5. Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 2425. JFK visited Dallas three times during his presidency. The other two trips were on October 9, 1961, when he visited House Speaker Sam Rayburn in the hospital, and a November 18 return trip for Rayburn's funeral. E-mail from Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, January 17, 2012.

6. You can see the Warren film for yourself at

http://www.jfk.org/go/collections/ward-warren-film

[accessed January 15, 2013].

7. The fiction writer Stephen King published a bestseller in 2011 with a similar story line. King's protagonist, Jake Epping (a divorced high school teacher who is unhappy with life in the twenty-first century), discovers a time tunnel to 1958, which he uses in an attempt to stop the Kennedy assassination. See Stephen King, 11/22/63: A Novel (New York: Scribner, 2011).

8. Barbara A. Perry, Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004), 176; The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination, DVD, directed by Tom Jennings (Washington, DC: National Geographic Video, 2010).

9. A local television reporter narrated the event live for Dallas area viewers: "President in obvious good spirits ... and here they come. Right down toward us. And the people who have waited all morning in suspense are rewarded with a close look and a handshake with the president of the United States and his wife. Boy, this is something. The press is standing up high, getting a lot of shots of this. He's broken away from his clan and gone right up to the fence to shake hands with people. This is great for the people and makes the eggshells even thinner for the Secret Service, whose job it is to guard the man ... Back they go to the cars."

10. Gerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin, The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence (New York: Gallery Books, 2010), 200.

11. Lehrer's wasn't the only journalistic career given an unexpected boost by the assassination. Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer, who both went on to celebrated careers at CBS, were reporters in Dallas at the time, and both managed to get major scoops from the tragic events. See Ciera Lundgren, "Bob Schieffer Explains How JFK's Assassination Shaped His Career," CBS News, October 11, 2011,

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20118863-503544.html

[accessed October 13, 2011] and Alan Weisman, Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006), 3952. Interview with Jim Lehrer, April 20, 2011.

12. Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 196202.

13. "Report of United States Secret Service on the Assassination of President Kennedy," C. Douglas Dillon Papers, Box 43, Folder "The President's Committee on the Warren Report," John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts; Guide to U.S. Elections, vol. 1, 6th ed. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010), 789; Telephone interview with Ralph Dungan, May 24, 2011.

14. Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 2831; Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1968), 11617; Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 2045.

15. Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 31; "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Chapter 3: The Shots from the Texas School Book Depository," 68. JFK Assassination Records, National Archives and Records Administration website,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-3.html#witnesses

[accessed March 8, 2011].

16. Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 206.

17. The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination. DVD, 2010; Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 51, 196, 206; "United States Secret Service Lecture Outline on Protection of the President for Guidance of Special Agents Appearing Before Police Schools," C. Douglas Dillon Papers, Box 42, Folder "The President's Committee on the Warren Report," John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts; Bob Greene, "The Man Who Did Not Kill JFK," CNN Opinion, October 24, 2010,

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-24/opinion/greene.jfk.arrest_1_ken nedy-family-mansion-election-lee-harvey-oswald?_s=PM:OPINION

[accessed March 18, 2011]; "Crime: The Man from Peyton Place," Time, December 26, 1960,

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895131,00.html

[accessed March 18, 2011]; Philip Kerr, "JFK: The Assassin Who Failed," New Statesman, November 27, 2000,

http://www.newstatesman.com/200011270016

[accessed March 18, 2011].

18. "Report of United States Secret Service on the Assassination of President Kennedy," C. Douglas Dillon Papers, Box 43, Folder "The President's Committee on the Warren Report," John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

19. Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 2078.

20. "Report of United States Secret Service," Dillon Papers, Box 43, Kennedy Library.

21. "Report of the President's Commission, Chapter 3," 6871.

22. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Chapter 4: The Assassin," 14954. JFK Assassination Records, National Archives and Records Administration website,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-4.html

[accessed March 9, 2011]; Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 4748.

23. "Report of the President's Commission, chapter 4" 14954; Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 4748.

24. Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 5565.

25. Hugh Aynesworth, a journalist for the Dallas Morning News, interviewed Roberts on the day of the assassination; she did not mention the police car during this interview. Nor did she mention it during a second interview with Aynesworth. During two subsequent interviews with the reporter, however, she expanded upon her story, even recalling a number on the police car-though the number was different in two separate tellings. It is impossible to say what actually happened. The Dallas police have no record of a cruiser in her neighborhood at one P.M. on 11/22/63, but in the massive confusion of the day, a police car might have been there, for whatever reason-innocent or nefarious, as discussed in a later chapter.

26. United Press International scooped the story. At 12:34 P.M., four minutes after the shooting, Merriman Smith, UPI's Dallas correspondent, called in the incident from a radiophone in the White House press pool car; he held the lone phone away from another reporter, AP's Jack Bell, and didn't give it to Bell until they had arrived at Parkland Hospital. Smith's report quickly spread across the globe. Smith is also the person who first called the strip of green on the right side of Dealey Plaza "the grassy knoll." A myth exists among the public that breaking news reports in the 1960s were more accurate than modern ones. An honest review of the record, however, shows that reporters covering the Kennedy assassination made mistakes and spread misinformation in the same way their counterparts have done during recent crises such as the Boston Marathon bombing. CBS initially told viewers that "a man and a woman" had fired shots at President Kennedy and Governor Connally using a machine gun; that a Secret Service man had been killed in a hail of gunfire; that the Secret Service had arrested a suspect when the chief murder suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald, was still at large; and that "a witness saw a colored man fire three shots" from the fourth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. See "Two Hours of Uncut 11/22/63 CBS-TV Coverage, Starting at 1:30 P.M.," YouTube,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ry9-bpixM

[accessed April 23, 2013].

27. "Top 125 Most Memorable Political Moments. #1 Assassination of JFK (November 22, 1963)," Museum of Broadcast Communications,

http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=440

[accessed March 10, 2011]; Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 57.

28. Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 21415.

29. Steven M. Gillon, The Kennedy Assassination-24 Hours After: Lyndon B. Johnson's Pivotal First Day as President (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 5557; Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 22325; Hill, Mrs. Kennedy and Me, 293; interview with H. B. McLain, March 17, 2011.

30. Another strange story involves a phone call that was received at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio (headquarters of the 4th Army) a few minutes before the assassination. Between 12:15 and 12:30 CST, a base operator contacted the Deputy Chief of Staff Operations and Training office and asked for help in directing a call from an unidentified man who wanted to speak with the "Silver Dollar War Room." The operator was told to put the caller through to extension 2703. At approximately 12:25, the caller said, "This is Silver Dollar calling to test communications. I read you loud and clear, loud and clear. How do you read me?" A voice on extension 2703 replied, "I read you loud and clear, loud and clear." The caller then said, "Roger, over and out," before hanging up. "Silver Dollar" turned out to be the code word for the National Emergency Airborne Command Post, a specially equipped Air Force jet that had been designed to carry the president and his national security advisers during a nuclear war. Records show that the NEACP plane was in the air between 10:40 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. CST on 11/22. The question is why. Was it just an eerie coincidence? And who was the unidentified male caller? Larry Haapanen and Alan Rogers, "A Phone Call from Out of the Blue," Mary Ferrell Foundation website,

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=4275&relPageId=13

[accessed May 31, 2011]. In recent years, other strange radio conversations have surfaced that deserve closer scrutiny. A tape of never-before-heard radio traffic from Air Force One was discovered in General Chester Clifton, Jr.'s belongings after he died. Topics on the Clifton tape include General Curtis LeMay's whereabouts on 11/22; a debate about where to take JFK's body for the autopsy; and tantalizing references to various unknown individuals with code names like Monument and WTE. See John Loviglio, "Lost JFK Assassination Tapes on Sale," Associated Press, November 15, 2011,