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5. Robert Surrey testimony to Warren Commission.
6. Dallas Police Department files on the shooting at Walker’s residence.
7. Clippings, Edwin Walker Papers; Surrey testimony to Warren Commission.
8. Marina Oswald testimony to Warren Commission.
9. Ibid.
10. Posner, 117.
11. Marina Oswald testimony to Warren Commission.
12. Ibid.
13. Clipping, Edwin Walker Papers, Accession 96-030, Box 37; Cravens, 135.
14. Dallas Police Department report, April 16, 1963.
May 1963
1. Dallas Police Department report, April 18, 1963.
June-July 1963
1. Dan Smoot Report, June 3, 1963.
2. Dallas Morning News, June 14, 1963.
3. Dan Smoot Report, July 1, 1963.
August 1963
1. Dallas Morning News, August 5, 1963.
2. “Address to the Nation on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 26 July 1963,” Accession Number: TNC:384, John F. Kennedy Library.
3. Dallas Morning News, August 6, 1963.
4. Ibid, August 4, 1963.
5. Life Line transcript, program 163-62, June 12, 1962. Melvin Munn Papers.
6. Dallas Morning News, July 28, 1963.
September 1963
1. Letter from Larrie Schmidt to Bernard Weissman, June 2, 1963. Warren Commission exhibit 1037.
2. Letter from Larrie Schmidt to Bernard Weissman, October 1, 1963. Warren Commission exhibit 1033.
3. “Merchandising: Dallas in Wonderland,” Time, October 28, 1957.
4. Stanley Marcus to Joe Buford, November 16, 1963. Stanley Marcus Papers.
5. Leslie, 197–98.
6. Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1963
7. Ibid.
8. Dallas Morning News, August 8, 1963.
9. Dallas Morning News, September 20, 1963.
10. Texas Observer, May 30, 1963.
11. Bruce Alger Papers, Box 23, folder 15.
12. Life Line transcript, program 19-62, January 19, 1962. Melvin Munn Papers.
13. Dan Smoot Report, April 8, 1963. Bruce Alger Papers, Box 33, folder 6.
14. Dan Smoot Report, October 7, 1963. Bruce Alger Papers, Box 33, folder 6.
15. Washington Post, September 21, 1963.
16. Dallas Morning News, September 25, 1963.
17. Leslie, 190.
18. Dallas Morning News, September 26, 1963.
October 1963
1. Dallas Morning News, October 3, 1963.
2. Larrie Schmidt to Bernard Weissman, October 1, 1963. Warren Commission exhibit 1033.
3. Ibid.
4. Dallas Morning News, October 24, 1963.
5. Mecklin, John. Mission in Torment: An Intimate Account of the U.S. Role in Vietnam (Doubleday, 1965), 178.
6. Jones, Howard. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War (Oxford University Press, 2003), 385.
7. Dallas Morning News, October 24, 1963.
8. Ibid.
9. Cravens, 141.
10. Ibid.
11. Dallas Morning News, October 24, 1963.
12. Clipping, Bruce Alger Papers, Box 22, folder 20.
13. Huffaker, Bob, et al. When the News Went Live: Dallas 1963 (Taylor Trade, 2007), 112.
14. New York Times, December 9, 1963.
15. Payne, Big D, 355.
16. Texas Observer, November 1, 1963.
17. Ibid.
18. AP and UPI wire service reports published October 25, 1963. Murray Schueth, a Dallas attorney who was shaking hands with Adlai Stevenson when the placard struck, spoke of the college student coming at Stevenson. Schueth was not quoted in the Dallas Morning News, but he is quoted in the wire service reports.
19. AP and UPI wire service reports published October 25, 1963.
20. Clipping on Adlai Stevenson, Bruce Alger Papers, Box 22, folder 20.
21. Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (Southern Methodist University Press, 2004), 241.
22. AP and UPI wire service reports published October 25, 1963; Huffaker, 116. This was not reported in the Dallas Morning News.
23. Bernard Weissman testimony to Warren Commission.
24. Dallas Morning News, October 26, 1963.
25. Washington Post, October 27, 1963.
26. Texas Observer, November 1, 1963.
27. Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1963.
28. Dallas Morning News, October 26, 1963.
29. Wright, Lawrence. “Why Do They Hate Us So Much?” Texas Monthly, November 1983.
30. Earle Cabell Papers, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
31. Dallas Times Herald, October 25, 1963.
32. Clipping, Bruce Alger Papers, Box 22, folder 20.
33. Ibid.
34. Dallas Morning News, October 26, 1963.
35. Ibid.
36. Stanley Marcus to Joe Dealey, October 29, 1963, Stanley Marcus Papers.
37. Dallas Morning News, October 27, 1963.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Los Angeles Times, November 1, 1963.
42. Larrie Schmidt to Bernard Weissman, October 29, 1963. Warren Commission exhibit 1052.
43. Dallas Morning News, November 3, 1963.
44. Dallas Times Herald, November 3, 1963.
45. Bruce Alger Papers, Box 22, folder 20.
46. Ibid.
November 1963
1. Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1963.
2. Leslie, 203; Manchester, William. The Death of a President (Harper & Row, 1967), 40.
3. McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (Crown, 1995), 84.
4. Manchester, 34.
5. Manchester, 39.
6. Ibid.
7. Larrie Schmidt to Bernard Weissman, October 29, 1963. Warren Commission exhibit 1052.
8. Hurt, 223.
9. Hurt, 224.
10. Dallas Police Department memo, Lieutenant Revill to Captain Gannaway, November 5, 1963.
11. Manchester, 9.
12. Testimony of James Hosty, House Committee on the Judiciary, December 12, 1975.
13. Schmaltz, William H. Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party (Brassey’s, 1999), 137.
14. Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961–1963 (Touchstone, 2002), 261.
15. Manchester, 32.
16. Payne, Big D, 314; Miller, 379.
17. The Reverend W. A. Criswell, sermon, November 17, 1963.
18. Dallas Morning News, November 19, 1963.
19. Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1963.
20. Dallas Morning News, November 19, 1963.
21. Weissman testimony to Warren Commission.
22. Jeansonne, Glen. Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 2006), xxi.
23. United Press International, October 29, 1963.
24. Manchester, 55–57.
25. Manchester, 60.
26. Juanita Craft Papers, oral history conducted by the Civil Rights Project 1968, 9.
27. Dallas Morning News, November 19, 1963.
28. Dallas Morning News, November 22, 1963; Pollack, Jack Harrison. “The Man at the Dallas Airport, November 22, 1963.” True, December 1973.
29. Marcus, 255.
30. Manchester, 90.
November 22, 1963
1. Dallas Express, November 23, 1963.
2. Bishop, 11.
3. White, Glen. “Dallas Revisited.” Cosmopolitan, April 1964.
4. William Manchester Papers, Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University Special Collections and Archives. Box 43, folder 90.
5. Bishop, 30.
6. Bugliosi, Vincent. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (W. W. Norton, 2007), 12; Manchester, 112.
7. Bishop, 47; Manchester, 108.
8.
Bugliosi, 16.
9. Bugliosi, 17; Bishop, 61.
10. Manchester, 114.
11. Manchester, 10.
12. Kennedy’s speech to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce can be viewed on YouTube.
13. Bugliosi, 21.
14. Report of the Secret Service on the Assassination of President Kennedy, sent to Chief Justice Warren, December 18, 1963.
15. Life Line transcript, program 87, November 22, 1963. Melvin Munn Papers.
16. Manchester, 111.
17. Manchester, 126. Manchester does not specify Kennedy’s curse.
18. Manchester, 130.
19. Manchester, 131.
20. Report of the Secret Service on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
21. Belo/Dallas Morning News Papers, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Box 9, folder 21. Reporter Lewis Harris.
22. Bugliosi, 32.
Epilogue
1 Dealey/Belo Papers, Box 10, folder 17.
2 Manchester, 249.
3 Earle Cabell Papers.
4 “Selections from Lady Bird’s Diary on the assassination: November 22, 1963.” Lady Bird Johnson: Portrait of a First Lady. PBS, www.pbs.org/ladybird/epicenter/epicenter_doc_diary.html. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
5 Bugliosi, 105.
6 Bugliosi, 195.
7 Bugliosi, 172.
8 Posner, 372.
9 Posner, 375.
10 Posner, 377.
11 Bugliosi, 176.
12 Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963.
13 Manchester, 287.
14 Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with Silverman. Warren Commission exhibits 1484–85.
15 Federal Bureau of Investigation interview with Jack Ruby, conducted by Agent C. Ray Hall. Warren Commission exhibit 3.
16 H. Rhett James Papers.
17 San Antonio Light, November 23, 1963.
18 Dallas Police Detective Barnard S. Clardy testimony to Warren Commission.
19 Dallas Morning News, December 22, 1963.
20 Hurt, 232–33.
21 Various YouTube videos of General Walker.
22 Dallas Express, December 7, 1963.
23 Manchester, 569.
24 Segura, Judith Garrett. Belo: From Newspapers to New Media (University of Texas Press, 2008), 114.
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National Archives and Records Administration
Bruce Alger Papers, Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library
Earle Cabell Papers, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
Juanita Craft Papers, Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library
E. M. “Ted” Dealey Collection, Belo Records, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
A. C. Greene Papers, Special Collections Division, the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Shel Hershorn Photographic Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
H. Rhett James Papers, Anacostia Community Museum
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
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