The Drew Pearson article about the possible marriage of Lee Radziwill and Aristotle Onassis was referred to in several published sources including Diana DuBois’s In Her Sisters Shadow (Little, Brown, 1995), and Arianna Stassinopoulos’s Maria Callas (Simon & Schuster, 1981).
The story recounted in “As Close as You Can Get,” detailing events that occurred in Antigua and the relationship between Jackie and Robert F. Kennedy, came from interviews with Robert Kennedy’s biographer James Hilty, and with Chuck Spalding, Charles Bartlett, William Manchester, Richard Goodwin, Joan Braden, Helen Thomas, and Lee Radziwill’s biographer Diana DuBois.
“I’d read it quite a lot before” was from a June 2, 1976, tape-recorded interview with Jackie by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., which was quoted in his book Robert Kennedy and His Times (Houghton Mifflin, 1978). The Schlesinger book is also the source for the quote from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, which was a favorite of RFK’s. Bobby’s reliance on the wisdom of ancient Greek literature to deal with his grief is recounted in James Hilty’s Robert Kennedy (Temple University Press, 1997). It was also recounted in Charles Spalding’s oral history housed at the John F. Kennedy Library.
Pierre Salinger’s recollection of Robert Kennedy’s manic football game was drawn from Lester and Irene David’s Bobby Kennedy (Dodd, Mead, 1986) and Peter Collier and David Horowitz’s The Kennedys (Summit Books, 1984).
Robert Kennedy’s statement “I thought it would be me” is recounted in Hilty’s RFK biography.
Other published sources for this section include Lester David’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Birch Lane Press, 1994), C. David Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie (Lyle Stuart, 1989), Frieda Kramer’s Jackie (Grosset & Dunlap, 1979), and Edward DeBlasio’s “The Friendship That Saved Two Lives,” Pageant, July 1964.
Principal published sources for the relationship between RFK and LBJ include Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie, Michael R. Beschloss’s Taking Charge (Simon & Schuster, 1997), Jerry Oppenheimer’s The Other Mrs. Kennedy (St. Martin’s Press, 1994), William vanden Heuvel and Milton Gwirtzman’s On His Own (Doubleday, 1970), and Ronald Steel’s Walter Lippmann and the American Century (Little, Brown, 1980).
Jackie talks about the RFK-LBJ relationship in her oral history housed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Texas.
Further details on the relationship between Jackie and Bobby were drawn from interviews with Charles Bartlett, Joan Braden, Paul “Red” Fay, James Hilty, and William Manchester.
The description of RFK as “in a trance” after the assassination is drawn from William Manchester’s Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism (Little, Brown, 1976).
Murray Kempton’s verdict on the relationship between RFK and JFK is drawn from Laurence Learner’s The Kennedy Women (Villard Books, 1994).
SIX: AN UNERRING SENSE OF STARDOM
The narrative in the “Mister Manchester” section is derived primarily from the author’s interview with Don Congdon, William Manchester’s literary agent, and from William Manchester’s Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism (Little, Brown, 1976).
In “Disguises and Smiles,” the description of Jackie’s apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue is drawn from the author’s eyewitness notes based on his personal visits there on two separate occasions, and from articles that appeared in The Washington Post, May 26, 1994, and in House Beautiful, September 1994. Other published sources include Lester David’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Birch Lane Press, 1994) and Frieda Kramer’s Jackie (Award Books, 1975).
Nancy Tuckerman’s stories about going apartment-hunting with Jackie disguised as a nanny, and of the day Jackie moved into 1040 Fifth Avenue, are contained in “A Personal Reminiscence” from Sotheby’s 1996 auction catalog, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Jackie’s letter to Jim Bishop dated September 17, 1964, appears in Manchester’s Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism.
Details about Jackie’s contributions to Robert Kennedy’s Senate campaign are recounted in Jerry Oppenheimer’s biography of Ethel Kennedy, The Other Mrs. Kennedy (St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
The background information on Jackie and Oliver Smith that forms the basis for “Lessons in Self-Improvement” was derived from numerous interviews by the author and a research assistant with Richard D’Arcy, Smith’s friend and companion; Lloyd Burlingame, former chair of the New York University Tisch School Department of Design, who co-taught an advanced stage design class with Smith for twenty-two years; Aileen Mehle, the columnist “Suzy”; and Kitty Carlisle Hart.
Principal published sources include Lloyd Burlingame’s “The Design Department of the Tisch School of Arts: A Chronology from the Perspective of the Chair 1971–1996”; “Remembering Oliver,” a tribute to Oliver Smith compiled by American Ballet Theatre; Gerald Clarke’s Capote (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers (Random House, 1987); Charles Payne’s American Ballet Theatre (Knopf, 1978); Bob Cola-cello’s Holy Terror (HarperCollins, 1990); Charles Kaiser’s The Gay Metropolis (Houghton Mifflin, 1997); George Plimpton’s Truinan Capote (Doubleday, 1997); Oliver Smith’s obituary, The New York Times, January 25, 1994; and a series of five articles by Liz Smith titled “Jackie Comes Off Her Pedestal,” which appeared first in the New York World Journal Tribune (December 1966-January 1967) and later in Cosmopolitan.
The details of Jackie and her sister Lee Radziwill’s sibling rivalry that appear in “You Can’t Know One without the Other” are derived from a series of interviews by the author with Kitty Carlisle Hart. The party is described in Charlotte Curtis’s “The Radziwills Give a ‘Teeny, Tiny Party’—for 100 Guests,” The New York Times, April 21, 1965. Lee’s apartment is also described in Mark Hampton’s Legendary Decorators of the Twentieth Century (Doubleday, 1992), a book that was edited by Jackie.
Primary published sources for this section include George Carpozi’s The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy (Pyramid Books, 1967); Diana DuBois’s In Her Sister’s Shadow (Little, Brown, 1995); C. David Heymann’s A Woman Named Jackie (Lyle Stuart, 1989); Irving Shulman’s “Jackie”! (Trident Press, 1970); the aforementioned Liz Smith articles; Laura Bergquist’s “Jacqueline Kennedy Goes Public,” Look, March 22, 1966; and Aileen Mehle’s “The Jackie I Knew,” Good Housekeeping, September 1994.
Jackie’s explanation of why she did not vote in the 1964 election comes from the Jacqueline Onassis oral history located in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
The material included in “Audition” was derived primarily from the author’s interviews with Kitty Carlisle Hart. Primary published sources include Clarke’s Capote and DuBois’s In Her Sisters Shadow.
The story about Caroline’s
