Sinatra and, 139, 298, 300
Stevenson and, 212, 256, 370, 382
support for, 257
television and, 155, 179, 183, 372
Trujillo and, 198
at Vienna summit, 251--254
Vietnam and, 220--221, 253, 413, 414, 417--418, 419--420, 425
West Coast and, 25
See also Bay of Pigs invasion; Cuban missile crisis Kennedy, Joseph, Jr. (brother), 333
death of, 16, 40, 45, 331
Joseph Kennedy, Sr., and, 73n, 78, 82
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick (father)
as ambassador to England, 39, 45, 61--73, 81, 150
anti-Semitism of, 63, 64, 69
attorneys for, 86--87, 107
Bay of Pigs and, 219
on Berlin crisis, 258
business career of, 44--56
Churchill-Roosevelt cables and, 73, 75--77
CIA and, 47, 150, 151, 173
daughters of, 27
Diem and, 415, 433
Dulles and, 173
Eisenhower and, 150, 351n
elections and: 1918, 36, 38; 1940, 71, 80; 1960, 54
family and, 17, 270
FDR and, 39, 45, 61, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72--73, 74--87, 148
friends of, 249n
gambling and, 56--60
Giancana and, 4, 131, 134, 135--136, 137, 140, 143, 146, 300
Hitler and, 63, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 80, 82
Honey Fitz and, 36, 37--38, 41
Hoover and, 47--48, 81--82, 86, 129, 147, 149, 150, 151
isolationism of, 45, 81, 85n
James Roosevelt and, 46n, 61, 62, 63
JFK and: affairs, 83, 85, 112, 117, 119, 238--239; first marriage, 327, 329, 330, 331; illness, 15--16; image, 224--225; political career, 40, 41--42, 83, 89, 91, 95, 97, 100, 116n, 131, 136
journalists and, 62--63
LBJ and, 27n, 121, 123
MI5 surveillance of, 67, 79
money and, 44--45, 46, 71n
organized crime and, 47, 48, 50, 51, 100, 101, 134, 135
Prohibition and, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51n, 62, 143, 150
secrecy of, 44, 46, 56, 61
sons and, 83, 86--87, 131, 134, 151, 153, 154
stroke, 45
treatment of servants, 32
Trujillo and, 197--198
Tuohy and, 137
unions and, 135
West Virginia primary and, 95, 100
in World War II, 63, 65, 66, 69, 80
Kennedy, Kathleen (sister), 45
Kennedy, Patricia. See Lawford, Patricia Kennedy Kennedy, Patrick (son), 20--21, 439
Kennedy, Robert Francis (RFK)
assassination of, 443n
as attorney general, 153--154
and back channel to Soviets, 249--252, 254--255, 452
Bay of Pigs and, 215--216, 275, 277
on Berlin crisis, 257, 259, 261, 262, 263
campaign funds and, 5
Cassini and, 198
Castro and, 206, 220, 268, 271, 272--273, 274, 278, 282, 289, 342, 448, 449
CIA and, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272--273, 278, 290
Corbin and, 442--443
Cuba and, 182, 284, 286, 375--379; exiles, 378--381
Cuban missile crisis, 3, 345, 350, 352, 353, 361, 363, 369, 374n; Bolshakov and, 347, 348, 349, 358; Dobrynin and, 359, 364--365, 366, 367, 371
on Diem, 435
father and, 16, 45, 56, 95, 135
General Aniline case and, 235n
Giancana and, 134, 307--308
Hoffa and, 146
on Honey Fitz, 40
Hoover and, 8, 12, 112, 113, 115, 117--118, 273--274, 312, 402--404
on Jagan, 267n
JFK and, 26, 28, 104, 118, 129, 313, 424, 432; assassination, 1--2, 8, 9, 10, 450--453, 455, 456; first marriage, 326, 333, 334; health, 232--233, 237; reelection campaign, 438; Vienna summit, 253--254
on Khrushchev, 252
Lansdale and, 352
LBJ and, 121, 122--123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 406--407, 446
Evelyn Lincoln and, 408--409
Lovett and, 351n
Marilyn Monroe and, 336n
1960 presidential election and, 4, 89, 153, 183n
O'Donnell and, 445
organized crime and, 8, 51n, 52, 101, 138, 139, 287--288, 311, 322
papers of, 287, 379n
political assassinations and, 190, 192, 199
position of, 247--248, 251
press and, 335--336
Profumo scandal and, 390--398
on Rackets Committee, 86, 134--135, 139, 288, 319
Ellen Rometsch and, 398--400, 402--406
secrecy and, 6, 12, 14, 15
sexual activities of, 237, 242, 249n and Special Group (CI), 278--279
Vietnam and, 220--221, 412, 435--437
war on crime and, 288
West Virginia primary and, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
White House tape-recording systems and, 7, 454
Kennedy, Rose (mother), 38, 47, 70n, 76, 219, 335--336
JFK and, 17--18
Joseph Kennedy and, 27, 44, 56
LBJ and, 27n
Roosevelt and, 78
Kennedy, Rosemary (sister), 76
Kennedy (Sorensen), 89, 175n, 195, 210, 353, 364, 385
Kennedy and Johnson (Lincoln), 408, 409
Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance (Beschloss), 76
The Kennedy Family (Dinneen), 64n
Kennedy Library. See John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Kent, Tyler, 75--76, 79
Kerr, Robert, 401
Khrushchev, Nikita, 162, 181, 273, 293, 342
Berlin crisis and, 256, 258--259, 261--263, 264
Bolshakov and, 254, 452
Cuban missile crisis and, 3, 372, 373, 374; back-channel messengers in, 343--344, 347, 348, 350, 359; JFK and, 341, 342, 344, 345, 349, 353, 354, 360, 362, 363, 364, 366, 367; Jupiter missiles, 346; nuclear warheads, 355
fall of, 386
Jagan and, 267
JFK and, 193, 212, 236, 256, 386, 393n; in Berlin, 248, 250, 252, 253; China and, 442; at Vienna, 251--253
nuclear test ban treaty and, 383--386
RFK and, 452--453
Kihss, Peter, 180
Kilduff, Malcolm, 439
Killian, James R., Jr., 150n
King, Thomas V., 137
Kissinger, Henry A., 247, 259
Klein, Herbert G., 182
Klemmer, Harvey, 63, 65--66, 67, 71, 75, 79
Klurfeld, Herman, 49n
Knickerbocker, Cholly (Igor Cassini), 197
Knight, John S., 127, 128
Kondrashev, Sergei A., 260
Kopszynska, Barbara. See Clark, Alicia Darr
Korea, 264
Krisel, Lionel, 156n
Kristallnacht, 64
Krock, Arthur, 49n, 62, 63, 71, 72, 75, 78, 79, 82
A Laborer in the Vineyards (Raskin), 91
Laird, Gail, 302
Lalouette, Roger, 420, 421, 424
Landau, Eli, 51
Lansdale, Edward G., 377
Cuban missile crisis and, 343, 352
McNamara and, 426--428
Operation Mongoose and, 269, 272, 282--283, 284--285, 292, 376, 427
Vietnam War and, 3, 425, 426, 429
Lansky, Meyer, 51--52, 53
Laos, 418
Latin America
Castro and, 200, 265, 275
communism in, 10, 267n
JFK on, 440
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy, 27, 102, 103, 142, 298n
Lawford, Peter, 25, 27, 102, 103, 105, 142, 244--245, 246, 298, 398
Lawrence, Barbara, 377
Leahy, Jane, 312
Lebow, Richard Ned, 365n
Lemnitzer, Lyman L., 214, 265, 276--277, 279
Lend-Lease, 72
Le Ore (magazine), 112
Liakakis, Georgia, 400
Life magazine, 25, 223, 301n
Lightner, Allan, 260--261
Lincoln, Evelyn, 32, 110, 116, 1
86, 302, 312, 313
Judith Exner and, 300--301, 320
JFK and, 300, 301, 444, 445
Jacqueline Kennedy and, 238
on Joseph Kennedy, 225
LBJ and, 9, 129
RFK and, 408--409
on West Virginia primary, 95
White House tape recordings and, 7, 8n, 356, 368, 370n Linen, Edward K., 59n
Lippmann, Walter, 181, 354, 368
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 17, 39, 417
Diem and, 413, 422--423, 429, 433
Minh and, 414--415, 416, 432
RFK on, 435
on Vietnam policy, 419
Lodge in Vietnam (Blair), 424n
Loevinger, Lee, 395n
Look magazine, 333, 334, 336
Los Angeles Examiner, 394n
Lothian, Lord, 74
Love at First Flight (Spalding), 24
Lovett, Robert A., 150n, 351
Lowe, Jacques, 223--224
Luce, Clare Boothe, 78
Luce, Henry, 78, 415
Lumumba, Patrice, 3, 185, 188, 189, 191, 194--196
Lynch, Grayston, 172, 275
Lyons, Louis, 80
Maas, Peter, 48
MacArthur, Douglas, 436
McCabe, Gerry M., 275--276, 390n
McCahey, James B., Jr., 93, 96--97
McCarthy, Joseph, 151, 430
McClellan, John L., 134, 318, 319
McCone, John A., 292, 375, 376, 392, 447n
Castro and, 277--278
Cuban missile crisis and, 348--349, 350, 370n on Operation Mongoose, 284
Vietnam War and, 416n
McCoy, Thomas F., 150--151
McCoy, Tim, 84
MacDonald, Charlotte, 16
McDonald, David J., 213
Macdonald, Torbert, 301n, 431--433
Macdonald, Torbert, Jr., 433
McDonnell, Robert J., 135, 136--137, 165
McGarr, Lionel, 265
McGiffert, David, 319
McGrory, Mary, 298
McGuire, Phyllis, 142, 289, 323
McInerney, James M., 86--87, 107, 109, 117, 395n
McIntyre, William T., 240--241
Macmillan, Harold, 12, 390, 391, 393--394, 402, 404
McNamara, Robert S., 9, 34, 193, 318--319
Cuban exiles and, 381
Cuban missile crisis and, 348, 361, 370, 373
JFK and, 29, 30, 31, 193, 273, 349
Lansdale and, 426--428
LBJ and, 452
on nuclear test ban treaty, 385--386
RFK and, 274n
Vietnam War and, 423, 426, 435
Madden, Owney, 50
Mafia. See organized crime
Mafia Princess (Antoinette Giancana), 142
Maheu, Robert A., 163, 165, 203, 212--213, 289
The Making of the President (White), 92, 95
Malaxa, Nicolae, 158--161, 173
Malcolm, Durie, 2, 6, 326--340, 344, 405
Malraux, André, 441n
Maltz, Richard M., 114n
Man Against the Mob (Roemer), 140
Manchester, William, 15, 258, 418
Maneli, Mieczyslaw, 420, 421, 422, 424
Mankiewicz, Frank, 455--456
A Man of Honor (Bonanno), 48
Mansfield, Mike, 403, 404, 406, 430, 436
The Man Who Kept the Secrets (Powers), 200, 217n Marin, William P., 236n
Maritime Commission, 45, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66
Marovitz, Abraham Lincoln, 50--51, 144--145
Martin, Dean, 298
Martin, John Barlow, 267n, 436
Martin, Ralph G., 41, 42
Mason, Gordon B., 159, 160, 161, 173
Masters of War (Buzzanco), 274n
Medicine, National Library of, 233
Meet the Press, 263
Melbourne (Cecil), 25
Memoirs (Krock), 62, 63, 75
Menshikov, Mikhail, 249
Merchandise Mart, 54, 134, 137
Meredith, James, 344
Metrik, Simon, 112, 114, 115, 119
Meyner, Robert B., 110
MI5 (British counterintelligence), 67, 79, 392, 393
Miami Herald, 127, 301
Mickelson, Sidney, 11
Mikoyan, Anastas, 162
military, U.S.
Bay of Pigs and, 208--209, 211--213, 215, 284
Berlin crisis and, 257
Cuba and, 292--293, 341--342, 352, 357, 358, 361, 375--376
General Dynamics and, 318--320
Vietnam War and, 426, 427, 428
Miller, Arthur, 102
Miller, Herbert J., 289, 312
Miner, John, 103--104
Minh, Duong Van. See Duong Van Minh
Mirage, Doris, 186, 192
Miron, George, 395n
The Missile Crisis (Abel), 374n
missiles, 262, 355, 358
intercontinental ballistic (ICBMs), 155--156, 170, 341, 343, 348, 353, 362, 385--386
Jupiter, in Turkey, 346, 348, 363, 365--368, 369n, 371, 373--374
surface-to-air (SAM), 348, 357, 362, 363
See also Cuban missile crisis Mollenhoff, Clark, 401--402, 405
Monroe, Marilyn, 102--106, 149, 336n, 344, 454
Mooney, James D., 68
Moore, Edward E., 59, 75, 76, 77
Morgenthau, Henry, 71
Morgenthau, Robert, 2
Morrow, Susan. See Immoor, Jacqueline
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 67
Mossadegh, Mohammed, 173
Mouvement National Congolais, 194
Munden, H. Edward, 118
Murphy, David E., 259--260
Murphy, Robert D., 197, 198n
Murrow, Edward R., 279
My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy (Gallagher), 238
My Story (Exner), 140, 295, 297, 298n, 304, 316, 322, 323
Naar, Joe, 25--26
Naftali, Timothy, 204, 249n, 251, 346, 347, 362, 452, 453n Nash, Philip, 374n
National Grain Yeast Corporation, 62
National Labor Relations Board, 8, 450
National Liberation Front (NLF). See Viet Cong
National Security Council (NSC), 20, 237, 247, 259, 270
Newark Record, 51
New China News Agency (Havana), 164
Newcomb, Patricia, 103, 106
New Frontier, 141
Newman, Larry, 20, 21, 226--230, 234, 237--240, 244--246, 387
New Republic, 42n
News of the World, 396
Newsweek magazine, 337, 338, 339
New York Herald Tribune, 354
New York Journal-American, 49n, 394--395, 398
New York Post, 69, 181
New York Review of Books, 81
New York Times, 44, 48, 49n, 51, 54, 62, 69, 71, 79, 113, 172n on Berlin crisis, 257--258, 263
on Cuban issue, 180, 181, 182, 279, 281, 282n on Cuban missile crisis, 353
on Jagan overthrow, 266
Reston articles in, 253
Trujillo documents and, 197
on Vietnam War, 415, 421
New York World Telegram, 327
Ngo Dinh Diem, 3, 387, 412--425
assassination of, 3, 412, 415--417, 428--434, 436, 437
JFK and, 415, 416--417, 418, 426, 427, 429, 432, 433
Ngo Dinh Nhu, 413, 414, 417, 419, 421, 422
assassination of, 415, 416, 433
French and, 423--424
JFK and, 425, 426, 427, 429
Ngo Dinh Thuc, 415
Nguyen Ngoc Tho, 431
Nhu, Madame, 414
Nicaragua, Bay of Pigs and, 208, 209, 215
Nixon, Patricia, 158
Nixon, Richard M., 373
campaigns: 1952, 157--159; 1960, 4, 101, 120n, 132, 133--134, 146, 153, 155, 166, 177, 183; 1968, 184
Castro and, 157, 166, 178--179, 180, 182
Checkers speech, 157--158, 161
CIA and, 157, 158, 159, 161, 170
Cuban issue and, 178, 180--181, 186, 211
Dulles and, 173
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Eisenhower and, 155, 157, 158, 161
foreign policy issues and, 178
JFK and, 126, 182, 183; debates, 155, 180, 183, 236
Malaxa and, 158--160
resignation of, 184
Vietnam War and, 345
Nixon, Tricia, 158
Noel, James, 162
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 363, 366
Novak, Robert D., 94
Novello, Angie, 286, 450
Novotny, Maria, 391, 394, 396, 398
nuclear weapons
Berlin crisis and, 263
China and, 440--442
Cuban missile crisis and, 374
JFK's speech on, 382--384
U.S.-Soviet treaty on, 346, 383--386
U.S. superiority in, 262
O'Brien, Lawrence, 220
O'Connell, James, 163, 165, 212
O'Connor, Len, 123
O'Donnell, Kenneth, 4, 17, 227--228, 240
charges against, 438, 442, 443, 444--445
Judith Exner and, 304, 305, 312
on foreign policy, 258
Hoover and, 175n JFK and, 130, 220, 252, 353, 394n, 396n, 445
on Vietnam policy, 430, 436
Official and Confidential (Summers), 129, 397
"One Hell of a Gamble" (Fursenko and Naftali), 204, 249n, 251, 346, 347, 362, 452
Operation Leonardo, 282n
Operation Mongoose, 269--272, 343
failure of, 284, 285, 352, 375, 381
Halpern and, 284, 285, 286, 287, 292
Lansdale and, 269, 272, 282--283, 284--285, 292, 376, 427
organized crime and, 287n
origin of, 278, 279
Pentagon and, 292
Soviet Union and, 346, 348
Operation Swift Strike II, 292
organized crime, 47--56, 325
Castro assassination plot and, 161--163, 165--168, 203--207, 211--213, 269, 270, 272, 286, 287, 375
in Chicago, 55, 141, 143, 145, 146, 163, 306, 312
CIA and, 141, 162, 163, 165, 166, 288--290, 292
in Cuba, 8, 157, 286
in entertainment world, 138, 142
FBI and, 311, 324
hotels and, 52--53
JFK assassination and, 450--451
Joseph Kennedy and, 48
1960 campaign and, 101, 131, 134--138, 143--145, 166, 300
political assassinations and, 192, 382
Senate investigation of, 52--53, 134--135, 143
unions and, 50, 131, 134, 136, 138, 145
West Virginia primary and, 100
wiretaps of, 139--140, 166
O'Rourke, James J., 329, 330
Orrick, William, 236n
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