out of Dallas alive”: Garrett M. Graff, “Angel Is Airborne,” Washingtonian.
22 “Bobby should have waited”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 657.
Chapter 28
1 Ted’s 1964 plane crash: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 322.
2 Two of five killed: “Senator Kennedy Tells of His Rescue in Plane Crash,” New York Times, October 20, 1964.
3 “a great year for the giggles”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 322.
4 “to vote not for LBJ but RFK”: Rick Klein, “Jacqueline Kennedy Reveals That JFK Feared an LBJ Presidency,” ABCNews, September 8, 2011.
5 “Robert Kennedy’s activities were of special interest”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 663.
6 “Kennedy wing of the party”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama, 322.
7 “what you can do for the Kennedys”: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 299.
8 RFK’s house in Glen Cove: “Kennedy Takes Lease on House in Glen Cove, L.I.; He Will Announce Candidacy for Senate Today—Fight Is Pledged by Stratton,” New York Times, August 25, 1964.
9 “such strong public feeling”: “Kennedy’s Role as Attorney General,” New York Times, September 4, 1964.
10 Bobby/Jackie romance rumors: Annie Wilkinson, “RFK: A Ripple of Hope,” Long Island Press, September 4, 2018.
11 “Bobby’s wife thought”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 310.
12 “unprintable outrage”: “Kennedy vs. Keating in New York.”
13 “His appearance is ever modern”: Kerry Kennedy, “Kerry Kennedy: What My Father, RFK, Means Today,” Time, May 31, 2019.
14 “Too many young people”: Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life, 299.
15 “like a Beatle”: “Kennedy, Keating Close Campaigns; Democrat Favored to Win—Senator’s Polls Show Extremely Close Race,” New York Times, November 3, 1964.
16 “in a juke box but not in an election box”: “Keating vs. Kennedy: A Near-Debate; Senator Faces Empty Seat; Democrat Tries to Sit in It,” New York Times, October 28, 1964.
17 “Let’s just go home”: “Kennedy-Keating: Finally a Face-to-Face Meeting; Keating, Kennedy Meet in a Debate on Radio Program; Candidates Discuss a Wide Range of Issues for Hour on a Late-Night Show; Hoffa’s Role Is Argued; Senator, on TV Earlier, Leaves Studio Door Open in Vain for Opponent,” New York Times, October 31, 1964.
18 “He is really very shy, but he has the kindest heart in the world”: Taraborrelli, Jackie, Ethel, Joan, 303–4.
19 The Post backs Bobby: “Kennedy, Keating Close Campaigns.”
20 Bobby wins Senate race: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 324.
21 “a way-stop for this man on the run”: R. C. Baker, “Bobby the K: Robert Kennedy Comes to New York,” Village Voice, June 6, 2018.
Chapter 29
1 Poverty note: Nicolas Lemann, “The Politics of Poverty,” Atlantic (JFK Issue), September 2013.
2 “casting a shadow on Ted”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, fortieth anniversary edition (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), 680.
3 “in the Senate, but not of it”: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 202.
4 “meteoric rise”: Lydia Saad, “Gallup Vault: A Look Back at Robert Kennedy,” Gallup, June 5, 2018.
5 George Skakel Jr. 1966 plane crash: United Press International, “Kennedy In-Law Dies in Light Plane Crash,” Desert Sun, September 24, 1966.
6 “immediately went into seclusion,” United Press International, “Kennedy In-Law Dies in Light Plane Crash.”
7 “seems to be jinxed”: “The Things Bobby Kennedy Said,” Esquire, June 5, 2018.
8 “unwilling to criticize it”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 616.
9 “a big story checking out of the Holiday Inn”: John Carr, “My Brush with History: With RFK in the Delta,” American Heritage 53, no. 2 (April/May 2002).
10 “I’ve never seen anything like this”: Larry Tye, Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon (New York: Random House, 2016), 349.
11 “waves of the nation’s poor and disinherited”: Drew Dellinger, “The Last March of Martin Luther King Jr.,” Atlantic, April 4, 2018.
12 “Mississippi’s hungry children”: Tye, Bobby Kennedy, 350.
13 “find him growing and changing”: Ted Sorensen, “RFK Assassination: Aide Recalls Tragedy Repeated” and “Excerpt: ‘Counselor,’” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, June 5, 2008.
14 “a petulant baseball player”: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 13.
15 “Somewhere in this man sits good”: Joe Scarborough, “The Metamorphosis of the Ruthless Bobby Kennedy,” Washington Post, July 22, 2016.
16 “chances for a Kennedy dynasty”: “The Things Bobby Kennedy Said,” Esquire, June 5, 2018.
17 “a psychic violence about him”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 804.