Killing Kennedy (41 page)

Chapter 18
: The bulk of this chapter comes from newspaper accounts and from Manchester. Bradlee’s
Conversations
provides the “No profiles” quote.

Chapter 19
: Special Agent Hosty’s Warren Commission testimony provides the details about his visit to Ruth Paine.
The Kennedy White House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961–1963
, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony, provides the quotes about Arlington. It’s interesting to note that Sergeant Clark also played taps at JFK’s funeral.

Chapter 20
: Barry Paris’s
Garbo
and David Pitts’s
Jack and Lem
speak well of this forgotten night in White House history. Thank you to Camille Reisfield of Ross, California, for writing to ask if the episode would be in the book, making the authors aware of this last-ever dinner party in Camelot.

Chapter 21
: The Warren Commission and Kaiser’s
Road to Dallas
provide unique insight into the days leading up to the assassination. There is still some question as to whether Oswald was actually the shooter whom Sterling Wood witnessed, as the owner of the shooting range swore he saw Oswald there on a completely different date. The fact that a lone man was seen firing a unique Italian rifle, however, is not in doubt.

Chapter 22
: Hill, Manchester, Warren Commission testimony, and the White House Museum website.

Chapters 23 through 26
: A wide range of websites and books were used to sift through the vast number of facts surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The timing, crowd descriptions, arrival scene, and all other aspects of the shooting and drive to Parkland Hospital are standard facts. However, the primary sources for specific conversations, private moments, and otherwise particular details are
Death of a President
, the Warren Commission, Clint Hill’s fascinating
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, Vincent Bugliosi’s
Reclaiming History
, Dallek’s writings on JFK’s medical woes and on the assassination itself, and, of course, the Zapruder film. We watched it time after time after time to understand the sequence of events, and it never got less horrific—nor did the outcome ever change.

Chapter 27
: Jackie’s filmed newsreel can be found online, and her grief is still startlingly painful to watch. Any number of her biographers have briefly mentioned this taping. But it was hardly inconsequential. As with the night with Garbo, or that with the
Mona Lisa
, this event was unique and remarkable, and all too easily overlooked.

Acknowledgments

Super-agent Eric Simonoff continues to be amazingly perspicacious in both creative and business endeavors.

Makeda Wubneh, my assistant for more than twenty years, keeps all my enterprises running smoothly, not an easy task.

Also, much gratitude to my publisher Stephen Rubin, the best in the business, and to my boss at Fox News, Roger Ailes, a brilliant, fearless warrior.

—
B
ILL
O
’
R
EILLY

I would like to extend a debt of gratitude to all who made this book possible, including Steve Rubin, the rock-steady Gillian Blake, and Eric Simonoff. And, of course, much heartfelt love and thanks to Calene Dugard—muse, soul mate, and closet historian.

—
M
ARTIN
D
UGARD

Index

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Abernathy, Ralph

Adams, John

African Americans. See also civil rights movement

Alabama, University of

Amagiri (Japanese destroyer)

American Rifleman

Anderson, Rudolf, Jr.

Andrews, Julie

Arlington National Cemetery

Azcue, Eusebio

Baker, Marrion L.

Bartlett, Charles

Bastien-Thiry, Jean

Batista, Fulgencio

Baughman, U. E.

Bay of Pigs invasion

aftermath of

launched

lead-up to

Beale, Edith Bouvier

Behn, Jerry

Beirut, Lebanon

Belli, Melvin

Berger, Andy

Berlin

Jack’s speech in

Wall

Bernstein, Leonard

Bessette, Lauren

Billings, Lem

Birmingham, Alabama

Baptist Church bombing

Children’s Crusade

Blackett Strait

Boggs, Hale

Bolton, Oliver

Booth, John Wilkes

Boston Globe

Bouvier, John “Black Jack” (Jackie’s father)

Bowles, Chester

Bradlee, Ben

Bradlee, Tony

Branch, Taylor

Brandon, Henry

Brenna, Howard L.

Brigade 2506

Brown, Arnold J.

Browne, Malcolm

Brown v. Board of Education

Bryant, Carolyn

Bryant, Roy

Bumbry, Grace

Bundy, McGeorge

Burke, Arleigh

Burton, Richard

Bush, George H. W.

Callas, Maria

Camelot (musical)

Campbell, Judith

Camp David

Campion, John

Capone, Al

Carpenter, Scott

Carrico, Charles J.

Casals, Pablo

Cassini, Oleg

Castro, Fidel

assassination plots vs.

Bay of Pigs and

Cuban missile crisis and

Cuban revolution and

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

anti-Castro plots and

Bay of Pigs and

Bobby and

domestic operations and

Jack’s assassination and

Mafia and

Oswald and

Vietnam and

Cermak, Anton

Chavchavadze, Helen

Checker, Chubby

Chicago Sun-Times

Christina (Onassis yacht)

Churchill, Randolph

Churchill, Winston

Civil Rights Act (1964)

civil rights movement. See also specific events and individuals

Civil War

Civil War Centennial Commission

Clark, Keith

Clark, William Kemp

Cohen, Mickey

cold war. See also communism; Soviet Union

Collingwood, Charles

Collins, Addie Mae

communism

Connally, John

assassination attempt on

Connally, Nellie

Connor, Eugene “Bull”

Cowen, Jill

Cronkite, Walter

Crosby, Bing

Cuba

Bay of Pigs invasion

CIA covert activity in

missile crisis

Oswald and

revolution of 1959

Cuban exiles

Cuban Expeditionary Force

Curry, Jesse

Cushing, Richard

Dallas

FBI and

Jack’s assassination in

Jack’s visit planned

Stevenson in

Dallas Morning News

Dallas Police Department

D’Amato, Paul Emilio

da Vinci, Leonardo

Davis, Jefferson

Davis, Thomas

Dealey Plaza

de Gaulle, Charles

Democratic Party

elections of 1962 and

nomination of 1960

nomination of 1968

de Mohrenschildt, George

Diamond, Neil

Diem, Ngo Dinh

DiMaggio, Joe

Dugard, Alan

Dugger, Ronnie

Dulles, Allen

Dumphy, Chris

Ebbins, Milt

Edwards, Robert

Eisenhower, Dwight

Eisenhower, Mamie

elections

of 1960

of 1962

of 1964

of 1968

of 1972

Elizabeth II, queen of England

Emancipation Proclamation

Esquire

Essex, USS (aircraft carrier)

Evers, Medgar

Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm)

Fain, John

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

civil rights movement and

Jack investigated by

Jack’s assassination and

Mafia and

Monroe and

Onassis and

Oswald and

Feminine Mystique, The (Friedan)

Ferguson, Anne

Finnerty, Frank

Fischer, Ronald

Fischetti, Joe

Fischetti, Rocco

Formosa, John

Foster, Bob

Frazier, Wesley

Frederickson, Cora

Freedom Riders

French, Daniel Chester

Friedan, Betty

Frost, Robert

Fulbright, William

Gadsden, Walter

Garbo, Greta

Garfield, James

Garner, John Nance

Georgia, University of

Giancana, Sam

Goldwater, Barry

Goodwin, Richard

Goulet, Robert

Graham, Billy

Grant, Ulysses S.

Greer, William

Gromyko, Andrei

Guatemala

Hannah, John A.

Harding, Warren G.

Harrison, William Henry

Hatfield, Robert Edward

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Hemingway, Ernest

Herter, Christian

“Hidell, A. J.” (Oswald alias)

Hill, Clint

Hiroshima

Historic Automotive Attractions Museum

Hobson, Valerie

Holden, William

Hoover, J. Edgar

civil rights leaders and

Jack and

Jack’s assassination and

Monroe and

Hosty, James, Jr.

Hudson, Bill

Hughes, Sarah

India

Ireland

“Irish Mafia”

Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, Michael

Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall firm

Japan

Jefferson, Thomas

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

Johnson, Lady Bird

Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Bay of Pigs and

Bobby and