JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President (60 page)

Nerves may have caused him to flub
:
Houston speech transcript, JFKL Web site.

Kennedy chewed her out for a slip-up
:
Gallagher, pp. 316–17.

They could not sleep in the same bed
:
Leaming (
Mrs. Kennedy
), p. 333.

“You were great today”
:
Manchester (
Death
),
p. 87.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Kennedy woke to hear
:
Bishop (
The Day
), p. 5.

Then he slipped on the white shirt
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 112.

“Gosh, just look at the crowds”
:
Gallagher, p. 318.

“Just look at the platform”
:
Lawrence O’Brien, pp. 156–57.

He showed O’Brien the front page
:
Dallas Morning News,
November 22, 1963.

“Christ, I come all the way down here”
:
Gillon, p. 20.

“I don’t care if you have to throw”
:
Lawrence O’Brien, p. 156.

“Some Texans, in taking account”
:
Chicago Sun-Times,
November 22, 1963.

“And weren’t the crowds great”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 112.

Speech at the parking lot rally
:
JFKL Web site.

“These are my kind of people”
:
Manchester (
Remembering
), p. 18.

“Things are going much better”
:
Brandon (
Special
), p. 196.

339
As Jackie walked into the ballroom
:
Speech in Hotel Texas ballroom:
JFKL Web site; film at Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas.

Back in their suite she said
:
Bergquist and Tretick, p. 172; O’Donnell and Powers, p. 24.

Ted Dealey, had come to the White House
:
Manchester (
Death
), pp. 48–49.

Kennedy fired back
:
Ibid.;
NYT,
November 5, 1961.

He answered Dealey again
:
Schlesinger (
Thousand
), p. 753.

“Oh, you know, we’re heading”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 25; Manchester (
Death
), p. 121;
ES,
November 22, 1963.

Some residents of “nut country” had woken
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 64.

“You know, last night”
:
Ibid., p. 121.

He and Jackie had been in the suite
:
Ibid., pp. 120–21; Pottker, p. 213; William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 43, Wesleyan Library.

“Isn’t this sweet, Jack”
:
Ibid.

Instead, he grabbed a telephone book
:
Ibid.

“You can be sure of one thing”
:
Wicker, p. 158; Reston, p. 273.

Secret Service
Agent Roy Kellerman told
O’Donnell
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 25.

“They put me in a bubble top thing”
:
Martin (
Seeds
), pp. 452–53.

he thought the space program “needed a boost”
:
Logsdon, p. 218.

“Equal choice / not any reflection”
:
JFKPP (addition 2005), Box 50, JFKL.

“How can anyone say no”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 26.

“Please, when we go to Dallas”
:
McHugh, JFKLOH.

When he landed at Love Field in 1961
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 47.

“This trip is turning out”
:
O’Donnell and Powers, p. 26.

“You two look like Mr. and Mrs. America”
:
Ibid.

A reporter watching her emerge
:
MacNeil, p. 187.

This was the first time that most at Love Field
:
Jerry Crow, OH, Sixth Floor Museum archives.

A Dallas woman said she was amazed
:
Van Buren, p. 74.

“I can see his suntan”
:
Bugliosi, p. 27.

“He’s broken away from the program”
:
Film archives, Sixth Floor Museum.

The Texas journalist Ronnie Dugger
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 131.

It was the first time
:
Lieberson, p. 222.

Sorensen’s observation
:
Sorensen (
Counselor
), p. 102.

Laura Bergquist’s “fascinating human animal”
:
Bergquist Papers, Boston University Library.

what Sidey called “a serious man”
:
John F. Kennedy (
Prelude
), p. xxii.

A local broadcaster called his welcome
:
Film archives, Sixth Floor Museum.

Some high school students
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 128.

“You’re a traiter”
:
Ibid.

“Help JFK Stamp Out”
:
Ibid.

“Mr. President, because of your”
:
ES,
November 23, 1963.

“It’s wonderful”
:
Roberts, JFKLOH; MacNeil, p. 186.

As they were pulling away, Kennedy noticed
:
Jerry Crow, OH, Sixth Floor Museum.

Connally had wanted him to speak
:
Bruno and Greenfield, pp. 89–92.

Connally might have forgotten
:
John Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,”
Life,
November 22, 1967; testimony of John and Nellie Connally to House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), available on National Archives Web site.

Yarborough might not have remembered thinking
:
Yarborough, JFKLOH.

Nor would John and Nellie Connally have recalled
:
Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,”
Life,
November 22, 1967; testimony of John and Nellie Connally to HSCA, available on National Archives Web site.

or that he had stopped to greet some children
:
Ibid.

or that a teenaged boy had darted
:
Sixth Floor Museum archives.

“Thank you, thank you”
:
Connally, “Why Kennedy Went to Texas,”
Life,
November 22, 1967.

they had spilled into the street
:
Clint Hill, OH, Sixth Floor Museum.

“How pleasant that cool tunnel”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 154.

“You sure can’t say that”
:
Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 7; Manchester (
Death
), p. 154.

“No, you can’t”
:
Manchester (
Death
),p. 154.

He heard some loud bangs
:
Trask, p. 32.

Nellie Connally remembered his eyes
:
Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 7.

Agent Kellerman thought he said
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 157.

His back brace kept him upright
:
Dallek (
Unfinished
), p. 694; James Reston, Jr., “That ‘Damned Girdle’: The Hidden Factor That Might Have Killed Kennedy,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 22, 2004.

Jackie cried out
:
Nellie Connally and Herskowitz, p. 8.

AFTER DALLAS

Jackie wept first
:
Semple, p. 27; Manchester (
Death
), p. 163.

In New York, there was a murmur
:
Fries and Wilson, p. 13.

Advertising men in tailored suits hurried
:
Reaction in New York City:
NYT,
November 23, 1963.

Chorus girls rehearsing
:
Fries and Wilson, p. 162.

a rookie police officer wept
:
Van Buren, p. 9.

In his Senate office, Senator Hubert Humphrey
:
Fries and Wilson, p. 226.

Senator Fulbright jumped up
:
Fleming, pp. 23–24.

“That Dallas!”
:
McKeever, p. 539.

Medgar Evers’s widow thought
:
Fleming, p. 158.

In Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley
:
Semple, p. 83.

in the Solomon Islands
:
Hamilton, p. 602.

At Harvard, a girl wept
:
Salinger and Vanocur, p. 153.

When the captain of a transatlantic jet
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 498.

When Rusk announced
:
Salinger, p. 8.

President
Truman cried so much
:
Louchheim, p. 120.

A poem by the columnist
:
Ibid., p. 32.

The cartoonist Bill Mauldin
:
Ibid., p. 39.

A twelve-year-old girl in Oregon
:
Van Buren, p. 140.

A girl remembered her mother
:
Ibid., p. 48.

schoolchildren in Texas cheering
:
Bob Moser, “Welcome to Texas, Mr. Obama,”
Texas Observer,
August 4, 2010.

Schlesinger was appalled by Stevenson’s reaction
:
Schlesinger (
Journals
), p. 208.

Algeria declared a week of official mourning
:
Dear Abby, pp. 92–105.

Thousands of Poles
:
United States Information Agency, Box 2, JFKL.

Khrushchev instructed his wife
:
Sergei Khrushchev, p. 698.

The woman narrating a documentary
:
NYT,
November 25, 1963.

tears filled Gromyko’s eyes
:
Semple, p. 218.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was reading
:
Stein, p. 198.

“People cried in the street”
:
Douglas, p. 366; Manchester (
Death
), p. 557.

Sir Laurence Olivier interrupted
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 497.

“There has never been anything like it”
:
Joseph Alsop Papers, Box 19, folder 6, LOC.

“openly crying in the street”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 498.

Sixty thousand West Berliners
:
Ibid.

Workmen in Nice
:
United States Information Agency, Box 2, JFKL.

“Never, perhaps, has the death”
:
Manchester (
Death
), p. 498.

“he [Kennedy] reestablished”
:
Walt Rostow, JFKLOH.

A postman in a Connecticut
:
Semple, p. 78.

A Detroit housewife said
:
Ibid., p. 383.

Jimmy Carter cried
:
Fleming, p. 104.

McGeorge Bundy admitted
:
Alsop, p. 512.

Roswell Gilpatric believed
:
Gilpatric, JFKLOH.

The columnist Joe Alsop said
:
Alsop, p. 511.

In a condolence letter
:
William Manchester Papers (
Death of a President
), Box 42, Wesleyan Library.