The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby (67 page)

138
  See the oral history of David Hackett for a commentary on the interaction of the contending groups around RFK, JFKL.

139
  Oral history of Milton Gwirtzman, JFKL.

140
  
New York Times
, 30 March 1968.

141
  Interview, William P. Mahoney Jr. See also the
New York Times
, 30 March 1968.

142
  Newfield incorrectly attributes RFK’s remark to criticism of local supporters when in fact it was in reaction to national staff. Newfield,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 242.

143
  
Los Angeles Times
, 30 March 1968.

144
  The author, age sixteen, attended the dinner.

145
  The account is in
The New Yorker
, 15 June 1968.

146
  Shesol,
Mutual Contempt
, pp. 442—43.

147
  
New York Times
, 31 March 1968.

148
  Halberstam,
The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy
, pp. 166—68.

149
  
New York Times
, 29 March 1968. Lowell wrote that he supported McCarthy “because of his lack of negative qualities: lack of excessive charisma, driving ambition, machinelike drive and the too great wish to be President.”
New Republic
, 13 April 1968.

150
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, pp. 236—37.

151
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 939.

152
  The speech is contained in the Mankiewicz Papers, JFKL, Box 22.

153
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 258.

154
  The final speech text as well as the drafts are contained in the Walinsky Papers, JFKL.

155
  
The New Yorker
, 15 June 1968.

156
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 934.

157
  Victor S. Navasky, “The Haunting of Robert Kennedy,”
New York Times
Magazine, 2 June 1968.

158
  Interview, Oberdorfer.

159
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 248.

160
  Ibid., p. 249.

161
  Newfield,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 256.

162
  See
Newsweek
, 20 May 1968, for coverage of this incident.

163
  Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, p. 953.

164
  Interview, Sam Vagenas; Newfield,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 260.

165
  Goodwin,
Remembering America
, p. 529.

166
  Kennedy spent between $700,000 and $1 million in the Indiana primary.

167
  Vanden Heuvel and Gwirtzman demonstrate that RFK may not have persuaded white ethnics in Lake County,
On His Own
, p. 349.

168
  The Mankiewicz Papers at the JFKL contain the campaign response as well as the clippings regarding the flap.

169
  Newfield,
Robert Kennedy
, p. 271.

170
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, pp. 323—24.

171
  See Robert F. Kennedy Chronology prepared by Frank Mankiewicz and contained in the Mankiewicz Papers, JFKL.

172
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 299.

173
  
The New Republic
, 20 June 1968.

174
  
Newsweek
, 17 June 1968.

175
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 293.

176
  Scheim,
Contract on America
, p. 276.

177
  Robert Blair Kaiser,
RFK Must Die! A History of the Robert Kennedy Assassination and Its Aftermath
(New York: Dutton, 1970), p. 469.

178
  
Newsweek
, 17 June 1968.

179
  Goodwin,
Remembering America
, p. 559.

180
  Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 334.

181
  Scheim,
Contract on America
, p. 276. The
France-Soir
reporter on the scene described Cesar as drawing his weapon and firing it.
France-Soir
, 6 June 1968, pp. 1—2.

182
  The reporter from
France-Soir
, 6 June 1968, indicated that Kennedy said twice, “J’ai mal” (I’m hurt). Charles Quinn reported Kennedy saying, “No, no, no,” in Stein and Plimpton,
American Journey
, p. 337. Goodwin describes his final phrase, “Jack, Jack,” in
Remembering America
, p. 558.

Index

Aaron, Matt

Abernathy, Ralph

Abrams, Creighton

Accardo, Anthony (“Joe Batters”)

Acheson, Dean

Adler, Richard

AFL-CIO

Africa

RFK’s trip to

Agency, The: The Rise and Decline of the
CIA (Ranelagh)

Alabama:

Birmingham

University of

Alarcon, Ricardo

Aleman, Jose, Jr.

Aleman, Miguel

Alessio, John

Alger, Bruce

Algeria

Ali Khan, Liaquat

Alinsky, Saul

Allison, Graham

Alpha

Alsop, Joseph

Alsop, Susan

American Indians

American University, JFK’s speech at

Amherst College, Robert Frost Library at

Anastasia, Albert

Anderson, Jack

Anderson, Rudolf, Jr.

Angleton, James J.

Anslinger, Harry

Aracha-Smith, Sergio

Arendt, Hannah

Artime, Manuel

Arvad, Inga

As We Remember Joe

Attwood, William

Ayer, A. J.

Ayers, Bradley J.

Baker, Barney

Baker, Bobby

Baldwin, James

Baldwin, Roger

Ball, George

on Vietnam

Balletti, Arthur J.

Baltimore Sun

Banister, Guy

Bao Dai

Barnett, Ross

Barry, Bill

Battaglia, Gus

Bayo, Eddie (Eduardo Perez)

Bay of Pigs

release of prisoners from

veterans of, in training program

Bayo-Pawley mission

Beck, Dave

Becker, Ed

Bedford-Stuyvesant

Belafonte, Harry

Belgian Congo. See Congo

Belgium

Belk, Samuel E.

Bell, Griffin

Bellino, Carmine

Berle, Milton

Berlin

JFK in

Berlin, Richard

Bickel, Alexander

Billings, Lemoyne

Binion, Benny

Birmingham, Ala.

Biryuzov, S. I.

Bissell, Richard

Black, Fred B., Jr.

Black Muslims

blacks. See civil rights

Blakey, G. Robert

Blight, James

Block, Max and Louis

Blough, Roger

Boggs, Hale

Bohlen, Charles

Bolshakov, Georgi

Boswell, William

Boutwell, Albert

Bowers, Lee

Bowles, Chester

Brading, Eugene Hale

Bradlee, Ben

Brandon, Henry

Branigan, Roger

Breslin, Jimmy

Brod, Mario

Bronson, Charles

Browder, William

Brown, Pat

Bruno, Jerry

Buchan, John

Buckley, William F.

Bufalino, William

Bundy, McGeorge

Burke, Arleigh

Cabell, Charles

Caifano, Marshall

Cain, Richard

California

Campbell, Judith (Judith Exner)

JFK assassination and

Campbell, William

Camus, Albert

Cannizziro, Edward

Caplin, Mortimer

Capone, Al

Cardona, Miro

Carmen, Jeanne

Casares Rovirosa, Bias

Cassara, Tom

Castro, Fidel

assassination plot against, JFK assassination and

Bay of Pigs and. See also Bay of Pigs

Cain in plot against

Khrushchev and

La Coubre incident and

Latin America operations of

New York trip of

prisoner releases and

RFK’s vendetta against

Skakel family and

U.S. actions and plots against

Veciana and

See also
Cuba

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):

in actions against Castro

Bayo-Pawley mission and

and Castro’s actions in Latin America

JM/WAVE division in

leadership of, RFK and

Lumumba and

Mafia and

RFK’s suspicions about, after JFK assassination

Rosselli’s meetings with

ZR/RIFLE division in

Chafin, Raymond

Chanson, General

Chavez, Cesar

Cheasty, John Cye

Cheyfitz, Eddie

Chicago, voting fraud in

Chicago Outfit

Chicago Sun-Times

China

Christian Science Monitor

Christofferson, Kit

Church Committee

Churchill, Pamela

Churchill, Randolph