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INDEX
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Aberdeen, Scotland, 331
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 170
Acheson, Dean, 616, 638–39, 643, 644, 711
Adams, Charles Francis, III, 135
Adenauer, Konrad, 679
Africa, 529–30, 756–57
as possible destination for Jewish refugees, 324, 329, 362, 364
Age of Roosevelt, The (Schlesinger), 171
Albania, 381
Albee, Edward, 65, 119–20
Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, 727
Algeria, 711, 712
Algic, S.S., 267–69
Ali Khan, Liaquat, 654
Allen, Robert, 236, 248–49, 303, 304–5, 306, 317, 321–22, 353, 368, 393
Alsop, Joe, 431–32, 481, 493, 500, 501, 505, 638
Alsop, Stewart, 638
America, 722
America First Committee, 506, 510–11, 517, 519, 525, 531
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 60, 261
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 666
American Society of Newspaper Editors, 734
Anderson, Jack, 674
Anderson, Marion, 764
Ange, Mother Marie Emile, 624, 625
Annenberg, Walter, 772
Another Love Story, 554–55
Anschluss (Germany’s annexation of Austria), 287–90, 292, 293, 294, 306–7, 308–9, 322, 329, 351, 360, 361, 383, 413, 486
anti-Semitism, 396
JPK and, 202, 311, 501–2, 509, 581–82, 748
Kristallnacht, 359–60, 361
motion picture industry and, 75, 97
Nazi persecution, 199–200, 287, 307–9, 311, 322, 329, 349–52, 359, 363, 364–65, 486, 508, 581–82
perceptions of media influence and political power of Jews, 357, 365–66, 507–9
Roosevelt’s economic policy and, 202–3
appeasement, 639
JFK and, 746
JPK and, 636–38
of Soviet Union, xxii, 605–7
appeasement of Nazi Germany, 293, 295, 302–3, 304–5, 338, 356, 359, 505, 510
Chamberlain and, 290–91, 292–93, 301, 302–3, 333, 338, 340, 360, 382, 416, 435–36, 515, 633
economic, 382–84, 402
JPK and, 295, 302–3, 304–5, 338, 359, 368, 382–84, 402, 413–14, 427, 475, 500, 505, 506, 509, 514, 515, 526, 748
JPK’s Navy League speech and, 353–57
Munich Agreement, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745
Arab world, 351, 385, 386, 391, 392–93, 655, 660
Arbuckle, Fatty, 75
Army-McCarthy hearings, 673, 675
Arvad, Inga, 525–26, 540–42, 559, 604, 675
Astaire, Fred, 299
Astor, Nancy, Lady Astor, 298, 304–6, 357, 377, 427–28, 439, 463, 506
Astor, Vincent, 205–6
Astor, Waldorf, Lord Astor, 292–93, 304–6, 357, 463
As We Remember Joe (JFK), 578, 622
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, 168
Athenia, S.S., 408–10
Attlee, Clement, 433, 448, 484
atomic bombs, 580, 682
Austria, Germany’s annexation of (Anschluss), 287–90, 292, 293, 294, 306–7, 308–9, 322, 329, 351, 360, 361, 383, 413, 486
Ave Maria, 722
Ayres, Russell, 150
Bailey, John, 702, 729
Baker, Newton, 49, 176
Balaban, Barney, 126
Baldwin, Stanley, 345, 436
Balfour, John, 464
Balfour Declaration, 287
Bancroft, Hugh, 81
Bao Dai, 654
Bartholomew, Mary, 628–29
Bartlett, Charles, 706
Baruch, Bernard, 175, 183, 209, 211, 228, 239, 270, 317, 362, 370, 583
Bay of Pigs, 767–68
Beard, Charles, 601
Bearsted, Viscount, 308, 322
Beauchamp, Cari, 109
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord, 99, 415, 439, 441, 458, 500, 539, 550, 567, 568, 577, 622, 661, 673, 704, 709, 730, 733, 743
Beck, Dave, 710
Beck, Józef, 400
Belgium, 439–40, 449, 450
Benchley, Robert, 26, 259–60
Ben-Gurion, David, 286, 654
Bennett, Constance, 144
Berle, Adolf, 219, 354–55
Berlin, Irving, 174, 249
Bethlehem Shipbuilding, 54, 55, 57
Bethlehem Steel, 51, 52, 55, 56, 57, 72, 320
baseball league organized by, 55–56
Betts, Dr. Henry, 778–79, 780, 781, 782
Bevan, Aneurin, 552
Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 329, 532, 642, 648–49
Biddle, Francis, 508
Billings, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem,” 224, 225, 239, 241, 264, 369
JFK’s congressional campaign and, 595
Bingham, Robert, 239, 251, 301
Blaik, Earl, 649
Blair, Bill, 704
Block, Paul, 246
Boettiger, John, 243–44, 255–56, 366, 519–20
Bonanno, Joe, 80
bootlegging, 71, 79–81
Boston, Mass.:
East Boston, 5–7, 13, 593
financial institutions in, 32–33
influenza epidemic in, 56–57
Irish Catholics in, see Irish Catholics, in Boston
JPK’s return to, 591–92
Kennedy family’s move to New York from, 105–6, 113
P. J. Kennedy’s political career in, 8–9, 10, 11–12, 14, 15, 18, 23, 26–27, 172, 262–63, 311
policemen’s strike in, 60–61, 67
Protestants in, 10–11, 15, 22
Republicans in, 10–11, 15
Boston Daily Advertiser, 591
Boston Daily Globe, 11, 14, 18, 21, 24, 26, 36–37, 51, 55, 56, 69, 85, 98, 99, 130, 169–70, 181, 557, 591, 621, 649, 701, 709
Lyons’ interview with JPK in, 497–500, 514
Boston Evening American, 330
Boston Evening Transcript, 500
Boston Herald, 619, 622, 640
Boston Latin School, 16–25, 90, 150
Boston Post, 312, 529, 618–19, 622, 625, 653, 736
JFK’s Senate campaign and, 669
Boston Red Sox, 170
Boston Sunday Advertiser, 314
Boston Sunday Globe, 179, 247
Boston Sunday Post, 276
Boston Transcript, 47
Boston Traveler, 640
Bowker, Virginia, 143, 144, 145
Bradlee, Ben, 733, 782–83
Bradley, Colonel Edward Riley, 113, 114, 369
Brandeis, Louis, 351, 358, 389, 390, 392
Brands, H. W., 578
Brewer, Basil, 666
Bricker, John, 605
Brickley, Bart, 550, 671–72, 680, 681
Brinkley, Alan, 380
Britain, see Great Britain
British Foreign Office, 275, 331, 339, 367, 372, 419, 431, 464, 467, 483
“Kennedyiana” file of, 417
Britt, May, 762
Broadway, 554–55
Brockley, Janice, 534
Brookline Trust, 66, 71
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (BMT) Corporation, 175
Brooks, Van Wyck, 22
Broun, Heywood, 357
Brown, Hamilton, 781
Brown, Pat, 720
Browne, Mary, 97
Brush, Matthew, 78, 79, 88
Buchanan, Alan, 102
Buckley, Charles, 729
Bullitt, William, 286, 329, 358, 369, 376, 392, 405, 532, 655
Bundy, McGeorge, 696–97, 768
Burke, William “Onions,” 703
Burns, James MacGregor, 667
Burns, John, 105, 216, 227–28, 247, 256–57, 355, 387, 424, 463, 476, 491, 494, 508, 593
JPK’s break with, 614
JPK’s employment of, 614
Butler, Neville, 507
Butler, Rab, 404–5
Byrnes, George, 94
Byrnes, James, 252, 255, 276, 284, 313, 317, 492, 516–17, 543, 549–50, 575, 601
Cadogan, Alexander, 290, 291, 340, 371, 401, 458
Calder, James, 200–201, 221, 559–60, 577, 594, 611, 649, 658, 728
Cal-Neva Lodge, 719–20
Campbell, Craig, 600
Campbell, Patrick, 249
Campbell, Tom, 23, 25, 29, 44, 54
Canada, 449, 454, 504
Cannes, 324, 326, 336, 397
Cannon, Frances Ann, 561
capitalism, xxi, 220, 227, 514–15, 530, 600, 617
Depression as threat to, 170–71
Roosevelt’s policies and, 231–32, 246, 247, 249
World War II as threat to, 431–32, 485
Capone, Al, 80
Capra, Frank, 421
Carlisle, Kitty, 299
Carnegie, Andrew, 624
Carpenter, William H., 559
Carr, Harry, 122–23, 128, 136
Carrillo, Leo, 730
Carter, Boake, 275–76, 277, 287, 317, 369, 394, 419
Case, Margaret, 432
Casey, Joseph, 545–46
Casey, Pat, 137
Castle, Irene, 66
Castle, Vernon, 66
Castro, Fidel, 747, 767
Catholic Church, 251, 586, 624–25, 672
in Boston, see Irish Catholics, in Boston
at Harvard, xx, 22
JFK’s presidential campaign and, 701–3, 707, 712–16, 721–25, 727–29, 731–35, 743–44, 747–48, 752, 753–55, 757–58
JPK’s faith, 146, 147–48, 158, 491, 571–72, 724–25
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 695, 698
in media and Hollywood, 104
prejudice against, 10, 539
Roosevelt and, 539, 549
Vatican, see Vatican
