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JPK’s Hollywood career and, 98–99, 102, 103–4, 105

and JPK’s return to Washington after ambassadorship, 490–94

JPK’s romance with, 19–21, 29–30, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40

JPK’s stroke and, 777, 778, 779, 781, 782, 783, 786

Kathleen’s death and, 621, 623

Kathleen’s marriage and, 553, 562, 563, 564–65, 566

and Kathleen’s relationship with Fitzwilliam, 620

marital relationship of, 47–48, 76–77, 86, 146–47, 163–64, 241, 379–80, 610–11

marriage and honeymoon of, 34, 36, 40, 41–42, 48, 65

Merchandise Mart and, 611–12, 693

Model T and, 45–46

Robert’s assassination and, 787

Rosemary’s difficulties and, 90, 152, 265–66, 451, 532, 533, 534, 536–37

at school, 28, 106

Swanson compared with, 110

on Swope, 174

trusts and, 92, 194, 586

vacations of, 86–87, 194, 214, 222, 325–26, 336, 344–45, 369, 681

World War II outbreak and, 407

Kennedy, Rose Marie “Rosemary” (daughter), 56–57, 62, 126, 194, 222–24, 264–67, 333, 419, 424–26, 435, 447, 457, 463, 526–27, 532–37, 547, 584, 586, 610, 668, 712, 738, 765, 786

behavior change of, 532–33

birth of, 57

childhood of, 90, 151

at Craig House, 535–36, 547, 584, 628–29

in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 297, 298

glandular treatments of, 223–24, 242, 264

at Helen Newton’s, 222–23, 242, 264

lobotomy of, xxiii, 535–37, 589, 630–31, 683, 691

mental and social difficulties of, xxiii, 90, 151–52, 153–54, 201, 222–23, 242, 266, 379, 422, 425, 534, 536, 696

Miss Gibbs as companion of, 410, 411, 419, 426, 435

and outbreak of World War II, 410

at St. Coletta, 628–31, 695

schooling of, 106, 149, 152–54, 162, 222, 264–66, 297, 379, 410–11, 451, 526, 532–33

separation from family, 425–26, 631

worries about, 266, 425, 533–34, 631

Kennedy Child Study Center, 755–56

Kennedy family:

cameras and, 665

during Depression years, 168–69, 170

French villa of, 679, 680–81, 689, 770

Hyannis Port home of, 92, 99, 126, 132–33, 190, 220, 247, 248, 263–64, 266, 678–79, 719, 766–67, 782, 786

Irish roots of, 4

last group photograph of, 750–51

move from Boston to New York, 105–6, 113

Palm Beach home of, 189;
see also
Palm Beach, Fla.

trusts for, 91–92, 131, 155, 170, 194, 528–29, 586, 587, 612

wealth of, 15

Kenny, Thomas, 38

Kent, Duke of, 294, 378

Kent, Frank, 236, 245, 317, 355

Kent, Sidney, 75

Kent, Tyler, 444–47, 468

Keogh, Eugene, 729

Kerrigan, John, 593

Khrushchev, Nikita, 745–46

Killian, James R., Jr., 699

Kintner, Robert, 431–32, 481, 500, 501, 505

Kirk, Alan, 528

Kirstein, Louis, 111, 301

Klemmer, Harvey, 269, 299, 474

Knebel, Fletcher, 721–22

Knickerbocker, H. R., 199

Knight, Maxwell, 444, 445

Knox, Frank, 459–60, 493

Knudsen, William, 511

Korea, 654

Korean War, 632–33, 634–35, 637

Edward Kennedy and, 648

JFK’s views on, 658

JPK’s views on, 636, 637, 660

Kravis, Henry, 692

Kravis, Raymond, 692–93

Kristallnacht,
359–60, 361

Krock, Arthur, 215, 238, 240, 256, 261, 268, 269, 273, 291, 314, 317, 319, 321, 355, 482, 492, 500, 525, 541, 566, 583, 599, 601, 615, 637, 659, 662, 687, 690, 705

background of, 211

Fortune
article and, 262–63

I’m for Roosevelt
and, 247, 256

JFK’s Harvard thesis and, 212, 435–36

JFK’s presidential campaign and, 727–28

JPK’s alliance with, 211, 316, 367

on JPK’s ambassadorship, 395–96

JPK’s interviews with, 211, 606

JPK’s presidential ambitions and, 316, 318, 327–28

JPK proposed as envoy to Ireland by, 506–7

JPK’s relationship with, 211–12, 236

New York Times
editor-in-chief position and, 316

on Roosevelt, 197

on Roosevelt’s relationship with JPK, 229

Kuhn, Ferdinand, Jr., 284, 362

labor, 229, 232, 260, 504

maritime, 261–62, 267–69, 278–79, 284

1960 presidential election and, 753

racketeering and, 710–11

Labour Party, 484

Laemmle, Carl, 74, 94

La Follette, Philip, 382

Lait, Jack, 604

Lakewood, 248

Lamont, Thomas, 319–20, 507

Land, Emory Scott, 543–44

Landis, James, 216, 217, 247, 543, 614–15, 635, 653, 659, 662, 663, 666, 671, 687, 742, 769

death of, 770

tax problems of, 769–70

Landon, Alfred M., 250, 531

Lansky, Meyer, 80

Laos, 756

Laski, Harold, 198, 200, 202, 203, 224, 128, 390, 484

Lasky, Jesse, 94, 100, 101, 107, 110, 139–40

Lawford, Christopher, 678

Lawford, Patricia Kennedy (daughter), 90, 113, 126, 243, 264, 266–67, 325, 423, 457, 463, 490, 560, 602, 646, 654, 667, 695, 719, 762

birth of, 90

education of, 526, 527, 547

in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 286, 297, 298

Hartington’s death and, 573

JPK’s stroke and, 776, 778, 779

Kathleen’s death and, 621

marriage of, 585, 678

work life of, 585

World War II and, 410

Lawford, Peter, 695, 730, 762, 778

Patricia Kennedy’s marriage to, 585, 678

Lawler, Anna, 160–61

Lawrence, Charles, 223–24

Lawrence, David, 729

League of Nations, 176, 199, 258, 290, 361

Leaming, Barbara, 622

LeBaron, Bill, 116

Lee, Raymond E., 460, 467, 473, 501

Leffingwell, Russell, 67

LeFrak, Sam, 778

LeHand, Missy, 191, 244–45, 247, 366, 416, 480, 490, 492, 493, 542–43

Lehár, Franz, 155

lend-lease program, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525

Lenglen, Suzanne, 97

Leonard, Dutch, 56

Lerner, Max, 356

Lewin, Charles J., 666

Lewis, Duffy, 728

Lewis, John L., 260, 319

Libbey-Owens-Ford Company, 192, 210, 262–63

Liberty,
314

Liberty Loans, 54

Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Home, 627–28

Life,
313, 432, 519, 561, 615, 637, 739, 752, 774

JPK’s article in, 599–602, 604–5

Lincoln, Evelyn, 771

Lincoln Center, 773

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 300, 338–39, 377

Lindbergh, Charles A., 102, 266, 300, 306, 338–40, 357, 360, 369, 418, 427, 503, 514

Lindley, Ernest, 658

Lindsay, Ronald, 338, 363, 364, 372

Lippmann, Walter, 198, 211, 317, 356–57, 367, 394, 434, 637

Lipstadt, Deborah, 360

liquor:

JPK bootlegging stories, 71, 79–81

JPK’s Somerset Importers business, 192–94, 245, 528–29, 611, 720

Prohibition and, 79, 191, 192, 193

Literary Digest,
236

Lloyd, Harold, 110

Lloyd George, David, 433

lobotomy, 534–35

of Rosemary Kennedy, xxiii, 535–37, 589, 630–31, 683, 691

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 11

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 545, 604, 607, 639, 641, 656

JFK’s Senate campaign against, 652, 656, 657–58, 661, 662–70, 741–42

Loew, Marcus, 94, 100, 101, 103

Logevall, Fredrik, 600

London
Evening Standard,
377

London Monetary and Economic Conference, 191

London School of Economics, 198–99, 239

Long, Breckinridge, 199, 410, 446, 447, 482, 496, 497, 508, 509

Long, Huey, 230, 231, 235

Lonsdale, Frederick, 376, 554

Look,
655, 721–22, 724

Looker, Earle, 262–63

Los Angeles Examiner,
96

Los Angeles Times,
116, 120, 122–23, 125, 128, 130, 136, 364, 369, 506, 513, 737

Lothian, Philip Kerr, Lord, 411–12, 416–17, 427–28, 465, 466, 483, 506, 507, 509

Lowell, Abbott, 61

Lowell, Ralph, 24

Luce, Clare Boothe, 299, 379–80, 432, 433, 435, 436, 463, 464, 469, 489, 494, 544–45, 554, 555, 568, 615, 703

Luce, Henry, 299, 300, 379, 380, 519, 580, 637, 739–40

Lusitania,
44–45

Lyons, Louis, 497–500, 503, 514

MacArthur, Douglas, 635, 658

MacDonald, Malcolm, 358, 361, 362, 365, 371, 390

MacDonald, Torbert, 379, 595, 677–78, 708

Mack, Roy, 693

Mackay, Ellin, 249

Mailer, Norman, 762

Maine and New Hampshire Theatre Company, 91, 94, 120

Maisky, Ivan, 484

Maltz, Albert, 730–31

Manhattan,
S.S., 284

Manhattanville College, 695

Mao Zedong, 636

Marion, Frances, 96, 102

Maritime Commission, 315, 343, 409, 543–44

congressional report of, 269–70

establishment of, 259

JPK as chairman of, xxi, 80, 255–56, 258–59, 261–62, 264, 267–70, 272, 276, 277, 278–79, 296, 544

maritime industry, 258–59

labor practices and disputes in, 261–62, 267–69, 278–79, 284

Mark Twain Journal,
731

Marsh, Ollie, 121

Marshall, George, 616, 674

Marshall, Tully, 138

Marshall Plan, 616–17, 618, 636

Martin, Joe, 616

Martin, Mary Jane, 213

Martin, Samuel Klump, III, 213

Marwood mansion, 213–15, 228–29, 245, 273

Marx, Groucho, 251

Marx, Harpo, 252

Massachusetts Electric, 59

Matsu, 745, 746

Matthews, Chris, 753

Matthews, J. B., 672–73

Maverick Congregational Church, 7

Maxwell, Elsa, 299, 325

Mayer, Louis B., 121, 135

McAllister, Father Nilus, 220

McCarthy, Jean Kerr, 685

McCarthy, Joe (reporter), 171

McCarthy, Joseph (senator), 595–96, 667–68, 671, 672–74, 677, 682, 685, 728, 741

Army hearings, 673, 675

death of, 685

JFK and, 666–67, 685, 701

JPK and, 667, 672, 674, 685

Robert Kennedy and, 671, 672, 685

McClellan, John, 673, 688, 711

McCormack, John W., 539, 588, 703, 729

McCormick, Colonel Robert, 243–44, 318, 497, 517, 644

McCraw, Thomas, 226

McDonald, George, 527–28

McInerny, Tim, 555, 557–58, 653–54, 681, 682

McNamara, Robert, 760

Meet the Press,
658–59, 785

mental retardation, 698–99, 760

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 696–99

presidential panel on, 760–61

Merchandise Mart, 588–89, 592, 611–12, 625, 647, 693, 694, 782

Merchants Bank of Boston, 38, 39, 45, 49, 59

Merrill, Joe, 35–36

Messersmith, George, 328

Meyer, Eugene, 507, 508

Meyner, Robert, 720

MGM, 94, 119, 259

Middle East, 351, 497, 530, 658–59

JFK’s tour of, 654

Middlesex Club, 61

Milbank, Jeremiah, 112, 119

Miller, Merle, 576

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
421

Mitford, Unity, 404

Mizner, Addison, 190

Moffat, Jay Pierrepont, 292, 293–94, 332, 354, 355, 362, 365, 370, 429–30

Moley, Raymond, 175, 179, 180, 181, 186, 187, 191, 202, 205, 208, 209–10, 218

Moniz, Egas, 534

Mooney, James, 383, 384, 385

Moore, Edward “Eddie,” 63, 67, 77, 87, 89, 93, 98, 105, 114, 117, 137, 151, 175, 180, 207, 213, 214, 215, 221, 255, 284, 375, 387, 408, 419, 436, 447, 450, 463, 464, 491, 495

in England during JPK’s ambassadorship, 297, 299, 300

JFK’s congressional campaign and, 595, 598

JPK’s first business transaction with, 59

JPK’s relationship with, 59–60, 180

Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and, 613

motion picture industry and, 94, 95, 112, 115–16, 118, 138–39

Rosemary Kennedy and, 411, 533

Moore, Mary, 59–60, 63, 113, 255, 297, 375, 419, 436, 447, 450

Rosemary Kennedy and, 152, 411, 425, 426, 533, 628

Moore, Owen, 86

Moore, Father Thomas, 527, 535

Morgan, Edward P., 746

Morgan, Forbes, 188

Morgan, J. P. “Jack,” 285, 403, 419

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 215, 230, 231, 246, 272, 274, 276–77, 325, 326, 330, 331, 333, 338, 367, 395, 412, 437–38, 583

Morgenthau, Henry, III, 326–27

Morris, Sylvia Jukes, 380

Morrissey, Francis X. “Frank,” 716, 719, 729, 730, 766

judgeship and, 768–69, 786

Morrissey, Michael, 732

Morrison, Herbert, 484

Morse, Wayne, 735

Mortal Storm, The,
502

Morton, Thurston, 752

Moscicki, Ignacy, 401

motion picture industry, xx

British import restrictions and, 420–21

censorship and, xx, 75–76, 97, 107

FBO and,
see
FBO

First National and, 122–27, 128–29, 135, 158

Jews in, 75, 97, 103, 104, 501–2, 503, 559

JPK in, xx, 65–71, 73–76, 91–104, 105–27, 128–32, 135–46, 154–62, 168, 169–70, 518

JPK’s Harvard lecture series on, 100–102, 109

K-A-O and, 112, 119–20, 121, 122, 128–29, 130–31, 135, 137

Pathé and,
see
Pathé

RKO and,
see
RKO

Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation and, 71, 73–75

sound systems and, 111, 124

Moving Picture World,
95, 100

Mowrer, Edgar, 459–60

Mulkern, Patsy, 595

Mundelein, George Cardinal, 252

Munich Agreement, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745

Muñoz Marin, Luis, 748

Murdock, J. J., 112–13, 115, 137, 159

Murphy, Frank, 482, 492, 493, 496, 507, 509, 539, 581

Murphy, Paul, 193, 221, 301, 377

JPK’s employment of, 613, 614

Murphy, William, Jr., 318

Murray, Vera, 77

Mushyn, Thomas, 679

Mussolini, Benito, 199, 272, 287, 289, 304, 346, 356, 375, 381, 448, 451

Roosevelt’s April, 1939 letter to, 381–82, 385

Muste, A. J., 607

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