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BG | Boston Globe |
BS | Baltimore Sun |
CCCT | Corpus Christi Caller Times |
CDN | Chicago Daily News |
CSM | Christian Science Monitor |
CT | Chicago Tribune |
DMN | Dallas Morning News |
FWS-T | Fort Worth Star-Telegram |
HC | Houston Chronicle |
HP | Houston Post |
HSTL | Harry S. Truman Library |
JFKL | John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library |
JSP | Johnson Senate Papers |
LAT | Los Angeles Times |
LBJA | Lyndon Baines Johnson Archives |
LBJA CF | LBJA Congressional File |
LBJA FN | LBJA Famous Names File |
LBJA SF | LBJA Subject File |
LBJA SN | LBJA Selected Names File |
LBJL | Lyndon Baines Johnson Library |
NYDN | New York Daily News |
NYHT | New York Herald Tribune |
NYT | New York Times |
OFWJ | Office Files of Walter Jenkins |
OH | Oral History |
PPCF | Pre-Presidential Confidential File |
PPMF | Pre-Presidential Memo File |
Reedy OF | Vice Presidential Office Files of George Reedy |
SAE | San Antonio Express |
SEP | Saturday Evening Post |
SP | Steele Papers (LBJL) |
SPF | Senate Political Files |
TPR | The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson |
TPR-JFK | The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy |
USN&WR | U.S. News & World Report |
VPP | Vice Presidential Papers |
WHCF | White House Central File |
WHCF SF | White House Central File—Subject Files |
WHFN | White House Famous Names File |
WES | Washington Evening Star |
WP | Washington Post |
WS | Washington Star |
WSJ | Wall Street Journal |
“My future is behind me”
:
Busby interview.
“Go. I’m finished”
:
BeLieu interview.
“I never thought”
:
Clark interview.
“like a shock wave”
:
“The Day Kennedy Died,”
Newsweek,
Dec. 2, 1963.
“Lyndon Johnson’s ascent”
:
Graff, ed.,
The Presidents: A Reference History
, p. 595.
“There were times”
:
Greenberg and Parker, eds.,
The Kennedy Assassination and the American Public,
pp. 3, 4.
“Probably without parallel”
:
Sheatsley and Feldman, “A National Survey on Public Relations and Behavior,” in Greenberg and Parker, eds.,
The Kennedy
Assassination,
p. 153.
“Challenge”
:
Neustadt,
Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership from FDR to Carter,
p. 233.