Mary's Mosaic (84 page)

4
.    Anthony Summers,
Not in Your Lifetime
(New York: Marlowe, 1998), pp. 308–309.

5
.    David Duffy and Bennett Bolton, “JFK’s Secret Mistress Assassinated Because She Knew Too Much,”
National Enquirer
, July 9, 1996, p. 17.

6
.    Bennett Bolton, interview by the author, November 8, 2005.

7
.    Douglass,
JFK and the Unspeakable
, pp. 213–217.

8
.    Nina Burleigh,
A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
(New York: Bantam, 1998), p. 220. Interviewing only Mary Fischer on the topic of Kennedy’s assassination, Burleigh never pursued any of Mary Meyer’s concerns about what had really happened in Dallas, leaving the reader to believe that she ultimately was convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald was responsible for the death of the president.

9
.    Ron Rosenbaum and Phillip Nobile, “The Curious Aftermath of JFK’s Best and Brightest Affair,”
New Times
, July 9, 1976, p. 29.

10
.   Leo Damore, interview by the author, Centerbrook, Conn., February 1992. Damore spoke often to me about what Kenny O’Donnell had told him regarding Mary Meyer’s influence on President Kennedy.

11
.   Tip O’Neill,
Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill
, with William Novak (New York: Random House, 1987), p. 178.

12
.   Ibid.

13
.   WCAP Radio producer and talk show host Woody Woodland interviewed Douglas P. Horne, author of
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK
, 5 vols. (printed by author, 2009) on the air on November 19, 2009, from Lowell, Massachusetts. During that interview, Mr. Woodland recounted verbatim his conversation with Dave Powers in late 1991, following the release of Oliver Stone’s film
JFK
.

14
.   Jim Marrs,
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 482.

15
.   David Talbot,
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
(New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 6. See also Talbot’s notes, p. 411.

16
.   Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), p. 616.

17
.   Talbot,
Brothers
, p. 7.

18
.   Ibid.

19
.   This was confirmed in my interview on July 15, 2009, with an individual who wanted to remain anonymous, and who knew well the person who had been in the presidential entourage in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The person in the president’s entourage also knew Mary Meyer very well.

20
.   Dino Brugioni, interview by the author, February 13, 2009. I first contacted Mr. Brugioni by telephone on January 30, 2009. It was during that initial interview I first learned that he had worked closely with my father, Wistar Janney, on several operations. When I made a passing reference to the Zapruder film, Brugioni corrected my reference and told me that the CIA had been in possession of the film the day after the assassination. This revelation prompted a subsequent series of interviews between Brugioni and myself that took place on February 12, 13, 14, March 6, 10, and April 30, 2009. I later visited Dino Brugioni at his home in Hartwood, Virginia, on June 27, 2009, for additional clarification and input.

21
.   Ibid.

22
.   Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 616. See “Author’s journal, December 9, 1963,” p. 988n49.

23
.   Homer McMahon, interview by the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), July 14, 1997, National Archives II, College Park, Md.

24
.   Ibid.

25
.   Brugioni, interview, February 13, 2009.

26
.   Dino Brugioni, interview by the author, Hartwood, Va., April 28, 2011.

27
.   Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
, 4: p. 1241.

28
.   Ibid., 3: p. 778.

29
.   Ibid., 1: p. 58, p. 76, p. 171; ibid., 3: pp. 727–881.

30
.   Ibid., 2: pp. 630–640. See also Appendix 23 and Appendix 28 in that volume.

31
.   David S. Lifton,
Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(New York: Macmillan, 1980); Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
,
Volume II.

32
.   Tom Wicker, “Gov. Connally Shot; Mrs. Kennedy Safe,”
New York Times
, November 23, 1963,. p. 1.

33
.   White House Transcript 1327-C. This is a verbatim record of the remarks made by Dr. Perry and Dr. Clark at the Parkland Memorial Hospital’s press conference, which convened at 3:16
P.M
on November 22, 1963. It is available at the Mary Ferrell Foundation’s website (
www.maryferrell.org
). See also Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
,
2:
p. 646.

34
.   Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
,
2:
pp. 644–645.

35
.   Testimony of Dr. Malcolm Perry, March 25 and March 30, 1964, Warren Commission Proceedings. See also Horne,
Assassination Records Review Board
,
2:
pp. 648–649.

36
.   Mark Lane, “Oswald Innocent? A Lawyer’s Brief,”
National Guardian
, December 19, 1963. Staunton Lynd and Jack Minnis, “Seeds of Doubt: Some Questions About the Assassination,”
New Republic
, December 21, 1963, pp. 14-20.

37
.   Peter Kihss, “Lawyer Urges Defense for Oswald at Inquiry,”
New York Times
, December 19, 1963.

38
.   Mark Lane, “Oswald Innocent? A Lawyer’s Brief,”
National Guardian
, December 19, 1963.

39
.   Ibid. Also, see the following: Mark Lane,
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
, (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991), p. 355. Lane quoted the December 1, 1963. article found in the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
.

40
.   Mark Lane, “Oswald Innocent? A Lawyer’s Brief,”
National Guardian
, December 19, 1963. Also in
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
, by Mark Lane (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991), p. 360.

41
.   Lane,
Plausible Denial
, p. 322.

42
.   Harry S. Truman, editorial, “U.S. Should Hold CIA to Intelligence Role,”
Washington Post
, December 22, 1963, A11. This was the title of the editorial as it appeared in the paper on the morning of December 22, 1963, but for some unknown reason it has since been cited as “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.”

43
.   John Kelin,
Praise from a Future Generation: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and the First Generation Critics of the Warren Report
(San Antonio, Tex.: Wings Press, 2007), p. 451.

44
.   Ibid., p. 553n62; John Kelin, interview by the author, September 16, 2010.

45
.   Ray Marcus, interview by the author, September 28, 2010.

46
.   Peter Dale Scott,
Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), p. 295.

47
.   Marcus, interview. John Kelin also told me he discussed this incident with Ray Marcus at some length in an interview with me on September 16, 2010, as did the disaffected former CIA analyst Raymond McGovern on February 26, 2011.

48
.   Memorandum for Mr. Lawrence R. Houston, General Counsel, from A. W. Dulles, Subject: Visit to the Honorable Harry S. Truman Friday Afternoon, April 17, 2 p.m. Doc. 95, Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence, Mo.

49
.   Harry S. Truman to William B. Arthur,
Look
, June 10, 1964, in
Compromised: Clinton, Bush, and the CIA
, by Terry Reed and John Cummings (New York: S.P.I. Books, 1994), p. ii..

50
.   Ray McGovern, “Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?,” December 29, 2009, Common Dreams (Common-Dreams.org); Ray McGovern, interview by the author, February 26, 2011.

51
.   Leo Damore stated that he had talked with William Walton and that Walton confirmed Mary had come to him grief-stricken after President Kennedy’s assassination, though there was no tape of any recorded interview or notes in any of Damore’s research. The discreet Walton may have insisted that their interview not be recorded.

52
.   Interview with William Walton, box 56 (folder 4) and box 96 (folder 9), Papers of Clay Blair, Jr., American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

53
.   Walton, interview.

54
.   Ibid.

55
.   Buehler, Frances, interview by the author, Woods Hole, Mass., June 5, 2006; Walton, interview.

56
.   Talbot.,
Brothers
, pp. 25–34.

57
.   Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy J. Naftali,
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), p. 345.

58
.   Ibid.

59
.   Talbot,
Brothers
, p. 8.

60
.   Walton, interview.

61
.   Ibid.

62
.   Ibid.

63
.   Evelyn Lincoln,
Kennedy and Johnson
(New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968), pp. 204–205.

64
.   James Wagenvoord, interview by the author, January 9, 2011.

65
.   James Wagenvoord profile, Spartacus Educational, November 3, 2009.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwagenvoord.htm
. In addition, James Wagenvoord, interview by the author, January 9, 2011.

66
.   James Wagenvoord, interview by the author, January 9, 2011.

67
.   Ibid.

68
.   Ibid.

69
.   John M. Newman,
JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power
(New York: Warner, 1992), pp. 446–447.

70
.   Tom Wicker,
JFK and LBJ: The Influence of Personality Upon Politics
(New York: William Morrow, 1968), p. 185.

71
.   Stanley Karnow,
Vietnam: A History
(New York: Viking, 1983), p. 326. Karnow has always been convinced of this quote’s accuracy, having heard
it from General Harold K. Johnson, then the Army chief of staff, who was in attendance at the White House Christmas Eve meeting with President Johnson.

72
.   Talbot, Brothers, p. 219.

73
.   Ziad Obermeyer, Christopher J. L. Murray, and Emmanuela Gakidou, “Fifty Years of Violent War Deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: Analysis of Data from World Health Survey Programme,”
British Medical Journal
336, no. 28 (June 2008). The method used by the authors indicated that 3.8 million Vietnamese died in the protracted fighting in Vietnam, mostly from 1955 to 1975, compared to previous estimates cited by the researchers of 2.1 million.