10 “I appeal best to people who have problems”: Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama (New York: Summit Books, 1984), 349.
11 “I’m going to win one for you”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 349.
12 “I hope Los Angeles is Resurrection City”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 247.
13 “Hollywood for Kennedy”: Joseph A. Palermo, “Here’s What RFK Did in California in 1968,” HuffPost, May 25, 2011.
14 “Is Bobby Kennedy ready?” Clarke, The Last Campaign, 261.
15 “I’m planning on shooting him”: David Margolick, “Book Excerpt: After MLK Death, RFK ‘Poured His Heart Out,’” Reuters, March 29, 2018.
16 “If I’m ever elected president”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 902.
17 “We’ll make a movie star of David”: Collier and Horowitz, The Kennedys, 360.
18 “stretched out across two chairs”: Palermo, “Here’s what RFK Did in California in 1968.”
19 “none of us will ever get over John Kennedy”: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 913.
20 Frankenheimer speeding: Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times, 913.
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1 “Do we know enough about it yet?” “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles,” Newsweek, June 16, 1968.
2 “shaken off the shadow of my brother”: Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 388–89.
3 “Viva Kennedy!”: Tim Arango, “A Campaign, A Murder, A Legacy: Robert F. Kennedy’s California Story,” New York Times, June 5, 2018.
4 “This Land Is Your Land”: Richard Harwood, “With Bobby Kennedy on that Last Campaign,” Washington Post, June 5, 1988.
5 “he didn’t have any security”: Arango, “A Campaign, a Murder, a Legacy.”
6 “nobody special”: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 246–47.
7 “compassionate country”: Bill Hutchinson, “50 Years After Shots Rang Out at the Ambassador Hotel, Controversy Still Surrounds RFK’s Assassination,” ABCNews, June 5, 2018.
8 “Look after Ethel”: Niall O’Dowd, “Robert Kennedy’s Fatal Order to His Bodyguard on Night He Was Shot That Doomed Him,” Irish Central (UK), October 10, 2018.
9 “there’s a madman in here”: “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles.”
10 Sirhan Bishara Sirhan: Peter Gilstrap, “What Is It Like to Be the Brother of Robert Kennedy’s Assassin? The Life of the Other Sirhan,” Washington Post, May 31, 2018.
11 “Get this guy off in a corner”: O’Dowd, “Robert Kennedy’s Fatal Order.”
12 Chief Reddin transports Sirhan: Associated Press, “Thomas Reddin, 88, Former Los Angeles Police Chief, Is Dead,” New York Times, December 6, 2004.
13 “a steady stream of blood”: Laurel Wamsley and Emily Sullivan, “Juan Romero, Busboy Who Cradled Dying RFK, Dies at 68,” National Public Radio, October 4, 2018.
14 “Bob, Bob can you hear us?” “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles.”
15 “she was overjoyed”: “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles.”
16 “He’s going to live”: J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Kennedy Heirs (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019), 202.
17 “I’ve got his shoes”: Clarke, The Last Campaign, 8.
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1 “perfect autopsy”: Seth Augustein, “Case Study: The Assassination of RFK, and ‘The Perfect Autopsy,’” Forensic Magazine, June 19, 2018.
2 “distance of one to six inches”: John M. Crewdson, “Lowenstein Says Year’s Study of Evidence Shows Sirhan Was Not Assassin of Kennedy,” New York Times, December 16, 1974.
3 “Don’t look at him”: Interview with John Tunney by Stephen F. Knott and James Sterling Young, The Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in partnership with the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, May 3, 2007.
4 “killing all the Kennedys”: Associated Press, “Pierre Salinger Dies at 79,” NBC News, October 17, 2004.
5 “same kind of disaster”: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 475.
6 “death of the president”: Peter S. Canellos, ed., Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010), 137.
7 Rumors of Joe Sr.’s death: David Margolick, “Robert F. Kennedy’s Final Flight: The Storied Journey of the Ride from California to New York,” Washington Post, June 3, 2018.
8 “Air Force jets bear the bodies”: Margolick, “Robert F. Kennedy’s Final Flight.”
9 “three widows”: Margolick.
10 Bobby’s funeral: “Robert Kennedy Shot, Killed in Los Angeles,” Newsweek, June 16, 1968.
11 “started kicking the box”: Richard Harwood, “With Bobby Kennedy on That Last Campaign,” Washington Post, June 5, 1988.
12 Bobby’s funeral train: Thurston Clarke, The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), 6.