Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) (81 page)

307
RFK wondered “how long he could continue to avoid comment”: Schlesinger, 616.

307
John P. Roche…denounced conspiracy researchers as “marginal paranoids”: Quoted in
New York Times
, January 3, 1968.

307
“Note that Robert Kennedy…would be the last man”: CIA memo, document number 1035-960, January 4, 1967, reprinted on JFK Lancer Web site, http:// www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html.

308
“Bobby, do you really believe”: Don Hewitt,
Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television
.

308
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby were not strangers: Author interview with Hewitt.

7: NEW ORLEANS

309
“but nobody would care if we had lived or died”: Quoted in
People
, May 24, 1982.

310
“I don’t talk like that”: Mankiewicz speech, Robert F. Kennedy memorial, November 16, 2005, U.S. Capitol building.

310
“the U.S. government tried to emulate George III”:
People
, ibid.

310
“Nobody would give you an argument”: Quoted in “The Battle Over
Citizen Kane,” PBS series, American Experience
.

311
“He was a gambler”:
People
, ibid.

311
“I’d call in the heads of the three TV networks”: Author interview with Mankiewicz.

312
“Very few people were from Beverly Hills”:
People
, ibid.

312
“I’m not sure that
he
does”: Author interview with Mankiewicz.

313
“He looked small and cold”:
Philadelphia Inquirer
, December 7, 1966.

314
“Bill thought that Bobby was a real tough guy”: Author interview with Simone Attwood.

314
[Attwood] strongly encouraged Kennedy to commit himself to reopening the case: Author interview with William Pepper.

316
Joe Dolan, a man who harbored even more explosive suspicions about Dallas than RFK: “I think [Lyndon] Johnson was part of the plot to kill the president,” Dolan told me in a 2005 interview. Dolan could not provide any evidence to support his assertion. And there is nothing to indicate that Robert Kennedy shared his suspicion.

316
“The truth has been suppressed”: David Crosby biography, A&E Biography Channel.

317
“see what happened to him for his pains”: Quoted in Santa Barbara
Argo
, April 1–15, 1968.

317
“caused people to accuse me of not being funny”:
PR Newswire
, January 6, 1992.

317
an orgy of “communal crying”: Mort Sahl on
Fresh Air
, NPR, December 23, 2003.

317
“Hitler said that he always knew you could buy the press”: Quoted in
Newsweek
, August 9, 1976.

318
his reporters “would go over all the areas of doubt”: Quoted in
Newsweek
, December 12, 1966.

319
“You can always meet a president”: Quoted in Joan Mellen,
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination and the Case that Should Have Changed History
, 23.

319
“Those fellows on the Warren Commission were dead wrong”: Quoted in Jim Garrison, 13.

320
“For me…that was the end of innocence”:
Playboy
interview, October 1967.

320
“I’m not sure about going to New Orleans”: Hale Boggs oral history, LBJ Library.

320
“President Kennedy was killed for one reason”:
Playboy
, ibid.

320
“our government is the CIA and the Pentagon”: Ibid.

321
Ferrie was…“swept up in the gales of history”: Ibid.

322
“Yeah, and I’m the Lone Ranger”: Quoted in Russo,
Live by the Sword
, 403.

323
“if it weren’t so deadly serious”: Jerry Cohen memo to Guthman, August 18, 1967, Edwin Guthman papers, JFK Library.

323
“I sent some of our best people down there”: Author interview with Guthman.

323
[Kennedy] had “assigned different aspects of the…case”: Author interview with Newfield.

325
When Sheridan dug up evidence…that Jack Ruby had received a “bundle of money”: FBI memo, November 24, 1963, NARA record number 124-10072-10228.

325
Sheridan knew how to “swim underwater”: Author interview with John Cassidy.

325
“secrets were safe with Walter”: Senator Edward M. Kennedy eulogy, January 17,1995, Sheridan papers, JFK Library.

325
“They continued working on the case”: Author interview with Nancy Sheridan.

326
“I want to hit people between the eyes”: Quoted in
Newsweek
, October 23, 1967.

327
Gurvich…worried that [Kennedy] would think “there actually was something in New Orleans”: Quoted in Patricia Lambert,
False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison’s Investigation and Oliver Stone’s Film
JFK, 117.

327
Campisi…was the first person to visit Jack Ruby in jail: Blakey and Billings, 360.

327
Garrison gave Carlos Marcello a pass: Ibid., xxxi. According to Zachary Sklar, co-writer of
JFK
, Oliver Stone’s glorification of Jim Garrison, even Stone was initially suspicious of Garrison’s benign view of Marcello. “Before he made the final decision to make the movie,” Sklar informed me in a March 2005 e-mail, “[Stone] had a researcher compile every nasty story about Marcello she could find, and Oliver threw every allegation at Jim. At the end, he said to Oliver: ‘Are you finished?’ Oliver said yes. Jim said, ‘Then I suggest you take your cameras up the river about ten miles where Carlos Marcello is in jail, and you go make a movie about Carlos Marcello.’ Oliver was astonished. ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Dead serious,’ said Jim. Oliver left, and called back the next day: ‘You mean you’d give up a movie about yourself?’ ‘Well, you seem more interested in Carlos Marcello than me, so just go make a movie about him. That’s fine.’ Oliver never asked another question about Carlos Marcello.”

328
Sheridan…took the extraordinary step of approaching the CIA: CIA security file on Walter Sheridan, NARA record number 104-10305-10003.

329
[Helms] repeatedly asked his top deputies whether “we are giving [the Shaw defense team] all the help they need: Quoted in Garrison, 234.

329
“his personal ties to President Kennedy, as well as his own integrity”: Statement of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sheridan papers, JFK Library.

329
“He was telling Carson that Garrison was full of crap”: Author interview with Jeff Greenfield.

330
“Politics became a noble profession again”: Sheridan dedication speech, John F. Kennedy Junior High School, December 1, 1965, Sheridan papers, JFK Library.

330
“I felt cut off from the world”: Quoted in
Newsweek
, October 23, 1967.

330
“They didn’t trust it”: Author interview with Nancy Sheridan.

332
“The conversation was so innocuous”: Sahl,
Heartland
, 148.

333
the message from Bobby was always the same: Ibid, 149.

334
“What are we going to do—listen to…a nightclub comedian”: Author interview with Sahl.

334
Bobby didn’t want the “real assassins” caught: Quoted in Lambert, 124.

334
“what kind of friends did those guys have?”: Author interview with Sahl.

335
“He was the keeper of confidences”: Newfield,
Somebody’s Gotta Tell It
, 161.

335
he conceded there might be something to Moldea’s suspicions: Author interview with Dan Moldea.

335
“there was something else going on in Dallas”: Author interview with Walter Sheridan Jr.

336
Newfield…used the word “suicidal”: Author interview with Newfield.

336
“He did not have the mandate”: Author interview with Nancy Sheridan

8: THE PASSION OF ROBERT KENNEDY

337
“This scared the bejesus out of Siegel and his wife”: Author interview with Nolan.

338
would not allow the senator’s trip to be “transformed into a publicity stunt”: Quoted in Schlesinger, 744.

339
“What does it mean to be against communism”:
Look
, August 23, 1966.

339
“suppose God is black”: Ibid.

339
he joined them in singing…“We Shall Overcome”: Schlesinger, 746.

339
Kennedy called “a dreary concentration camp”: Ibid.

339
“If we stayed another two days”: Ibid., 748.

340
Kennedy thought the U.S. invasion was an “outrage”: Ibid, 691.

340
“anybody can get guns”: Walinsky oral history, JFK Library.

340
“There has been all this romanticism”: Author interview with Walinsky.

340
Kennedy…called Guevara “a revolutionary hero”: Schlesinger, 801.

341
Tom Mann was the type of “colonialist”: Goodwin, 245.

341
“I never believed we should compete with the revolutionaries”: Mann oral history, JFK Library.

342
“The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution”: Quoted in
New York Times
, November 13, 1965.

342
“we can’t get a water tank for these people because of an oil dispute?”:
New York Times
, November 27, 1965.

342
“you’re making way for your own destruction”: Ibid.