JFK & the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters (130 page)

[
615
]. Telephone interview with Dr. David Vanek by Tim Wray/ARRB, November 4, 1996. Notes by Tim Wray and Chris Barger. Reproduced at the National Archives.

[
616
]. Ibid.

[
617
]. Ibid.

[
618
]. Ibid.

[
619
]. “David Vance Vanek: CURRICULUM VITAE; Military Employment.” Reproduced at the National Archives.

[
620
]. Ibid.

[
621
]. Telephone interview with Dr. David Vanek by Tim Wray/ARRB.

[
622
]. Author’s interview of Marcus Raskin, January 28, 2006.

[
623
]. Alsop, “Kennedy’s Grand Strategy,” p. 14 (Alsop’s emphasis in original).

[
624
]. Reeves,
President Kennedy: Profile of Power,
pp. 230-31.

[
625
]. “Memorandum on World Order and Disarmament: Submitted to President John F. Kennedy by Representatives of the Friends Witness for World Order,” May 1, 1962. Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

[
626
].
Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1961
, “Address in New York City before the General Assembly of the United Nations,” September 25, 1961 (Washington: U.S Government Printing Office, 1961), p. 620.

[
627
]. “The McCloy/Zorin Agreement,” in Schotz,
History Will Not Absolve Us
, p. 257.

[
628
]. Kai Bird,
The Chairman: John J. McCloy; The Making of the American Establishment
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 515.

[
629
]. “Visit of Six Friends to President John F. Kennedy on behalf of Friends Witness for World Order, May 1, 1962,” p. 1. The Quaker Collection, Haverford College.

[
630
]. Ibid.

[
631
]. Schlesinger,
Thousand Days
, p. 88.

[
632
]. Ibid.

[
633
]. “Visit of Six Friends,” p. 2. Also Henry J. Cadbury, “Friends with Kennedy in the White House,”
Friendly Heritage: Letters from the Quaker Past
(Norwalk, Conn.: Silvermine Publishers, 1972), p. 278.

[
634
]. E. Raymond Wilson,
Uphill for Peace: Quaker Impact on Congress
(Richmond, Ind.: Friends United Press, 1975), p. 79.

[
635
]. “Visit of Six Friends,” p. 3.

[
636
]. Ibid.

[
637
]. Author’s interview of David Hartsough, January 18, 2006.

[
638
]. Cadbury, “Friends with Kennedy,” p. 278.

[
639
]. “Quakers Appeal to Kennedy,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
(May 2, 1962). Swarthmore Peace Collection.

[
640
]. Sam and Miriam Levering,
Quaker Peacemakers
(self-published), p. 35. From the Papers and Writings of Samuel Levering, Guildford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. The Quakers’ allotted fifteen minutes with the president had been scheduled for 10:15 a.m. When the meeting’s beginning was delayed fifteen minutes, they wondered if it would simply be canceled. Instead, Kennedy extended their time with him to twenty minutes. “Visit of Six Friends,” p. 1.

[
641
]. Margaret Hope Bacon,
Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987), p. 192. George Willoughby and David Hartsough also remembered hearing this remark by John Kennedy to Henry Cadbury. April 25, 2006, conference call on the Friends’ May 1, 1962, visit to Kennedy: interview by Jim Douglass of the three surviving members of the delegation, David Hartsough, Edward Snyder, and George Willoughby. Hartsough, Snyder, and Willoughby gave me permission to cite from their confidential report on their visit to President Kennedy, as preserved in the Quaker Collection, Haverford College.

[
642
]. Author’s interview of David Hartsough, January 18, 2006.

[
643
]. Dorothy Hutchinson, as recorded on audiotaped report, “Visit of Six Quakers to President Kennedy, May 1, 1962: Dorothy Hutchinson, Edward Snyder, David Hartsough, George Willoughby, Henry Cadbury, Samuel Levering. Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

[
644
]. George Willoughby, as recorded on “Visit of Six Quakers.”

[
645
]. Author’s interview of Edward Snyder, January 24, 2006.

[
646
]. Author’s interview of Marcus Raskin, January 28, 2006.

[
647
]. Marcus Raskin, “
JFK
and the Culture of Violence,”
American Historical Review
(April 1992), p. 497.

[
648
]. Jerome B. Wiesner, Memorandum for the President, December 4, 1962. Papers of President Kennedy, National Security Files, JFK Library.

[
649
]. National Security Council, “Organization and Membership of the Committee of Principals,” April 1963. National Security Files, Box 267, JFK Library.

[
650
]. “National Security Action Memorandum No. 239,” May 6, 1963.
Foreign Relations of the United
States, 1961-1963, Volume VII: Arms Control and Disarmament
(Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), p. 692 (emphasis added).

[
651
]. Author’s interview of Marcus Raskin, February 15, 2006.

[
652
].
Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963
, “Commencement Address at American University in Washington,” June 10, 1963, p. 463.

[
653
]. Sorensen,
Kennedy
, p. 518.

[
654
]. O’Donnell and Powers,
“Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye,”
p. 381.

[
655
]. Ibid.

[
656
]. Sorensen,
Kennedy
, p. 742.

[
657
]. New Orleans Secret Service Report, “List of books obtained by Lee Harvey Oswald from New Orleans Public Library,” Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2650.
WCH
, vol. 25, p. 930.

[
658
]. Ibid.

[
659
]. Ibid. Also Priscilla Johnson McMillan,
Marina and Lee
(New York: Bantam Books, 1977), p. 457.

[
660
]. McMillan,
Marina and Lee
, pp. 444-45. Marina Oswald had said, from the weekend of the assassination onward, that her husband had only a positive attitude toward President Kennedy. In an initial, tape-recorded interview by the Secret Service on Sunday evening, November 24, 1963, she was asked through an interpreter, Peter Paul Gregory, “what Lee’s feelings were for President Kennedy.” She answered: “This is the truth. Lee never spoke bad about President Kennedy.”

It was for this reason that Marina Oswald was certain her husband “would not have been shooting at President Kennedy . . . Lee had nothing against President Kennedy.”

She was asked again through the interpreter how she knew that. “She said this, that Lee expressed to her that Kennedy was a good President.” Transcript of Marina Oswald interview, November 24, 1963, at Inn of the Six Flags, Arlington, Texas, pp. 41, 43. Warren Commission Document 344. David S. Lifton,
Document Addendum to the Warren Report
(El Segundo, Calif.: Sightext Publications, 1968), pp. 331, 333.

[
661
]. Ibid., p. 444.

[
662
].
Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963
, “Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” July 26, 1963, p. 603.

[
663
]. McMillan,
Marina and Lee
, p. 444.

[
664
]. Ibid., p. 445.

[
665
]. Letter from Eugene Murret to Lee Harvey Oswald, July 6, 1963, Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2648.
WCH
, vol. 25, p. 919.

[
666
]. As soon as Jesuit scholastic Robert J. Fitzpatrick of Spring Hill College heard that Oswald had been arrested as a suspect in President Kennedy’s assassination, he obtained the written impressions of his fellow Jesuit seminarians who had attended Oswald’s July 27 talk. He then typed up a five-page summary of Oswald’s speech, as the seminarians recalled it.

Describing his three years living in Russia, Oswald had spoken about his work in a factory in Minsk, life in Russian villages, and the workers’ attitudes toward him as an American. Oswald summed up his own position on the U.S. and Soviet systems by saying, “Capitalism doesn’t work, communism doesn’t work. In the middle is socialism and that doesn’t work either.” Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2649.
WCH
, vol. 25, p. 926.