Information on the relationship between venereal infections and infertility is drawn from the author’s interview with Dr. Atilla Toth, a specialist in the field.
Janet Auchincloss’s attitude toward Catholic prelates is derived from the author’s interview with James Auchincloss.
“What could I have done? How could I have changed it?” comes from a conversation that Jackie had with Kitty Carlisle Hart, who recounted it to the author.
Other details of the Arlington reinterment are drawn from The New York Times, December 5, 1963.
FOUR: THE FREAK OF N STREET
The interior designer Billy Baldwin recounted his conversation with Jacqueline Kennedy in Georgetown in his memoir Billy Baldwin Remembers (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974).
“The smaller the better” is a quote from a previously unpublished letter from Jackie to Diana Vreeland, which is included in a private collection of letters that was offered for sale by Ursus Rare Books in New York City.
Benjamin Bradlee quoted the letter from Jackie to him and his then wife Tony in his memoir, A Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
In an interview with the author, Robert McNamara described the scene of his giving a portrait of JFK to Jackie after the assassination.
Details of the evening Jackie spent with Marlon Brando, her sister Lee, and George Englund were provided by a close friend of Brando’s who wishes to remain anonymous.
The English words to the song “Danke Schoen” were written by Kurt Schwabach and Milt Gabler; the music was written by Bert Kaempfert. The song was recorded by Wayne Newton on the Capitol label.
Information on Clint Hill as a U.S. Secret Service agent was gleaned from a number of interviews by the author and his research assistants with Ham Brown, executive director of the Association of Former Secret Service Agents, and former U.S.S.S. agents Larry Newman, Paul Landis, Bill Livingood, and Frank Yeager.
Details on Clint Hill’s years at Concordia College were kindly provided by Sharon Hoverton, Concordia College archivist, and college classmates Rudy Moe, Don Ylvisaker, and Hugh Kaste.
Mike Wallace’s December 7, 1975, Sixty Minutes interview with Clint Hill, “Secret Agent No. 9,” was kindly provided by Don Hewitt, executive producer of Sixty Minutes.
In 1978 the United States Secret Service commissioned a National Institute of Mental Health study of the effects of stress on S.S. agents. Although Dr. Frank Ochberg, associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health at the time, was not able to divulge any information about this confidential report, he was helpful in describing the type of post-traumatic stress disorder that an agent such as Clint Hill might have suffered after JFK’s assassination.
Further background information on Clint Hill, stress, and the U.S. Secret Service was gleaned from a number of published sources, including George Rush’s Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent (Donald I. Fine, 1988), Dennis V. McCarthy’s Protecting the President (William Morrow, 1985), and Rufus Youngblood’s 20 Years in the Secret Service (Simon & Schuster, 1973).
Periodical sources included the London Mail on Sunday, September 26, 1993; U.S. News & World Report, December 2 and December 23, 1963; Newsweek, December 9, 1963; and Time, October 6, 1975.
Information about Secret Service agents drinking the night before the assassination was gleaned from U.S.S.S. Chief Rowley’s testimony before the Warren Commission; Clint Hill’s testimony was also available in The Warren Report (Associated Press, 1964).
The Associated Press also supplied photos of Clint Hill and other Secret Service agents.
Details on Jackie and Clint Hill’s visit to the Jockey Club came from the author’s interview with an eyewitness who wishes to remain anonymous. Further details on the Jockey Club itself came from interviews with Jack Scarella, former maitre d’, and Louise Gore, former owner of the Jockey Club. Background description of the Jockey Club was also gleaned from the Washington Times, January 8, 1991, and November 11, 1993, and from the January 1989 issue of Cosmopolitan.
FIVE: “A GATHERING OF THE WRECKAGE”
The narrative of Jackie’s trip to Antigua is based on interviews with two eyewitnesses: Charles “Chuck” Spalding, an intimate of the Kennedys, and Paul Leonard, who has long served as Rachel Lambert “Bunny” Mellon’s primary interior decorator.
Background on Bunny Mellon and her relationship with Jackie was gleaned from interviews by the author and his research assistants with Hélène Arpels, Robin Duke, Peter Duchin, Mark Hampton, Kitty Carlisle Hart, John Loring, and I. M. Pei, and with others, who wish to remain anonymous.
Bunny Mellon is quoted as saying, “I remember kneeling …” in William Manchester’s The Death of a President (Harper & Row, 1967).
In an interview with the author, Paul Leonard recalled that “Mrs. Smith” was the Secret Service code name used for Jackie in Antigua.
General background on Antigua and the Mellon property was gleaned from interviews with Barrie Pickering, an island resident; Victor Carmichael of the Antigua and Barbuda Tourist Board; and Jack Johnson of Johnson Construction in Antigua.
Principal published sources on Bunny Mellon and the Mellon family include a memoir by Bunny’s father, Gerard Barnes Lambert, All Out of Step (Doubleday, 1956), Katharine Graham’s Personal History (Random House, 1997), David E. Koskoff ‘s The Mellons (T. Y. Crowell, 1978), Billy Baldwin and Michael Gardine’s Billy Baldwin (Little, Brown, 1985), and Paul Mellon’s Reflections in a Silver Spoon, written with John Baskett (William Morrow, 1992).
Several articles on Paul and Bunny Mellon were particularly helpful: “Paul Mellon” in Town & Country, May 1978; “A Cool Mellon” in Vanity Fair, April 1992; and “A Most Generous Gentleman” in Town & Country, December 1994. Other articles appeared in the Chicago Tribune, December 14, 1990; The Washington Post, April 7, 1992; the Washington Times, January 2, 1997; The Washington Post, February 23, 1983; and Paula Dietz’s “The Private World of a Great Gardener,” The New York Times, June 3, 1982.
Principal published sources on the Mellons and Antigua include Antigua and Barbuda: A Little Bit of Paradise and articles in Vogue, May 1963; Holiday, March 1962; and
