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9.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 392.
10.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 237.
11.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 385.
12.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 289.
13.ibid., p. 295.
CHAPTER 27: OPERATION ARIEL
1.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 434.
2.ibid., p. 417.
3.ibid., p. 434.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 300.
5.ibid., p. 78.
6.ibid., p. 301.
7.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 438.
8.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 242.
9.ibid.
10.Speech to the House of Commons, 4 June 1940.
11.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 450.
12.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 91.
13.ibid.
14.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 243.
15.ibid., p. 249.
16.ibid., p. 258.
CHAPTER 28: THE FOURTH HOSTAGE
1.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 469.
2.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 75.
3.Laura Thompson, Nancy Mitford: Life in a Cold Climate (2003), p. 151.
4.Lara Feigel, The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War (2013), p. 87.
5.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 76.
6.ibid., p. 83.
7.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 480.
8.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 475.
9.ibid., p. 477.
10.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 253.
11.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 489.
CHAPTER 29: BILLY AND SALLY
1.See Michael Smith, The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories (2015).
2.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 86.
3.ibid., p. 87.
4.ibid., pp. 86–7.
5.Radio Address Announcing an Unlimited National Emergency, 27 May 1941, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16120.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 90.
7.ibid., p. 91.
8.ibid., p. 92.
9.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 532.
CHAPTER 30: KICK THE REPORTER
1.Quoted in Washington Times-Herald epitaph of Kick, undated clipping in RK Papers.
2.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 315.
3.Amanda Smith, Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson (2011).
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 315.
5.ibid., p. 316.
6.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 95.
7.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, pp. 421–2.
8.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 316.
9.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 423.
10.RK Papers, KK to JFK, 28 Jan. 1942.
11.KK to JPK, 20 Oct. 1941, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 532.
12.ibid.
13.ibid., p. 533.
14.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 104.
CHAPTER 31: LOBOTOMY
1.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 97.
2.ibid., p. 96.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 317.
4.ibid., p. 318.
5.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, pp. 133–4.
6.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 319.
7.ibid., p. 320.
8.Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (1996), p. 226.
9.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 263.
10.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 516.
11.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 264.
12.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 331.
13.ibid.
14.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 100.
15.ibid.
16.ibid., p. 97.
17.ibid., p. 99.
18.ibid.
19.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 142.
20.ibid.
21.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 318.
22.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 143.
23.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 332.
24.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 105.
25.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 533.
CHAPTER 32: SCANDAL
1.Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (2012), p. 237.
2.Inga quoted in Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 426.
3.Quoted in ibid., p. 427.
4.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 540.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 329.
6.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 541.
7.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 333.
8.RK Papers, KK to JFK, n.d.
9.ibid.
10.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 107.
11.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 538.
12.RK Papers, KK to Father Keller, 14 April 1942.
13.ibid.
14.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 109.
15.ibid.
16.‘Did You Happen to See . . .’, KK scrapbooks.
17.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, pp. 542–3.
18.RK Papers, KK to JFK, n.d.
19.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 107.
CHAPTER 33: ‘DID YOU HAPPEN TO SEE . . .’
1.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 541.
2.RK Papers, KK to JPK, n.d.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 339.
4.ibid., p. 114.
5.ibid.
6.ibid., p. 115.
7.ibid., p. 116.
8.ibid.
9.RK Papers, KK to JFK, 13 Feb. 1942.
10.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 117.
11.ibid.
12.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 340.
13.ibid.
14.RK Papers, KK to RK, 7 Nov. 1942.
15.RK Papers, KK to RK and JPK, 23 Nov. 1942.
16.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 119.
17.RK Papers, KK to RK and JPK, 1 Feb. [?1943].
18.RK Papers, KK to RK, 13 Feb. 1943.
CHAPTER 34: RED CROSS WORKER OF WORLD WAR II
1.List in RK Papers.
2.KK to family, 27 June 1943, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 562.
3.ibid.
4.KFC, KK diary, 27 June 1943.
5.James H. Madison, Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II (2008), p. 25.
6.ibid., p. xii.
7.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 127.
8.KFC, KK diary, 30 May 1943.
9.ibid.
10.ibid., 31 May–7 June 1943.
11.ibid.
12.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 265.
13.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 126.
14.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 535.
15.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 344.
16.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 562.
17.ibid.
18.ibid.
19.3 July 1943, quoted in ibid., p. 563.
20.RK Papers, KK diary, 1 July 1943.
21.Nasaw, Patriarch, pp. 551–2.
22.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Little Kennedys’, 14 July 1943.
CHAPTER 35: COFFEE AND DOUGHNUTS
1.Kennedy, Kathleen: Correspondence, 1942–1947, in John F. Kennedy Personal Papers, JFK Library.
2.RK Papers, KK diary, 1 July 1943.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 344.
4.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 24 Aug. 1943.
5.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 344.
6.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, pp. 551–2.
7.JFK to KK, 3 June 1943, quoted in ibid., p. 555.
8.KK to JFK, 3 July 1943, quoted in ibid., p. 563.
9.ibid.
10.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 23 Sept. 1943.
11.RK Papers, Earl of Rosslyn to JFK, 25 July 1943.
12.ibid.
13.ibid.
14.KK to ‘Dearest little Kennedys’, 15 July 1943, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 565.
15.RK Papers, KK diary, 9 July 1943.
16.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 135.
CHAPTER 36: SISTER KICK
1.KFC Papers, KK diary, 12 July 1943.
2
.KK to family, 14 July 1943, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 565.
3.KK diary, 14 July 1943.
4.ibid., 15 July 1943.
5.ibid., 19 July 1943.
6.ibid., 21 July 1943.
7.KK to JFK, 29 July 1943, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 566.
8.ibid.
9.ibid.
10.JFK to RK and JPK, received 10 Aug. 1943, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 568.
11.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 153.
12.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 557.
13.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 569.
14.Collier and Horowitz, An American Drama, p. 156.
15.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 2 Aug. 1943.
16.Kennedy, Times to Remember, pp. 270–1.
17.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 638.
18.ibid., p. 639.
CHAPTER 37: GIRL ON A BICYCLE
1.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 23 Sept. 1943.
2.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 271.
3.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 23 Sept. 1943.
4.ibid., 5 Oct. 1943.
5.ibid.
6.JPK Papers, JPK to Earl of Rosslyn, 17 Nov. 1943.
7.ibid., 13 Oct. 1943.
8.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 5 Oct. 1943.
9.ibid.
10.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 347.
11.RK Papers, KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 5 Oct. 1943.
12.Rhona Wood Paton-Jones, quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 347.
13.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 553.
14.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 353.
CHAPTER 38: PARTIES AND PRAYERS
1.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 271.
2.ibid., p. 272.
3.ibid.
4.Leamer, Kennedy Women, pp. 356–7.
5.KFC Papers, KK diary, 16 Nov. 1943.
6.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 572.
7.ibid., p. 573.
8.ibid.
9.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 263.
10.KFC Papers; this account is taken from a letter from Kick to an unknown friend.
11.The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1978), p. 320.
12.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 268.
13.ibid.
14.ibid., p. 269.
15.ibid.
16.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 356.
17.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 576.
18.RK Papers, Marie Bruce to RK, 21 Jan. 1944.
19.JPK Papers, Rose’s secretary to KK, 28 Jan. 1944.
20.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 561.
21.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 121.
CHAPTER 39: ROSEMARY TONKS
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 359.
2.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 648.
3.JPK Papers, KK to JPK, 22 Feb. 1944.
4.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 123.
5.ibid.
6.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 574.
7.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 127.
8.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 149.
9.KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 22 Feb. 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 575.
10.ibid.
11.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 125.
12.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 575.
13.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 127.
14.This by-election, said to be the most important of the war, was one of great national significance: see G. H. Bennett, ‘The wartime political truce and hopes for post-war coalition: the West Derbyshire by-election, 1944’, Midland History 17, 1992, pp. 118–35.
15.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 359.
16.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 128.
17.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 359.
18.Devonshire, Wait for Me!, p. 129.
19.KFC, KK to family, n.d.
CHAPTER 40: AGNES AND HARTIE
1.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 361.
2.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 562.
3.ibid.
4.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 116.
5.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 576.
6.ibid., p. 577.
7.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 273.
8.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 563.
9.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 577.
10.Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945), p. 189.
11.KK to RK and JPK, 22 March 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 580.
12.ibid.
13.Quoted in Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 357; Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 580.
14.KK to RK and JPK, 22 March 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 580.
15.JPK to KK, 3 April 1944, quoted in ibid., p. 581.
16.KK to family, 4 April 1944, quoted in ibid., p. 582.
17.Adrian Fort, Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor (2012), p. 313.
CHAPTER 41: TELEGRAMS AND ANGER
1.KK to ‘Dearest family’, 4 April 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 582.
2.KK to RK, 9 May 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 590.
3.KK to ‘Dearest family’, 4 April 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 582.
4.ibid.
5.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 130.
6.KK to ‘Dearest family’, 24 April 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 583.
7.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 564.
8.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 584.
9.ibid.
10.Billy Hartington to RK, 30 April 1944, quoted in ibid., pp. 584–5.
11.ibid.
12.Devonshire Collection, 10th Duke of Devonshire to his mother, 27 April 1944.
13.Devonshire Collection, King George VI to 10th Duke of Devonshire, 5 May 1944.
14.KK to RK, 9 May 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 589.
15.Quoted in ibid., p. 590.
16.JK to RK and JPK, 8 May 1944, quoted in ibid., p. 587.
17.ibid.
18.ibid., p. 588.
19.Quoted in Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 274.
20.JPK Papers, Earl of Rosslyn to JPK, 6 May 1944.
21.Evelyn Waugh to his wife Laura, 12 May 1944, quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 184.
22.KFC, KK to RK and JPK, 3 May 1944.
23.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 586.
24.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 367.
CHAPTER 42: ‘I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD’
1.Undated clipping in KFC Papers, probably dating from shortly after Kick’s wedding.
2.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 590.
3.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 366.
4.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 588.
5.ibid., p. 590.
6.ibid., p. 591.
7.ibid., p. 593.
8.ibid., p. 591.
9.KFC Papers, JK to family, 6 May 1944.
10.KFC Papers, Marie Bruce and Nancy Astor to RK, 7 May 1944.
11.ibid.
12.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 589.
13.KK to RK, 9 May 1944, quoted in ibid., p. 589.
14.ibid., p. 590.
15.ibid.
16.ibid., p. 591.
17.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 652.
18.ibid.
19.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 567.
CHAPTER 43: THE MARCHIONESS OF HARTINGTON
1.KFC, Billy and Kick diary and scrapbook.
2.Kennedy, Times to Remember, pp. 274–5.
3.KFC, Billy and Kick diary, 3 June 1944.
4.KK to RK and JPK, 18 May 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 592.
5.ibid., p. 593.
6.KFC, Billy Hartington to KK, undated, 1944.
7.KFC, Billy and Kick diary.
8.KFC, Thomas Mair to KK, undated, 1944.
9.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 591.
10.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 167.
11.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 595. The naming never happened.
12.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 369.
14.KK to ‘Dearest Family’, 23 May 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 595.
CHAPTER 44: OPERATION APHRODITE
1.KFC, Billy and Kick diary.
2.ibid.
3.ibid.
4.ibid.
5.ibid.
6.ibid.
7.KFC, Billy and Kick diary.
8.ibid (unidentified newspapers).
9.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 595.
10.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 568.
11.KFC, KK to Billy Hartington, undated, 1944.
12.Clippings were kept in KK scrapbook.
13.RK to KK, 30 June 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 595.
14.JK to RK and JPK, 26 July 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 598.
15.ibid., p. 589.
16.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 598.
17.ibid.
18.‘Operation Aphrodite’ was the US Army Air Force codename, ‘Operation Anvil’ that of the US Navy. The USAAF had overall command of the mission, in which Joe and his colleague served as the first Navy flight crew.
19.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, p. 659.
20.ibid.
21.Quoted in Collier and Horowitz, American Drama, p. 137.
22.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, pp. 170–2.
23.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 571.
24.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 277.
25.Nasaw, Patriarch, p. 571.
26.ibid.
27.Leaming, Making of a President, p. 136.
28.KFC, Billy and Kick diary.
29.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 175.
30.Hamilton, Reckless Youth, pp. 662–3.
31.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 374.
32.Kennedy, Times to Remember, p. 282.
33.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 600.
CHAPTER 45: BILLY THE HERO
1.Frank William Clarke to his sister Vera, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/79/a4801079.shtml.
2.ibid.
3.Devonshire Collection, Billy Hartington to KK, 4 Sept. 1944.
4.Quoted by Kick in letter to ‘Dearest Family’, 23 Sept. 1944, quoted in Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 604.
5.The following account is based primarily on ‘War Diary: 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, Jan–Dec 1944’, Public Record Office, Kew, WO 171/1252, transcribed at http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/33691-war-diary-5th-battalion-coldstream-guards-jan-dec-1944/, unseen by previous Kennedy biographers.
6.ibid.
7.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 606.
8.Leamer, Kennedy Women, p. 376.
9.McTaggart, Kathleen Kennedy, p. 181.
10.ibid., pp. 181–2.
11.KFC, Billy Hartington to KK, 4 Sept. 1944.
12.Devonshire Collection, ‘Moucher’ to KK, 24 Aug. 1944.
13.Captain Charles Waterhouse, personal tribute in The Times, 20 Sept. 1944.
14.Smith, Hostage to Fortune, p. 606.
15.Waterhouse letter to The Times.
16.‘War Diary: 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards’.