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Killing Kennedy

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by Bill O'Reilly


  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

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  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

  Bo
bby 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 Monroe 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

 

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