SEVEN: THE OTHER JACK
The story of Jackie’s romantic involvement with the architect John Carl Wamecke comes from a series of extended interviews that the author conducted with Mr. Warnecke himself. Other interviews were conducted with Marion Javits, Robin Duke, Paul Goldberger, and several sources who wish to remain anonymous.
Details of Jack Warnecke’s involvement with JFK’s memorial and with Lafayette Square come from a number of articles: Benjamin Forgey’s “The Well-Rounded Square; Lafayette, Absorbing Change with Grace,” The Washington Post, January 29, 1994; “John Carl Warnecke: An Athletic Architect,” from the New York Times “Man in the News” column, October 7, 1964; Ada Louise Huxtable’s “Design Dilemma: The Kennedy Grave,” in The New York Times, November 29, 1964; and Sarah Booth Conroy’s “Preserving Lafayette Square,” in The Washington Post, May 26, 1994.
The material in “Dumping the Secret Service” and “A Cottage in the Woods” comes from the author’s extensive interviews with John Carl Warnecke.
Details of Jackie’s arrival in Hawaii were drawn from “4,000 Turn Out at Airport to Greet Jackie, Children,” from the Honolulu Advertiser, June 6, 1966.
Information about Jackie’s frame of mind at this time comes from Liz Smith’s series of articles entitled “Jackie Comes Off Her Pedestal,” which appeared in the New York World Journal Tribune in December 1966—January 1967.
Descriptions of the party Jackie threw for John Kenneth Galbraith come from an interview with William vanden Heuvel and an article in Time, October 1, 1965.
Details about Jackie’s visit to Spain were derived from newspaper clippings and letters written by Jackie to Angier Biddle Duke when he was ambassador to Spain, which are housed in the Angier B. Duke special collections, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Jackie calls Angier Biddle Duke her “knight in armor” in an undated letter (later marked “probably April 1966”) from Jackie to Duke, which is contained in the A.B. Duke files at Duke University.
Primary published sources for the section on Jackie in Spain come from George Carpozi’s The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy (Pyramid Books, 1967); Time magazine, April 29, 1966; and numerous newspaper articles, including The Washington Post, April 4, 1966; The New York Times, April 20, 1966; Times-Post Services, March 28, 1966; and The Record American, Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 1966.
The narrative of Jackie’s visit to Hawaii is drawn primarily from interviews with John Carl Warnecke; with Henry J. Kaiser’s son Michael Kaiser and Michael’s wife, Betsy Kaiser, and with Richard Goodwin.
Primary published sources for this section include James Spada’s Peter Lawford (Bantam, 1991) and a number of articles that appeared in June and July of 1966 in The New York Times, the Honolulu Advertiser, and the Star-Bulletin.
Jackie’s letter to the editors of the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin, thanking them for preserving her privacy during her Hawaiian vacation, appears in “Jackie Thanks Hawaii for Aloha,” the Honolulu Advertiser, July 24, 1966.
Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser’s story about John Kennedy Jr. appears in “John-John Kennedy Now Just Plain John,” The New York Times, July 24, 1966.
The words to the song “Tiny Bubbles in the Wine” were written by Leon Pober; the music was composed by Leon Pober.
EIGHT: TARNISHED HALO
Details in the section “Out of Control” about Mike Cowles’s trip to Hyannis Port to meet with Jackie about the Look serialization of Manchester’s book come from an interview with William Attwood, Look editor in chief at the time. The interview is housed in the Columbia University Oral History Project. Published sources for this section include Stephen Birmingham’s Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (Grosset & Dunlap, 1978) and George Carpozi’s The Hidden Side of Jacqueline Kennedy (Pyramid Books, 1967).
William Manchester recounted the details in “Us Against Them” in his book Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism (Little, Brown, 1976).
The section “Taking Care of Business” is drawn from a series of interviews by the author with John Carl Warnecke.
Lloyd Shearer’s article “Jackie Kennedy, World’s Most Eligible Widow—Will She Marry Again?” appeared in Parade, December 4, 1966.
Published sources for “Acting on Her Own” include John Corry’s The Manchester Affair (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1967) and Cass Canfield’s Up and Down and Around (Harper & Row, 1971). Periodical sources include James Reston’s “The Death of Camelot” column, The New York Times, December 18, 1966, and Theodore White’s letter to the editor, The New York Times, December 19, 1966.
The letters between Jackie and LBJ regarding the Manchester affair are housed in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library.
The narrative of Jackie’s first trip on the Christina was derived in part from the author’s interview with Robert White, premier collector of Kennedy memorabilia. Mr. White shared details of unpublished memos and letters by both JFK and Jackie from this time period. Other material that appears in the section “An Unabashed Love Letter” appeared in the author’s previous book, All Too Human (Pocket Books, 1996).
Primary published sources used in compiling the story of Aristotle Onassis’s previous life and his entry into Jackie’s include Frank Brady’s Onassis (Prentice-Hall, 1977); Christian Cafarakis’s The Fabulous Onassis (William Morrow, 1972); L. J. Davis’s Onassis (St. Martin’s Press, 1986); Nigel Dempster’s Heiress (Grove Weidenfeld, 1989); Peter Evans’s Ari (Summit Books, 1986); Aristotle Onassis (Lippincott, 1977), written by Nicholas Fraser et al.; Willi Frischauer’s Onassis (Meredith Press, 1968); Doris Lilly’s Those Fabulous Greeks (Cowles, 1970); and William Wright’s All the Pain That Money Can Buy (Simon & Schuster, 1991).
The narrative in the section “Typical Jackie” was derived from a published interview with a friend of the Onassis family who wished to remain anonymous.
NINE: FALLEN IDOL
The portrait of Jackie and Ari’s courtship is drawn chiefly from extensive interviews that were conducted by the author during several trips to Greece. Among those interviewed were Costa Anastassiadis, captain of the yacht Christina’, Stefanos Daroussos, the yacht’s chief engineer; Niki Goulandris, a close personal friend of Jackie’s; and Stelio Papadimitriou, Onassis’s second-in-command.
An interview with Robert McNamara was the source for the reactions of Andre Meyer and McNamara to the marriage of Jackie and Ari.
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