The Death of a President
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5 From the song “The Gang That Sang ‘Heart of My Heart,’ ” words and music by Ben Ryan, copyright © 1926 Robbins Music Corporation, copyright © renewal 1954 Robbins Music Corporation, New York, New York. Used by permission.
1 In the February 1966 issue of Outdoor Life a mail-order firm advertised a scope-mounted cheap foreign rifle—“the Kennedy gun,” as it had become known to riflemen. Next to it was an advertisement for a Kennedy memorial stamp. To see how far mail-order houses would go, an enterprising reporter in Paterson, New Jersey, sent away to one and signed his check “L. H. Oswald.” He got the gun.
* This handwritten letter was forwarded to Nikita Khrushchev by McGeorge Bundy after clearance at the State Department by U. Alexis Johnson. No reply was received through channels.
* At President Johnson’s request, the author submitted his questions in writing; the President ’s answers were also in writing.
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Foreword
Glossary
Epigraph
Prologue: LANCER
Book One: CHARCOAL
One: WAND
Two: SS 100 X
Three: MARKET
Four: VOLUNTEER
Five: GO, STRANGER
Book Two: CASTLE
Six: ANGEL
Seven: LACE
Eight: CROWN
Nine: PASSION
Ten: LIGHT
Epilogue: LEGEND
About the Author
Books by William Manchester
Appendices
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Sources
Newsletters
Copyright
A section of charts and diagrams begins here.
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 by William Manchester, renewed 1995 by William Manchester
Cover design by Mario J. Pulice
Cover photograph by Todd Korol/Getty Images
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The lines of verse appearing here and here are from “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot from Collected Poems 1909–1962, published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York, and Faber & Faber, Ltd., London. Reprinted by permission.
The lines of verse quoted here are from a poem composed by the Irish poet D. L. Kelleher for the christening of Dr. Thomas Kiernan’s son. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. Kiernan for permission to reprint.
The lines of verse appearing here and here are from “To an Athlete Dying Young” from “A Shropshire Lad”—Authorized Edition—from The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. Copyright 1939, 1940, 1959 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Also reprinted by permission of the Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of the late A. E. Housman, and Messrs. Jonathan Cape, Ltd., publishers of A. E. Housman’s Collected Poems.
ISBN 978-0-316-37072-1