Authors: Bill O'Reilly
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
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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