Just Jackie (51 page)

The description of RFK as “in a trance” after the assassination is drawn from William Manchester’s
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism
(Little, Brown, 1976).

Murray Kempton’s verdict on the relationship between RFK and JFK is drawn from Laurence Learner’s
The Kennedy Women
(Villard Books, 1994).

The narrative in the “Mister Manchester” section is derived primarily from the author’s interview with Don Congdon, William Manchester’s literary agent, and from William Manchester’s
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism
(Little, Brown, 1976).

In “Disguises and Smiles,” the description of Jackie’s apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue is drawn from the author’s eyewitness notes based on his personal visits there on two separate occasions, and from articles that appeared in
The Washington Post
, May 26, 1994, and in
House Beautiful
, September 1994. Other published sources include Lester David’s
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Birch Lane Press, 1994) and Frieda Kramer’s
Jackie
(Award Books, 1975).

Nancy Tuckerman’s stories about going apartment-hunting with Jackie disguised as a nanny, and of the day Jackie moved into 1040 Fifth Avenue, are contained in “A Personal Reminiscence” from Sotheby’s 1996 auction catalog,
The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
.

Jackie’s letter to Jim Bishop dated September 17, 1964, appears in Manchester’s
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism
.

Details about Jackie’s contributions to Robert Kennedy’s Senate campaign are recounted in Jerry Oppenheimer’s biography of Ethel Kennedy,
The Other Mrs. Kennedy
(St. Martin’s Press, 1994).

The background information on Jackie and Oliver Smith that forms the basis for “Lessons in Self-Improvement” was derived from numerous interviews by the author and a research assistant with Richard D’Arcy, Smith’s friend and companion; Lloyd Burlingame, former chair of the New York University Tisch School Department of Design, who co-taught an advanced stage design class with Smith for twenty-two years; Aileen Mehle, the columnist “Suzy”; and Kitty Carlisle Hart.

Principal published sources include Lloyd Burlingame’s “The Design Department of the Tisch School of Arts: A Chronology from the Perspective of the Chair 1971–1996”; “Remembering Oliver,” a tribute to Oliver Smith compiled by American Ballet Theatre; Gerald Clarke’s
Capote
(Simon & Schuster, 1988); Truman Capote’s
Answered Prayers
(Random House, 1987); Charles Payne’s
American Ballet Theatre
(Knopf, 1978); Bob Cola-cello’s
Holy Terror
(HarperCollins, 1990); Charles Kaiser’s
The Gay Metropolis
(Houghton Mifflin, 1997); George Plimpton’s
Truinan Capote
(Doubleday, 1997); Oliver Smith’s obituary,
The New York Times
, January 25, 1994; and a series of five articles by Liz Smith titled “Jackie Comes Off Her Pedestal,” which appeared first in the
New York World Journal Tribune
(December 1966-January 1967) and later in
Cosmopolitan
.

The details of Jackie and her sister Lee Radziwill’s sibling rivalry that appear in “You Can’t Know One without the Other” are derived from a series of interviews by the author with Kitty Carlisle Hart. The party is described in Charlotte Curtis’s “The Radziwills Give a ‘Teeny, Tiny Party’—for 100 Guests,”
The New York Times
, April 21, 1965. Lee’s apartment is also described in Mark Hampton’s
Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century
(Doubleday, 1992), a book that was edited by Jackie.

Primary published sources for this section include George Carpozi’s
The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy
(Pyramid Books, 1967); Diana DuBois’s
In Her Sister’s Shadow
(Little, Brown, 1995); C. David Heymann’s
A Woman Named Jackie
(Lyle Stuart, 1989); Irving Shulman’s
“Jackie”!
(Trident Press, 1970); the aforementioned Liz Smith articles; Laura Bergquist’s “Jacqueline Kennedy Goes Public,”
Look
, March 22, 1966; and Aileen Mehle’s “The Jackie I Knew,”
Good Housekeeping
, September 1994.

Jackie’s explanation of why she did not vote in the 1964 election comes from the Jacqueline Onassis oral history located in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.

The material included in “Audition” was derived primarily from the author’s interviews with Kitty Carlisle Hart. Primary published sources include Clarke’s
Capote
and DuBois’s
In Her Sisters Shadow
.

The story about Caroline’s mouse was told by Teresa Gorman in the London
Mail on Sunday
, May 22, 1994.

The story of Jackie’s romantic involvement with the architect John Carl Wamecke comes from a series of extended interviews that the author conducted with Mr. Warnecke himself. Other interviews were conducted with Marion Javits, Robin Duke, Paul Goldberger, and several sources who wish to remain anonymous.

Details of Jack Warnecke’s involvement with JFK’s memorial and with Lafayette Square come from a number of articles: Benjamin Forgey’s “The Well-Rounded Square; Lafayette, Absorbing Change with Grace,”
The Washington Post
, January 29, 1994; “John Carl Warnecke: An Athletic Architect,” from the
New York Times
“Man in the News” column, October 7, 1964; Ada Louise Huxtable’s “Design Dilemma: The Kennedy Grave,” in
The New York Times
, November 29, 1964; and Sarah Booth Conroy’s “Preserving Lafayette Square,” in
The Washington Post
, May 26, 1994.

The material in “Dumping the Secret Service” and “A Cottage in the Woods” comes from the author’s extensive interviews with John Carl Warnecke.

Details of Jackie’s arrival in Hawaii were drawn from “4,000 Turn Out at Airport to Greet Jackie, Children,” from the
Honolulu Advertiser
, June 6, 1966.

Information about Jackie’s frame of mind at this time comes from Liz Smith’s series of articles entitled “Jackie Comes Off Her Pedestal,” which appeared in the
New York World Journal Tribune
in December 1966—January 1967.

Descriptions of the party Jackie threw for John Kenneth Galbraith come from an interview with William vanden Heuvel and an article in
Time
, October 1, 1965.

Details about Jackie’s visit to Spain were derived from newspaper clippings and letters written by Jackie to Angier Biddle Duke when he was ambassador to Spain, which are housed in the Angier B. Duke special collections, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.

Jackie calls Angier Biddle Duke her “knight in armor” in an undated letter (later marked “probably April 1966”) from Jackie to Duke, which is contained in the A.B. Duke files at Duke University.

Primary published sources for the section on Jackie in Spain come from George Carpozi’s
The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy
(Pyramid Books, 1967);
Time
magazine, April 29, 1966; and numerous newspaper articles, including
The Washington Post
, April 4, 1966;
The New York Times
, April 20, 1966;
Times-Post Services
, March 28, 1966; and
The Record American
, Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 1966.

The narrative of Jackie’s visit to Hawaii is drawn primarily from interviews with John Carl Warnecke; with Henry J. Kaiser’s son Michael Kaiser and Michael’s wife, Betsy Kaiser, and with Richard Goodwin.

Primary published sources for this section include James Spada’s
Peter Lawford
(Bantam, 1991) and a number of articles that appeared in June and
July of 1966 in
The New York Times
, the
Honolulu Advertiser
, and the
Star-Bulletin
.

Jackie’s letter to the editors of the
Honolulu Advertiser
and the
Star-Bulletin
, thanking them for preserving her privacy during her Hawaiian vacation, appears in “Jackie Thanks Hawaii for Aloha,” the
Honolulu Advertiser
, July 24, 1966.

Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser’s story about John Kennedy Jr. appears in “John-John Kennedy Now Just Plain John,”
The New York Times
, July 24, 1966.

The words to the song “Tiny Bubbles in the Wine” were written by Leon Pober; the music was composed by Leon Pober.

Details in the section “Out of Control” about Mike Cowles’s trip to Hyannis Port to meet with Jackie about the
Look
serialization of Manchester’s book come from an interview with William Attwood,
Look
editor in chief at the time. The interview is housed in the Columbia University Oral History Project. Published sources for this section include Stephen Birmingham’s
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1978) and George Carpozi’s
The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy
(Pyramid Books, 1967).

William Manchester recounted the details in “Us Against Them” in his book
Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism
(Little, Brown, 1976).

The section “Taking Care of Business” is drawn from a series of interviews by the author with John Carl Warnecke.

Lloyd Shearer’s article “Jackie Kennedy, World’s Most Eligible Widow—Will She Marry Again?” appeared in
Parade
, December 4, 1966.

Published sources for “Acting on Her Own” include John Corry’s
The Manchester Affair
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967) and Cass Canfield’s
Up and Down and Around
(Harper & Row, 1971). Periodical sources include James Reston’s “The Death of Camelot” column,
The New York Times
, December 18, 1966, and Theodore White’s letter to the editor,
The New York Times
, December 19, 1966.

The letters between Jackie and LBJ regarding the Manchester affair are housed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.

The narrative of Jackie’s first trip on the
Christina
was derived in part from the author’s interview with Robert White, premier collector of Kennedy memorabilia. Mr. White shared details of unpublished memos and letters by both JFK and Jackie from this time period. Other material that appears in the section “An Unabashed Love Letter” appeared in the author’s previous book,
All Too Human
(Pocket Books, 1996).

Primary published sources used in compiling the story of Aristotle Onassis’s previous life and his entry into Jackie’s include Frank Brady’s
Onassis
(Prentice-Hall, 1977); Christian Cafarakis’s
The Fabulous Onassis
(William Morrow, 1972); L. J. Davis’s
Onassis
(St. Martin’s Press, 1986); Nigel Dempster’s
Heiress
(Grove Weidenfeld, 1989); Peter Evans’s
Ari
(Summit
Books, 1986);
Aristotle Onassis
(Lippincott, 1977), written by Nicholas Fraser et al.; Willi Frischauer’s
Onassis
(Meredith Press, 1968); Doris Lilly’s
Those Fabulous Greeks
(Cowles, 1970); and William Wright’s
All the Pain That Money Can Buy
(Simon & Schuster, 1991).

The narrative in the section “Typical Jackie” was derived from a published interview with a friend of the Onassis family who wished to remain anonymous.

The portrait of Jackie and Ari’s courtship is drawn chiefly from extensive interviews that were conducted by the author during several trips to Greece. Among those interviewed were Costa Anastassiadis, captain of the yacht
Christina’
, Stefanos Daroussos, the yacht’s chief engineer; Niki Goulandris, a close personal friend of Jackie’s; and Stelio Papadimitriou, Onassis’s second-in-command.

An interview with Robert McNamara was the source for the reactions of Andre Meyer and McNamara to the marriage of Jackie and Ari.

Primary published sources for this chapter include Frank Brady’s
Onassis
(Prentice-Hall, 1977), Lester David’s
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
(Birch Lane Press, 1994), John H. Davis’s
The Bouviers
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969), Peter Evans’s
Ari
(Summit Books, 1986), Frieda Kramer’s
Jackie
(Grosset & Dunlap, 1979), Jerry Oppenheimer’s
The Other Mrs. Kennedy
(St. Martin’s Press, 1994), Jean Stein and George Plimpton’s
American Journey
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970), and William Wright’s
All the Pain That Money Can Buy
(Simon & Schuster, 1991).

Direct quotas from Vivian Crespi, Roswell Gilpatric, Karl Katz, and Lady Bird Johnson appear in Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s
As We Remember Her
(HarperCollins, 1997).

The words to the song “Little Green Apples” were written by Bobby Russell; the music was written by Bobby Russell.

Details about Christina and Alexander Onassis in the section “The Perfect Match,” about the Onassis wedding in the section “Esiah’s Dance,” and about the reception and honeymoon in the section “A Special Surprise” were drawn from anonymous sources and from newspaper articles published at the time.

The account of the prenuptial negotiations and final agreement between Jackie and Ari comes from extensive interviews with Stelio Papadimitriou.

In order to re-create Jackie’s life on Skorpios the author relied on numerous interviews with eyewitnesses such as Costa Anastassiadis, captain of the yacht
Christina;
Stefanos Daroussos, chief engineer of the
Christina’
, Niki
Goulandris, Jackie’s good friend; and Paul Leonard, Jackie’s decorator on Skorpios.

Primary published sources for life on Skorpios include Carl Sferrazza Anthony’s
As We Remember Her
(HarperCollins, 1997), Billy Baldwin’s
Billy Baldwin Remembers
(Harcourl Brace Jovanovich, 1974), Peter Evans’s
Ari
(Summit Books, 1986),
Aristotle Onassis
by Nicholas Fraser et al. (Lippincott, 1977), C. David Heymann’s
A Woman Named Jackie
(Lyle Stuart, 1989), and Kitty Kelley’s
Jackie Oh!
(Lyle Stuart, 1979).