Mary's Mosaic (83 page)

65
.   Theodore Sorensen, interview by the author, January 10, 2006.

66
.   John F. Kennedy, “American University Commencement Address” (speech, American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963), American Rhetoric,
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkamericanuniversityaddress.html
(authenticity certified).

67
.   Max Frankel, “Harriman to Lead Test-Ban Mission to Soviet in July; Kennedy Envoy Expected to Tell Khrushchev of Hope for Nuclear Breakthrough,”
New York Times
, June 12, 1963, p. 1.

68
.   Kennedy, “American University Commencement Address.”

69
.   Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 311.

70
.   Kennedy, “American University Commencement Address.”

71
.   Ibid.

72
.   Ibid.

73
.   Ibid.

74
.   Ibid.

75
.   Ibid.

76
.   Ibid.

77
.   Message from Chairmen Khrushchev and Brezhnev to President Kennedy, July 4, 1963, Department of State, Presidential Files: Lot 66 D 204 (no classification marking). The source text is a Department of State translation of a commercial telegram from Moscow. Another copy of this
message and the transliterated Russian text is in the National Security Files, Countries Series, USR, Khrushchev Correspondence, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Mass.

78
.   Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable
, p. 46.

79
.   Richard Reeves,
President Kennedy: Profiles of Power
(New York: Touchstone, 1993), p. 545.

80
.   Ibid., p. 549.

81
.   John F. Kennedy, “Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation,” (televised speech, July 26, 1963), American Rhetoric,
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfknucleartestbantreaty.htm
(authenticity certified).

82
.   Joseph Alsop to Evangeline Bruce, June 12, 1963, Joseph Alsop and Steward Alsop Papers, Part III, Box 130, Library of Congress.

83
.   William Attwood,
The Reds and the Blacks: A Personal Adventure
(New York: Harper & Row, 1967), pp. 133–134.

84
.   John F. Kennedy, “Civil Rights Address” (televised speech, June 11, 1963), American Rhetoric,
www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkcivilrights.htm
(authenticity certified).

85
.   White House Telephone Memorandum for June 12, 1963, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Mass. “Mrs. Meyers [
sic
]” called at 2:14
P.M
. and was transferred to the president by Evelyn Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln recorded her phone number as “FE 7 2697.”

86
.   White House Secret Service logs show “Mary Meyers” signed in at 7:30
P.M
. on July 3, 1963, and was escorted to the White House residence. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Mass.

87
.   Leary,
Flashbacks
, p. 178.

88
.   Ibid., pp. 178–179.

89
.   Timothy Leary, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1990.

90
.   Halberstam,
Powers That Be
, pp. 382–383.

91
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 169.

92
.   Felsenthal,
Power, Privilege and the Post
, p. 218.

93
.   Graham,
Personal History
, p. 331.

94
.   “Interview with Deborah Davis,” p. 83.

95
.   Graham,
Personal History
, p. 332. Katharine Graham documented “William Smith” as their “caretaker” at Glen Welby at the time of Phil Graham’s death.

96
.   Dovey Roundtree, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., February 23, 1991.

97
.   Bill Corson made this remark to Roger Charles at the time of the Senate subcommittee hearings led by Senator Frank Church in 1977 when Charles commented on the number of alleged “suicides” that had taken place in connection with the Kennedy assassination. Roger Charles reiterated Corson’s comment to me in December 2010.

98
.   William E. Colby, testimony, U.S. Senate, September 16, 1975,
Hearings Before the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities
, vol. 1, pp. 16–17.

99
.   Davis,
Katharine the Great
(1979), p. 160.

100
.  Michael Hasty, “Secret Admirers: The Bushes and the Washington Post,”
Online Journal
, February 5, 2004.

101
.  Norman Solomon, “Katharine Graham and History: Slanting the First Draft,” July 19, 2001, FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting,
www.fair.org/index.php?page=2140
.

102
.  Speech given in 1988 by
Washington Post
editor-owner Katharine Graham at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to senior CIA employees. See the following: Stephen L. Vaughn,
Encyclopedia of American Journalism
(New York: Routledge, 2008), p. 201.

103
.  Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 395.

104
.  Ibid., p. 398.

105
.  Peter Evans,
Nemesis
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 77.

106
.  Ibid., p. 105.

107
.  Leary,
Flashbacks
, pp. 190–191.

108
.  Ibid.

109
.  Timothy Leary, interview by Leo Damore, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1990.

110
.  Stephen Siff, “Henry Luce’s Strange Trip—Coverage of LSD in
Time
and
Life
, 1954–1968,”
Journalism History
34, no. 3 (Fall 2008): pp. 126–134.

111
.  Alan Brinkley,
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
(New York: Knopf, 2010), p. 434.

112
.  Graham,
Personal History
, p. 196.

113
.  Ibid., p. 305.

114
.  Ibid., pp. 343–344.

115
.  Ibid., p. 492.

116
.  “Interview with Deborah Davis,” p. 83.

117
.  Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 411.

118
.  Telegram from the Embassy in the Soviet Union to the Department of State, October 10, 1963, “Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges,” no. 118.

119
.  Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable
, p. 267.

120
.  Leo, Damore, interview by the author, Centerbrook, Conn., February 1992.

121
.  Kenneth P. O’Donnell and David F. Powers,
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(New York: Pocket Books, 1973), p. 16.

122
.  Simone Attwood, interview by the author, Ithaca, N.Y., November 3, 2009.

123
.  Gordon Chase, “Cuba—Policy,” White House memorandum, April 11, 1963, access link in “Kennedy Sought Dialogue with Cuba: Initiative with Castro Aborted by Assassination, Declassified Documents Show,” National Security Archive,
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/index.htm
.

124
.  David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 228.

125
.  Interview with Jean Daniel,
Kennedy and Castro: The Secret History
, Discovery/Times, November 25, 2003.

126
.  Ibid.

127
.  Ibid.

128
.  Talbot,
Brothers
, p. 217.

129
.  Arthur Krock, “The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam,” In the Nation,
New York Times
, October 3, 1963, p. 34.

130
.  Robert McNamara made the following comment during Errol Morris’s film
The Fog of War
: “I was present with the President when together we received information of that coup. I’ve never seen him more upset. He totally blanched. President Kennedy and I had tremendous problems with Diem, but my God, he was the authority, he was the head of state. And he was overthrown by a military coup. And Kennedy knew and I knew, that to some degree, the U.S. government was responsible for that.”

131
.  Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 220.

132
.  Smith,
Grace and Power
, p. 444.

133
.  Ibid., p. 454.

134
.  Ariel Dougherty, interview by the author, December 3, 2009. Ms. Dougherty was a student at Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., when Mary Meyer and Ken Noland taught art studio classes in the late 1950s, as was the author.

135
.  Leary,
Flashbacks
, p. 194.

136
.  Ibid. Timothy Leary also reiterated this event to Leo Damore during his interview of November 7, 1990.

137
.  Leary, interview.

Chapter 11.
After Dallas

1
.    Jim Marrs, interview by the author, August 13, 2011. See also: John Armstrong, “Harvey, Lee and Tippit: A New Look at the Tippit Shooting,”
Probe
, January-February, 1998 issue (Vol.5 No. 2).
http://www.ctka.net/pr198-jfk.html
While the 1964 Warren Report maintained that officer J.D. Tippit was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald at about 1:15
P.M
., many researchers continue to place Oswald in the balcony of the Texas Theater “shortly after 1:00
P.M
.” According to author Marrs, and assassination researcher John Armstrong, Butch Burroughs was an employee at the Texas Theater. He heard someone enter the theater shortly after 1:00
P.M
. and go to the balcony. It was Lee Harvey Oswald who had apparently entered the theater and gone to the balcony without being initially seen
by Burroughs. At approximately 1:15
P.M
., Oswald came down from the balcony and bought popcorn from Burroughs. Burroughs then watched him walk down the aisle and take a seat on the main floor.

2
.    Matthew Walton, interview by the author, Woods Hole, Mass., August 28, 2007. Matthew recalled Agnes Meyer making the remark to his father, William Walton.

3
.    James W. Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
(Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2008), pp. 202–207, pp. 213–214. See also Abraham Bolden,
The Echo from Dealey Plaza
(New York: Harmony, 2008), pp. 55–56, p. 58. Secret Service agent Bolden documented the initial evidence for this assassination attempt in Chicago.