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15 “I get lonesome everyday”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 85.
16 “I would do anything”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 85
17 “She loved compliments”: Shriver, “Hope for Retarded Children.”
18 “terribly serious”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 161.
19 “the summer of 1941”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, 242.
20 “I was always worried”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 640.
21 “My great ambition”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 50.
22 American Medical Association on lobotomies: “Frontal Lobotomy,” JAMA, August 16, 1941.
23 “restore the person”: Perry, Rose Kennedy, 164.
24 Kick investigates: Leamer, The Kennedy Women, 319.
25 “Oh, Mother, no”: Larson, Rosemary, 161
26 “through the top of the head”: Ronald Kessler, The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded (New York: Warner Books, 1996), 243–44.
27 “They knew right away”: Kearns Goodwin, The Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds, 642.
28 “eight children shine like a dollar”: John Seigenthaler, recorded interview by William A. Geoghegan, July 22, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 87.
29 “my daughter Rosemary”: Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember, dedication page.
PART THREE
The Favorites: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.
and Kathleen “Kick” Agnes Kennedy
Chapter 7
1 “So long and good luck”: James W. Graham, Victura: The Kennedys, a Sailboat, and the Sea (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2015), 83.
2 Unternehmen Loge: Ron Mitchell, “The London Blitz,” part 3 of WW2 People’s War: An Archive of World War II Memories—Written by the Public, Gathered by the BBC. BBC website, 2003–6.
3 “star of our family”: “Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Death Recalled,” New York Times, March 20, 1970.
4 Harold Laski: John Seigenthaler, recorded interview by William A. Geoghegan, July 22, 1964, John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program, 88–89.
5 “when you are president?”: Cari Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny,” Vanity Fair, December 2004.
6 “building a spirit”: Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny.”
7 Hitler’s “excellent psychology”: Beauchamp, “Two Sons, One Destiny.”
8 “Roosevelt’s several million”: Alan Axelrod, Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed Mission to Save London (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 68.
9 “Kennedy was such a good pilot”: Mary Gail Hare, “Essex World War II Veteran Served with JFK’s Elder Brother in Navy,” Baltimore Sun, November 10, 2011.
10 “most dangerous type of flying”: “Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.
11 “do something different”: 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), 147–48.
Chapter 8
1 “twice as much as I need”: Daniel F. Harrington, “The Last Flight of Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Heir Apparent,” Providence Journal, September 2, 2014.
2 “never an occasion”: Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), 687.
3 Joe Jr.’s combat missions: “Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.
4 “served in the United States Navy”: “John F. Kennedy: World War II Naval Hero to President,” John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, National Parks Service website, December 2, 2015.
5 “My congrats”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 106.
6 “They sank my boat”: “John F. Kennedy and PT 109,” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.
7 “European campaign medal”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 106.
8 Code phrase “Spade Flush”: Alan Axelrod, Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed Mission to Save London (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 248.
9 “Nothing larger than a basketball”: Axelrod, Lost Destiny, 249.
10 “exploded in mid-air”: Martin Cherrett, ed., “Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Dies in Secret Drone Mission,” World War II Today (website).
11 “trails of smoke”: “Brother of JFK Died in Air Crash over Suffolk During WW2,” ITV Report, December 9, 2014.
12 Subsequent investigations: Steven Russell, “The Kennedy Curse: Tragedy in the Skies over Suffolk,” East Anglian Daily Times, November 22, 2013.
13 “Erector set and Lincoln Logs”: Axelrod, Lost Destiny, 235.
14 Interrogation of Joe Kennedy Jr.: “Joe Kennedy Death Story Is Refuted,” Chicago Tribune, November 11, 1986.
15 “program killed more American airmen”: Rick Long/Cape Cod Curmudgeon, “August 12, 1944, Operation Aphrodite,” Today in History (blog), August 12, 2017.
16 General Carl “Tooey” Spaatz: Edward J. Renehan Jr., The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945 (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 304.