Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story (45 page)

“He liked her…”: George Smathers, author interview.

“She quit bothering…”: Ibid.

“He loves pleasure…”: Alphand,
L’étonnement d’être
.

“low-key”: Mary Taylor, author interview.

“She was very…”: Ibid.

“a proper trip”: Larry Newman, author interview.

“I never saw…”: Ibid.

“Would you not…”: Concerned Citizens of America press release, August 29, 1962, John F. Kennedy Library.

“They had turned…”: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“never seen anything…”: Ibid.

“good for her”: Pamela Turnure and Nancy Tuckerman, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“a poor impression”: Henry Labouisse to Dean Rusk, September 3, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

angry letter-writers: White House social files, Jacqueline Kennedy Greek trip, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“gesture of contrition”:
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: Memorial Tributes in the One Hundred Third Congress of the United States
(Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995).

“big, hesitant smile”: Notes of Mrs. Johnson, June 15, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

“I think she…”: Pamela Turnure and Nancy Tuckerman, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“almost the focus…”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“You were great…”: William Manchester,
The Death of a President
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967).

“And, then…”: Maier,
The Kennedys
.

Seven

If only she had been looking to the right: Jacqueline Kennedy, Warren Commission testimony.

random backfire: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“My God, they are…”: Nellie Connally, notes on the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

First with her right, then with…: Zapruder film and film stills; Gerald Posner,
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
(New York: Random House, 1993).

“I have his brains…” Nellie Connally, notes on the assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

feared she was about: Dave Powers, Warren Commission testimony.

pushed her: Clint Hill, Warren Commission testimony.

to keep the brains: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“He’s dead…”: Ibid.

“No, I want…”: Paul Landis, Secret Service internal report testimony.

judged that the president: Posner,
Case Closed
.

looking but not seeing: Clint Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
(New York: Gallery, 2012).

pushed her out of the way: Diana Bowman, Warren Commission testimony.

dropped to her knees: Dr. Malcolm Perry, Warren Commission testimony.

erupted from his skull: Dr. Marion Jenkins, Warren Commission testimony.

presented him with a fragment: Posner,
Case Closed
.

in four sheets: Doris Nelson, Warren Commission testimony.

plastic mattress cover: Ibid.

“deathly still”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“a completely glazed…” Ibid.

In the belief that any delay…: Kenneth O’Donnell, Warren Commission testimony.

“We arrived…”: Kenneth O’Donnell, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

Gazing in the bathroom mirror: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“almost saturated…”: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“were in a…”: Liz Carpenter, December 1963 notes on assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

sweltering: Charles Roberts, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“by the elbows”: Ibid.

“God bless you…”: Ibid.

“streaked with tears”: Liz Carpenter, December 1963 notes on assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

“a kind of chemical…”: Joseph Alsop, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“It was as though…”: Ibid.

those returning from the battlefield: See Charles W. Hoge,
Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior
(Guilford, Conn.: GPP Life, 2010).

spoke of the motorcade: William Manchester,
The Death of a President
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967).

bereaved and traumatized: On the distinction, see Lenore Terr,
Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood
(New York: Harper & Row, 1990).

talkathon: Manchester,
Death of a President
.

“She moved in a…”: Benjamin C. Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
(New York: Norton, 1975).

“She was in…”: Robert McNamara quoted in Manchester,
Death of a President
.

“keyed up”: Manchester,
Death of a President
.

it was quickly discovered: George W. Ball,
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
(New York: Norton, 1982).

“under no circumstances…”: Merle Miller,
Lyndon: An Oral Biography
(New York: Ballantine, 1981).

might target: Ball,
Past Has Another Pattern
.

revenge-seeker: Ibid.

“They can ride…”: Hill,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
.

“I shall walk…”: Dean Rusk,
As I Saw It
(New York: Norton, 1990).

“From the tone…”: Rita Dallas,
The Kennedy Case
(New York: Putnam, 1973).

“in total detail”: Ibid.

“total recall”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“the scene took over…”: Theodore H. White,
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978).

“provoked John Kennedy…”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).

“When this is over…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“I said to myself…”: Ibid.

“blood scene”: White,
In Search of History
.

“it was all told…”: Ibid.

“There’d been…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“softly”: White,
In Search of History
.

“These big Texas…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“she lived the…”: White,
In Search of History
.

the brain’s limbic system: On the nature of limbic memory, see Hoge,
Once a Warrior
.

“floodgates”: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

“I want to say…”: Theodore White, original notes delivered to Mrs. Kennedy, December 19, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“lonely sick boy”: Ibid.

“reverted to the…”: White,
In Search of History
.

“satin-red history”: Theodore White’s handwritten notes of Camelot interview with Jacqueline Kennedy, November 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“rough-typed”: Theodore White to Jacqueline Kennedy, April 27, 1963, John F. Kennedy Library.

“historical material”: Ibid.

Eight

“I just wanted…”: Lyndon Johnson conversation with Jacqueline Kennedy, December 2, 1963, Miller Center, University of Virginia.

initially hoped: Deborah Devonshire diary.

“didn’t dare bother”: Lyndon Johnson conversation with Jacqueline Kennedy, December 2, 1963, Miller Center, University of Virginia.

“You got some…”: Ibid.

“Don’t send me…”: Ibid.

“God almighty!”: Michael Beschloss, ed.,
Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001).

“so that he would…”: Jim Bishop,
The Day Kennedy Was Shot
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968).

“to reclaim the throne”: Lyndon Johnson quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin,
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1991).

“the one person”: Deborah Devonshire diary.

“Shall we go…”: Evan Thomas,
Robert Kennedy: His Life
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).

“the most shattered…”: Pierre Salinger quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).

“to set the stage…”: Charles Bartlett, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“bargaining power”: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Journals, 1952–2000
(New York: Penguin, 2007).

“be finished forever…”: Ibid.

“Yes, but there…”: Ibid.

“coming up, coming up”: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

manageable: William Manchester,
Controversy
(New York: Little, Brown, 1976).

“as if her life…”: Philip M. Hannan,
The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots: Memoir of an Extraordinary Life
(Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 2010).

more appropriate: Ibid.

“Eventually, the conversation…”: Ibid.

“She understood that…”: Ibid.

“Jackie’s bedroom…”: Mary Barelli Gallagher,
My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy
(New York: McKay, 1969).

recurrent nightmares: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

“so bitter”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, January 31, 1964, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“then I could have…” Jacqueline Kennedy, Warren Commission testimony.

red roses: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

his bounden duty: Andrew Devonshire, author interview.

a wrenching experience: Jean Lloyd, author interview.

“company and friend…”: McGeorge Bundy, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

played with Jackie’s daughter:
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York: Hyperion, 2011).

reported to a friend: Jean Lloyd, author interview.

“How did she…”: Schlesinger,
Journals
.

in which his back was turned: Jacqueline Kennedy to Margaret McNamara, December 11, 1963, Sotheby’s.

“Good night, Daddy”: Ibid.

brought to the surface: Ibid.

“a good time for…”: Maud Shaw,
White House Nanny: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr.
(New York: New American Library, 1966).

showed the decorator: Billy Baldwin,
Billy Baldwin Remembers
(New York: Harcourt, 1974).

how much Jack had loved him: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, January 31, 1964, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“a new life”: Ibid.

“I don’t like…”: Hannan,
Archbishop Wore Combat Boots
.

she feared that real danger: Betty Coxe Spalding, author interview.

alarmed: Baldwin,
Billy Baldwin Remembers
.

“my house with…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Joseph Alsop, September 8, 1968, Library of Congress.

“I was shocked…”: Baldwin,
Billy Baldwin Remembers
.

“could ever have been”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, June 1, 1964, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“the rock that I…”: Ibid.

“word for…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, May 17, 1965, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“crashing back…”: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, January 19, 1968, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“read & re-read”: Harold Macmillan to Jacqueline Kennedy, February 18, 1964, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

“lived through two wars”: Ibid.

“scarcely a friend…”: Ibid.

“But this…”: Ibid.

“a sort of…”: Ibid.

“You have shown…”: Ibid.

undertook to write back: Jacqueline Kennedy to Harold Macmillan, June 1, 1964, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

when in the morning: Ibid.

asked David: Ibid.

“a little better”: Ibid.

with alacrity: Schlesinger,
Journals
.

excruciating:
Look
magazine, November 17, 1964.

“bound in black…”:
Look
magazine, April 4, 1967.

contrived to deal: Edwin Guthman, author interview.

“overwhelming”: Charles Spalding, interview, John F. Kennedy Library.

“everybody’s terrible sense…”: Ibid.

“I remember…”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
.

her emotional state: John Corry,
The Manchester Affair
(New York: Putnam, 1967).

“I don’t know…”: Thomas Maier,
The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings
(New York: Basic Books, 2003).

“I would have been able…”: Ibid.

“Do you think God…”: Ibid.

“to pray…”: Ibid.

“a cameolike quality…”: William Manchester,
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
(New York: Dell, 1982).

the hyperawareness that soldiers experience: See Charles W. Hoge,
Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior
(Guilford, Conn.: GPP Life, 2010).

“It lay too deep…”: Manchester,
Goodbye, Darkness
.

“a troubled man…”: Ibid.

“It’s rather hard…”: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

daiquiris: Manchester,
Controversy
.

“abrupt, often monosyllabic…”: Ibid.

she needed to learn somehow: See Bessel A. van der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, and Onno van der Hart, “A General Approach to Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” in Bessel A. van der Kolk, Alexander C. McFarlane, and Lars Weisaeth, eds.,
Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
(New York: Guilford Press, 1996).

“I just talked…”: Jacqueline Kennedy, interview, Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

“was really thinking…”: Thomas Maier,
The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings
(New York: Basic Books, 2000).

“I was glad…”: Ibid.

“to climb a little…”: Hannan,
Archbishop Wore Combat Boots
.