An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (141 page)

p. 692: JFK the morning of Nov. 21: Powers Diary, Nov. 21, 1963, Box 15, Powers Papers.

p. 692: JFK’s Nov. 21 schedule in Texas is described in ibid., and by O’Donnell and Powers, 20-23.

p. 693: Doubts about wisdom of visiting Texas: Byron Skelton to RFK, Nov. 4, 1963, Box 36, RFK Confidential File; O’Donnell and Powers, 18-20, 23-25.

pp. 693-94: For Oswald’s movements, see Posner.

p. 695: “I do not wish”: Isaiah Berlin to Schlesinger, Nov. 28, 1963, Box 36, RFK Confidential File.

p. 695: “I never knew”: Reinhold Niebuhr to Schlesinger, Nov. 29, 1963, ibid.

p. 695: “America now”: Earl Warren to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, Dec. 1963, Box 104, Earl Warren Papers, LC.

p. 696: Jacqueline Kennedy on the secret service, JFK’s doctors, and spoke lovingly: Dr. James M. Young to author, Dec. 21, 2002, and telephone conversation with Young, Dec. 30, 2002.

pp. 696-97: Jacqueline Kennedy and JFK’s funeral and burial: Manchester, 490-91, 541-42, 550; Hamilton, xix-xxiv. Leaming, 345-50.

p. 697: “needed the myth”: Evan Thomas, 285.

p. 697: Describing Kennedy’s death: Theodore White, “For President Kennedy an Epilogue,”
Life,
Dec. 6, 1963.

p. 697: “would have provoked”: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
632.

p. 697: On Joe and Rose: Hamilton, xx; Rose Kennedy, 442-46.

pp. 697-98: On RFK: Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy,
611-20; and Evan Thomas, chap. 15.

p. 698: On LBJ, the assassination, the Warren Commission, and public opinion, see Dallek,
Flawed Giant,
50-53. Anthony Lewis is quoted on 53.

pp. 698-99: The best study of the Warren Commission will be in a forthcoming book on the subject by Max Holland. In the meantime, see Max Holland, “After Thirty Years: Making Sense of the Assassination,”
Reviews in American History,
vol. 22 (1994), 191-209; Max Holland, “The Key to the Warren Report,”
American Heritage,
Nov. 1995, 50-64, and Posner,
Case Closed
.

pp. 698-99: The polls: Gallup, 1854, 2044;
New York Times,
Jan. 5, 1992;
New York Times Book Review,
Feb. 2, 1992.

pp. 699-702: JFK’s hold on public’s imagination and assessments by critics: Thomas C. Reeves, especially 3, 6-7, 10-11, 418-19; Hersh, xi, 5-6, 10; Mike Feinsilber, “The Kennedy Legend,” Associated Press release, Jan. 7, 1998; Alvin S. Felzenberg, “JFK: not one for the (history) books: Historians give him a B-, though to many people he earned an A+,”
Boston Sunday Globe,
Nov. 15, 1998; “Ranking the Presidents, results of a study released by the Federalist society for law and public policy studies,” Nov. 16, 2000,
Wall Street Journal;
Gallup polls, Presidents Day, 1999, 2000, 2001.

Epilogue

p. 705: Autopsy notes and Bobby persuaded Burkley: Conversation with Dr. James Young, Nov. 25, 2002.

p. 705: Burned his files: Conversation with William Herbst Jr., Nov. 22, 2002.

pp. 707-8: On Byron White, see Hutchinson, and White’s obituary:
New York Times,
April 16, 2002.

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