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8 Narrow size 10A: Steven Stolman, “The Under-the-Radar Shoe Designer Jackie Kennedy Adored,” Town & Country, October 4, 2017.
9 “Make large feet look smaller”: Barbara Leaming, excerpt of Mrs. Kennedy (New York: Free Press, 2001), New York Times, November 24, 2001.
10 “quarter-inch lift affixed to one heel”: “The Weird Thing Jackie Kennedy Did with Her Shoes,” Harper’s Bazaar, April 28, 2017.
11 “One of the first things I did”: Janet G. Travell, recorded interview by Theodore C. Sorensen, January 20, 1966, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 3.
12 “overwhelming good taste”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 24.
13 “American Queen”: Linnea Crowther, “Oleg Cassini and the Jackie Look,” Legacy.com, 2017.
14 “Jackie wanted to do Versailles in America”: Sally Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot,” Vanity Fair, May 2004.
15 “Just send me an account”: Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot.”
16 Presidential blue metallic: Christopher Wynn, “Would a BubbleTop Have Saved Kennedy? More Answers from the Strange Story of JFK’s Lincoln Limo,” Dallas News, November 19, 2018 (originally May 5, 2013).
17 “expensive, fancy limousine”: Wynn, “Would a BubbleTop Have Saved Kennedy?”
18 Convertible in the rain: Freya Drohan, “How JFK’s Love for Open-Top Convertible Cars Led to His Assassination,” Irish Central (UK), February 12, 2018.
19 “don’t want the bubbletop”: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why America’s First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 161.
20 “lose your anonymity at thirty-one”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis: A Life (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 146.
21 “last thing I expected”: Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot.”
22 “no way in God’s Earth”: Thurston Clarke, “A Death in the First Family,” Vanity Fair, July 1, 2013.
23 Patrick Bouvier Kennedy vital statistics: Steven Levingston, “For John and Jackie Kennedy, the Death of a Son May Have Brought Them Closer,” Washington Post, October 24, 2013.
24 “He’s a Kennedy—he’ll make it”: Levingston, “For John and Jackie Kennedy.”
25 “lovable little monkey”: Alvin Spivak, “Doctors Hopeful for New JFK Son,” United Press International, August 7, 1963.
26 “Nothing must happen to Patrick”: Clarke, “A Death in the First Family.”
27 “The First Lady never once”: Bedell Smith, “Private Camelot.”
28 “Overwhelmed with grief”: Bedell Smith.
29 “genuinely cut to the bone”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 194.
30 “distinctly close relationship”: Levingston, “For John and Jackie Kennedy.”
31 “different than I had seen them before”: Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (New York: Little, Brown, 1997), 439.
32 “aggrieved sense of responsibility”: Clarke, “A Death in the First Family.”
33 “very, very, very close to each other”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 178.
Chapter 18
1 “Mrs. Kennedy is organizing”: Monica Hesse, “Four Shattering Days,” Washington Post, November 13, 2015.
2 American-made: Cathy Horyn, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit Preserved in Memory and Kept out of View,” New York Times, November 15, 2013.
3 “smashing”: Randi Kaye, “Fifty Years Later, Jackie Kennedy’s Pink Suit Locked Away from View,” CNN, November 21, 2013.
4 “too foreign, too spendy”: Leah Chernikoff, “Karl Lagerfeld Says Oleg Cassini Knocked Off That Pink ‘Chanel’ Suit Jackie Kennedy Wore The Day JFK Was Assassinated,” Fashionista.com, April 10, 2014.
5 “Some Texans”: “A Last Thing Signed: John F. Kennedy Autographs a Dallas Newspaper on the Morning of His Murder There,” Shapell Manuscript Foundation, Shapell.org.
6 Black-and-white Chanel: Bonnie Wertheim, “Jackie Kennedy’s Packing List for Texas, Chic and Poignant,” New York Times, July 3, 2018.
7 “last hour of serenity”: Philip Nobile, “JFK, Jackie, Joined Mile-High Club Day Before His Death,” New York Post, November 17, 2013.
8 “super patriot”: Alan Peppard, “Before Gunning for JFK, Oswald Targeted ex-Gen. Edwin A. Walker—and Missed,” Dallas News, November 19, 2018.
9 “paranoid mental disorders”: Peppard, “Before Gunning for JFK.”
10 “Imagine that son”: Peppard.
11 “Walker for President 64”: Peppard.
12 “intellectual training experience”: Bill Rockwood, “Twenty-Four Years: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?” Frontline, November 19, 2013.
13 “target practice”: Rockwood, “Twenty-Four Years.”
14 “shot for a Marine”: Rockwood.
15 “he couldn’t see”: Peppard.
16 “I shot Walker”: Rockwood.
17 “Betraying the Constitution”: “Photos: Kennedy Hatred in 1960s Dallas Looks a Lot Like Obama Hatred Today,” The New Republic, November 18, 2013.