http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/inside_my_teen_affair_with_jfk_FGF4aS7OdoQozP4tyySsmK/o

[accessed February 7, 2012]; Lance Morrow, "Woman, Interrupted," Smithsonian (December 2008): 8795. In 1964 Meyer was murdered under mysterious circumstances during a botched robbery attempt in Washington, DC.

32. See J. Randy Taraborrelli, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009), 40917.

33. Mimi Alford, Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath (New York: Random House, 2011). Mention of Alford, without details or a first-person account, first appeared in Robert Dallek's An Unfinished Life.

34. For more information on Kennedy's reckless philandering, see Ronald Kessler, "Secret Service Describes JFK as Reckless," Newsmax, February 13, 2012,

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Secret-Service-JFK-Alford/2012/02/i3/id/429282

[accessed February 13, 2012], and Larry J. Sabato, Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (New York: Free Press, 1991), 3342.

35. Sabato, Feeding Frenzy, 38.

36. Arthur Schlesinger thought that Kennedy's religion "was humane rather than doctrinal. He was a Catholic as Franklin Roosevelt was an Episcopalian-because he was born into the faith, lived in it and expected to die in it." Schlesinger also told the story of an evening at the White House when Kennedy had argued "with considerable particularity that nine of the ten commandments were derived from nature and almost seemed to imply that all religion was so derived." Sorensen never heard his boss "pray aloud" or "disclose his personal views on man's relation to God." Schlesinger, Thousand Days, 107; Sorensen, Kennedy, 19. On the other hand, Jackie Kennedy told Arthur Schlesinger in a private interview in the spring of 1964, which has now been made public, that President Kennedy would change into his pajamas prior to his afternoon nap, kneel at the bedside, and say his prayers. See Susan Cheever, "Jackie's Enduring Mystique," Daily Beast, September 17, 2011,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/17/jackie-kennedy-tapes-show-us-what-we-lost.html

[accessed December 27, 2012].

37. Thomas C. Reeves, A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy (Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing, 1992), 400; Dallek, Unfinished Life, 633; "New York Times Chronology (October 1963)," John F. Kennedy Library website,

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/New-York-Times-Chronology/Browse-by-Date/New-York-Times-Chronology-October-1963.aspx

[accessed February 8, 2011].

7. ECHOES FROM DEALEY PLAZA.

1. The historian was David Herbert Donald, a scholar of Lincoln and the Civil War. Molly Muldoon, "President John F. Kennedy Predicted His Own Assassination," Irish Central, June 3, 2001,

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/President-John-F-Kennedy-predicted-his-own-assassination-123115643.html

[accessed July 19, 2011]. See also Barney Henderson, "John F. Kennedy Made Ominous Legacy Prediction a Year Before Assassination," The Telegraph, June 2, 2011,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8553200/John-F-Kennedy-made-ominous-legacy-prediction-a-year-before-assassination.html

[accessed July 13, 2011].

2. William Manchester, The Death of a President: November 20November 25, 1963 (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), 630.

3. Lyndon B. Johnson, "Executive Order 11130 Appointing a Commission to Report Upon the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy [Released November 30, 1963. Dated November 29, 1963]," Lyndon B. Johnson Papers, John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project, Santa Barbara, CA,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=26032#axzz1IeuLBveT

[accessed April 6, 2011]. The influential journalist Joe Alsop helped convince LBJ of the need for a blue-ribbon panel to investigate the Kennedy assassination. See "LBJ-Alsop 11-25-63," History Matters,

http://historymatters.com/archive/jfk/lbjlib/phone_calls/Nov_1963/audio/LBJ-Alsop_11-25-63.htm

[accessed May 24, 2011]. In the latest installment of his award-winning series on LBJ, the historian Robert Caro says that Robert Kennedy recommended two of the appointees-McCloy and Dulles. This story, provided by Johnson himself, is almost certainly false. The Kennedys banished the Dulles clan from Washington after the Bay of Pigs. Bobby convinced his brother to replace Allen Dulles with John McCone as head of CIA and forced Eleanor Dulles (Allen's sister) to resign from the State Department. See Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), 44243; Leonard Mosley, Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network (New York: Dial Press / James Wade, 1978), 47374; and Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980), 3047; Rex Bradford, "Whispers From the Silent Generation," Mary Ferrell Foundation website, May 2013,

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Whispers_from_the_Silent_Generation

[accessed June 15, 2013].

4. Specter served in the U.S. Senate from 1981 to 2011, representing Pennsylvania. He was a Republican until 2009, when he changed parties and became a Democrat. Defeated for reelection in 2010, Specter died in 2012.

5. Kathryn S. Olmsted, Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 131.

6. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 615. Katzenbach "maintained later that his goal had been to gather, not cover up, evidence against Lee Harvey Oswald, who he was convinced was the lone assassin." Douglas Martin, "Nicholas Katzenbach, Trusted Adviser to JFK and LBJ, Dies at 90," New York Times, May 9, 2012.

7. Harris Wofford, Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980), 415. At 4:01 P.M. EST on November 22, two and a half hours after the assassination, Hoover sent a memo to aides naming Oswald as the prime suspect. See "Memorandum for Mr. Tolson [et al.]," JFK Lancer website,

http://www.jfklancer.com/backes/newman/documents/hoover/Hoover_RFK.JPG

[accessed May 22, 2013]. Hoover apparently quashed an FBI investigation of the National States Rights Party as well. See IC Robert G. Renfro to SAC, Dallas, November 22, 1963,

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/hoover.htm

[accessed May 22, 2013].

8. Oswald attempted to kill Major General Edwin Walker in April 1963 (discussed in a subsequent chapter). The case was still open at the time of JFK's assassination.

9. Anthony Summers, The Kennedy Conspiracy (London: Sphere Books, 1989), 28385. Dallas FBI Agent James P. Hosty, Jr., twice visited the Paine residence in November 1963. Hosty had inherited the Oswald file from Fort Worth FBI Agent John Fain. On November 1, 1963, Hosty visited Ruth Paine's house in Irving. Marina and her children were living with Paine at the time. Paine told Hosty that Marina and Lee had separated and that Lee worked at the Texas School Book Depository. Paine also said that Lee lived somewhere in the Oak Cliff neighborhood, but she wasn't sure where. Hosty and a second FBI agent returned on November 5. Paine told the agents that she still didn't have Lee's address, but that he had described himself to her as a Trotskyist-Marxist. James P. Hosty, Jr., Assignment: Oswald (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1996); "Papers of James Hosty, Jr.," National Archives and Records Administration website,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/finding-aids/hosty-papers.html