Dr. Feelgood (23 page)

KGB raid of office, 92, 99

as medical assistant, 32, 33

medical internship with Bier, 41–43, 47

medical license revocation, 66, 146, 159–162, 166

medical studies, 38–43

in Paris, 58–60

practice in Berlin, 45–54

practice in Manhattan, 61

relationship with Kennedy, 91–103

research on methamphetamine, 49

study of multiple sclerosis, 63

Jacobson, Thomas, 83, 115

Johnson, Lyndon B., 16, 126, 128, 132, 133, 135, 138

Jung, Carl, 45–47

K

Kalish, Austin “Rocky,” 76, 77

Kennedy, Bobby, 115, 118, 119, 121–123, 130, 132

Kennedy, Jackie, 101, 116, 157, 158, 166, 170

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 97

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

assassination of, 134–136, 139

code name of, 7

debate with Nixon, 21

illnesses, 12, 13, 16, 17

inauguration, 21–22

injections of methamphetamine, 8, 10, 18–20, 95, 97, 98, 101, 102, 124–125

manic condition of, 125–128

meeting with Khrushchev, 25, 91, 97–100

meeting with McMillan, 100, 101

Vienna Summit, 91–103

Kennedy, Robert, 9, 111, 127, 166, 167

Khrushchev, Nikita, 91, 92, 97–99, 128

Khrushchev, Nina, 97

L

Landis, Paul, 134, 137

Lavan, Harvey, 143

Lawford, Peter, 121

Leavy, Jane, 107, 108

Lowner, Alice, 44, 45, 56

LSD, 132, 140

M

Mann, Harvey, 141, 142–146, 159

Mantle, Mickey Charle, 105–110

McKnight, Ken, 9

Methamphetamines, 4, 5, 8, 10, 18–20, 62, 95, 101, 102, 112

effects of, 10, 18, 19, 49, 50

as mood enhancer, 46, 63

side effects of, 64, 79, 121, 124

use in German military, 51–52

Methedrine, 50, 63

Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 139, 140

Minimal brain dysfunction (MBD), 63

Monroe, Marilyn

depression of, 115

early life, 111

injections of methamphetamines, 112

at Kennedy’s birthday performance, 116–119

study with Strasberg, 112–113

Moran, Lord, 71, 72

Morell, Theodore, 131, 165, 168

Multiple sclerosis (MS), 8, 50, 63

N

New York State Board of Regents, 148, 155, 160, 161, 163, 166, 169

Newmar, Julie, 83–85

Nicotinic acid, 41

Nin, Anais, 59, 60

Nixon, Richard, 12, 16, 20–22, 150–152, 161, 165, 170, 171

Nizer, Louis, 156

Noerdlinger, Henry, 73

Noguchi, Thomas, 111

Novocaine, 62

O

Orlandi, Felice, 107, 147, 148

P

Park, Bert E., 52, 131, 165

Parkinson’s disease, 4, 50, 87–89

Pepper, Claude, 148, 149

Pervitin, 51

Phenobarbital, 18

Preminger, Otto, 147

Provocaine, 121

Psychoanalysis, 46

R

Rensberger, Boyce, 151–154

Roentgen, Wilhelm C., 38, 39

Rusk, Dean, 92, 96, 98, 99

Russell, Richard, 138, 139

S

Samek, Michael, 5, 10, 11, 14, 66, 92, 106, 123, 150, 152, 171

Serling, Rod, 78–80

Shapiro, Doris, 22, 170, 171

Shaw, Mark, 8, 10, 11, 99, 100, 148–150

Skin transplants, 48

Smith, Curt, 108, 109

Spalding, Chuck, 10–12, 156–158, 170

Spanish flu pandemic, 34

Sterotherm, 57, 58

Strasberg, Paula, 112, 113

Stress, treatment of, 18, 23

T

The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood
(Leavy), 107

The Ten Commandments
, 66–68, 72

The Twilight Zone
, 78, 79

Travell, Janet, 17, 23, 24, 96, 121, 122

U

U.S. Drug Abuse Regulation and Control Act, 148

V

Vienna Summit, 91–103

Vietnam War, 121

W

War on Drugs, 5, 6, 161, 165

Warren Commission, 134, 136–139

Wilder, Billy, 50, 67

Williams, Tennessee, 72, 78