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, 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.
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.
17 “Betraying the Constitution”: “Photos: Kennedy Hatred in 1960s Dallas Looks a Lot Like Obama Hatred Today,” The New Republic, November 18, 2013.
18 Oswald takes off his wedding ring: Robert Wilonsky, “Jack Ruby’s Handwritten Version of What Happened on November 22, 1963, Goes to Auction,” Dallas News, November 2017.
19 “surprised to see”: Michael S. Rosenwald, “Oswald’s Chilling Final Hours Before Killing Kennedy: Speaking Russian, Playing with His Daughter, Sleeping In,” Washington Post, October 26, 2017.
20 “My, he’s in a mean mood”: Rosenwald, “Oswald’s Chilling Final Hours.”
21 “Curtain rods”: “The Assassin,” chapter 4 of the JFK Assassination Records, Warren Commission Report, National Archives.
Chapter 19
1 “began so beautifully”: Lady Bird Johnson, transcript of audio diary, National Archives, November 22, 1963, p. 1.
2 “everything in Texas”: “Howdy, Mr. President!”: A Fort Worth Perspective of JFK, University of Texas Arlington Libraries, Special Collections.
3 “American Fact-Finding Committee”: Dan Evon, “Did John F. Kennedy Predict His Own Assassination?” Snopes, November 25, 2016.
4 “profound perhaps disturbing”: Donald Spoto, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 75.
5 “nut country”: Edward Klein, The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America’s First Family for 150 Years (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), 175.
6 Maps and routes: “The Assassin,” chapter 4 of the JFK Assassination Records, Warren Commission Report, National Archives.
7 “close the elevator”: “The Assassin.”
8 “happy foursome”: Mimi Swartz, “The Witness,” Texas Monthly, November 2003.
9 “so perfect”: Swartz, “The Witness.”
10 “can’t say Dallas”: James Wolcott, “Well, Mr. President, You Can’t Say Dallas Doesn’t Love You!” Vanity Fair, March 11, 2011.
11 “hot, wild”: Thomas Maier, The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings. (New York: Basic Books, 2003), 452.
12 “sharp loud report”: Johnson, transcript of audio diary, p. 1.
13 “the last faces”: Mary E. Woodward, “Witness from the News Describes Assassination,” Dallas Morning News, November 23, 1963.
14 “every conspiracy theorist”: Joe Simnacher, “Mary Pillsworth, ex-DMN Editor Who Witnessed Kennedy Assassination, Dies at 77,” Dallas News, April 17, 2017.
15 “What are they doing to you?”: John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection, Key Persons Files, Statements of Agents and Law Enforcement Officers in Presidential Motorcade on November 22, 1963, in Dallas: Roy H. Kellerman, National Archives.
16 “color movies”: Michael E. Ruane, “As He Filmed, Abraham Zapruder Knew Instantly That President Kennedy Was Dead,” Washington Post, November 21, 2013.
17 “killed him!”: Ruane, “As He Filmed.”
18 “nothing but heartbreak”: Steve Hendricks, “Zapruder Captured JFK’s Assassination in Riveting Detail, Fueling Decades of Conspiracy Theories,” Washington Post, October 26, 2017.
19 “Step on it!”: John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection, Key Persons Files, Statements of Agents and Law Enforcement Officers in Presidential Motorcade on November 22, 1963, in Dallas: Roy H. Kellerman, National Archives.
20 “yellow roses”: “Nellie Connally Dies; Rode with JFK on Fateful Day,” National Public Radio, September 2, 2006.
21 “drift of blossoms”: Johnson, transcript of audio diary, page 1.
Chapter 20
1 “My reporter instinct kicked in”: Hugh Aynesworth, “The Assassination of JFK: An Eyewitness Account,” BBC History Extra, HistoryExtra.
2 “sitting up there”: Howard Leslie Brennan, Records of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection: Key Persons Files, National Archives.