by David Nasaw
28. JPK to Dunphy, Dec. 31, 1920, box 35, JPKP.
29. Grace to JPK, Dec. 30, 1920, Jan. 17, Feb. 2, 1921; JPK to Grace, Jan. 11, 1921, box 37, JPKP.
30. JPK to JF, Jan. 21, 1921, box 48, JPKP.
31. Crum to JPK, Mar. 27, 1921, box 48, JPKP.
32. JPK to Thayer, Mar. 28, 1921, box 45, JPKP.
33. Graham’s of London to JPK, June 21, 1921, box 48, JPKP.
34. JPK to Granville MacFarland, June 18, 1921; JPK to Godsol, June 17, 27, 30, 1921; JPK to Hurd, July 26, 1921; JPK to Hodkinson, Dec. 31, 1921, Jan. 12, 1922, box 48, JPKP.
35. JPK to Schnitzer, July 13, 1922, box 48, JPKP.
36. JPK to S. R. Kent, May 3, 1922, w.b. 31, JPKP.
37. JPK to Hays, Sept. 28, 1922, box 48, JPKP.
38. JPK to Franklin, Sept. 28, 1922, box 48; JPK to Yamins, Dec. 1, 1922, box 43; memorandum, Jan. 11, 1923, box 42, JPKP.
39. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.
40. JPK to Murray, Aug. 15, 1921, Smith, HTF 29.
41. JPK to Houghton, Sept. 19, 1921, Smith, HTF, 30–31.
42. JPK to Turner, Aug. 16, 1921, box 37, JPKP.
43. JPK to Brush, June 24, 1922, box 45, JPKP; JPK to Thayer, Feb. 14, 1921, Smith, HTF, 27.
44. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.
45. Haussermann, FB folders, EMKP.
46. JPK to Brush, June 24, 26, 29, 1922, box 45, JPKP.
47. JPK to Potter, Aug. 17, 1920, w.b. 23; Albert Garceau to JPK, Nov. 2, 1920; JPK to Turner, Dec. 1, 1921, box 37; “duplicate inventory,” w.b. 23, JPKP.
48. Canada Royal Commission on Customs and Excise, Royal Commission on Customs and Excise Interim Reports, Joseph Kennedy Ltd., dissolved company file BC7534, Oct. 18, 1931, GR-1526 (B05158), British Columbia Archives.
49. Daniel Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (New York: Scribner, 2010), 366–71.
50. Information on 25 Sheldon Road home, Cohasset Historical Society, Cohasset, Massachusetts; Dean to Fisher, May 7, 1922, box 35, JPKP.
51. REFK and RC, Jan. 7, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
SIX: “MY OWN MASTER IN MY OWN BUSINESS”
1. BDG, July 11, 1921.
2. Miss F. to Guy, Jan. 5, 1922, box 48, JPKP.
3. REFK and RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
4. REFK, diary, 1923, box 1, REFKP
5. REFK to JPK, n.d., box 1, JPKP.
6. REFK to JPK, n.d., box 1, JPKP.
7. JPK to REFK, Apr. 8, 1923, box 1, JPKP.
8. JPK to REFK, Apr. 15, 1923, box 1, JPKP.
9. REFK, diary, 1923, box 1, REFKP.
10. John B. Kennedy, “Joe Kennedy Has . . . ,” 148.
11. Minutes of Columbia Advertising, Feb. 1924, box 37, JPKP.
12. JPK to Fitzgibbon, Jan. 2, 1924, Mar. 24, 1925, box 37, JPKP.
13. JPK to Brush, Dec. 14, 1923, Smith, HTF, 40.
14. JPK to John Borden, June 19, 1924, Smith, HTF, 42.
15. Hank Searls, The Lost Prince (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 39–40.
16. REFK, TTR, 132–34; REFK, autobiography notes, box 10, REKFP.
17. REFK, TTR, 120–21.
18. Cari Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 66.
19. JPK to Turner, Apr. 6, 15, May 6, July 2, 1925, box 37, JPKP; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.
20. JPK to REFK, Aug. 17, 18, 1925, box 1, JPKP.
21. JPK to REFK, family, Aug. 23, 1925; JPK to JFK, Sept. 1, 1925, Smith, HTF, 44–45.
22. JPK to REFK, Sept. 6, 1925, box 55, REFKP.
23. Terry Ramsaye, “Intimate Visits to the Homes of Famous Film Magnates,” Photoplay, Sept. 1927, 50.
24. JPK to William Gray, Feb. 5, 1926, box 69; Byrnes to JPK, Feb. 8, 1926; JPK to Byrnes, Feb. 9, 1926, box 68, JPKP.
25. JPK to Schnitzer, Feb. 11, 1926, box 48, JPKP, Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, 73–74.
26. John B. Kennedy, “Joe Kennedy Has . . . , 148.
27. Gray to JPK, Mar. 6, 1926, w.b. 31, JPKP.
28. JPK to Quigley, [Aug.] 20, 1926, Martin J. Quigley Papers, special collections, Georgetown University Library.
29. Scollard to Silverman, Feb. 6, 1930, w.b. 31, JPKP.
30. Frances Marion, Off With their Heads! (New York: Macmillan, 1972), 90–91.
31. Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, 82–83.
32. Garth Jowett, Film: The Democratic Art (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976), 87–88.
33. BDG, Aug. 4, 1926.
34. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12; REFK and RC, Feb. 23, 1972, box 1, REFKP.
35. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 13, 1926, box 1, JPKP.
36. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 28, 1926, box 1, JPKP.
37. Beaverbrook to JPK, July 23, 1926, box 48, JPKP; BDG, Sept. 29, 1926.
38. MPW, Oct. 16, 1926.
39. MPW, Dec. 11, 1926.
40. JPK to W. B. Dunham, Apr. 27, 1927, box 49, JPKP.
41. JPK to Hays, Jan. 22, 1927, box 49, JPKP.
42. JPK to Zukor, Jan. 22, 1927; JPK to Kent, Jan. 22, 1927, box 49, JPKP.
43. DeMille to JPK, Feb. 25, 1927, JPK to DeMille, Mar. 18, 1927, box 285, folder 7, DeMille.
44. JPK to Hays, May 6, 1927, box 49, JPKP.
45. Cari Beauchamp, Without Lying Down (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 162–64, 188; Marion, Off With Their Heads! 166.
46. J. W. Powell to Lackey, June 7, 1927; Powell to Buchanan, June 10, 1927, box 48, JPKP.
47. Ramsaye, “Intimate Visits to the Homes of Famous Film Magnates,” 50.
48. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.
49. RC and REFK, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
SEVEN: HOLLYWOOD
1. REFK, autobiography notes, box 10, REFKP.
2. Brian Burns to author, Apr. 22, 2010.
3. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP; JPK to Thomson, Sept. 20, 1927, Smith, HTF, 54.
4. Student records, school photos, Riverdale.
5. JPK to Julian Johnson, Sept. 30, 1927; JPK to Motion Picture Commission, State of New York, Oct. 14, 1927, box 51, JPKP.
6. Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, 166–67.
7. Kane to JPK, Nov. 7, box 55, JPKP.
8. Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 327–33.
9. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.
10. Beauchamp, Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, 125.
11. Joseph P. Kennedy, ed., The Story of the Films (Chicago: A. W. Shaw Co., 1927), 16–17.
12. Richard Koszarski, An Evening’s Entertainment (1990; repr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 262.
13. JPK to Milton Cohen, Dec. 20, 1927, box 55, JPKP.
14. Sarnoff, FB folders, EMKP.
15. Derr to JPK, Jan. 25, 1928, w.b. 29; Derr to Moore, Jan. 31, 1928, box 55, JPKP.
16. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.
17. Derr to JPK, Feb. 10, 1928, box 55, JPKP; FBO Studios, memorandum, n.d., box 114, folder 2, Swanson.
18. “Pathé A stock” memorandum, box 63, JPKP.
19. LeBaron to REFK, n.d., box 130, REFKP.
20. Memorandum headed Pathé Exchange Inc., n.d., w.b. 30, JPKP.
21. Murdock to JPK, Feb. 15, 1928, box 63, JPKP; FD, Feb. 15, 1928; V, Feb. 22, 1928.
22. DeMille to JPK, draft, n.d., CBDMA XII, Cecil B. DeMille Productions, correspondence, box 778, DeMille.
23. JPK to Walker, Mar. 23, 1928, box 63, JPKP.
24. Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 342, 359.
25. GS, notes, box 7, folder 7, Swanson.
26. Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 344.
27. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.
28. Walker to JPK, May 9, 1928; JPK to Albee, May 10, 1928, box 63, JPKP; “Deal Book,” Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, 1928, Lehman.
29. JPK to Ford, two letters, July 2, 1928, Smith, HTF, 76.
30. LAT, May 23, 1928; EHMPW, Aug. 4, 1928.
31. EHMPW, May 19, 1928.
32. Richard Koszarski, Von (1983; repr., New York: Limelight, 2002), 236; JPK to Mayer, May 25, 1928, Smith, HTF, 74–75.
33. V, June 16, 1928.
34. Carr, LAT, July 22, 1928.
35. FD, July 23, 24, 1928.
36. FD, July 22, 1928.
37. Memorandum of conference, July 24, 1928, box 63, JPKP.
38. FD, Aug. 19, 1928.
39. FD, Aug. 5, 1928.
40. NYT, Aug. 11, 1928; “Points for Consideration,” Aug. 9, 1928, box 68, JPKP.
41. FD, Aug. 12, 1928.
42. Rossheim to JPK, Aug. 15, 1928, box 68, JPKP.
43. LAT, Aug. 19, 1928.
44. FD, Aug. 23, 1928.
EIGHT: GLORIA AND ROSE
1. Thomas Carens, “A New Mogul of the Movies,” NYHT, Sunday Magazine, Sept. 16, 1928, 8.
2. “Address by Joseph P. Kennedy,” Sept. 30, 1928, box 68, JPKP.
3. Sarnoff to JPK, Nov. 5, 1928; JPK to Sarnoff, Nov. 6, 1928, box 64, JPKP.
4. BDG, Oct. 25, 1928.
5. Film Booking Office and Keith-Albee-Orpheum memos, w.b. 30; statements, w.b. 12, JPKP.
6. Pathé Exchange, Inc., memorandums, n.d., w.b. 30, JPKP.
7. Trial balances, 1926, withdrawn oversize box 3.6.1; trial balances, 1929, w.b. 8, JPKP.
8. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007; Leo Damore, The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967), 21.
9. Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass (TC) (New York: Twelve, 2009), 31.
10. REFK, TTR, 145; NYT, June 6, 1929; EMK, TC, 37, 39–40.
11. JKS to author, July 15, 2008.
12. FDR to JPK, Sept. 13, 1928, box 36, JPKP.
13. REFK and RC, Jan. 6, 1972, box 10, REFKP; JPK to Adams, Apr. 13, 1929, Smith, HTF, 83.
14. LAT, Oct. 21, 1928.
15. Derr to JPK, Dec. 6, 1928, box 57, JPKP.
16. Scollard to Mark Markoff, Jan. 8, 1929, box 56, JPKP; Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 372.
17. GS to JPK, Jan. 21, 1929, box 56, JPKP.
18. GS, notes, box 270, folder 10, Swanson.
19. Derr to Moore, Jan. 25, 1929, Smith, HTF, 78–81.
20. Derr to Scollard, Feb. 15, 1929, w.b. 29, JPKP.
21. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.
22. JPK to Marquis de la Falaise, Mar. 13, 1929, Smith, HTF, 81–82.
23. Bill Yen, Santa Fe Chiefs (St. Paul, MN: MBI, 1905), 41, 46.
24. JPK to GS, Apr. 23, 1929, box 56, JPKP.
25. JPK to Marquis de la Falaise, Apr. 15, 1929, box 57, JPKP.
26. Assorted memorandums, w.b. 30; “Agreement Made as of the 1st Day of April, 1929 . . . Pathé,” box 63, JPKP.
27. JPK to JPK, Jr., June 3, 1929, Smith, HTF, 84.
28. JPK to JFK, June 3, 1929, Smith, HTF, 85.
29. JPK to Watson [Swanson], n.d., box 100, folder 15, Swanson.
30. Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 383.
31. Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 388–89; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.
32. GS, notes, box 270, folder 8, Swanson.
33. REFK to RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
34. KKH to REFK, Feb. 12, 1932, box 1, JPKP.
35. REFK, TTR, 101–2; Crossman to GS, Dec. 26, 1929, box 33, folder 8, Swanson.
36. GS, notes, n.d., box 270, folder 8, Swanson; Swanson, Swanson on Swanson, 392–95.
37. GS, “Joe Rosebud,” n.d., box 271, folder 6, Swanson.
NINE: LAST EXIT FROM HOLLYWOOD
1. REFK, TTR, 145; JPK to JPK, Jr., June 3, 1929, Smith, HTF, 84.
2. REFK, TTR, 147.
3. JPK to W. St. John, Apr. 20, 1929, in Nigel Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth (New York: Random House, 1992), 82.
4. St. John to JPK, May 20, 1929, box 20, JPKP.
5. JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 1, 1929, box 1, JPKP.
6. REFK, TTR, 134.
7. Janice Brockley, “Rearing the Child Who Never Grew,” in Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader, ed. Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 139–40, 144–45.
8. JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK, TTR, 132–35.
9. “Helen Devereux biography,” http://www.devereux.org/site/DocServer/HTDBio.pdf?docID=281.
10. JPK to RK, Nov. 13, 1929, box 1, JPKP.
11. Report on Rosemary Kennedy, June 23, 1930, w.b. 3, JPKP.
12. Report on Rosemary Kennedy, Nov. 21, 1930, w.b. 3, JPKP.
13. REFK, diary notes, box 10, REFKP; EKS, in REFK, TTR, 133.
14. Classified ad, NYT, Oct. 31, 1929.
15. Assorted statements, w.b. 30; JPK to Keating, Nov. 1, 1929, Smith, HTF, 87.
16. V, Mar. 12, 1930.
17. V, May 7, 1930.
18. GS to JPK, Oct. 21, 1930, box 56, JPKP; JPK to GS, Oct. 19, 1932, box 101, folder 10; JPK to GS, June 26, 1944; GS to JPK, JPK to GS, various telegrams, Sept. to Dec. 1935, box 33, folder 8; Phil [Reisman] to JPK, Feb. 9, 1951, box 32, folder 5, Swanson.
19. R. Lawrence Siegel to GS, Feb. 11, 1957; Siegel to JPK, Mar. 6, 1957, box 56, folder 1, Swanson.
20. JPK to GS, Mar. 15, 1957, box 202, folder 15, Swanson.
21. GS to JPK, n.d., box 33, folder 8, Swanson.
22. Siegel to GS, Mar. 26, 1957, box 56, folder 1; GS to JPK, n.d., box 33, folder 8, Swanson.
23. Brown to Sarnoff, Oct. 8, 24, 1930, box 64, JPKP.
24. JPK to Walker, Dec. 4, 1930, box 64, JPKP.
25. JPK to Murdock, Dec. 9, 1930, box 64, JPKP.
26. Lawler to JPK, Dec. 30, 1930, box 64, JPKP.
27. JPK to Walsh, Dec. 19, 1930, box 64, JPKP.
28. Assorted letters, anonymous to JPK, [Dec. 1930], box 63, JPKP.
29. NYT, Jan. 6, 1931.
30. Pathé Exchange, Inc., 7% bonds, box 63; Pathé stock memo, w.b. 30; 1931–1932 statements, J. H. Holmes, Sept. 14–18, 1931, w.b. oversize, series 3.6.2, JPKP.
31. JFK to JPK, n.d., Smith, HTF, 94–95.
32. JKS to author, July 16, 2008; EMK, TC, 68.
33. REFK and RC, Jan. 6, 21, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
TEN: ON THE ROOSEVELT TRAIN
1. Anthony J. Badger, The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933–1940 (New York: Hill & Wang, 1989), 14, 2–22; John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash (1955; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 141, 151.
2. Information on JPK’s accounts found in w.b. 8–10, JPKP.
3. JFK to REFK and JPK, Dec. 6, 1931; JFK to JPK, Dec. 9, 1931, box 1, JPKP.
4. JPK to JFK, Apr. 12, 1932, box 1, JPKP.
5. JPK to Schulberg, Nov. 29, 1931, box 68; JPK to Poppe, Dec. 30, 1931, box 68; Gurnett to JPK, Mar. 9, 1931, box 37, JPKP.
6. Assorted statements, w.b. 8, JPKP.
7. Joseph P. Kennedy, I’m for Roosevelt (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936), 3.
8. Steve Fraser, Every Man a Speculator (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 413, 415.
9. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919–1933 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957), 206.
10. Joe McCarthy, The Remarkable Kennedys (New York: Popular Library, 1960), 46.
11. William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (New York: Harper, 1963), 4.
12. JPK to WRH, Apr. 19, 1982; WRH to JPR Apr. 19, 30, 1932, box 7, Hearst.
13. NYT, May 9, 10, 1932.
14. JPK to
WRH, May 10, 1932, box 7, Hearst.
15. REFK and RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.
16. NYT, July 14, 1932; statements, w.b. 8, JPKP.
17. Raymond Moley, The First New Deal (New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966), 379.
18. Wheeler, FB folders, EMKP; Schlesinger, Crisis of the Old Order, 300.
19. Roy Howard to Newton Baker, July 12, 1932, box 122, Baker; WRH to Millicent Hearst, July 3, 1932, carton 12, Hearst.
20. NYT, July 11, 12, 13, 1932.
21. St. John to JPK, June 14, 1932, box 20, JPKP.
22. JKS to author, Oct. 19, 2009.
23. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007.
24. JPK, Jr., to JPK, Jan. 26, 1930, Smith, HTF, 89; JKS to author, Oct. 19, 2009.
25. FDR to JPK, Aug. 23, 1932, in FDR: His Personal Letters, ed. Elliott Roosevelt (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947–1950), 3:294.
26. JPK to Giannini, Sept. 8, 1932, Smith, HTF, 98–9; JPK to WRH, Sept. 6, 1932, box 7, Hearst.
27. NYT, Sept. 9, 1932; James L. Wright, “Joe Kennedy Sits in Inner Circle,” BSG, Sept. 25, 1932.
28. James Roosevelt, FB folders, EMKP.
29. Wright, BSG, Sept. 25, 1932.
30. Moley, First New Deal, 380; Dowling, oral history, 311–12, CUOH.
31. Farley and Walker to JPK, Sept. 16, 1932, box 72, JPKP.
32. Wright, BSG, Sept. 25, 1932.
33. Jack Warner, with Dean Jennings, My First Hundred Years in Hollywood (New York: Random House, 1965), 215–16; Jack Warner, FB folders, EMKP.
34. JPK, Jr., to REFK, Oct. 9, 1932, Smith, HTF, 99.
35. On campaign contributions, w.b. 31, JPKP; Louise Overacker, “American Government and Politics: Campaign Funds in a Depression Year,” American Political Science Review (October 1933), 778–79.
36. JPK to WRH, Oct. 19, 1932, box 7, Hearst.
37. FDR to JPK, Oct. 24, 1932, box 70, JPKP; Raymond Moley, After Seven Years (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939), 63.
38. JPK to Elliott Roosevelt, [Nov. 10, 1932], Smith, HTF, 101–2.
ELEVEN: WAITING FOR THE CALL
1. WRH to JPK, Nov. 14, 15, Hearst.
2. NYT, Nov. 20, 1932; Hays to JPK, Nov. 9, 1932, box 70, JPKP.
3. JPK to Hiram Brown, box 70, JPKP.
4. Moley, First New Deal, 381; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP; Frank Friedel, FDR: Launching the New Deal, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1973) 138; Democratic National Committee papers, box 460, FDRL.