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AUTHOR’S NOTE
All dialogue and scene descriptions were drawn from firsthand interviews and/or archival materials, including photographs, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, among other sources. Citations have been placed at the end of the dialogue or scene.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am deeply grateful for the support of my family—especially my husband, Anthony Flint, and my parents, John and Gloria Cassidy—the glue that kept it all together. To my agent, Richard Abate; my editor, Claire Wachtel; and my researcher, Anne Baker, thank you for your dedication at every step of the way. Many people interviewed for this book were generous with their time, and their recollections helped this story come alive; I truly appreciate your contributions. And finally, the archives and helpful staff at the Municipal Art Society and the John F. Kennedy Library were invaluable resources. I thank you all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TINA CASSIDY, an acclaimed author and journalist, spent most of her career as a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, where she wrote about everything from business to politics to fashion. Her previous book was Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. She is also a public relations executive and lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their three sons.
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NOTES
Prologue
1. http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet.
Chapter One: The Wife
1. Evans, 7–11.
2. Kennedy, Jacqueline, 219–20.
3. “Aristotle Onassis Dies of Pneumonia at American Hospital in Paris,” New York Times, March 16, 1975.
4. Bradford, 344.
5. Evans, 38.
6. Evans, 39.
7. AP, “Jackie on Way to Greece Today,” Boston Herald, Oct. 1, 1963.
8. Aristotle Onassis’s FBI file, Bufile:100-125834, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
9. UPI, “Hodges Raps Roosevelt Cruise Critics,” Washington Post, Oct. 23, 1963; Julius Dascha, “Inquiry Told Agriculture Dept. Withheld Data on Onassis Pact,” Washington Post-Times Herald, Oct. 29, 1963; Drew Pearson, “First Lady’s Cruise Causes Stir,” Washington Post-Times Herald; Oct. 17, 1963.
10. UPI, “Turks Cheers Jacqueline,” Boston Globe, Oct. 7, 1963; AP, “Jacqueline, Guests Isle-Hop in Aegean,” Boston Globe, Oct. 9, 1963; UPI, “Jacqueline Takes a Fall at Delphi,” Boston Globe, Oct. 13, 1963; UPI, “Jacqueline Meets Moroccan Monarch,” Boston Globe, Oct. 14, 1963.
11. UPI, “Onassis Calls at White House,” Washington Post and Times
Herald, Nov. 28, 1963.
12. Nicholas von Hoffman, “A Life Lived in the Interest of Luxury and Rapacity,” Washington Post, March 21, 1975.
13. Moutsatsos, 153–59.
14. Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie, 488–93; Anderson, 190–92.
15. Bradford, 341, 353.
16. Moutsatsos, 61.
17. Keogh, 9.
18. Adler, 196.
19. Ibid.
20. Caroline Kennedy talk at the JFK Library, Oct. 3, 2011.
21. Flora Lewis, “At His Table at Maxim’s, He Reminisced,” New York Times, March 16, 1975.
22. Maxine Cheshire, “A Last Summer on the Christina?” Washington Post, June 29, 1975.
23. Noel Hudson, “Church on Skorpios Readied,” Boston Globe, Oct. 19, 1968.
24. Cafarakis, 71.
25. AP, “Reward Offered in Death of Onassis’ Son,” Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 24, 1974.
26. AP, “Onassis Will Give Up His Airline to Greece,” New York Daily News, Jan. 16, 1975.
27. AP, “Onassis Will Give Up His Airline to Greece,” New York Daily News; “Onassis, Bargaining from Weakness,” Economist, Feb. 1, 1975, 78.
28. John Corry, “Onassis Said to Have Planned Divorce, Provided $3-Million for Widow in Will,” New York Times, April 12, 1975.
29. Jack Anderson and Les Whitten, “Columns on Mrs. Onassis Denounced,” Washington Post, May 9, 1975; Anderson, 287.
30. Evans, 287.
31. People column, Time, Jan. 13, 1975.
32. Suzy Says column, New York Daily News, Jan. 5, 1975.
33. AP, “Kennedy Chair Sells for $300,” Los Angeles Times.
34. People, Time, Jan. 20, 1975.
35. Fern Eckman and Helen Dudar, “A Routine Auction, Until Jackie’s ‘Stuff’ Arrived,” New York Post, Jan. 8, 1975.
Chapter Two: The Writer
1. Florence Fabricant, “La Caravelle, a French Legend, Is Closing after 43 Years,” New York Times, May 12, 2004.
2. Meehan, 112.
3. Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, May 30, 1994.
4. Thayer, 7; Radziwill, 134.
5. Birmingham as reprinted in the Boston Herald, Oct. 29, 1978.
6. Thayer, 45.
7. Time, Jan. 20, 1961.
8. Thayer, 20.
9. Thayer, 20.
10. Thayer, 20.
11. Thayer, 55.
12. Thayer, 21.
13. Thayer, 31.
14. Thayer, 39.
15. Thayer, 34.
16. Radziwill, 135.
17. “Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House,” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001), 7.
18. Thayer, 63–64.
19. Time, Jan. 20, 1961.
20. Schlesinger, 17.
21. Friedan, 58.
22. Thayer, 77.
23. Thayer, 76.
24. Thayer, 60.
25. Roberta Mackey, “Woman with Everything,” Boston Traveler, Oct. 10, 1960.
26. Thayer, 82.
27. JBKO, Vogue material, box 1, “Prizewinner,” Vogue, Aug. 1994, JFK Library.
28. JBKO, Vogue material, box 1, Fashion—Question 2, JFK Library.
29. JBKO, Vogue material, box 1, Feature—Question 4, JFK Library.
30. JBKO, Vogue material, box 1, Feature—Question 3, JFK Library.
31. Bouvier, unpaginated.
32. Bouvier, unpaginated.
33. Thayer, 83.
34. Ballard, 2.
35. Bradford, 49.
36. JBKO, Vogue Material, box 1, JFK Library, Letter to Miss Campbell, May 27, 1951.
37. Dorothy McCardle, Jacqueline Kennedy Series, no. 2, Washington Post and Times-Herald, Sept. 29, 1960.
38. Bradford, 5.
39. Bradford, 52.
40. Thayer, 84.
41. Chuck Conconi, “Girl Reporter,” Washingtonian, July 1994, 40. Same citation for the entire scene.
42. Chuck Conconi, “Girl Reporter,” Washingtonian, July 1994, 40.
43. Thayer, 84.
44. Thayer, 84.
45. Dorothy McCardle, Jacqueline Kennedy Series, no. 3, Washington Post and Times-Herald, Sept. 30, 1960.
46. Chuck Conconi, “Girl Reporter,” Washingtonian, July 1994, 40.
47. “Jackie: Behind the Myth,” PBS Home Video, DVD, Suzanne Bauman, director, 1999.
48. Bradford, 57.
49. Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie, 108.
50. Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie, 108.
51. Charles L. Bartlett Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 1/6/1965, 20; Bradford, 56.
52. Charles L. Bartlett Oral History, Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 1/6/1965, 21-22.
53. Washington Times-Herald, Nov. 7, 1952.
54. Jacqueline Bouvier, “Picnic Lunches Help Crowd Wait for Inaugural Parade,” Washington Times-Herald, Jan, 21, 1953.
55. Mary R. Thayer, “Jacqueline Kennedy,” Ladies Home Journal, Feb. 27, 1961.
56. Chuck Conconi, “Girl Reporter,” Washingtonian, July 1994, 43.
57. Chuck Conconi, “Girl Reporter,” Washingtonian, July 1994, 42.
58. John Harris, “Kennedy Fiancée Sketched and Wrote about the Coronation,” Boston Globe, June 26, 1953.
59. Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 9/5/1964, 2.
60. Thayer, 92.
61. Spoto, 80–96.
62. Thayer, 97.
63. Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Oral History, by Joan Braden, JFK Library, 9/5/1964, 6.
64. Parmet, 103–7.
65. Clayton Fitchey, “Jacqueline’s View of JFK,” Boston Globe, Nov. 22, 1966.
66. Parmet, 313–14.
67. Sorensen, 146.
68. JFK Personal Papers, Profiles in Courage, boxes 27–35, JFK Library.
69. Interview with Theodore Sorensen, Aug. 11, 2010.
70. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations, oral history with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1964, xii.
71. Interview with Theodore Sorensen; Schlesinger, 321.
72. Mrs. John F. Kennedy, “Campaign Wife,” Sept. 16, 1960, released by the DNC, ready reference no. 36, JFK Library.
73. Mrs. John F. Kennedy, “Campaign Wife,” Nov. 1, 1960, released by the DNC, ready reference no. 36, JFK Library.
74. www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline.
75. Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, May 30, 1994, 34.
76. Notes on People, New York Times, Jan. 4, 1975.
77. Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, Jan. 13, 1975, 27–28.
78. People, Time, Jan. 20, 1975.
79. Newsmakers, Newsweek, Jan. 20, 1975, 47.
80. Dorothy McCardle, “A Few Words from the ‘Anonymous’ Jacqueline Onassis,” Washington Post, Jan. 8, 1975, B1.
Chapter Three: The Preservationist
1. Interviews and correspondence with Laurie Beckelman, beginning Jan. 2010.
2. Interviews and correspondence with Kent Barwick, beginning Jan. 2010.
3. Belle and Leighton, 75.
4. Gilmartin, 403.
5. Jean Sprain Wilson, AP, “She Will Never Again Be the Same Woman,” Boston Globe, Nov. 14, 1965.
6. Interview with Paul Goldberger, April 16, 2010.
7. Klein, 96–98.
8. Bradford, 7.
9. “The First Lady: She Tells Her Plans for the White House,” Life, Sept. 1, 1961, 62.
10. “The First Lady: She Tells Her Plans for the White House,” Life, Sept. 1, 1961, 62.
11. Kennedy, Jacqueline, 131–32.
12. Transcription of a conversation with Mrs. Henry Parish, II, Parish-Hadley Associates Inc. Records, JFK Library, box #2, 1–3.
13. Transcription of a conversation with Mrs. Henry Parish, II, Parish-Hadley Associates Inc. Records, JFK Library, box #2, 1.
14. Kennedy, Jacqueline, 131.
15. Kennedy, Jacqueline, 132.
16. West, 192.
17. West, 192.
18. A
P, “Visits White House after Leaving Hospital,” Boston Globe, Dec. 9, 1960.
19. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations, oral history with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1964, 132.
20. Hugh Sidey, “Election 2000: This Old House,” Time, Nov. 20, 2000.
21. Bradford, 143.
22. West, 193.
23. Kennedy, Jacqueline, 132.
24. J. Bernard West Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 1967, 2–4.
25. Leamer, 515.
26. Leamer, 515.
27. DAZ and Richard Harkness, “A New First Lady, A New Mood: Mrs. Kennedy Is Bringing Changes to Her New Home—Just Like Many of Her Predecessors,” New York Times, April 23, 1961.
28. Joseph Karitas Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 6/23/1964, 12–13.
29. Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Oral History, JFK Library, 9/5/1964, 12.
30. “Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House,” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001), 7.
31. Isabelle Shelton, “Jackie Gets Fair Shake in Book on JFK,” Boston Globe, April 13, 1971.
32. Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations, oral history with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 1964, 43.
33. “Jacqueline Kennedy in the White House,” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001), 6.
34. Parish-Hadley Associates Inc. Records, JFK Library, box 1, signed Philip J. Jerome.
35. J. Bernard West Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 1967, 5, 6, 11.
36. Abbot and Rice, 10.
37. Bowles et al., 6.
38. DAZ and Richard Harkness, “A New First Lady, A New Mood: Mrs. Kennedy Is Bringing Changes to Her New Home—Just Like Many of Her Predecessors,” New York Times, April 23, 1961.
39. www.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/94/4/35.html.
40. Parish-Hadley Associates Inc. Records, JFK Library, box 1.
41. Abbott and Rice, 206.
42. Talk of the Town, “Remembering Jackie,” The New Yorker, May 30, 1994.
43. Bernard L. Boutin Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 6/3/1964.
44. Parish-Hadley Associates Inc, box 1, JFK Library.
45. Lawrence J. Arata Oral History Interview, JFK Library, JFK #1, 1964.
46. Parish-Hadley Associates Inc., JFK Library, box #1, Loeb Letter, July 7, 1961.
