A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination (85 page)

The White House photographer who captured:
Manchester,
Death
, p. 320.

After a seven-minute helicopter:
Elements of this scene are captured in Johnson,
The Vantage Point
; Manchester,
Death
; Caro,
Passage.

“I need you more”:
Caro,
Passage
, p. 410.

He privately described Johnson as “mean”:
Guthman and Shulman (eds.),
Robert Kennedy, in His Own Words
, pp. 417, 411.

On the afternoon of Thursday:
Pearson diaries, November 1963, Pearson papers, LBJ Library. (Pearson misstated the date of the entry, identifying November 21 as Friday. It was actually a Thursday.)
In 1942, he bought:
Woods,
LBJ: Architect of American Ambition
, p. 533. See also Caro,
Master of the Senate
.

“He was my close”:
Johnson remarks honoring Hoover, May 8, 1964, accessed from the American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=26236
. Also see “President Johnson’s Dogs,” essay on the Web site of the LBJ Library,
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/faqs/dog/doghouse.asp
.

Johnson’s motives were:
Time
, February 5, 1973.

“You’re more than the head”:
Telephone conversation between Johnson and Hoover, November 29, 1963, in Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, p. 147.

Johnson asked President Kennedy’s:
Caro,
Passage
, p. 374.

At about ten a.m., Johnson:
Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, pp. 68–73.

Among the tens of millions:
Ibid., pp. 87–89.

He told a friend:
Telephone conversation between Johnson and columnist Joseph Alsop, November 25, 1963, in Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, p. 98.

With Oswald dead:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, p. 26.

CHAPTER 4

Two of her three husbands:
The history of the Oswald family, including that of Marguerite Oswald, is offered in detail in the Warren Report, pp. 69–80.

At the age of three:
Robert Oswald,
Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald
, pp. 32–33.

“It seemed to me”:
Ibid., p. 33.

On the afternoon:
Bob Schieffer, “A Ride for Mrs. Oswald,”
Texas Monthly
, January 2003.

“That’s how it would”:
Oswald,
Lee: A Portrait
, p. 178.

“Nothing really to put my finger”:
Testimony of Robert Edward Lee Oswald, February 20, 1964, Warren Appendix, Vol. 1, p. 346.

She remembered that on:
Statement of Marina Oswald, February 19, 1964, in Dallas, Texas, FBI transcript, as reproduced in Aynesworth,
JFK: Breaking the News
, p. 146.

Mrs. Martin introduced:
Lewis,
The Scavengers and Critics of the Warren Report
, p. 65.

“Mrs. Oswald called”:
Lane interview; also, Lane as quoted in Lewis,
Scavengers
, p. 24.

CHAPTER 5

Clare Booth Luce:
Martin,
A Hero for Our Times
, p. 159, as cited in Caro,
Passage
, p. 115.

The night of the assassination:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, pp. 26–27.

On the afternoon of Friday:
Warren,
Memoirs
, pp. 355–56.

Cox described Warren:
Time
, November 17, 1967.

“I told them I thought”:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 356.

Former chief justice Harlan Fiske Stone:
Conot,
Justice at Nuremberg
, p. 63.

“Early in my life”:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, p. 27.

At about three thirty that afternoon:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 356.

The chief justice was about to be:
For an explanation of the “Johnson Treatment,” see Tom Wicker, “Remembering the Johnson Treatment,”
New York Times
, May 9, 2002.

“I was ushered in”:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 357.

The president said he needed:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, p. 27; Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 357.

According to Warren:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 357.

He explained his reasoning:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, p. 27; Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 358.

Johnson told the chief justice:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 358.

“If Khrushchev moved on us”:
Telephone conversation between Johnson and Senator Thomas Kuchel, November 29, 1963, as cited in Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, p. 193. See also published interview of Johnson by Drew Pearson, Pearson papers, LBJ Library. In the undated Pearson interview, Johnson says he warned Warren about reports of a $6,500 payment to Oswald.

“You were a soldier”:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 358.

“The President of the United States says”:
Johnson,
The Vantage Point
, p. 27.

The truth was that:
Ibid.

In that first call:
Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, pp. 153–59.

He would be delivering:
Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, pp. 196–206.

“Dick?”:
Ibid., pp. 196–206.

At the Supreme Court the next day:
Warren,
Memoirs
, p. 356.

He later told his friend:
Pearson diaries, November 1963, Pearson papers, LBJ Library.

CHAPTER 6

Warren’s children:
Interviews with Robert Warren (January 28, 1971) and Earl Warren Jr. (July 8, 1970), conducted for the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, found on the library’s Web site:
http://archive.org/stream/warrengovfamilywa00earlrich/warrengovfamilywa00earlrich_djvu.txt
.

Hoover had come to consider:
Hoover memo to Tolson et al., June 22, 1964 (“Re: Justice Edward Tamm”), FBI.

When Governor Warren traveled:
Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
, p. 410.

Warren later told Drew Pearson:
“The ‘Chief,’” unpublished profile of Warren by Drew Pearson based on extensive interviews with Warren, found in Pearson papers, LBJ Library.

It would be:
Telephone conversation between Johnson and Hoover on November 25, 1963, from Holland,
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes
, p. 95.

It was Warren’s selection of Olney:
Memo from DeLoach to Mohr, February 7, 1964, “Subject: Assassination of the President—allegations that Oswald was an FBI Informant,” FBI. Although Hoover would deny that the FBI was responsible for undermining the choice of Olney, DeLoach’s memos and other paperwork show otherwise.

Warren scheduled the first meeting:
Warren Commission Executive Session transcript, December 5, 1963, NARA.

The FBI argued:
Memo from Belmont to Tolson, December 3, 1963, FBI.

On December 3:
Associated Press, “FBI Report on Oswald Nearly Ready,” as published in the
Star News
of Pasadena, California, December 3, 1963 (accessed through
newspaperarchive.com
).

“It almost has to”:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 5, 1963, NARA.

Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 6, 1963, p. 8.

The meeting that Thursday:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 5, 1963, p. 8.

“This is a very sad”:
Ibid., p. 1.

He then set out:
Ibid., pp. 1–3.

“I think our job here”:
Ibid., pp. 1–2.

If the commission:
Ibid., p. 2.

“If we have the subpoena power”:
Ibid., p. 40.

If the commission:
Ibid., pp. 40, 2.

Warren’s mailbag:
Ibid., p. 2.

McCloy, a sixty-eight-year-old:
Esquire
, May 1962. Although the article was written tongue in cheek, there was little doubt that McCloy deserved the title.

McCloy did not:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 5, 1963, p. 37.

“There is potential”:
Ibid.

Warren was wrong:
Ibid.

The investigation had:
Ibid.

Boggs and Ford:
Ibid.

“If the rest of you”:
Ibid., p. 39.

Next, Russell objected:
Ibid., p. 53.

He reminded Warren:
Ibid.

McCloy suggested:
Ibid., p. 39.

The chief justice spent:
Ibid., pp. 43–46, 55.

Olney, he said:
Ibid., p. 45.

Olney might be:
Ibid., pp. 46–47.

“I don’t want”:
Ibid., p. 46.

“I have a feeling”:
Ibid., p. 48.

“I think the chairman”:
Ibid., p. 50.

The chief justice said:
Ibid., pp. 55, 62.

He put the plea:
Ibid., p. 62.

The meeting ended:
Ibid., p. 68.

Ford, Dulles, and McCloy:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 6, 1963, p. 21.

“I would not want”:
Ibid., pp. 4–6.

Overnight, McCloy:
Ibid., p. 4.

The mention:
Ibid., p. 6.

As solicitor general:
Ibid., p. 6.

Most notably:
Brown v. Board of Education
, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

“We saw”:
Warren Commission Executive Session, December 6, 1963, p. 6.

Rankin, he said:
Ibid., p. 10.