The Patriarch (106 page)

16
. REFK,
TTR,
132–34; REFK, autobiography notes, box 10, REKFP.

17
. REFK,
TTR,
120–21.

18
. Cari Beauchamp,
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 66.

19
. JPK to Turner, Apr. 6, 15, May 6, July 2, 1925, box 37, JPKP; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.

20
. JPK to REFK, Aug. 17, 18, 1925, box 1, JPKP.

21
. JPK to REFK, family, Aug. 23, 1925; JPK to JFK, Sept. 1, 1925, Smith,
HTF,
44–45.

22
. JPK to REFK, Sept. 6, 1925, box 55, REFKP.

23
. Terry Ramsaye, “Intimate Visits to the Homes of Famous Film Magnates,”
Photoplay,
Sept. 1927, 50.

24
. JPK to William Gray, Feb. 5, 1926, box 69; Byrnes to JPK, Feb. 8, 1926; JPK to Byrnes, Feb. 9, 1926, box 68, JPKP.

25
. JPK to Schnitzer, Feb. 11, 1926, box 48, JPKP, Beauchamp,
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents,
73–74.

26
. John B. Kennedy, “Joe Kennedy Has . . . , 148.

27
. Gray to JPK, Mar. 6, 1926, w.b. 31, JPKP.

28
. JPK to Quigley, [Aug.] 20, 1926, Martin J. Quigley Papers, special collections, Georgetown University Library.

29
. Scollard to Silverman, Feb. 6, 1930, w.b. 31, JPKP.

30
. Frances Marion,
Off With their Heads!
(New York: Macmillan, 1972), 90–91.

31
. Beauchamp,
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents,
82–83.

32
. Garth Jowett,
Film: The Democratic Art
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1976), 87–88.

33
.
BDG,
Aug. 4, 1926.

34
. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12; REFK and RC, Feb. 23, 1972, box 1, REFKP.

35
. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 13, 1926, box 1, JPKP.

36
. JPK to JPK, Jr., July 28, 1926, box 1, JPKP.

37
. Beaverbrook to JPK, July 23, 1926, box 48, JPKP;
BDG,
Sept. 29, 1926.

38
.
MPW,
Oct. 16, 1926.

39
.
MPW,
Dec. 11, 1926.

40
. JPK to W. B. Dunham, Apr. 27, 1927, box 49, JPKP.

41
. JPK to Hays, Jan. 22, 1927, box 49, JPKP.

42
. JPK to Zukor, Jan. 22, 1927; JPK to Kent, Jan. 22, 1927, box 49, JPKP.

43
. DeMille to JPK, Feb. 25, 1927, JPK to DeMille, Mar. 18, 1927, box 285, folder 7, DeMille.

44
. JPK to Hays, May 6, 1927, box 49, JPKP.

45
. Cari Beauchamp,
Without Lying Down
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 162–64, 188; Marion,
Off With Their Heads!
166.

46
. J. W. Powell to Lackey, June 7, 1927; Powell to Buchanan, June 10, 1927, box 48, JPKP.

47
. Ramsaye, “Intimate Visits to the Homes of Famous Film Magnates,” 50.

48
. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.

49
. RC and REFK, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.

SEVEN: HOLLYWOOD

1
. REFK, autobiography notes, box 10, REFKP.

2
. Brian Burns to author, Apr. 22, 2010.

3
. REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP; JPK to Thomson, Sept. 20, 1927, Smith,
HTF,
54.

4
. Student records, school photos, Riverdale.

5
. JPK to Julian Johnson, Sept. 30, 1927; JPK to Motion Picture Commission, State of New York, Oct. 14, 1927, box 51, JPKP.

6
. Beauchamp,
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents,
166–67.

7
. Kane to JPK, Nov. 7, box 55, JPKP.

8
. Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
327–33.

9
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.

10
. Beauchamp,
Joseph P. Kennedy Presents,
125.

11
. Joseph P. Kennedy, ed.,
The Story of the Films
(Chicago: A. W. Shaw Co., 1927), 16–17.

12
. Richard Koszarski,
An Evening’s Entertainment
(1990; repr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 262.

13
. JPK to Milton Cohen, Dec. 20, 1927, box 55, JPKP.

14
. Sarnoff,
FB
folders, EMKP.

15
. Derr to JPK, Jan. 25, 1928, w.b. 29; Derr to Moore, Jan. 31, 1928, box 55, JPKP.

16
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.

17
. Derr to JPK, Feb. 10, 1928, box 55, JPKP; FBO Studios, memorandum, n.d., box 114, folder 2, Swanson.

18
. “Pathé A stock” memorandum, box 63, JPKP.

19
. LeBaron to REFK, n.d., box 130, REFKP.

20
. Memorandum headed Pathé Exchange Inc., n.d., w.b. 30, JPKP.

21
. Murdock to JPK, Feb. 15, 1928, box 63, JPKP;
FD,
Feb. 15, 1928;
V
, Feb. 22, 1928.

22
. DeMille to JPK, draft, n.d., CBDMA XII, Cecil B. DeMille Productions, correspondence, box 778, DeMille.

23
. JPK to Walker, Mar. 23, 1928, box 63, JPKP.

24
. Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
342, 359.

25
. GS, notes, box 7, folder 7, Swanson.

26
. Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
344.

27
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.

28
. Walker to JPK, May 9, 1928; JPK to Albee, May 10, 1928, box 63, JPKP; “Deal Book,” Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation, 1928, Lehman.

29
. JPK to Ford, two letters, July 2, 1928, Smith,
HTF,
76.

30
.
LAT,
May 23, 1928;
EHMPW,
Aug. 4, 1928.

31
.
EHMPW,
May 19, 1928.

32
. Richard Koszarski,
Von
(1983; repr., New York: Limelight, 2002), 236; JPK to Mayer, May 25, 1928, Smith,
HTF,
74–75.

33
.
V,
June 16, 1928.

34
. Carr,
LAT,
July 22, 1928.

35
.
FD,
July 23, 24, 1928.

36
.
FD,
July 22, 1928.

37
. Memorandum of conference, July 24, 1928, box 63, JPKP.

38
.
FD,
Aug. 19, 1928.

39
.
FD,
Aug. 5, 1928.

40
.
NYT,
Aug. 11, 1928; “Points for Consideration,” Aug. 9, 1928, box 68, JPKP.

41
.
FD,
Aug. 12, 1928.

42
. Rossheim to JPK, Aug. 15, 1928, box 68, JPKP.

43
.
LAT,
Aug. 19, 1928.

44
.
FD,
Aug. 23, 1928.

EIGHT: GLORIA AND ROSE

1
. Thomas Carens, “A New Mogul of the Movies,”
NYHT,
Sunday Magazine, Sept. 16, 1928, 8.

2
. “Address by Joseph P. Kennedy,” Sept. 30, 1928, box 68, JPKP.

3
. Sarnoff to JPK, Nov. 5, 1928; JPK to Sarnoff, Nov. 6, 1928, box 64, JPKP.

4
.
BDG,
Oct. 25, 1928.

5
. Film Booking Office and Keith-Albee-Orpheum memos, w.b. 30; statements, w.b. 12, JPKP.

6
. Pathé Exchange, Inc., memorandums, n.d., w.b. 30, JPKP.

7
. Trial balances, 1926, withdrawn oversize box 3.6.1; trial balances, 1929, w.b. 8, JPKP.

8
. EMK to author, Aug. 21, 2007; Leo Damore,
The Cape Cod Years of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967), 21.

9
. Edward M. Kennedy,
True Compass
(
TC
) (New York: Twelve, 2009), 31.

10
. REFK,
TTR,
145;
NYT,
June 6, 1929; EMK,
TC,
37, 39–40.

11
. JKS to author, July 15, 2008.

12
. FDR to JPK, Sept. 13, 1928, box 36, JPKP.

13
. REFK and RC, Jan. 6, 1972, box 10, REFKP; JPK to Adams, Apr. 13, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
83.

14
.
LAT,
Oct. 21, 1928.

15
. Derr to JPK, Dec. 6, 1928, box 57, JPKP.

16
. Scollard to Mark Markoff, Jan. 8, 1929, box 56, JPKP; Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
372.

17
. GS to JPK, Jan. 21, 1929, box 56, JPKP.

18
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 10, Swanson.

19
. Derr to Moore, Jan. 25, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
78–81.

20
. Derr to Scollard, Feb. 15, 1929, w.b. 29, JPKP.

21
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 7, Swanson.

22
. JPK to Marquis de la Falaise, Mar. 13, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
81–82.

23
. Bill Yen,
Santa Fe Chiefs
(St. Paul, MN: MBI, 1905), 41, 46.

24
. JPK to GS, Apr. 23, 1929, box 56, JPKP.

25
. JPK to Marquis de la Falaise, Apr. 15, 1929, box 57, JPKP.

26
. Assorted memorandums, w.b. 30; “Agreement Made as of the 1st Day of April, 1929 . . . Pathé,” box 63, JPKP.

27
. JPK to JPK, Jr., June 3, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
84.

28
. JPK to JFK, June 3, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
85.

29
. JPK to Watson [Swanson], n.d., box 100, folder 15, Swanson.

30
. Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
383.

31
. Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
388–89; REFK, “Married Life,” box 12, REFKP.

32
. GS, notes, box 270, folder 8, Swanson.

33
. REFK to RC, Jan. 4, 1972, box 10, REFKP.

34
. KKH to REFK, Feb. 12, 1932, box 1, JPKP.

35
. REFK,
TTR,
101–2; Crossman to GS, Dec. 26, 1929, box 33, folder 8, Swanson.

36
. GS, notes, n.d., box 270, folder 8, Swanson; Swanson,
Swanson on Swanson,
392–95.

37
. GS, “Joe Rosebud,” n.d., box 271, folder 6, Swanson.

NINE: LAST EXIT FROM HOLLYWOOD

1
. REFK,
TTR,
145; JPK to JPK, Jr., June 3, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
84.

2
. REFK,
TTR,
147.

3
. JPK to W. St. John, Apr. 20, 1929, in Nigel Hamilton,
JFK: Reckless Youth
(New York: Random House, 1992), 82.

4
. St. John to JPK, May 20, 1929, box 20, JPKP.

5
. JPK to JPK, Jr., Oct. 1, 1929, box 1, JPKP.

6
. REFK,
TTR,
134.

7
. Janice Brockley, “Rearing the Child Who Never Grew,” in
Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader,
ed. Steven Noll and James W. Trent, Jr. (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 139–40, 144–45.

8
. JKS to author, Apr. 27, 2009; REFK,
TTR,
132–35.

9
. “Helen Devereux biography,” http://www.devereux.org/site/DocServer/HTDBio.pdf?docID=281.

10
. JPK to RK, Nov. 13, 1929, box 1, JPKP.

11
. Report on Rosemary Kennedy, June 23, 1930, w.b. 3, JPKP.

12
. Report on Rosemary Kennedy, Nov. 21, 1930, w.b. 3, JPKP.

13
. REFK, diary notes, box 10, REFKP; EKS, in REFK,
TTR
, 133.

14
. Classified ad,
NYT,
Oct. 31, 1929.

15
. Assorted statements, w.b. 30; JPK to Keating, Nov. 1, 1929, Smith,
HTF,
87.

16
.
V,
Mar. 12, 1930.

17
.
V,
May 7, 1930.

18
. GS to JPK, Oct. 21, 1930, box 56, JPKP; JPK to GS, Oct. 19, 1932, box 101, folder 10; JPK to GS, June 26, 1944; GS to JPK, JPK to GS, various telegrams, Sept. to Dec. 1935, box 33, folder 8; Phil [Reisman] to JPK, Feb. 9, 1951, box 32, folder 5, Swanson.

19
. R. Lawrence Siegel to GS, Feb. 11, 1957; Siegel to JPK, Mar. 6, 1957, box 56, folder 1, Swanson.

20
. JPK to GS, Mar. 15, 1957, box 202, folder 15, Swanson.

21
. GS to JPK, n.d., box 33, folder 8, Swanson.

22
. Siegel to GS, Mar. 26, 1957, box 56, folder 1; GS to JPK, n.d., box 33, folder 8, Swanson.

23
. Brown to Sarnoff, Oct. 8, 24, 1930, box 64, JPKP.

24
. JPK to Walker, Dec. 4, 1930, box 64, JPKP.

25
. JPK to Murdock, Dec. 9, 1930, box 64, JPKP.

26
. Lawler to JPK, Dec. 30, 1930, box 64, JPKP.

27
. JPK to Walsh, Dec. 19, 1930, box 64, JPKP.

28
. Assorted letters, anonymous to JPK, [Dec. 1930], box 63, JPKP.

29
.
NYT,
Jan. 6, 1931.

30
. Pathé Exchange, Inc., 7% bonds, box 63; Pathé stock memo, w.b. 30; 1931–1932 statements, J. H. Holmes, Sept. 14–18, 1931, w.b. oversize, series 3.6.2, JPKP.

31
. JFK to JPK, n.d., Smith,
HTF,
94–95.

32
. JKS to author, July 16, 2008; EMK,
TC,
 68.

33
. REFK and RC, Jan. 6, 21, 1972, box 10, REFKP.

TEN: ON THE ROOSEVELT TRAIN

1
. Anthony J. Badger,
The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933–1940
(New York: Hill & Wang, 1989), 14, 2–22; John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Great Crash
(1955; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), 141, 151.

2
. Information on JPK’s accounts found in w.b. 8–10, JPKP.

3
. JFK to REFK and JPK, Dec. 6, 1931; JFK to JPK, Dec. 9, 1931, box 1, JPKP.

4
. JPK to JFK, Apr. 12, 1932, box 1, JPKP.

5
. JPK to Schulberg, Nov. 29, 1931, box 68; JPK to Poppe, Dec. 30, 1931, box 68; Gurnett to JPK, Mar. 9, 1931, box 37, JPKP.

6
. Assorted statements, w.b. 8, JPKP.

7
. Joseph P. Kennedy,
I’m for Roosevelt
(New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936), 3.

8
. Steve Fraser,
Every Man a Speculator
(New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 413, 415.