• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

By Root 1115 0

and Stephen Dorril, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. FBI reports on Inga Arvad are in OC7, i, ii, iii, and JFK’s early courting of H. is in FBI file 94–37373. His father’s similar corr. is in file 94–37308. The FBI’s ‘highlights’ of JFK’s behavior are in Jones to DeLoach, Jul. 13, 1960, OC96. JFK and Lansky are covered in the transcript of 60 Minutes, CBS-TV, Jun. 25, 1989, and Battaglia is in Rosen to Boardman, Mar. 4, 1958, FBI file 94–37374. The approach to Marcello is in Pay-off, by Michael Dorman, NY, David McKay, 1972, p. 109. JFK’s activity at the Convention is covered in the author’s book Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, NY, New American Library, 1986, and Kennedy and Johnson (NY, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968) and My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy (NY, David McKay, 1965), by Evelyn Lincoln, and ints. Lincoln. H.’s postelection letter to JFK is at Nov. 9, 1960, in FBI file 94–37374.

Chapter 26

Mitchell Rogovin told the anecdote about the bust of Stanley Finch. Danny Selznick supplied his interview of Cartha DeLoach on Robert Kennedy’s consultative visit to H., and the interaction of H. and RFK was based on interviews with former Asst. Director Courtney Evans, former agents Curtis Lynum, Joseph Schott, Jack Danahee, Gordon Liddy, and with Arthur and Mara Forbes, Wm. Hundley, Joe Dolan, and Angie Novello. Jesse and Grace Weiss, and Billy Byars, Jr., discussed H.’s relations with the Weiss and Byars families, and Edward Munden and Robert Garvey spoke of the Alicia Purdom case. John Seigenthaler and Wm. Hundley talked about H. and black agents, while Kenneth Whittaker reported Joseph Kennedy’s comments after golf, and H.’s outburst about RFK. Robert Morgenthau and Joe Dolan recalled the Des Moines fiasco. Documents on the Purdom episode are in OC13, i, ii. H.’s Jan. 10, 1961 memo to RFK about Communism is in IC6, p. 821. H.’s letters to JFK are in JFKL, and the warning to H. of possible dismissal is in Millen to Conrad, Dec. 5, 1961, HSF6.

Chapter 27

The Mar. 22, 1962 H. meeting with JFK was discussed by Evelyn Lincoln and Judith Exner. The ‘first marriage’ story was recalled by Ben Bradlee, Tom Wicker, Courtney Evans, Igor Cassini, Walter Trohan, J. B. Stoner, and Bobby Baker. Cartha DeLoach, former agent Homer Young, and Dick Schumacher talked about JFK and Angie Dickinson. Gordon Liddy, Eunice Murray, Cartha DeLoach, John Sherlock, Harry Hall, Liz Renay, Billy Byars Jr., Arthur and Mara Forbes, and Anthony Calomaris, spoke of the relationship between the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe. The duration of the Mar. 1962 H.-JFK meeting is established in JFKL records, and O’Donnell’s account is from Dec. 7, 1976 interview supplied to the author by Prof. Herbert Parmet. Evidence that H. knew of the JFK-Campbell affair is in Evans to Belmont, Mar. 20, 1962, OC96. Angie Dickinson is discussed in A Woman Named Jackie, by David Heymann, London, Heinemann, 1989, and in Those Wild Wild Kennedy Boys, by Stephen Dunleavy and Peter Brennan, NY, Pinnacle, 1976, p. 49. My book Goddess, supra., was the main source for the Monroe material, but Peter Lawford’s description of the affair came from David Heymann’s book Jackie, supra. Winchell’s article about Monroe and JFK is in Jones to DeLoach, Jul. 9, 1963, FBI file 105–40018.

Chapter 28

The 1963 decision to dump H. drew on interviews with Edwin Guthman, former AG Nicholas Katzenbach, Abba Schwartz, Robert Morgenthau, and Wm. Hundley. The notion of Yarmolinsky as a replacement was discussed with Joe Dolan and Yarmolinsky. Abba Schwartz described JFK’s reference to keeping a file on H. Ben Bradlee and Bobby Baker discussed the Rometsch episode, and members of Bill Thompson’s family spoke of his relationship with JFK. The coverage of the Profumo case drew on Honeytrap, by the author and Stephen Dorril, supra., FBI file 65–68218, and State Dept. and CIA documents released to the author. JFK’s conversation with Martin Luther King is from an interview of Andrew Young in Christianity In Crisis, Feb. 16, 1976, and My Soul Is Rested, by Howell Raines, NY, Putnam, 1977,