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2 “number one targets”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 367.
3 “very lonely”: Jessica Contrera, “‘How Could You?’ The Day Jackie Kennedy Became Jackie Onassis,” Washington Post, October 20, 2018.
4 “comes as a surprise”: Hilary Weaver, “The Marriage Proposal Jackie Turned Down,” Vanity Fair, February 9, 2017.
5 “wise and kind”: Weaver, “The Marriage Proposal.”
6 “now that Bobby was gone”: Contrera, “‘How Could You?’”
7 “We are very happy”: Peter Jonas, “Jackie Kennedy Marries Greek Billionaire in 1968,” New York Daily News, November 21, 1968.
8 “Who wouldn’t be”: Barbara A. Perry, Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch. (New York: Norton, 2013), 302.
9 “business transaction”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s.”
10 “Jackie’s glance kept turning”: “Jackie Kennedy: One of the World’s.”
11 “the fabled vessel”: Peter Mikelbank, “All About the Luxury Yacht Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz Will Charter for Their Wedding Celebration,” People, August 2, 2019.
12 “Jackie, How Could You?”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 367.
13 “fifty years ago”: Contrera, “How Could You?”
14 “engulfed in shadows”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 203.
15 “good father to John and Caroline”: Contrera, “How Could You?”
16 “widow and mother”: Dallas, The Kennedy Case, 328.
17 “profound perhaps disturbing”: Spoto, Jacqueline Kennedy Bouvier Onassis, 75.
18 Christina’s death: GCT, “November 19, 1988, Christina Onassis Sadly Passes Away Aged 37,” Greek City Times.
19 “happy man before I married”: Taraborrelli, After Camelot, 195.
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1 “bleeding inside”: Barbara Leaming, “The Winter of Her Despair,” Vanity Fair, September 18, 2014.
2 “Nobody can do for them”: Leaming, “Winter of Her Despair.”
3 “controlling and domineering mother”: Maureen Callahan, “Inside Ethel Kennedy’s Cruel Neglect of Her Troubled Kids,” New York Post, September 13, 2015.
4 “moods could swing drastically”: Callahan, “Inside Ethel Kennedy’s Cruel Neglect.”
5 “Jackie on a budget?”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2012), 253.
6 “If anything happens to John”: Liz Cantrell, “John F. Kennedy Jr.’s Close Friend Sheds Light on the Former First Son’s Final Days in New Biography,” Town & Country, July 14, 2019.
7 “allowed to experience life”: Katherine Q. Seelye, “John F. Kennedy Jr., Heir to a Formidable Dynasty,” New York Times, July 19, 1999.
8 “Me too”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline, and the New Generation—A Legacy of Tragedy and Triumph (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 318.
9 “cannot tempt fate:” Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs, 319.
10 “never let my children fly”: Taraborrelli, 319.
11 “jumping all over the place”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 415.
12 “good for her son”: Evan Thomas, “Living with the Myth.” Newsweek, July 25, 1999.
13 “happy-go-lucky”: Bethany Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.,” Andover Townsman, December 4, 2008.
14 “incredible pressure”: Michael Powell, “JFK Jr.: As Child and Man, America’s Crown Prince,” Washington Post, July 18, 1999.
15 “great boarding school mother”: Bray, “PA Teacher Remembers Life with JFK Jr.”
16 “push the disciplinary envelope”: Evan Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait of Four Privileged Classmates Who Met Untimely Deaths,” Washington Post, July 25, 2019.
17 John Jr.’s undergraduate application: Emily Smith and Tashara Jones, “Jackie Worked Hard to Keep JFK from Flunking.” New York Post, October 9, 2017.
18 “special consideration for my children”: Eileen Reslen, “JFK Jr.’s College Application and Jackie Kennedy’s Letters to His Professors Are for Sale,” Harper’s Bazaar, October 9, 2017.
19 “bad habits of borrowing money”: Thomas, “An Unsettling Portrait.”
20 “borrow a quarter every night”: Martha Brant, “Coming of Age,” Newsweek, August 13, 1995.
21 Off-off Broadway debut: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway, John Kennedy Jr. Auditions a New Stage for Himself,” People, August 26, 1985.
22 “best young actors”: “Acting Up Off-Off-Broadway.”
23 “John’s problem as an actor”: Brant, “Coming of Age.”
24 “only a hobby”: Brant.
25 “not a legal genius.” Bob Greene, “‘The Hunk Flunks’ and We Are Shamed,” Chicago Tribune, May 7, 1990.