A note regarding Frank Sinatra’s investigation into Marilyn Monroe’s death: Says Thomas DiBella, a former underworld figure on the East Coast and once a close friend of Chicago mob leader Sam Giancana’s, “Sinatra tried to call JFK about Marilyn’s death, but the President would not take his calls, which only made Frank angrier. Then in November [1963], Jack was assassinated. Frank was very distraught about that. By this time, he was really on an emotional merry-go-round. In December his son, Frank Junior, was kidnapped. Bobby [Kennedy] used his influence with the FBI to help him get the kid back. So, out of gratitude, and also respect for the Kennedy family, Frank decided to drop the whole thing about Marilyn.”
“What was he going to do with the information, anyway?” added Dominic Santori, also once a friend of Sinatra’s. “Have a press conference and spill the beans? Frank Sinatra? Not likely. But I know he always had a great distaste for the way the Kennedys treated Marilyn Monroe.” Santori concluded, “Decades later, all these books came out about Marilyn, Jack, and Bobby, but Frank Sinatra had all this information in his hands over thirty years ago. But like the gentleman he was, he never said a word. And, in the end, he took all the anger and resentment he had about it to the grave with him.”
The Kennedy Women Do Men’s Work
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Eileen Harper, George Smathers, David Lester, Lem Billings, Rita Dallas, Stanley Tretick, David Powers (questionnaire and followup interview), John Davis (questionnaire), Helen Thomas, Walter Cronkite, Oleg Cassini, Pierre Salinger, Lisa Conners, Thomas Stanwick, Liz Carpenter, Nancy Bacon, Larry Newman, Bess Abel, Jim Ketchum, and Andrew Martinelli.
Volumes consulted: Dark Side of Camelot, by Seymour Hersh; A Very Private Woman, by Nina Burleigh; Conversations with Kennedy, by Ben Bradlee; A Good Life, by Ben Bradlee; All Too Human, by Edward Klein; The Kennedy Women, by Laurence Leamer; Times to Remember, by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Life with Rose Kennedy, by Barbara Gibson and Caroline Latham; Rose, by Gail Cameron; Iron Rose, by Cindy Adams and Susan Crimp; Rose, by Charles Higham; Rose Kennedy and Her Family, by Barbara Gibson and Ted Schwartz; Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy, by Lester David; The Dark Side of Camelot, by Nelson Thompson; The Joy of Classical Music, by Joan Kennedy; The Kennedy Imprisonment, by Gary Wills; Tell It to Louella, by Louella Parsons; One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy, by William Manchester; Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile, by William Manchester; The Kennedy Library, by William Davis and Christina Tree.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: Secret Service logs from White House and John Kennedy Library; comments by Candy Jones, Gerald Doherty, Donald Dowd, and Phoebe Dowd are from interview transcripts conducted by David Lester; “Dangerous Minds” (an ABC-TV special based on Seymour Hersh’s book The Dark Side of Camelot, which includes interviews with Larry Newman, Julia Reed, G. Robert Blakely, Ben Bradlee, Hugh Sidey, Anthony Sherman, Joseph Paolella, George Smathers); CNN Talk Back Live, interview with Seymour Hersh, December 26, 1997; “JFK: The Truth as I See It,” by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Cigar Aficionado, December 1998.
Jackie’s Wicked Scheme; The Cuban Missile Crisis; Joan—The Senator’s Wife
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Jim Ketchum, Nunziata Lisi, Oleg Cassini, Robert McNamara, George Smathers, Liz Carpenter, Pierre Salinger, Letitia Baldrige, Jim Whiting, Stanley Tretick, and Helen Thomas.
Volumes consulted: Marvella: A Personal Journey, by Marvella Bayh; Presidential Anecdotes, by Paul F. Boller; Dog Days at the White House: The Outrageous Memoirs of the Presidential Kennel Keeper, by Traphes Bryant and Frances Spatz Leighton; Edward Kennedy and the Camelot Legacy, by James MacGregor Burns; The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy, by George Carpozi; Jacqueline Kennedy: A Portrait of Courage, by Hal Dareff; Remember the Ladies: Women of America, by Linda Grant De Pauw; A Thousand Days, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Kennedy and His Women, by Tony Sciacca; John F. Kennedy’s 13 Great Mistakes in the White House, by Malcolm E. Smith; The Severed Soul, by Dr. Herbert Strean and Lucy Freedman; Sex and Politicians: Affairs of State, by Kerry Segreve; Jackie: A Truly Intimate Biography, by Frieda Kramer; Hidden Hollywood, by Richard Lamparski; Kennedy: A Time Remembered, by Jacques Lowe; Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism, by William Manchester; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Folk Hero, by David Lester; RFK: The Man Who Would Be President, by Ralph De Toledano; Those Wild, Wild Kennedy Boys, by Stephen Dunleavy; In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years, by Robert F. Kennedy; Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy, by David Lester; The Pleasure of His Company, by Paul “Red” Fay.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: Maria Shriver interview with Fidal Castro, Oprah Winfrey Show, April 1999; correspondence between Jackie Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson courtesy of the LBJ Library.
Delighted to Be Pregnant; The Deaths of Infants Arabella and Patrick; Lee Radziwill Invites Jackie-in-Mourning; “Not Ethel’s Best Moment”; Aboard the Christina; Jack Summons Jackie—To No Avail; “Ari Is Not for you”
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Jim Ketchum, Pierre Salinger, George Smathers, Chuck Spalding, Mari Kumlin, Dora Kumlin, Bessie Jaynes, Stelina Mavros, and Joseph Paolella.
Volumes consulted: A Very Private Woman, by Nina Burleigh; The Search for JFK, by Clay Blair, Jr., and Joan Blair; The Remarkable Kennedys, by Joseph McCarthy; Jack and Jackie, by Christopher Andersen; All Too Human, by Ed Klein; White House Nannie, by Maud Shaw; The Radziwills: The Social History of a Great European Family, by Tadeusz Nowakowski; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; In Her Sister’s Shadow, by Diana DuBois; The Other Mrs. Kennedy, by Jerry Oppenheimer; Onassis, by Willi Frischauer; The Fabulous Onassis, by Christian Cafarakis; Jackie, Bobby and Manchester, by Arnold Bennett; Jackie Oh!, by Kitty Kelley; Ari: The Life and Times of Aristotle Onassis, by Peter Evans; Onassis, by Frank Brady; Ari, by Peter Evans; Those Fabulous Greeks, by Doris Lilly; Oh No, Jackie O, by January Jones; Aristotle Onassis, by Nicholas Frasier, Philip Jacobson, Mark Ottaway, and Lewis Chester; Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal; The Onassis Women, by Kiki Feroudi Moutsatsos; Onassis: An Extravagant Life, by Frank Brady; First Lady, by Charlotte Curtis; The Joy of Classical Music, by Joan Kennedy; Maria: Callas Remembered, by Nadia Stancioff; Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend, by Arianna Stassinopoulous; Aristotle and Christina, by L.J. Davis; The Kennedy Promise, by Henry Fairlie; Endless Enemies, by Jonathan Kwitny; JFK, by David Lester and Irene David.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: Stelio Popademitrio quotes from ABC-TV; “Hospital Vigil over Kennedy Baby,” Life, August 16, 1963; correspondence from Jackie to Jack from Jackie Kennedy auction; “Callas in Love,” by Stelio Galatopoulos, Vanity Fair, March 1999; “Maria Was a Weapon,” by Arianna Stassinopoulos, People, March 23, 1981.
Jack’s Rapprochment with Jackie: “Getting to Know You”; Tragedy; “The President’s Been Shot”; Holy Mary, Mother of God; “The Party’s Been Canceled—The President’s Dead”; In Mourning
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Larry Newman, George Smathers, Pierre Salinger, Ben Bradlee, Nellie Connally, Robert McNamara, Diana Dubois, Walter Cronkite, Frank Mankiewicz, Sancy Newman, Beatrice Lowell, Roz Clark, Johnny Grant, Morton Downey, Jr., Stuart Greene, and Betty Beale.
Volumes consulted: The Day Kennedy Was Shot, by Jim Bishop; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; The Pleasure of His Company, by Ben Bradlee; Conversations with Kennedy, by Ben Bradlee; The Death of a President, by William Manchester; They’ve Killed the President, by Robert Samanson; My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, by Evelyn Lincoln; Not in Your Lifetime, by Anthony Summers; The Kennedys, by Peter Collier and David Horowitz; Times to Remember, by
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Power at Play, by Betty Beale; President Kennedy, by Richard Reeves; Ethel, by David Lester; The Other Mrs. Kennedy, by Jerry Oppenheimer; Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy, by David Lester; A White House Diary, by Lady Bird Johnson; The Kennedy Women, by Laurence Leamer; RFK, by C. David Heymann; The Pleasure of His Company, by Paul Fay; The Dark Side of Camelot, by Seymour Hersh; The Assassination Tapes, by George O’Toole; Rush to Judgment, by Mark Lane; Counterplot, by Edward Jay Epstein; The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur Schlesinger.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: Clint Hill’s comments from Secret Service documentary, PBS, June 1999; Life interview with Rose Kennedy by Sylvia Wright (1970); Maria Shriver’s comments from Oprah, January 1999; Ted Kennedy’s eulogy at Jacqueline Kennedy’s funeral; “A Matter of Reasonable Doubt,” Life, November 25, 1966; “Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States,” June 1975 (also known as the CIA Commission Report); Jackie’s testimony from volume five of “The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy”; “John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition,” Life, November 1963; “These Are Things I Hope Will Show How He Really Was,” by Jacqueline Kennedy, Life, May 29, 1964; “Valiant Is the World for Jacqueline,” by Laura Bergquist, Look, January 28, 1964.
Tea with Lady Bird, Thanksgiving, 1963; Jackie’s Camelot; “Let It All Out”; Aftermath
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Joan Braden, Michael Oliver, Beatrice Moore, Liz Carpenter, Joseph Paolella, Jack Valenti, Susan Neuberger Wilson, Ed Newman, and Pierre Salinger.
Volumes consulted: In Search of History, by Theodore White; On His Own: RFK, by William Vanden Huevel and Milton Gwirtzman; Presidential Passions, by Michael John Sullivan; A White House Diary, by Lady Bird Johnson; The Vantage Point, by Lyndon Baines Johnson; JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality on Politics, by Tom Wicker; To Move a Nation, by Roger Hilsman; Containing Central Intelligence, by Harry Rowe Ransom; Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy, by David Lester; Joan Kennedy: Life with the Kennedys, by Marcia Chellis; A Private View, by Irene Mayer Selnick; Sinatra and His Rat Pack, by Richard Gehman; Mislaid in Hollywood, by Joe Hyams; The Thin Veil, by Frank Saunders; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; White House Nannie, by Maud Shaw; The Kennedy Men, by Nellie Bly; Confessions of an Ex-Fan Magazine Writer, by Jane Wilkie; The President’s Mistress, by Irma Hunt; The Women around RFK, by Susan Marvin; The Best of Friends, by David Michaelis; Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir, by Jack Newfield; Backstairs at the White House, by Lillian Rogers Parks with Frances Spatz Leighton; The Struggles of John F. Kennedy, by Herbert S. Parmet; Tell It to Louella, by Louella Parsons.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: letters from Jackie Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson and from LBJ to Jackie, and transcripts of telephone calls courtesy of LBJ Library; Frank Saunders interview transcript by David Lester; “Lady Bird Johnson Writes about Her Private World,” Life, August 13, 1965; “What Has Tragedy Meant to Bobby Kennedy,” by Bill Davidson, Good Housekeeping, July 1964; “What Kind of Woman Is Our New First Lady,” by Ruth Montgomery, Good Housekeeping, March 1964.
Moving Out of the White House; Lyndon Johnson “Using Jackie”; The Kennedy Camp on LBJ: “A Blight on the New Frontier”; Joan’s Bottled-Up Anxiety; Jackie’s Saddest Days; Jackie and Brando—The Rumors
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Pierre Salinger, Frank Mankiewicz, George Christian, Peter Brent, Joseph Karats, and John Davis.
Volumes consulted: Taking Charge, by Michael Meschloss; A White House Diary, by Lady Bird Johnson; The Vantage Point, by Lyndon Baines Johnson; Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy, by David Lester; Just Jackie, by Ed Klein; No Final Victories, by Lawrence F. O’Brien; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; The Kennedy Women, by Pearl S. Buck; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, by David Lester; Ethel, by David Lester; Robert Kennedy and His Times, by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Bobby Kennedy, by David Lester with Irene David; The Kennedy Courage, by Edward Hymoff and Phil Hirsch; Palm Beach Babylon, by Murray Weiss and Bill Hofmman; There Really Was a Hollywood, by Janet Leigh; John Fitzgerald Kennedy: As We Remember Him, edited by Goddard Lieberson; Behind Every Successful President, by Alice Anderson; Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History, by Paul Boller, Jr.; Dog Days at the White House, by Traphes Bryant with Frances Spatz Leighton; As We Remember Joe, by John F. Kennedy; Tell It to the King, by Larry King; When I Think of Bobby, by Warren Rogers; The Struggles of John F. Kennedy, by Herbert S. Parmet; Kennedy and Johnson, by Evelyn Lincoln; Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, by Doris Kearns; The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, by Eric F. Goldman; The Kennedy Promise, by Henry Fairlie; Recollections of the Kennedy Years, by Edwin Guthman.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: transcripts of telephone conversations between LBJ and Jackie (and Pierre Salinger and LBJ) courtesy of LBJ Library; “LBJ and the Kennedys,” by Kenneth O’Donnell, Life, August 7, 1970; “John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963,” by Laura Bergquist, Look, November 17, 1964; “The Unknown JFK,” by Fletcher Knebel, Look, November 17, 1964; “Eight Views of JFK,” by T. George Harris, Look, November 17, 1964; “Teddy Kennedy: Is He Running for President?,” by Edward R.F. Sheehan, Saturday Evening Post, June 5, 1965; “Ted Kennedy On His Own,” by Joseph Roddy, Look, July 13, 1965; “The Bright Light of His Days,” by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, McCalls, November 1973.
Ted’s Plane Crash; Joan Wins the Election for Ted; Jackie on the Anniversary of November 22, 1963; Using Jackie—Yet Again; Joan the Emissary; Cead Mile Failte; Joan’s Continuing Struggle
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Joe Gargan, Joan Barden, Benjamin Strait, Marie Fehmer, James W. Fosburgh, and Jerry Summers.
Volumes consulted: Ted Kennedy: Triumphs and Tragedies, by Lester David; The Kennedys in Hollywood, by Lawrence Quirk; Seeds of Destruction, by Ralph G. Martin; Good Ted, Bad Ted, by Lester David; The Last Brother, by Joe McGinniss; The Shadow President, by Burton Hersh; Living with the Kennedys, by Marcia Chellis; As We Remember Her, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony; The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy, by Richard E. Burke; The Education of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography, by Burton Hersh; The Other Mrs. Kennedy, by Jerry Oppenheimer; The Joy of Classical Music, by Joan Kennedy; We Band of Brothers: A Memoir of Robert F. Kennedy, by Edwin Guthman; Breaking Cover, by Bill Gulley and Mary Ellen Reese.
Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and consulted: questionnaire filled out by Joe Gargan; news clips about the accident; transcript of conversations between Joan and LBJ and Jackie and LBJ, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; LBJ correspondence to Jackie also courtesy of the Johnson Library; the transcript of Arthur Egan interview by David Lester; “Celebration of One Year Anniversary of JFK’s Death,” Look magazine; various published articles about the Kennedy Exhibition; Dateline report, “Just Jackie,” by Ed Klein, 1999, including interview with John Carl Warneckie, Stelio Papadimitriou, and Niki Goulandris; “Ideal Plane, Expert Pilot… Why Flying So Low?,” by Anne Wyman, Boston Globe, June 23, 1964; “Ted Kennedy Escapes Death” (Associated Press), Daily News, June 20, 1964; “Kennedy Family Stands Vigil,” by Anthony Matejczyk, Boston Globe, June 21, 1964; “Ted Kennedy’s Recovery,” Life, January 15, 1965.
The Rumor Mill; RFK for President; Enter “The Greek”; The Appeal to Jackie; Ethel’s Thoughtless Remark; Another Tragedy; “The Hand of a Dead Man”; “No God of Mine”
As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral Histories, personal interviews were conducted with Gore Vidal, Barbara Gibson, Liz Carpenter, John Lewis, Frank Mankiewicz, Jeanne Martin, Leah Mason, Charles Bartlett, Roswell Gilpatrick, Chuck Spalding, Nicolas “Niko” Konaledius, Stavlos Pappadia, John Miner, and Rafer Johnson.
Volumes consulted: Palimpsest, by Gore Vidal; RFK,
by C. David Heymann; The Kennedy Case, by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe; Robert Kennedy and His Times, by Arthur Schlesinger; Onassis, by Willi Frischauer; The Enemy Within, by Robert F. Kennedy; Robert Kennedy at 40, by Nick Thimmesch and William Johnson; Robert Kennedy: The Brother Within, by Robert E. Thompson and Hortense Myers; The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy, by David Halberstam; Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, by Jack Newfield; 85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, by Jules Witcover; A Thousand Days, by Arthur Schlesinger; Plot of Politics, by Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw; The Kennedy Conspiracy, by Paris Flammonde; Cardinal Cushing, by John Henry Cultler; Witness to Power, by Marquis Childs; The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy, by George Carpozi; Dog Days at the White House, by Traphes Bryant and Frances Spatz Leighton; The Woman in the White House, by Marianne Means; The Radziwills, by Tadeusz Nowakowski; Men, Money and Magic, by Jeffry Potter; Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer; Dateline: White House, by Helen Thomas; Ambassador’s Journal, by John Kenneth Galbraith; The Man to See, by Evan Thomas; Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, by Anthony Summers.
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