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Sources and Chapter Notes
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These chapter notes have been assembled to present an overview of the sources drawn upon in preparing The Good Son, but they are by no means all-inclusive. The author has respected the wishes of several interview subjects to remain anonymous and therefore has not listed them either here or elsewhere in the text. The archives, oral history, and audiovisual collections of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Houghton Library at Harvard, and the libraries of Brown, Princeton, Columbia, and Yale universities provided a wealth of historical detail. There was also the release, between 1993 and 2012, of more than 260 hours of taped conversations that took place in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room of the White House as well as the release in 2011 of seven taped conversations Jackie had with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in 1964. In addition, the countless press reports and news articles written about the Kennedy family over the past six decades have been a valuable resource in the attempt to accurately portray not only the unique relationship that existed between Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., but John’s life post-Jackie as well. These accounts have been published in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Chicago Sun-Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, New Yorker, Times of London, Paris-Match, New York, New York Observer, Look, Saturday Evening Post, Economist, and Vanity Fair in addition to reports carried on the Associated Press, United Press International, Knight-Ridder, Gannett, and Reuters wires.
CHAPTERS 1 AND 2
These chapters were based in part on author interviews and conversations with Dr. Bob Arnot, Kyle Bailey, Arthur Marx, John Perry Barlow, Keith Stein, Julie Baker, George Smathers, Letitia Baldrige, Lloyd Howard, Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Evelyn Lincoln, Theodore Sorensen, Jack Tabibian, Cecil Stoughton, Gore Vidal, Godfrey McHugh, Angier Biddle Duke, Mary Gallagher, Chuck Spalding, Mesfin Gebreegziabher, Larry Lorenzo, Jacques Lowe, Jerry Wiener, Ralph Diaz, Anne Vanderhoop, Anthony Comenale, Nancy Dickerson Whitehead, Lois Capellen, and Dr. Janet Travell.
The author also drew on numerous oral histories, including those given by Robert F. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Nancy Tuckerman, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Maud Shaw, Janet Lee Bouvier Auchincloss, Pope Paul VI, Robert McNamara, Dave Powers, Dean Rusk, Betty Thomas, J. B. West, Admiral George Burkley, Paul “Red” Fay, Pamela Turnure, Walt Rostow, Peter Lawford, Father John C. Cavanaugh, Arthur Krock, Stanley Tretick, Douglas Dillon, William Walton, and Leonard Bernstein. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s oral history was done by Terry L. Birdwhistell in New York on May 13, 1981, as part of the John Sherman Cooper Oral History Project of the University of Kentucky Library.
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Secret Service, and National Security Agency files, newly released through the Freedom of Information Act, were of considerable value—as were White House staff files and the papers of JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Robert Kennedy, Rose Kennedy, Kenneth O’Donnell, Dave Powers, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Lawrence O’Brien, William vanden Heuvel, and Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Published sources included Angie Cannon and Peter Cary, “The Final Hours,” U.S. News & World Report, August 2, 1999; “He Was America’s Prince,” Time, July 26, 1999; “Tragic Echoes,” Newsweek, July 26, 1999; Sally Bedell Smith, Grace and Power (New York: Random House, 2004); “Charmed Life, Tragic Death,” People, August 2, 1999; Dr. Robert Arnot, “FAA False Visibility Reports: Lost in the Darkness and the Haze,” 2000 Eve’s Magazine, March 2000; “The Preliminary Report of the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB Identification NYC99MA178,” http:/www.ntsb.gov/Aviation/NYC/99A178.htm; Peter Collier, “A Kennedy Apart: JFK Jr. Was His Own Man,” National Review, August 9, 1999; “Charity Group Recalls John Kennedy Jr.,” New York Times, December 8, 1999; Ed Vulliamy, “Why Kennedy Aircraft’s Reputation Called Good,” Associated Press, July 18, 1999; Ed Vulliamy, “Why Kennedy Crashed,” New York Observer, July 24, 1999; “Sad Vigil,” New York Daily News, July 19, 1999; Mary Barrelli Gallagher, My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy (New York: David McKay, 1969); Maud Shaw, White House Nannie: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. (New York: New American Library, 1965); Ted Widmer, Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2012); “More Tears: JFK JR., Wife and Her Sister Presumed Dead in Plane Crash,” New York Post, July 18, 1999; Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (New York: Hyperion, 2011); Kitty Kelley, Capturing Camelot (New York: A Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin’s Press, 2012); “Tragic Echoes,” Newsweek, July 26, 1999.
CHAPTERS 3–5
For this chapter, the author drew on conversations with George Plimpton, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Sargent, David Halberstam, Charles Addams, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Theodore H. White, Letitia Baldrige, Gore Vidal, George Smathers, Evelyn Lincoln, Joe Fox, Chuck Spalding, Yusha Auchincloss, Doris Lilly, Theodore Sorensen, Jamie Auchincloss, Ham Brown, Sister Joanne Frey, Truman Capote, Jacques Lowe, Oleg Cassini, Patricia Lawford Stewart, the Countess of Romanones, Priscilla McMillan, Willard K. Rice, Clare Boothe Luce, Dr. Janet Travell, Betty Beale, Angier Biddle Duke, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Charles Furneaux, Larry Newman.
Among the published sources consulted: William Manchester, The Death of a President (New York: Harper & Row, 1967); Janny Scott, “In Tapes, Candid Talk by a Young Widow,” New York Times, September 11, 2011; Robert Sam Anson, “They’ve Killed the President!” The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy (New York: Bantam, 1975); The Warren Commission Report (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office), 1964; Arthur Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965); Ben Bradlee, A Good Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995); Jack Anderson, Washington Exposé (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967); Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers with Joe McCarthy, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970); Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winsto
n, 1970); Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot (New York: Funk & Wagnall, 1968); Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy (New York: Harper & Row, 1965); George Vecsey, “And There Were Jackie, John and Caroline,” New York Times, September 1969; Christopher Hitchens, “Widow of Opportunity,” Vanity Fair, December 2011.
CHAPTERS 6–8
Information for these chapters was based in part on conversations with Roswell Gilpatric, Jack Anderson, George Plimpton, Peter Duchin, Yusha Auchincloss, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Aileen Mehle, Louis Auchincloss, Sandy Richardson, Chuck Spalding, Jamie Auchincloss, Pierre Salinger, Larry Newman, Ham Brown, Patricia Lawford Stewart, Marta Sgubin, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ron Gallela, Shana Alexander, Thomas Hoving, George Smathers, Marvin Mitchelson, John Davis, David Rockefeller, John Kenneth Galbraith, David Halberstam, Roy Cohn, Halston, Doris Lilly, Mollie Fosburgh, Brad Darrach, Billy Baldwin, Joe Baum, Louis Nizer, Lady Elsa Bowker, William S. Paley, Helen Thomas, Steve Rubell, Edward Francis, Earl Blackwell, David McGough, John Marion.
Articles and other published sources for this period included Peter Strafford, “U.S. Acts to Protect the Kennedy Children,” Times, London, May 4, 1972; William Manchester, Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism: 1950–1975 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976); Enid Nemy, “Here John Kennedy Jr. Will Be ‘Just Another Boy,’ ” New York Times, August 22, 1968; Nancy Moran, “John Kennedy Got into Collegiate School for Boys—Could Your Son?,” McCall’s, March 1969; Wendy Leigh, Prince Charming (New York: Signet, 1994); “John-John, Caroline Revisit White House,” United Press International, February 5, 1971; “Mrs. Kennedy Knew It Was Illegal, Says Vatican,” Times, London, October 22, 1968; Peter Evans, Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis (New York: Summit Books, 1986); “The Happy Jackie, The Sad Jackie, The Bad Jackie, The Good Jackie,” New York Times Magazine, May 31, 1970; C. David Heymann, A Woman Named Jackie (New York: Lyle Stuart/Carol Communications, 1989); “From Camelot to Elysium (Via Olympic Airways),” Time, October 25, 1968; Frank Brady, Onassis: An Extravagant Life (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1977); Greg Lawrence, “Jackie O, Working Girl,” Vanity Fair, January 2011; Joyce Maynard, “Jacqueline Onassis Makes a New Debut,” New York Times, January 14, 1977; “JFK Jr.’s Bash A Socko Show,” New York Daily News, November 28, 1978; Stephen Birmingham, “The Public Event Named Jackie,” New York Times Magazine, June 20, 1976; Sally Quinn, “A New Image or Not, Jacqueline Onassis Is an Event,” Washington Post, November 14, 1975; Helen Lawrenson, “Jackie at 50,” Boston Herald, July 30, 1979; “Jackie Onassis Builds a $3 Million Hideaway,” Associated Press, October 25, 1981; Michael Ryan, “Barry Clifford’s Zany Crew—Including JFK Jr.—Prove That Way Down Deep, They’re Golddiggers,” People, August 22, 1983; Marie Brenner, “Jackie Tops at Shunning Limelight,” Los Angeles Times, October 23, 1983; William Sylvester Noonan with Robert Huber, Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (New York: Plume/Penguin Books, 2006); Kitty Kelley, Jackie Oh! (Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1979); Peter Beard, “John F. Kennedy Jr.—Images of Summer,” Talk, September 1999; Robert T. Littell, The Men We Became: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004).
CHAPTERS 9 AND 10
For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with David Halberstam, James Young, Jack Anderson, Bia Ayiotis, Richard Schaffer, Bobby Zarem, Malcolm Forbes, Alex Gotfryd, John Perry Barlow, Frank Ratcliff, Rick Guy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Michael Cherkasky, Ed Koch, Judith Hope, Erika Belle, Carolina Herrera, John Sargent, Arthur Marx, Steve Baranello, Letitia Baldrige, Rick Lazio, Michael Gross, David McGough, Angie Coqueran, Wickham Boyle, Cranston Jones, Paul Adao, Barry Schenck, John Marion, Howie Montaug, Anne Vanderhoop.
Among the published sources consulted: Christina Haag, Come to the Edge (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011); Marylou Tousignant and Malcolm Gladwell, “In Somber Ceremony Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Is Laid to Rest,” Washington Post, May 24, 1994; Frank Rich, “The Jackie Mystery,” New York Times, May 26, 1994; Martha Sherrill, “Private People, Public Lives,” Harper’s Bazaar, November 1995; Elizabeth Gleick, “The Prying Eyes,” Time, November 6, 1995; Carole Radziwill, What Remains (New York: Scribner, 2005); “The Sexiest Man Alive” (1988), People, September 12, 1988; Taki Theodoracopulos, “Jackie O: A Perfect Mom,” New York Post, May 23, 1994; Annette Tapert, “Jackie’s Dearest Wish,” Good Housekeeping, July 1994; Oprah transcript, September 3, 1996; Tina Brown, “A Woman in Earnest,” New Yorker, September 15, 1997; David Michaelis, “Great Expectations,” Vanity Fair, September 1999; Martha Brant and Evan Thomas, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 14, 1995; Michael Gross, “Citizen Kennedy,” Esquire, September 1995; Rosemarie Terenzio, Fairy Tale Interrupted (New York: Gallery Books, 2012); Rebecca Mead, “Does John Kennedy Sell Magazines?,” New York, August 7, 1995; “Princess Carolyn,” W, August 1996; Rebecca Mead, “Meet the Mrs.,” New York, October 7, 1996; Michael Bergin, The Other Man (New York: ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 2004); John F. Kennedy Jr., “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” George, September 1997; “In J.F.K. File, Hidden Illness, Pain and Pills,” New York Times, November 17, 2002; Tom Squitieri, “Could a Kennedy Be Loosening Family Ties?,” USA Today, August 12, 1997; Karen Duffy, “The Spell They Cast,” Glamour, October 1999; “Prince of the City,” New York, August 2, 1999; “A Sad Goodbye,” Newsweek, August 2, 1999; “John Kennedy, New Yorker,” New York Observer, July 26, 1999; “Kennedy Family Wanted Dignified Burial at Sea to Avoid Spectacle,” Cape Cod Times, July 26, 1999; Cindy Adams, “Report: John and Carolyn Spent Last Nights Apart,” New York Post, August 6, 1999; Jesse Kornbluth, “Daryl’s Winning Sheen,” Vanity Fair, January 1990; Anthony Wilson-Smith, “The Curse of the Kennedys,” Maclean’s, July 26, 1999; Jane Farrell, “An Unbreakable Bond,” McCall’s, October 1999; “John Kennedy: A Tribute,” George, October 1999; “Goodbye,” Newsday, July 23, 1999; “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, August 2, 1999; Terry Pristin, “Families, Employees and Charities Named in Kennedy Will,” New York Times, September 25, 1999; Ed Klein, “Secrets and Lies,” Vanity Fair, April 2003; “Farewell, John,” Time, August 2, 1999; Charles Gandee, “Goodbye to All That,” Vogue, September 1999; Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein, “Kennedys Feuded Before Bodies Were Recovered,” New York Post, November 3, 2013; Jocelyn McClurg, “Memories of JFK JR. and the Heady Days at George,” USA Today, May 22, 2014; “Goodbye, America’s Little Prince,” Paris Match, August 1999.
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