5 “more promiscuous with physicians”: Dallek, An Unfinished Life, 399.
6 “Urgent National Needs”: Douglas Brinkley, “How JFK Sent the U.S. to the Moon,” Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2019.
7 “this was a disastrous idea”: Mark White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion: Kennedy’s Cuban catastrophe,” BBC History Magazine, May 2011.
8 “Two full days of hell”: White, “Bay of Pigs Invasion,” BBC History Magazine.
9 “a pretty bad fix”: Rick Klein, “JFK Tapes: New Insight Into White House Tensions During Cuban Missile Crisis,” ABC News, September 24, 2012.
10 "stay right here with you": Associated Press, "Jackie O's Antiquated Views 'Horrified' Grandkids," NBC News, September 14, 2011.
11 “I can’t see that it’s wrong”: “New Administration: All He Asked…” Time Magazine, February 3, 1961.
12 “stir things up”: “Operation Mongoose,” American Experience, PBS.
13 “Get rid of the Castro regime”: “Operation Mongoose.”
14 “I thought I was in love with Jack”: Kitty Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot,” People, February 29, 1988.
15 “message they’ll never forget”: Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 430.
16 “I’ve gone to great lengths”: Kelley, “The Dark Side of Camelot.”
17 “Frank Sinatra is the main problem”: Jeff Leen, “AKA Frank Sinatra,” Washington Post Magazine, March 7, 1999.
Chapter 17
1 “Extra! Extra!”: Boston Globe, November 22, 1963, final evening edition.
2 “He’s the one who made all of this possible”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 445.
3 “We have told him but we don’t think he understands it”: Robert Dallek, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (New York: Little, Brown, 2003), 697.
4 “In 1960, Lyndon was a help”: Timothy Noah, “The Day Before JFK Was Assassinated,” MSNBC, November 21, 2013.
5 “My back feels better than it’s felt in years”: Noah, “The Day Before JFK Was Assassinated.”
6 Providencia Parendes: Jennifer Schuessler, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Notes for Dallas Are Found, Starting a Quiet Tug of War,” New York Times, July 2, 2018.
7 “show these Texans”: Cathy Horyn, “Jacqueline Kennedy’s Smart Pink Suit, Preserved in Memory and Kept Out of View,” New York Times, November 14, 2013.
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, 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 Bubble-Top 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 Bubble-Top 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),