Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (No Series) (82 page)

342
“It’s a sight I’ll never forget”: Walinsky oral history, JFK Library.

344
“I’m the guy who saved his life”: Quoted in Goodwin, 189.

344
“they’re going to have to improve their aim”: Quoted in Schlesinger, 696.

344
he clambered on top of a police car and sang:
New York Times
, November 17, 1965.

344
he was given a standing ovation:
New York Times
, November 21, 1965.

344
It had to do…with “that whole history of the Kennedys”: Walinsky oral history, JFK Library.

345
“Yet it was not because of him that they were shouting”: Goodwin, 435.

345
“Stay in school”: Quoted in
New York Times
, November 22, 1965.

345
“Sooner or later”: Quoted in Schlesinger, 698.

346
“you doves will all be dead in six months”: Quoted in Joseph A. Palermo,
In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
, 42.

346
“That marvelous human being who is president of the United States”: Quoted in Thomas,
Robert Kennedy
, 333.

346
“he looks at me like he’s going to look a hole through me”: Ibid, 295.

346
Kennedy was little more than a Communist dupe: Palermo, 44.

347
“Lyndon Johnson was so insane”: Ibid., 46.

347
“It makes the rug grow better”: Quoted in Newfield,
RFK: A Memoir
, 135.

348
Edelman…called it “mushy”: Quoted in Palermo, 45.

348
Nixon said Kennedy’s speech: Schlesinger, 774.

348
Goldwater charged that Kennedy was out of control:
New York Times
, March 3,1967.

348
Bobby was proposing a “dishonorable settlement”: Quoted in Schlesinger, 774.

350
Edelman thought his boss even urged the once mighty defense czar: Peter Edelman oral history, JFK Library.

350
“Many in this room believe Lyndon Johnson is crude”: McNamara, 317.

350
“You think to challenge me”: “Caesar’s Meat,” Walinsky papers, JFK Library.

351
“history was going to show he is to blame”: Mandelkorn letter,
The Hook
(Charlottesville, VA), April 8, 2004.

351
“You are the one that makes the difference for all of us”: RFK letter, March 13, 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy papers, JFK Library.

351
“I wasn’t stupid”: Author interview with McNamara.

352
“Do you know what I think will happen to Bobby?”: Quoted in Schlesinger, 857.

353
“Something bad is going to come of this”: Quoted in John Ehrlichman,
Witness to Power: The Nixon Years
, 24.

353
“I hope that someone shoots and kills the son of a bitch”: Quoted in Sullivan, 56.

353
“Which of these brave young men dying in the rice paddies”: Quoted in Jules Witcover,
85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert F. Kennedy
, 112.

354
the crowd “suddenly became a live and dangerous thing”: Ibid, 113.

354
“I loved him intensely as a human being”: Ibid, 114.

354
“I was amazed at what I saw, no security at all”: Author interview with Guthman.

355
the Kennedy campaign was being targeted by the same…FBI dirty tactics: Palermo, 179.

356
the teenager put one of his favorite songs on the living room stereo: Author interview with Stephen Salinger.

357
“He was prepared to handle it”: Croft interview with Rick Tuttle.

358
“I remember that I was stunned by the answer”: Author interview with Mankiewicz.

359
Richard Lubic…later made notes: Robbyn Swan interview with Lubic, courtesy of Swan and Anthony Summers.

359
“We can’t have these cowboys wandering around”: Author interview with Pete Hamill.

359
Kennedy thought the agency “was out of control”: Author interview with Dutton.

360
[Helms and McCarthy] “lunched occasionally”: Helms, 247.

361
“I touched him!”: Quoted in Hamill,
Irrational Ravings
, 264.

362
Kennedy had come to the farm workers’ aid: Quoted in Palermo, 226.

362
“His face looked like an old man’s”: Newfield,
RFK
, 283.

362
“He felt he had to ride in a convertible”: Ibid., 286.

363
“You had a little trouble with some words that time”: Ibid., 287.

363
Frankenheimer even got Bobby to talk about his suspicions: Author interview with Evans Frankenheimer.

364
“you can’t make it without that good old bitch, luck”: Quoted in Salinger,
P.S.
, 186.

364
“I suppose none of us will ever get over John Kennedy”: Goodwin, 535.

365
“Bobby and I exchanged a look”: Salinger, 196.

365
“He had arrived”: Quoted in Witcover, 257.

365
Newfield jotted down the word “liberated”: Newfield,
Somebody’s Gotta Tell It
, 205.

365
He asked Schulberg about the Watts Writers Workshop: Author interview with Newfield.

365
Dutton had decided that Kennedy should exit the back way: Author interview with Dutton.

366
“But we lost him that night”: Author interview with Joe Dolan.

366
a “long grubby area”: Hamill, 284.

366
“I’m not just a busboy”: Quoted in
Los Angeles Times
, June 1, 2003.

367
His face “had a kind of sweet acceptance to it”: Hamill, 285.

367
“an ironic smile as if he had been expecting this”: Author interview with Hamill.

367
Bobby’s last words…were “Jack, Jack”: Goodwin, 538.

368
“There’s a literary phrase—‘the room heaved’”: Croft interview with Tuttle.

368
“we both knew that he was dead”: Author interview with Goodwin.

368
Frankenheimer and his wife, Evans, were waiting in their Rolls-Royce: Author interview with Evans Frankenheimer.

369
“I have never seen as agonized a look”: Author interview with Mankiewicz.

370
The first autopsy photos…were rushed to the FBI chief: Summers,
Official and Confidential
, 424.

370
The gruesome, color autopsy pictures also found their way into the safe of James Angleton: CIA document, “Extracts from CIA History,” NARA record number 104-10301-10011.

370
“Maybe there’s no way, no way, to change this country”: Ellsberg,
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
, 220.

370
“After Bobby was shot, the lights went out for me”: Author interview with Dutton.

371
“why the unabashedly liberal Mr. Dutton…later agreed to represent the conservative Saudi Arabian government”:
Los Angeles Times
, June 28, 2005.

371
“Dick went kind of nuts”: Author interview with Newfield.

371
“I had to get away”: Author interview with Goodwin.

371
Jacqueline Kennedy…threw herself on his coffin: Author interview with Bill Rosendahl.

371
“I went through sheer hell”: Quoted in
New York Times
, July 7, 2002.

371
“He would have had no tolerance”: Author interview with Walinsky.

372
“It was
The Manchurian Candidate
”: Quoted in
People
, May 16, 1988.

372
“because we didn’t know anything about Palestinians”: Author interview with Hamill.

373
the autopsy indicated that the fatal shot was fired directly behind his head: Dr. Thomas T. Noguchi,
Coroner
, 103.

373
“I don’t believe that Sirhan’s gun got within a couple of inches of Kennedy’s head”: Author interview with Frank Burns.

373
it “all seemed to indicate there may have been a second gunman”: Noguchi, 108.

374
the Kennedys had “sold the country down the road”: Quoted in Melanson, 120.

374
“It’s none of your business”: Author interview with Lubic.

374
“Unruh talked to Kenny O’Donnell”: Author interview with Burns.

375
“There is no curse upon the Kennedys”: Tribute to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, June 7, 1968, RFK papers, JFK Library.

375
“We’ve been on an endless cycle of retreat”: Author interview with Goodwin.

376
“I was at one of those memorial events once”: Author interview with Walinksy.

9: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION

379
“we never produced any evidence that Castro was involved: Author interview with Dave Marston.

379
“we do know that Oswald had intelligence connections”: Quoted in Fonzi, 31.

379
“He was a blowtorch”: Author interview with Gary Hart.