Chapter 8: Believe it or not, the Mona Lisa’s unveiling can be found on YouTube. Fascinating stuff. Mona Lisa in Camelot, by Margaret Leslie Davis, sheds light on this improbable chapter in our nation’s history. The glossary of Manchester’s Death of a President provides the Secret Service code names, while the Warren Commission Report includes a solid summary on the history of presidential assassination and the need for a Secret Service. The Secret Service’s own website shows this, too. Much of the behind-the-scenes information about the various agents and their details can be found in Clint Hill’s Mrs. Kennedy and Me, and in Gerald Blaine’s The Kennedy Detail. Edward Klein’s All Too Human was also very helpful.
Chapter 9: Caro provides more great detail on LBJ in Passage to Power. The Giancanas’ Double Cross goes further into the Mafia conspiracies. These conspiracies are not presented as facts in this book, but as theories—and Double Cross lays out these possibilities very nicely. Also of note in this chapter: Evan Thomas’s Bobby Kennedy, Burton Hersh’s Bobby and J. Edgar, Edward Klein’s All Too Human, Jim Marrs’s Crossfire, and the LBJ Library’s website.
Chapter 10: The Winston Churchill website has a fine overview of this special day, while Rethinking Camelot, by Noam Chomsky, deals with the early days of Vietnam in graphic detail.
Chapter 11: Many details about the marchers came from Washington Post coverage the following day. Glenn Eskew’s But for Birmingham and Diane McWhorter’s Carry Me Home provide additional awesome detail. Shelley Tougas’s Birmingham 1963 speaks of how a single photograph changed so many minds. Seth Jacobs’s Cold War Mandarin provides gruesome detail on the burning of monks and the Diem regime. And once again, Manchester provides great behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Kennedy White House.
Chapter 12: Taylor Branch’s Parting the Waters; Jessica McElrath’s Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book; Marshall Frady’s Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life; Jackie Kennedy’s Conversations; and Newsweek’s infamous January 19, 1998, issue were all valuable resources, as were Evan Thomas’s Robert Kennedy, Robert Caro’s Passage to Power, and Dianne Holloway’s The Mind of Oswald. Clint Hill’s Mrs. Kennedy and Me is a priceless peek into their relationship, and most helpful.
Chapter 13: Manchester, once again. And Hill. Klein’s All Too Human and Leamer’s The Kennedy Men provided insight as well.
Chapter 14: Dallek, Unfinished Life, and Thomas, Robert Kennedy. King’s entire speech can be heard online at www.americanrhetoric.com.
Chapter 15: This interview between Cronkite and JFK is another Web gem, and worth the watch to see Kennedy’s smooth knowledge about the many topics Cronkite throws at him and the way the two men relax so visibly when the formal filming is completed.
Chapter 16: Information from the JFK Library, Death of a President, Passage of Power, and the Warren Commission Report form the nucleus of this chapter. David Kaiser’s The Road to Dallas was thoughtful and informative, and the FBI files on Aristotle Onassis provide fascinating background information.
Chapter 17: There are a number of websites devoted to Camp David. These are all well worth a look for a glimpse into such a private and exclusive compound. The information about Oswald comes from the Warren Commission, while Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie and the White House Museum website add great detail on the family residence dining room. Ben Bradlee’s Conversations with Kennedy documents this special dinner. Donald Spoto’s JBKO details the date of her last campaign appearance; Manchester provided details about her punctuation; and Heymann and Leamer document the letter from the yacht Christina.
Chapter 18: The bulk of this chapter comes from newspaper accounts and from Manchester. Bradlee’s Conversations provides the “No profiles” quote.
Chapter 19: Special Agent Hosty’s Warren Commission testimony provides the details about his visit to Ruth Paine. The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961–1963, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony, provides the quotes about Arlington. It’s interesting to note that Sergeant Clark also played taps at JFK’s funeral.
Chapter 20: Barry Paris’s Garbo and David Pitts’s Jack and Lem speak well of this forgotten night in White House history. Thank you to Camille Reisfield of Ross, California, for writing to ask if the episode would be in the book, making the authors aware of this last-ever dinner party in Camelot.
Chapter 21: The Warren Commission and Kaiser’s Road to Dallas provide unique insight into the days leading up to the assassination. There is still some question as to whether Oswald was actually the shooter whom Sterling Wood witnessed, as the owner of the shooting range swore he saw Oswald there on a completely different date. The fact that a lone man was seen firing a unique Italian rifle, however, is not in doubt.
Chapter 22: Hill, Manchester, Warren Commission testimony, and the White House Museum website.
Chapters 23 through 26: A wide range of websites and books were used to sift through the vast number of facts surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The timing, crowd descriptions, arrival scene, and all other aspects of the shooting and drive to Parkland Hospital are standard facts. However, the primary sources for specific conversations, private moments, and otherwise particular details are Death of a President, the Warren Commission, Clint Hill’s fascinating Mrs. Kennedy and Me, Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History, Dallek’s writings on JFK’s medical woes and on the assassination itself, and, of course, the Zapruder film. We watched it time after time after time to understand the sequence of events, and it never got less horrific—nor did the outcome ever change.
Chapter 27: Jackie’s filmed newsreel can be found online, and her grief is still startlingly painful to watch. Any number of her biographers have briefly mentioned this taping. But it was hardly inconsequential. As with the night with Garbo, or that with the Mona Lisa, this event was unique and remarkable, and all too easily overlooked.
Acknowledgments
Super-agent Eric Simonoff continues to be amazingly perspicacious in both creative and business endeavors.
Makeda Wubneh, my assistant for more than twenty years, keeps all my enterprises running smoothly, not an easy task.
Also, much gratitude to my publisher Stephen Rubin, the best in the business, and to my boss at Fox News, Roger Ailes, a brilliant, fearless warrior.
—BILL O’REILLY
I would like to extend a debt of gratitude to all who made this book possible, including Steve Rubin, the rock-steady Gillian Blake, and Eric Simonoff. And, of course, much heartfelt love and thanks to Calene Dugard—muse, soul mate, and closet historian.
—MARTIN DUGARD
Index
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Abernathy, Ralph
Adams, John
African Americans. See also civil rights movement
Alabama, University of
Amagiri (Japanese destroyer)
American Rifleman
Anderson, Rudolf, Jr.
Andrews, Julie
Arlington National Cemetery
Azcue, Eusebio
Baker, Marrion L.
Bartlett, Charles
Bastien-Thiry, Jean
Batista, Fulgencio
Baughman, U. E.
Bay of Pigs invasion
aftermath of
launched
lead-up to
Beale, Edith Bouvier
Behn, Jerry
Beirut, Lebanon
Belli, Melvin
Berger, Andy
Berlin
Jack’s speech in
Wall
Bernstein, Leonard
Bessette, Lauren
Billings, Lem
Birmingham, Alabama
Baptist Church bombing
Children’s Crusade
Blackett Strait
Boggs, Hale
Bolton, Oliver
Booth, John Wilkes
Boston Globe
Bouvier, John “Black Jack” (Jackie’s father)
Bowles, Chester
Bradlee, Ben
Bradlee, Tony
Branch, Taylor
Brandon, Henry
Brenna, Howard L.
Brigade 2506
Brown, Arnold J.
Browne, Malcolm
Brown v. Board of Education
Bryant, Carolyn
Bryant, Roy
Bumbry, Grace
Bundy, McGeorge
Burke, Arleigh
Burton, Richard
Bush, George H. W.
Callas, Maria
Camelot (musical)
Campbell, Judith
Camp David
Campion, John
Capone, Al
Carpenter, Scott
Carrico, Charles J.
Casals, Pablo
Cassini, Oleg
Castro, Fidel
assassination plots vs.
Bay of Pigs and
Cuban missile crisis and
Cuban revolution and
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
anti-Castro plots and
Bay of Pigs and
Bobby and
domestic operations and
Jack’s assassination and
Mafia and
Oswald and
Vietnam and
Cermak, Anton
Chavchavadze, Helen
Checker, Chubby
Chicago Sun-Times
Christina (Onassis yacht)
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Winston
Civil Rights Act (1964)
civil rights movement. See also specific events and individuals
Civil War
Civil War Centennial Commission
Clark, Keith
Clark, William Kemp
Cohen, Mickey
cold war. See also communism; Soviet Union
Collingwood, Charles
Collins, Addie Mae
communism
Connally, John
assassination attempt on
Connally, Nellie
Connor, Eugene “Bull”
Cowen, Jill
Cronkite, Walter
Crosby, Bing
Cuba
Bay of Pigs invasion
CIA covert activity in
missile crisis
Oswald and
revolution of 1959
Cuban exiles
Cuban Expeditionary Force
Curry, Jesse
Cushing, Richard
Dallas
FBI and
Jack’s assassination in
Jack’s visit planned
Stevenson in
Dallas Morning News
Dallas Police Department
D’Amato, Paul Emilio
da Vinci, Leonardo
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, Thomas
Dealey Plaza
de Gaulle, Charles
Democratic Party
elections of 1962 and
nomination of 1960
nomination of 1968
de Mohrenschildt, George
Diamond, Neil
Diem, Ngo Dinh
DiMaggio, Joe
Dugard, Alan
Dugger, Ronnie
Dulles, Allen
Dumphy, Chris
Ebbins, Milt
Edwards, Robert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Eisenhower, Mamie
elections
of 1960
of 1962
of 1964
of 1968
of 1972
Elizabeth II, queen of England
Emancipation Proclamation
Esquire
Essex, USS (aircraft carrier)
Evers, Medgar
Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm)
Fain, John
Fair Play for Cuba Committee
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
civil rights movement and
Jack investigated by
Jack’s assassination and
Mafia and
Monroe and
Onassis and
Oswald and
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)
Ferguson, Anne
Finnerty, Frank
Fischer, Ronald
Fischetti, Joe
Fischetti, Rocco
Formosa, John
Foster, Bob
Frazier, Wesley
Frederickson, Cora
Freedom Riders
French, Daniel Chester
Friedan, Betty
Frost, Robert
Fulbright, William
Gadsden, Walter
Garbo, Greta
Garfield, James
Garner, John Nance
Georgia, University of
Giancana, Sam
Goldwater, Barry
Goodwin, Richard
Goulet, Robert
Graham, Billy
Grant, Ulysses S.
Greer, William
Gromyko, Andrei
Guatemala
Hannah, John A.
Harding, Warren G.
Harrison, William Henry
Hatfield, Robert Edward
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Hemingway, Ernest
Herter, Christian
“Hidell, A. J.” (Oswald alias)
Hill, Clint
Hiroshima
Historic Automotive Attractions Museum
Hobson, Valerie
Holden, William
Hoover, J. Edgar
civil rights leaders and
Jack and
Jack’s assassination and
Monroe and
Hosty, James, Jr.
Hudson, Bill
Hughes, Sarah
India
Ireland
“Irish Mafia”
Jackson, Mahalia
Jackson, Michael
Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall firm
Japan
Jefferson, Thomas
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
Bay of Pigs and
Bobby and
civil rights and
Cuban missile crisis and
death of
FBI and
Jack’s assassination and
Jack’s inauguration and
Memorial Day address of
personality of
presidency of
presidential ambitions of
Secret Service and
Senate career of
sworn in as president
Texas trip and
Time and
travels to Beirut
travels to Thailand
travels to Vietnam
as vice president
Vietnam War and
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joseph Kennedy Jr., USS (destroyer)
Justice Department
Keeler, Christine
Kellerman, Roy
Kennedy, Arabella (daughter)
Kennedy, Caroline (daughter)
Kennedy, Carolyn Bessette
Kennedy, Edward M. “Teddy” (brother)
Kennedy, Ethel (sister-in-law)
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier “Jackie” (wife)
Bay of Pigs and
Camelot image and
Cape Cod and
childhood and youth of
children and family life and
Churchill and
Cuban missile crisis and
Dallas trip and
death of
death of son Patrick and
de Mohrenschildt and
finances and
Garbo and
Jack’s affairs and
Jack’s affair with Monr
oe and
Jack’s assassination and
Jack’s birthday and
Jack’s funeral and
Jack’s inauguration and
Jack’s memory and
King and
later life of
LBJ and
marries Onassis
miscarriages and
Mona Lisa and
personality of
popularity of
pregnancy of
relationship with Jack
Secret Service and
Sinatra and
smoking and
travels to France
travels to Greece
travels to India and Pakistan
White House entertaining and
White House renovation and
White House schedule and
White House TV tour and
Kennedy, Joan (sister-in-law)
Kennedy, John, Jr. (son)
death of
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
affairs and
affair with Campbell
affair with Monroe
Air Force One décor and
appearance of
Arlington grave of
assassination of
assassination of, and conspiracy theories
Bay of Pigs and
Berlin and
birthdays of
Bobby and
body flown to Washington
brothers and
Camelot image and
Castro and
challenges of presidency and
childhood and youth of
children and family life and
Churchill and
civil rights and
Cronkite interview of
Cuban missile crisis and
daily schedule of
Dallas arrival of
Dallas motorcade route of
death of, announced
death of brother Joe and
death of son Patrick and
Diem assassination and
Dulles fired by
early assassination attempts on
Eisenhower and
elected to Congress
election of 1960 and
election of 1964 and
enemies of
father and
finances of
funeral of
Garbo and
health problems of
Hoover and
inauguration of
Jackie’s pregnancy and
Jackie’s relationship with
Jackie’s trip to Greece and
Jackie’s White House tour and
King and
last White House dinner of
LBJ and
Lincoln and
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