Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (83 page)

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: Stelio Popademitrio quotes from ABC-TV; “Hospital Vigil over Kennedy Baby,”
Life,
August 16, 1963; corre- spondence from Jackie to Jack from Jackie Kennedy auc- tion; “Callas in Love,” by Stelio Galatopoulos,
Vanity Fair,
March 1999; “Maria Was a Weapon,” by Arianna Stassinopoulos,
People,
March 23, 1981.

Jack’s Rapprochement with Jackie: “Getting to Know You”; Tragedy; “The President’s Been Shot”; Holy Mary, Mother of God; “The Party’s Been Canceled—The President’s Dead”; In Mourning

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Larry New- man, George Smathers, Pierre Salinger, Ben Bradlee, Nellie Connally, Robert McNamara, Diana Dubois, Walter Cronkite, Frank Mankiewicz, Sancy Newman, Beatrice Lowell, Roz Clark, Johnny Grant, Morton Downey, Jr., Stu- art Greene, and Betty Beale.

Volumes consulted:
The Day Kennedy Was Shot,
by Jim Bishop;
The Kennedy Case,
by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Rat- cliffe;
The Pleasure of His Company,
by Ben Bradlee;
Con- versations with Kennedy,
by Ben Bradlee;
The Death of a President,
by William Manchester;
They’ve Killed the Pres- ident,
by Robert Samanson;
My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy,
by Evelyn Lincoln;
Not in Your Lifetime,
by An- thony Summers;
The Kennedys,
by Peter Collier and David Horowitz;
Times to Remember,
by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy;
Power at Play,
by Betty Beale;
President Kennedy,
by Richard Reeves;
Ethel,
by David Lester;
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
by Jerry Oppenheimer;
Joan: The Re- luctant Kennedy,
by David Lester;
A White House Diary,
by Lady Bird Johnson;
The Kennedy Women,
by Laurence Leamer;
RFK,
by C. David Heymann;
The Pleasure of His Company,
by Paul Fay;
The Dark Side of Camelot,
by Sey- mour Hersh;
The Assassination Tapes,
by George O’Toole;
Rush to Judgment,
by Mark Lane;
Counterplot,
by Edward Jay Epstein;
The Imperial Presidency,
by Arthur Schlesinger.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: Clint Hill’s comments from Secret Service documen- tary, PBS, June 1999;
Life
interview with Rose Kennedy by Sylvia Wright (1970); Maria Shriver’s comments from
Oprah,
January 1999; Ted Kennedy’s eulogy at Jacqueline Kennedy’s funeral; “A Matter of Reasonable Doubt,”
Life,
November 25, 1966; “Report to the President by the Com- mission on CIA Activities within the United States,” June 1975 (also known as the CIA Commission Report); Jackie’s testimony from volume five of “The President’s Commis- sion on the Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy”; “John F. Kennedy Memorial Edition,”
Life,
No- vember 1963; “These Are Things I Hope Will Show How He Really Was,” by Jacqueline Kennedy,
Life,
May 29, 1964; “Valiant Is the World for Jacqueline,” by Laura Bergquist,
Look,
January 28, 1964.

Tea with Lady Bird, Thanksgiving, 1963; Jackie’s Camelot; “Let It All Out”; Aftermath

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Joan Braden, Michael Oliver, Beatrice Moore, Liz Carpenter, Joseph Paolella, Jack Valenti, Susan Neuberger Wilson, Ed Newman, and Pierre Salinger.

Volumes consulted:
In Search of History,
by Theodore White;
On His Own: RFK,
by William Vanden Huevel and Milton Gwirtzman;
Presidential Passions,
by Michael John Sullivan;
A White House Diary,
by Lady Bird Johnson;
The Vantage Point,
by Lyndon Baines Johnson;
JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality on Politics,
by Tom Wicker;
To Move a Nation,
by Roger Hilsman;
Containing Central In-

telligence,
by Harry Rowe Ransom;
Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy,
by David Lester;
Joan Kennedy: Life with the Kennedys,
by Marcia Chellis;
A Private View,
by Irene Mayer Selnick;
Sinatra and His Rat Pack,
by Richard Gehman;
Mislaid in Hollywood,
by Joe Hyams;
The Thin Veil,
by Frank Saunders;
The Kennedy Case,
by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe;
White House Nannie,
by Maud Shaw;
The Kennedy Men,
by Nellie Bly;
Confessions of an Ex–Fan Magazine Writer,
by Jane Wilkie;
The President’s Mistress,
by Irma Hunt;
The Women around RFK,
by Susan Marvin;
The Best of Friends,
by David Michaelis;
Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir,
by Jack Newfield;
Backstairs at the White House,
by Lillian Rogers Parks with Frances Spatz Leighton;
The Struggles of John F. Kennedy,
by Herbert S. Parmet;
Tell It to Louella,
by Louella Parsons.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: letters from Jackie Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson and from LBJ to Jackie, and transcripts of telephone calls cour- tesy of LBJ Library; Frank Saunders interview transcript by David Lester; “Lady Bird Johnson Writes about Her Private World,”
Life,
August 13, 1965; “What Has Tragedy Meant to Bobby Kennedy,” by Bill Davidson,
Good Housekeeping,
July 1964; “What Kind of Woman Is Our New First Lady,” by Ruth Montgomery,
Good Housekeeping,
March 1964.

Moving Out of the White House; Lyndon Johnson “Using Jackie”; The Kennedy Camp on LBJ: “A Blight on the New Frontier”; Joan’s Bottled-Up Anxiety; Jackie’s Saddest Days; Jackie and Brando—The Rumors

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Pierre

Salinger, Frank Mankiewicz, George Christian, Peter Brent, Joseph Karats, and John Davis.

Volumes consulted:
Taking Charge,
by Michael Meschloss;
A White House Diary,
by Lady Bird Johnson;
The Vantage Point,
by Lyndon Baines Johnson;
Joan: The Reluctant Kennedy,
by David Lester;
Just Jackie,
by Ed Klein;
No Final Victories,
by Lawrence F. O’Brien;
The Kennedy Case,
by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe;
The Kennedy Women,
by Pearl S. Buck;
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
by David Lester;
Ethel,
by David Lester;
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.;
Bobby Kennedy,
by David Lester with Irene David;
The Kennedy Courage,
by Edward Hymoff and Phil Hirsch;
Palm Beach Babylon,
by Murray Weiss and Bill Hofmman;
There Really Was a Hollywood,
by Janet Leigh;
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: As We Remember Him,
edited by Goddard Lieber- son;
Behind Every Successful President,
by Alice Anderson;
Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History,
by Paul Boller, Jr.;
Dog Days at the White House,
by Traphes Bryant with Frances Spatz Leighton;
As We Remember Joe,
by John F. Kennedy;
Tell It to the King,
by Larry King;
When I Think of Bobby,
by Warren Rogers;
The Struggles of John F. Kennedy,
by Herbert S. Parmet;
Kennedy and Johnson,
by Evelyn Lincoln;
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,
by Doris Kearns;
The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson,
by Eric F. Goldman;
The Kennedy Promise,
by Henry Fairlie;
Recol- lections of the Kennedy Years,
by Edwin Guthman.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: transcripts of telephone conversations between LBJ and Jackie (and Pierre Salinger and LBJ) courtesy of LBJ Library; “LBJ and the Kennedys,” by Kenneth O’Donnell,
Life,
August 7, 1970; “John Fitzgerald Kennedy,

1917–1963,” by Laura Bergquist,
Look,
November 17, 1964; “The Unknown JFK,” by Fletcher Knebel,
Look,
No- vember 17, 1964; “Eight Views of JFK,” by T. George Har- ris,
Look,
November 17, 1964; “Teddy Kennedy: Is He Running for President?,” by Edward R.F. Sheehan,
Saturday Evening Post,
June 5, 1965; “Ted Kennedy On His Own,” by Joseph Roddy,
Look,
July 13, 1965; “The Bright Light of His Days,” by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,
McCalls,
No- vember 1973.

Ted’s Plane Crash; Joan Wins the Election for Ted; Jackie on the Anniversary of November 22, 1963; Using Jackie—Yet Again; Joan the Emissary;
Cead Mile Failte;
Joan’s Continuing Struggle

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Joe Gargan, Joan Braden, Benjamin Strait, Marie Fehmer, James W. Fos- burgh, and Jerry Summers.

Volumes consulted:
Ted Kennedy: Triumphs and Tragedies,
by Lester David;
The Kennedys in Hollywood,
by Lawrence Quirk;
Seeds of Destruction,
by Ralph G. Martin;
Good Ted, Bad Ted,
by Lester David;
The Last Brother,
by Joe McGinniss;
The Shadow President,
by Burton Hersh;
Living with the Kennedys,
by Marcia Chellis;
As We Re- member Her,
by Carl Sferrazza Anthony;
The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy,
by Richard E. Burke;
The Edu- cation of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography,
by Burton Hersh;
The Other Mrs. Kennedy,
by Jerry Oppenheimer;
The Joy of Classical Music,
by Joan Kennedy;
We Band of Brothers: A Memoir of Robert F. Kennedy,
by Edwin Guth- man;
Breaking Cover,
by Bill Gulley and Mary Ellen Reese.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: questionnaire filled out by Joe Gargan; news clips about the accident; transcript of conversations between Joan and LBJ and Jackie and LBJ, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; LBJ correspondence to Jackie also courtesy of the Johnson Library; the transcript of Arthur Egan interview by David Lester; “Celebration of One Year Anniversary of JFK’s Death,”
Look
magazine; various published articles about the Kennedy Exhibition;
Dateline
report, “Just Jackie,” by Ed Klein, 1999, includ- ing interview with John Carl Warneckie, Stelio Papadim- itriou, and Niki Goulandris; “Ideal Plane, Expert Pilot . . . Why Flying So Low?,” by Anne Wyman,
Boston Globe,
June 23, 1964; “Ted Kennedy Escapes Death” (Associated Press),
Daily News,
June 20, 1964; “Kennedy Family Stands Vigil,” by Anthony Matejczyk,
Boston Globe,
June 21, 1964; “Ted Kennedy’s Recovery,”
Life,
January 15,

1965.

The Rumor Mill; RFK for President; Enter “The Greek”; The Appeal to Jackie; Ethel’s Thoughtless Remark; Another Tragedy; “The Hand of a Dead Man”; “No God of Mine”

As well as having utilized the previously cited Oral His- tories, personal interviews were conducted with Gore Vidal, Barbara Gibson, Liz Carpenter, John Lewis, Frank Mankiewicz, Jeanne Martin, Leah Mason, Charles Bartlett, Roswell Gilpatrick, Chuck Spalding, Nicolas “Niko” Konaledius, Stavlos Pappadia, John Miner, and Rafer John- son.

Volumes consulted:
Palimpsest,
by Gore Vidal;
RFK,
by

C. David Heymann;
The Kennedy Case,
by Rita Dallas and Jeanira Ratcliffe;
Robert Kennedy and His Times,
by Arthur Schlesinger;
Onassis,
by Willi Frischauer;
The Enemy Within,
by Robert F. Kennedy;
Robert Kennedy at 40,
by Nick Thimmesch and William Johnson;
Robert Kennedy: The Brother Within,
by Robert E. Thompson and Hortense Myers;
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy,
by David Halberstam;
Robert Kennedy: A Memoir,
by Jack Newfield;
85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert F. Kennedy,
by Jules Witcover;
A Thousand Days,
by Arthur Schlesinger;
Plot of Politics,
by Rosemary James and Jack Wardlaw;
The Kennedy Conspiracy,
by Paris Flammonde;
Cardinal Cushing,
by John Henry Cultler;
Witness to Power,
by Marquis Childs;
The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy,
by George Carpozi;
Dog Days at the White House,
by Traphes Bryant and Frances Spatz Leighton;
The Woman in the White House,
by Marianne Means;
The Radziwills,
by Tadeusz Nowakowski;
Men, Money and Magic,
by Jeffry Potter;
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years,
by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer;
Dateline: White House,
by Helen Thomas;
Ambassador’s Journal,
by John Kenneth Galbraith;
The Man to See,
by Evan Thomas;
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover,
by An- thony Summers.

Videos, articles, and other material reviewed and con- sulted: Andy Williams interview by Carol Welles for
Photo- play,
October 1971; Andy Williams interview transcript by Byron McCall for
Motion Picture,
April 1970; Claudine Longet interview by Carol Welles for
Photoplay,
October 1971; “AP Reporter Recalls Tragic Scene,” by Bob Thomas, Associated Press wire, June 6, 1998; “Breaking His Si- lence,” by Paul Ciotti,
Los Angeles Times,
June 6, 1988;

“How L.A. Cops Botched the Bobby Kennedy Murder In- quiry,” by George Carpozi,
Star,
May 10, 1988; “The Mur- der of Robert Kennedy,” by Allard K. Lowenstein,
Saturday Review,
February 19, 1977; “Caroline Kennedy: A Little Girl in New Turmoil,” by Lester David,
Good Housekeep- ing,
January 1969; “Son Ted Phones Sad News to Parents,” by Alan H. Sheehan,
Boston Globe,
June 5, 1968; “The Coming of Age of Joan Kennedy,” by Christine Sadler,
Mc- Calls,
February 1965.

Senator Robert Francis Kennedy Is Dead; Bobby’s Funeral; “We Shall Carry on with Courage”; Ethel—Just a Shell