24. Last Days
Malcolm Kilduff was interviewed three times by telephone from his home in Kentucky, beginning in February 1995; he was interviewed in Washington for Lancer Productions in September 1996. Hugh Sidey's cited column on Kennedy, "Upstairs at the White House," was published in Time magazine on May 18, 1987. James Johnston was interviewed in Washington in March 1994 and May 1995. The cited Stewart Alsop column was "A Conversation with President Kennedy," in the Saturday Evening Post for January 1, 1966. Karl Kaysen was interviewed in Boston in May 1994. Donald Reynolds's testimony before Burkett Van Kirk and the Senate Rules Committee was described in Clark Mollenhoff's Despoilers of Democracy, published in 1965 by Doubleday.
Epilogue
James Dingeman was interviewed by telephone from his suburban Virginia home in November 1993 and May 1995. Richard Burke was interviewed in Washington in March 1994 and in Los Angeles in January 1997. His much-criticized book on Senator Ted Kennedy, which became a bestseller nonetheless, is The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy, published in 1992 by St. Martin's. Frank Mankiewicz was interviewed in his Washington office in April 1994. Bobby Kennedy's exchange of letters with Earl Warren is included among the records of the Warren Commission.
INDEX
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Abel, Elie, 374n
Accardo, Anthony, 143
Acheson, Dean, 351, 435n
Addison's disease, 5, 14, 15, 123, 232n, 233n
Adonis, Joey, 53, 100
Agnelli, Marella, 396
Air Force One, 1, 7, 9, 394n, 439
AIT. See Aldred Investment Trust
Alabama Air National Guard, 176, 215
Albania, 262
Alderman, Jerome S., 319
Aldred Investment Trust (AIT), 56--57, 59
Alliance for Progress, 440
Alsop, Joseph, 171, 172, 174, 253, 423--424
Alsop, Stewart, 78, 174, 370, 441
Ambrose, Stephen E., 180
American Friends of Vietnam (AFV), 415
American University, JFK speech at, 382--384, 385, 393n
Anderson, Thornton J., Jr., 165n
Appleton, Frank, 328
Arbenz Guzman, Jacobo, 161, 185, 219
Aron, Raymond, 374
Artime, Manuel, 378, 379
Arvad, Inga Marie, 82--85, 86, 147
assassinations, political, 3, 185--201
See also Castro, Fidel; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Robert F.; Lumumba, Patrice; Ngo Dinh Diem; Trujillo, Rafael Assassinations Committee, House, 140
Auchincloss, Hugh D., 235n
Bacon, James, 106, 296
Bahamas, 381
Baker, Bobby, 27n, 115--116, 122--123, 302, 303, 411
investigation of, 400--401, 406, 407, 446, 447
Ellen Rometsch and, 388--390, 405
Balletti, Arthur J., 289
Barron, W. W. (Wally), 98, 99
Bartlett, Charles, 5, 208, 301, 347, 370, 445, 453n
on JFK, 31, 354n, 360, 430
JFK and, 5, 332, 417--418, 429, 443, 444
on Joseph Kennedy, 16, 123
RFK and, 122, 358
Baruch, Bernard, 84
Bates, Charles, 391, 392
Batista, Fulgencio, 156, 157, 178, 179
Battleground Berlin (Murphy), 260
The Bay of Pigs (Johnson), 376
Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story (Wyden), 166
Bay of Pigs invasion, 202--221
aftermath of, 280, 290
air support for, 208--209, 211--213, 284, 376
assassination of Castro and, 203--207, 211--213, 217--218, 269--270, 291--292
criticism of, 275, 289, 375
Cuban exiles and, 205--207, 208--209, 210--214, 269, 378
Cuban missile crisis and, 366, 375
failure of, 3, 165, 197, 199, 208, 344
investigation of, 273--276
JFK and, 179--180, 208--211, 213--215, 218, 231, 275, 308, 370
RFK and, 215--216, 275, 277
rogue pilots in, 215--217
U.S.-Soviet relations and, 249, 251, 252, 354
mentioned, 28, 167, 172, 175, 272, 291, 334, 418n, 440, 448
Beck, Ludwig, 69
Behn, Jerry, 240
Belgium, 194, 195
Belin, David W., 189--190
Bell, Jack L., 277n
Bellino, Carmine, 111, 236n
Bergquist, Laura, 333--334
Berlin, 187, 343, 346, 347, 357, 368
crisis in, 249, 251--253, 256--263, 264, 332, 334
JFK in, 393
Berlin Wall, 258--259
Beschloss, Michael, 76, 193, 382, 384, 393n
Betancourt, Ernest, 207--208
Biddle, Anthony Drexel, 76
Billings, K. LeMoyne, 15, 40, 236n, 252
Bissell, Richard M., Jr.
Bay of Pigs and, 203, 205, 207n, 215--218, 273
Castro and, 162--163, 168, 169, 270, 271
JFK and, 170, 171--172, 173, 174, 181, 271
political assassinations and, 185--192, 194, 195, 196, 198
Blair, Anne E., 424n
Blakey, G. Robert, 140, 141, 153
Blauvelt, Gerri Hendricksen, 332
Blauvelt, Louis L., 331--332, 333, 334, 336, 337, 338, 339
Block, Charlie, 55
Boeing Company, 318
Bolshakov, Georgi N.
in Berlin crisis, 261, 262
JFK and, 260
in missile crisis, 343, 347, 348, 349, 358--359
RFK and, 248--250, 251, 254--255, 259, 347, 452
Bolton, Seymour, 440n
Bonanno, Joseph, 48, 192
Born, Roscoe C., 93--94
Boston Globe, 64, 80, 455
Boston Traveler, 49
Bouck, Robert I., 6, 7
Bowles, Chester, 256
Bracken, Brendan, 79
Bradlee, Benjamin, 133, 250, 380, 391
JFK and, 24, 30--31, 336--340, 445; first marriage, 332, 333, 336--340, 344
on LBJ, 337n
on Ellen Rometsch, 404--405, 409
Bradlee, Tony, 340
Brazil, 202
Breckinridge, Scott D., 287n
Britain, 80, 270, 381
MI5, 392, 393
Profumo scandal in, 390--398
British Guiana, 265--267
Bross, John, 174
Brown, Bonn, 98, 99
Brown, Malcolm, 414
Bruce, David, 391
Brugioni, Dino A., 351n
Bruno, Jerry, 32, 95--96, 301
Bullitt, William C., 72, 76
Bundy, McGeorge, 20, 34, 111, 247, 279
Bay of Pigs and, 202, 203, 211, 218--219, 276
Church Committee and, 187--190
CIA and, 190--191
Cuban missile crisis and, 350, 361, 363, 364, 374
JFK and, 2, 29, 30, 31; assassination, 452
Vietnam War and, 435
Burke, Arleigh, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 467
Burke, Richard, 454
Burnham, Forbes, 266
Burns, John J., 65, 66
Buzzanco, Robert, 274
Byrd, Harry F., 133, 152
Cabell, Charles P., 170, 182, 183n, 279
Cagney, James, 148
Campbell, Judith. See Exner, Judith Campbell
Campbell, William, 297
Capehart, Homer, 372
Capone, Al, 47, 49, 52, 53, 54, 134, 141
Carlson, Alex, 216
Carney, Eleanore, 432, 433
Carter, Clifton, 152
Carter, Marshall, 286
Carter, William R., 311, 317, 320
Casey, Joseph E., 39--40
Cassara, Thomas J., 52, 53--54
Cassini, Igor, 197--198
Cassini, Oleg, 197
Castro, Fidel
assassination plot against, 185, 188--1
91, 196, 200--201, 374, 416, 438, 447; and Bay of Pigs, 203--207, 211--213, 217--218, 269--270, 291--292; CIA and, 161--165, 174--175, 268--293, 278n, 307, 324, 440; Cuban missile crisis and, 342--343, 346, 361--362, 369; Kennedys' knowledge of, 3, 291--292, 399n, 449; organized crime and, 4, 161--168, 175, 179, 203--207, 209, 211--213, 269, 270, 272, 274, 286--291, 307, 308, 375; as security risk, 228--229
as campaign issue, 156--157, 178--180, 182
Eisenhower and, 4, 162, 169, 176, 178
Kennedys and, 190, 220, 265, 267, 268, 271, 282, 382; JFK, 3, 156, 157, 169, 178, 179, 183, 184, 281, 307, 324, 342, 345, 369; RFK, 272--273, 274, 278, 289, 342
Khrushchev and, 341
on Monroe Doctrine, 162
Nixon and, 157, 166, 178--179, 180, 182
popularity of, 208
as threat, 274--275, 278, 430
Castro, Raul, 162, 272
Cell 2455, Death Row (film), 297
Celler, Emanuel, 159
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
in Asia, 434n
Bay of Pigs and, 208, 210--217
in Berlin, 259--260
Bundy and, 190--191
Castro assassination plot and, 3, 183, 228--229, 268--293, 438, 440, 447--449; under Eisenhower, 161--168, 169, 174--175, 176; organized crime and, 141, 162--166, 203--207, 288--290, 292, 307--308, 324
in Cuba, 164, 185, 260, 374--379, 440
Cuban exiles and, 378--381
Cuban missile crisis and, 348, 350, 363
D branch of, 164
FBI and, 288
IG Report, 167, 188n, 204, 290--291, 448, 449
JFK and, 169, 170, 171, 180, 183, 270, 271, 273, 281, 291
Joseph Kennedy and, 47, 77, 150, 151, 173
in Latin America, 266--267
Nixon and, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 170
political assassinations and, 185--201
Profumo scandal and, 392--393
RFK and, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272--273, 278, 290
in Saigon, 416, 429
Soviet back channel and, 251
Technical Services Division (TSD), 194
See also Operation Mongoose; Task Force W
Chamberlain, Neville, 66, 67, 70n
Chandler, Otis, 394n
Chang, Gordon H., 441n
Chang, Suzy, 391, 394, 397
Charleston Gazette, 92
Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstrasse crossing), 259, 260--263, 265
Cheshire, Maxine, 340
Chessman, Caryl, 297
Chicago Sun-Times, 144
Chicago Tribune, 55, 71, 72, 332
China, People's Republic of, 164, 262, 384, 440--441, 442
Christ, David L., 164, 165n
Christie, Sid, 98, 99
Church, Frank, 162, 187, 218, 283, 291
Church Committee
Bay of Pigs and, 213, 217--218
Judith Exner and, 294--295, 314
on political assassinations, 187--190; Castro, 162, 204, 271, 272, 274n, 277--278, 281, 283n, 289, 375, 382, 440, 448; Lumumba, 196; Ngo Dinh Diem, 416n, 429; Trujillo, 198, 199, 433
report of. See Church Report Churchill, Randolph, 67, 79
Churchill, Winston, 67, 73, 75, 77, 79
Church Report, 162, 166, 167, 291, 294, 313
CI. See Special Group for Counterinsurgency
CIA and the Cold War (Breckinridge), 287n
CIA Inspector General's Report (1967). See IG Report civil rights, 344
Clancy, Harold E., 49, 50, 56, 236n
Clark, Alfred Corning, 114, 115
Clark, Alicia Darr (Barbara Kopszynska), 111--120
Clark, Blair, 224, 298
Clark, Bob, 108, 109
Clay, Lucius, 258, 261--262
Clifford, Clark M., 116--117, 125, 126, 219--220
JFK's first marriage and, 332--333, 337, 339
Clout: Mayor Daley and His City (O'Connor), 123--124
Cockburn, Claud, 69
Colby, William L., 151n, 283
Cold War, 162, 277, 335, 370
JFK on, 382--384
Kennedy policy in, 248--251
1960 campaign and, 155, 170, 179
Third World and, 193--194, 265
Cold War International History Project Bulletin, 354, 365, 366
Colombia, 200--201
Columbia Trust Company, 44
communism
of Castro, 162, 174
Hoover and, 148
Kennedys and, 151, 179, 255, 257, 267n, 441, 450
in Latin America, 10, 265--266, 275
neutralism and, 423
Nixon and, 157, 178, 183
in Vietnam, 265, 413, 417, 431
Conein, Lucien, 416, 429, 432
Congo, 3, 185, 193, 194--196
Congress, U.S.
Berlin crisis and, 257
committees of, 134, 140. See also specific committees
Cuban missile crisis and, 373
Connally, John, 123
Conversations with Kennedy (Bradlee), 250, 332, 337, 340, 380, 391, 405
Cooper, Chester, 38--39, 442
Cooper, John Sherman, 340, 444
Cooper, Lorraine, 340
Corbin, Paul, 442--444, 445
Corcoran, Thomas G., 71
Costello, Frank, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 58n
Costello, John, 76
Cotten, Joseph, 296
Counsel to the President (Clifford), 116n, 332, 337
Cram, Cleveland, 392--393
Cretzianu, Alexandre, 159, 160
The Crisis Years (Beschloss), 193, 382, 384, 393n Croken, Joe, 431
Cronkite, Walter, 224, 420
Crosby, Bing, 244--245, 439n
Crosby, Kenneth M., 161--162
Crowell, Evelyn, 48n
Crowley, Robert T., 76--77
Cuba
blockade of, 352, 353, 354, 356, 359, 360
CIA activity in, 164, 185, 260, 374--379, 440
Cold War and, 193
exiles from, 269, 275, 276, 279, 280, 283; Bay of Pigs and, 205--207, 208--209, 210--214; Brigade 2506, 376--377, 378; CIA and, 378--381; JFK and, 376--377, 379--381
Kennedys and, 33, 220, 256, 345, 351
1960 election and, 168, 169, 174--175, 186
organized crime in, 8, 157, 286
planned attacks on, 279--280, 292--293
Soviet Union and, 161, 162, 283, 284, 293, 342, 346, 348, 380--381
U.S. business in, 156
See also Bay of Pigs invasion; Castro, Fidel; Cuban missile crisis; Operation Mongoose; U-2 flights Cuban missile crisis (October 1962), 178, 302, 341--371
back channel during, 249, 260, 343, 347, 348, 349, 358--359, 452
Bay of Pigs and, 366, 375
Bundy and, 350, 361, 363, 364, 374
Castro assassination plot and, 293, 342--343, 346, 361--362, 369
CIA and, 348, 350, 363
compromise in, 3, 345, 371, 373--374
DEFCON alerts in, 341, 357, 358, 361
Eisenhower and, 356--357, 368, 370n Ex Comm and, 341, 342, 350--351, 353--355, 360, 364, 370, 371n, 372, 374
FBI and, 363
JFK's health during, 237
LBJ and, 408n
1962 midterm elections and, 372
nuclear weapons and, 358, 365, 383, 384, 386
RFK and, 3, 345, 350, 352, 353, 361, 363, 369, 409; Bolshakov and, 347, 348, 349, 358; Dobrynin and, 359, 364--365, 366, 367, 371
See also Khrushchev, Nikita: Cuban missile crisis and Cubela, Rolando, 440, 447, 448
Curtis, Carl, 401, 406
Cushing, Richard Cardinal, 100, 329--330
Cushman, Robert E., Jr., 166
Daily Express (London), 68
Daily Mail (London), 328
Daley, Richard J., 50, 96, 132, 133, 152, 304
Dalton, George E., 454--455
D'Amato, Paul (Skinny), 100--101, 198
Dan, Uri, 51
Daniel, Clifton, 282n
Darr, Alicia. See Clark, Alicia Darr
Davis, Sam
my, Jr., 298
Deadline (Reston), 69, 252
Dearborn, Henry, 196--197, 199
The Death of a President (Manchester), 418n
de Gaulle, Charles, 420
DeLoach, Cartha D., 47, 85, 147, 154
Demaris, Ovid, 295, 299n
Demetracopoulos, Elias, 467
Democratic National Conventions 1956, 88
1960, 91, 94, 109, 117, 124, 306, 311; JFK at, 89, 121, 124
Democratic Party
Baker and, 388, 401, 448
1962 midterm elections and, 372
Ellen Rometsch and, 402, 446
in Senate, 407
Democratic Revolutionary Front (anti-Castro coalition), 205
Dennison, Robert L., 214, 292--293, 352, 358n Desloge, Firmin V., 332, 333
Des Moines Register, 401
DeStefano, Rocco, 54
Devlin, Lawrence, 191, 195
Diem, Ngo Dinh. See Ngo Dinh Diem
Dillinger, John, 148
DiMaggio, Joe, 102
Dingeman, James R., 453--454
Dinneen, Joe, 64n
Dirksen, Everett, 154, 403, 404, 406
Dirksen, Herbert von, 64
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 347, 359--360, 361, 365, 366, 367, 371, 374n, 453n Dolan, Joseph F., 2n, 56, 128--129, 312--313, 443
Dominican Republic, 3, 185, 193
Donald, David Herbert, 255--256
Donovan, Hedley, 209
Donovan, William J. (Wild Bill), 72
Doolittle, James H., 150n
Doster, George R., 176
Douglas, William O., 135, 249n, 415
Downey, Morton, 331
Downey, Morton, Jr., 331
Draznin, Julius, 8, 9, 450, 451
Duffy, LaVern, 399--400, 409
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