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.
19 “This great tragedy”: Dave Lieber, “JFK’s Assassin Shot Her Husband; All She Wants Is to Be Buried Next to Him,” Dallas News, November 19, 2018.
20 “visit our friend”: Larry McShane, “The Day America Watched a Son’s Final Salute to Slain Father, JFK, as Nation Buried a Beloved Leader,” New York Daily News, November 17, 2013.
21 “four endless days”: “Death of a First Lady; Eulogies; Because of Her, We Could Grieve and Then Go On,” New York Times, May 24, 1994.
22 “Jack was not forgotten”: Swanson, “Inventing Camelot”
23 “It pleases me”: Eric Pace, “Theodore White, Chronicler of U.S. Politics, Is Dead at 71,” New York Times, May 16, 1986.
24 “Life magazine to say”: Swanson, “Inventing Camelot.”
25 “passed unanimously”: Tom Hintgen, “JFK’s Humor Broke the Ice,” Daily Journal (Fergus Falls, MN), November 29, 2010.
26 “a storyteller of elections”: Pace, “Theodore White.”
27 “lines he loved”: Swanson, “Inventing Camelot.”
PART FIVE
The Prophet: Robert Francis Kennedy
Chapter 23
1 “just another lawyer now”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 321.
2 “sink quite easily”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 179.
3 “like Daddy lost both arms”: Lou Lumenick, “Ethel Kennedy Spills Family Secrets,” New York Post, January 20, 2012.
4 “I was concentrating”: Robert Kennedy, “Our Climb Up Mount Kennedy,” Life, April 9, 1965.
5 “Good luck, Daddy”: Kennedy, “Our Climb Up Mount Kennedy.”
6 “His paper had just completed my obituary”: Kennedy.
7 “I climbed Matterhorn in 1957”: “Nine Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Bobby Kennedy,” New England Historical Society website, 2019.
8 “up Everest three times in my mind”: Michael Jourdan, “Mountain Tribute to JFK Evoked by Kennedy Trip to Yukon,” National Geographic, August 5, 2013.
9 “Don’t slip, dear”: Kennedy, “Our Climb Up Mount Kennedy.”
10 “I was so delighted”: Alexia Fernandez, “Robert Kennedy’s Friend Recalls the ‘Emotional’ Moment He Climbed Peak Named after Late JFK,” People, November 6, 2019.
11 “President Kennedy’s family flag”: Jourdan, “Mountain Tribute to JFK Evoked.”
12 Kennedy family flag: “Kennedy Family Crest,” Green Studio, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
13 Chief Herald of Ireland: Correspondence from Gerard Slevin, the Chief Herald of Ireland, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers, 17 May 1963–68, June 1968.
14 “lonely, stark, forbidding”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 811.
Chapter 24
1 Thousand-dollar tickets: Henry Machirella and Paul Healy, “E. Side, W. Side Chorus ‘Happy Birthday’ to JFK, New York Daily News, May 20, 1962 (republished as “John F. Kennedy Celebrates Birthday in Madison Square Garden in 1962,” New York Daily News website, May 18, 2015).
2 “The late Marilyn Monroe”: Jesse Greenspan, “‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ Turns 50,” History—A&E Television Networks, May 18, 2012.
3 “beads and skin”: Enid Nemy, “Jean Louis, 89; Dressed Stars and Socialites,” New York Times, April 24, 1997.
4 “world’s most expensive”: “See the World’s Most Expensive Dress!” Ripley’s Believe it or Not—Ripley Entertainment Inc., Ripleys.
5 “a very ‘rah rah rah’ kind of atmosphere”: Ben Cosgrove, “Behind the Picture: Photos from the Night Marilyn Sang to JFK, 1962,” Time, April 30, 2014.
6 “Life’s too short to worry about Marilyn Monroe”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 129.
8 Photo of Marilyn, Bobby, and Jack: Olivia B. Waxman, “The Story Behind the Only Known Photo of Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy Together,” Time, August 3, 2018.
9 Photo of Stephen Smith and Marilyn: “Dress Marilyn Monroe Wore for John F. Kennedy Birthday Song Sells for $4.8 Million,” NBCChicago, November 18, 2016.
10 “I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 590–91.
12 “spectacular absenteeism”: Alexandra Pollard, “Something’s Got to Give: The Story of the Marilyn Monroe Film That Never Got Made,” Independent (UK), March 29, 2019.