Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation (38 page)

FBI special agent John Fain’s recollection of Lee Harvey Oswald comes from Fain’s Warren Commission testimony.

Believe it or not, the
Mona Lisa
’s unveiling can be found on YouTube.

The Warren Commission Report includes a solid summary on the history of presidential assassination and the need for a Secret Service. The Secret Service’s own website shows this, too. Much of the behind-the-scenes information about the various agents and their details can be found in Clint Hill’s fascinating
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, and in Gerald Blaine’s
The Kennedy Detail
.

Many details about the freedom marchers came from
Washington Post
coverage the following day. Glenn Eskew’s
But for Birmingham
and Diane McWhorter’s
Carry Me Home
provide additional awesome detail. Shelley Tougas’s
Birmingham 1963
speaks of how a single photograph changed so many minds.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s entire “I Have a Dream” speech can be heard online at
www.americanrhetoric.com
.

Special agent James Hosty’s Warren Commission testimony provides the details about his visit to Ruth Paine.

The Warren Commission Report and David Kaiser’s
The Road to Dallas
provide unique insight into the days leading up to the assassination.

There is still some question as to whether Oswald was actually the shooter whom Sterling Wood witnessed, since the owner of the shooting range swore he saw Oswald there on a completely different date. The fact that a lone man was seen firing a unique Italian rifle, however, is not in doubt.

A wide range of websites and books were used to sift through the vast number of facts surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The timing, crowd descriptions, and arrival scene, as well as all other aspects of the shooting and drive to Parkland Hospital, are standard facts. However, the primary sources for specific conversations, private moments, and otherwise particular details are
The Death of a President
, the Warren Commission Report,
Mrs. Kennedy and Me
, Vincent Bugliosi’s
Reclaiming History
, Robert Dallek’s writings on JFK’s medical woes and on the assassination itself, and, of course, the Zapruder film. The author watched it time after time after time to understand the sequence of events, and it never got less horrific—nor did the outcome ever change.

Jackie’s filmed newsreel thanking the nation for its sympathy can be found online, and her grief is still startlingly painful to watch.

INDEX

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Adams, John

Air Force One

Albert, Raymond

Aldrin, Edwin, Jr. “Buzz”

Alphand, Herve

Alphand, Nicole

Amagiri
(Japanese destroyer)

Anderson, Rudolf, Jr.

Arlington National Cemetery

Armstrong, Neil

Azcue, Eusebio

Baker, Marrion

Bartett, Charles

Baughman, U.E.

Bay of Pigs invasion.
See
Cuba

Berlin Wall

Bessette, Lauren

bin Laden, Osama

Birmingham, Alabama

Blackett Strait

Black Jack (riderless horse)

Bono

Brigade 2506

Brown, Arnold J.

Brown, Jim

Bumbry, Grace