Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (82 page)

cember 18, 1994), Rupert Allan (March 13, 1995), and Ralph Roberts (March 2, 1992), by Donald Spoto, all from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Library; “The Legend of Marilyn Monroe,” ABC-TV, 1967;
Mon- roe’s Last Picture Show,
by Walter Bernstein; “Marilyn Monroe: A Serious Blonde Who Can Act,”
Look,
October 23, 1951; “Nine Kennedys and How They Grew,” by Jerome Beatty,
Readers Digest,
April 1939; “Kennedys in Holly- wood” (E-Channel), includes interviews with Barbara Gib- son, Paul Fay, Oleg Cassini, John Davis, and Lynn Franklin;
Joan Rivers Show,
1992, special on the Kennedy women, with John Davis, Cindy Adams, Barbara Gibson; James Bacon (column),
Beverly Hills 213,
August 26, 1998.

Joseph’s Stroke; At Horizon House; The Walking Cane; Life at the Hyannis Port Compound; The Fourth of July in Hyannis Port, 1962

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Barbara Gibson, Elliot Newman, Steven Silas, Betty LeRoy Thom- son, Peter Dilliard, Frank Mankiewicz, Stephen Webb, Inez Foxworthy, Sheridan Bonswell, Patricia Moran, David Pow- ers (questionnaire), Joe Gargan (questionnaire), and George Smathers.

Volumes consulted:
The Kennedy Case,
by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe;
Living with the Kennedys,
by Marcia Chellis;
Kennedy,
by Jacques Lowe;
Torn Lace Curtain,
by Frank Saunders;
Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets,
by James Spada;
The Peter Lawford Story,
by Pat Seaton Lawford;
The Kennedy Women,
by Laurence Leamer;
Times to Remember,
by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy;
The Sins of the Father,
by Ronald Kessler;
Seeds of Destruction,
by Ralph G. Martin;
Rose,
by Gail Cameron;
Life with Rose Kennedy,
by Barbara Gibson and Caroline Latham;
Jackie after Jack,
by Christopher Andersen;
Among Those Present,
by Nancy Dickerson;
My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy,
by Evelyn Lincoln.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: transcript of Frank Saunders interview by Jeffrey Stephenson (from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences), “Joseph Kennedy: A Life” (MGM video); “Jackie Onassis” (APB Video).

Joan’s Many
Faux Pas;
Pat Finds Jackie “So Insecure”; Marilyn Monroe’s Death; Jackie Goes Away to Think

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Helen Thomas, James Bacon, Nunziata Lisi, Patricia Brennan, John Bates, Leah Mason, George Smathers, Pierre Salinger, and Gore Vidal.

Volumes consulted:
Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy,
by David Lester;
My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy,
by Mary Barelli Gallagher;
Marilyn: The Last Six Months,
by Eunice Murray with Rose Shade;
The Kennedys in Hollywood,
by Lawrence Quirk;
The Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe,
by Robert F. Slatzer;
Marilyn: The Last Take,
by
Peter
Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham;
The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood,
by Ezra Goodman;
Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?,
by Charles Hamblett;
From under My Hat,
by Hedda Hopper;
Hollywood’s Unsolved Mysteries,
by John Austin;
The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe,
by Frank A. Capell;
Marilyn Monroe,
by George Carpozi;
RFK: The Man Who Would Be President,
by Ralph De Toledano;
Mar- ilyn Monroe Story,
by Joe Franklin and Laurie Palmer;
Con- fessions of a Hollywood Columnist,
by Sheila Graham;
Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Love Hollywood,
by Sidney Skolsky. Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: James Brady in
Parade
magazine, January 1999; notes, transcripts, and correspondence between Bobby and Ted Kennedy and original manuscript of
What Makes Teddy Run,
by William Peters, in
Redbook,
obtained from the Kennedy Library, by James Spada; the Hedda Hopper Col- lection (of published and unpublished columns with notes)

housed in the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences; “JFK’s Women,”
Time,
December 22, 1975; “The Kennedys in California,”
Los An- geles Times,
March 23–28, 1962; the 1982 report of the Los Angeles district attorney on the reinvestigation of Marilyn Monroe’s death; “The Bobby Kennedy Connection,”
New York Post,
1986; Justice Department memorandum of Au- gust 20, 1962, quoting Robert Kennedy on his relationship with Marilyn Monroe (he denied it was anything more than passing); “The Bobby–Marilyn Affair,”
National Review,
August 1988; “Camelot after Dark,” by Paul Chin, Joe Treen, and Karen S. Schneider,
People,
May 27, 1991.

A note regarding the
Redbook
story: Bobby found a myr- iad of problems—at least a dozen—with the feature that Ted hadn’t noted, none of which had anything to do with Joan. For instance, a college roommate of Ted’s, Ted Carey, re- called at the time that he (Carey) wasn’t doing well in school and mentioned to Kennedy that he’d give anything to chuck it all and take off for Africa. Ted encouraged his friend’s whim and, daring him, offered to buy both of them a one- way first-class ticket to Cairo for a trip that would com- mence immediately after Carey’s final exam. They made the bet, but Ted never thought Carey would follow up on it. However, Carey called Ted’s bluff and, after the final exam, sent word to Ted that he was on his way to Boston’s Logan Airport. Much to Ted’s surprise, Carey got on a plane headed to New York, en route to Cairo. Ted got cold feet and had Carey paged at the New York airport and told him that he had stopped payment on the check for the tickets because he’d changed his mind. Instead, he paid for Carey to spend a weekend in New York, as a consolation prize. The writer observed, “I think the main reason Teddy backed down was

if Carey didn’t get back in time to register for the new term, the story might get in the newspapers. His father has always had almost an obsession about keeping the family name out of the papers in affairs like this, and Teddy knew it.” Of that and other stories from Carey, Bobby wrote: “I would also tell him [author] that you are not enthusiastic about the sto- ries from Ted Carey. Tell him the story about the canceled check is not accurate. Perhaps with a smile, you can get him to eliminate the whole thing.”

A note regarding Frank Sinatra’s investigation into Mari- lyn Monroe’s death: Says Thomas DiBella, a former under- world 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, any- way?” added Dominic Santori, also once a friend of Sina- tra’s. “Have a press conference and spill the beans? Frank Sinatra? Not likely. But I know he always had a great dis- taste 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 His- tories, 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 An- drew Martinelli.

Volumes consulted:
Dark Side of Camelot,
by Seymour Hersh;
A Very Private Woman,
by Nina Burleigh;
Conversa- tions 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 con-

sulted: Secret Service logs from White House and John Kennedy Library; comments by Candy Jones, Gerald Do- herty, 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 Smath- ers);
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 His- tories, 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;
Hid- den Hollywood,
by Richard Lamparski;
Kennedy: A Time Remembered,
by Jacques Lowe;
Controversy and Other Es- says 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 con- sulted: 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 His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Jim Ketchum, Pierre Salinger, George Smathers, Chuck Spald- ing, 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 Fam- ily,
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 Oppen- heimer;
Onassis,
by Willi Frischauer;
The Fabulous Onas- sis,
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;
Onas- sis,
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.