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14 “bracing myself”: Associated Press.

15 “protest this police brutality”: Gary Mack, “An End to Conspiracy? Rare Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Arrest Suggests Why He’s Guilty,” Time, November 21, 2013.

16 “My whole face”: James Swanson, “Inventing Camelot: How Jackie Kennedy Shaped Her Husband’s Legacy,” New York Post, November 10, 2013.

17 “poignant sights”: Lady Bird Johnson, “Selections from Lady Bird Johnson’s Diary of the Assassination,” November 22, 1963, PBS.org.

18 “I want them to see”: Johnson, “Selections from Lady Bird Johnson’s Diary.”

19 “I’m here”: Chris Jones, “The Flight from Dallas,” Esquire, September 16, 2013.





Chapter 21




1 Lafayette Hotel: Stanley Meisler, When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years (Boston: Beacon Press, 2011), 62–64.

2 “world peace and friendship”: “Peace Corps Established, (March 1, 1961),” This Day in History, History.com, July 21, 2010.

3 “so many crises”: Robert McCrum, “Eunice Kennedy and the Death of the Great American Dream,” Guardian (UK), August 15, 2009.

4 Eunice and Jack shared a house: Evan Thomas, “The Fierce Rebellion and Compassion of Eunice Shriver.” Washington Post, April 13, 2018.

5 “keep him going”: White House Historical Association, “Thanksgiving: President Kennedy Pardons a Turkey,” November 19, 1963.

6 “request ‘Over the Rainbow’”: Liz McNeil, “Guess Which Song JFK Asked Judy Garland to Sing to Him over the Telephone,” People, January 31, 2017.

7 “go to bed”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 227.

8 “old but warm coat”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (New York: Doubleday, 1974), 379.

9 “go on living”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 455.

10 “how fortunate”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 380.

11 “I WILL KILL”: James Reston Jr., “Lee Harvey Oswald’s Little Green Book Shows JFK Wasn’t the Real Target,” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2016.

12 “steps out”: Jeremy P. Meyer, “Bob Jackson’s Iconic Photo of Ruby Shooting Oswald Still Resonates,” Denver Post, November 22, 2013.

13 “right hand was contracting”: “WITNESS ASCRIBES MALICE TO RUBY; Quotes Him as Saying He Hopes Oswald Would Die,” New York Times, March 5, 1964.

14 “do something spectacular”: Jim Boyle, “JFK Series: Dallas Detective Still Answering Questions About JFK Assassination,” Elk River Star News, November 10, 2013.





Chapter 22




1 “I want you to make sure”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 446.

2 “Jack really looks, acts”: Barbara Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch (New York: Norton, 2013), 243.

3 “clipped a few locks”: Clint Hill, “Jackie Kennedy’s Secret Service Agent Remembers President Kennedy’s Funeral,” Town & Country, November 22, 2016.

4 JFK’s valet, George E. Thomas: Barbara A. Perry and Alfred Reaves IV, “Inside the Unsung Life of the Man Who Was John F. Kennedy’s Most Personal Assistant,” Time, November 20, 2018.

5 “a child’s last happiness”: Monica Hesse, “Four Shattering Days,” Washington Post, November 13, 2015.

6 “children tumbling”: Associated Press, “Jackie O’s Antiquated Views Horrified Grandkids,” September 14, 2011.

7 “letter to Daddy”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 232.

8 “a good man”: Jimmy Breslin, “Digging JFK Grave Was His Honor,” New York Herald Tribune, November 1963 (republished in Newsday, November 22, 2013).

9 “still as statues”: Hesse, “Four Shattering Days.”

10 “salute Daddy now”: James Swanson, “Inventing Camelot: How Jackie Kennedy Shaped Her Husband's Legacy,” New York Post, November 10, 2013.

11 “son’s funeral”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 239.

12 “prayed alone”: Rita Dallas, The Kennedy Case (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973), 249.

13 Fifty military fighters: B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark, The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921–1969 (Washington: Department of the Army, 1972), 188–214.

14 “My President”: Richard Goldstein, “James Swindal, 88, Pilot of Kennedy’s Presidential Plane, Dies,” New York Times, May 1, 2006.

15 “Those drumbeats”: Peter Rowe, “Carrying the Weight of JFK’s Casket,” San Diego Union Tribune, November 16, 2013.

16 “feel any emotion”: Dwaun Sellers, “How SC man became pallbearer at JFK Funeral,” State (South Carolina), October 27, 2017.

17 “locked the TV”: David Bianculli, “How Live TV Helped America Mourn the Loss of JFK,” Fresh Air, National Public Radio, November 22, 2013.

18 “ungodly assassin”: Michael Whittaker, “Police Officer J. D. Tippit Buried,” United Press International, November 26, 1963.

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