Louchheim, p. 120.
A poem by the columnist: Ibid., p. 32.
The cartoonist Bill Mauldin: Ibid., p. 39.
A twelve-year-old girl in Oregon: Van Buren, p. 140.
A girl remembered her mother: Ibid., p. 48.
schoolchildren in Texas cheering: Bob Moser, “Welcome to Texas, Mr. Obama,” Texas Observer, August 4, 2010.
Schlesinger was appalled by Stevenson’s reaction: Schlesinger (Journals), p. 208.
Algeria declared a week of official mourning: Dear Abby, pp. 92–105.
Thousands of Poles: United States Information Agency, Box 2, JFKL.
Khrushchev instructed his wife: Sergei Khrushchev, p. 698.
The woman narrating a documentary: NYT, November 25, 1963.
tears filled Gromyko’s eyes: Semple, p. 218.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was reading: Stein, p. 198.
“People cried in the street”: Douglas, p. 366; Manchester (Death), p. 557.
Sir Laurence Olivier interrupted: Manchester (Death), p. 497.
“There has never been anything like it”: Joseph Alsop Papers, Box 19, folder 6, LOC.
“openly crying in the street”: Manchester (Death), p. 498.
Sixty thousand West Berliners: Ibid.
Workmen in Nice: United States Information Agency, Box 2, JFKL.
“Never, perhaps, has t
he death”: Manchester (Death), p. 498.
“he [Kennedy] reestablished”: Walt Rostow, JFKLOH.
A postman in a Connecticut: Semple, p. 78.
A Detroit housewife said: Ibid., p. 383.
Jimmy Carter cried: Fleming, p. 104.
McGeorge Bundy admitted: Alsop, p. 512.
Roswell Gilpatric believed: Gilpatric, JFKLOH.
The columnist Joe Alsop said: Alsop, p. 511.
In a condolence letter: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 42, Wesleyan Library.
When Elaine de Kooning: Munro, p. 256.
“The assassin dropped”: Ibid.
“I felt that I had lost a brother”: Hall, p. 230.
A poll conducted within a week: Greenberg and Parker, pp. 149–77.
a grief-stricken empire of asphalt: A collection of descriptions, photographs, and documents pertaining to buildings, roads, and places named for John F. Kennedy is in the Steinberg Collection, available in the audiovisual department of the Kennedy Library.
George Orwell believed it was impossible: From Orwell’s essay “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool,” in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 4: In Front of Your Nose.
James MacGregor Burns called the memorials: Burns, JFKLOH.
His 1960 biography was admiring but suggested: Burns, pp. 276–81.
“Was it a fabrication?”: Burns, JFKLOH.
“who could have been the savior”: Salinger and Vanocur, p. 125.
William Attwood believed the next five years: William Attwood, “Twenty Years After Dallas,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1983.
“an incalculable loss of the future”: Dallek (Unfinished), p. 631.
“the future giving way to the present”: Jacqueline Kennedy, p. 318.
“the difference between what is”: Salinger and Vanocur, p. 125.
“He had great things to do”: William Manchester Papers (Death of a President), Box 42, Wesleyan Library.
He had told Henry Brandon: Brandon (Special Relationships), p. 200.
he told Averell Harriman that he planned: Seaborg (Adventures), p. 198.
“more often than not”: O’Donnell and Powers, p. 75.
Lincoln noted in her diary: Lincoln Papers, Box 6, JFKL.
Johnson kept Hoover at the FBI: FOIA material, FBI archives.
The Evening Star reported: ES, March 28, 1965.
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