Eisenhower and
elected to Congress
election of 1960 and
election of 1964 and
enemies of
father and
finances of
funeral of
Garbo and
health problems of
Hoover and
inauguration of
Jackie’s pregnancy and
Jackie’s relationship with
Jackie’s trip to Greece and
Jackie’s White House tour and
King and
last White House dinner of
LBJ and
Lincoln and
Mafia and
Mona Lisa and
Montana speech and
naval intelligence and
nuclear test ban and
Oswald targets
personality of
popularity of
Powers and
Profiles in Courage and
Profumo and
PT-109 and
religion and
Secret Service and
Sinatra and
State of the Union address by
swimming and
tax cuts and
Teddy’s Senate campaign and
Texas trip planned for
Time and
travels to France
travels to Ireland and Germany
UC-Berkeley speech by
Vietnam and
West Virginia primary and
White House staff of
World War II and
Kennedy, Joseph, Jr. (brother)
Kennedy, Joseph P. (father)
Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier (son)
Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby” (brother)
assassination of
as attorney general
Bay of Pigs and
bond with Jack
Cape Cod house of
CIA and
civil rights and
Cuban missile crisis and
Hoover and
inauguration and
Jackie and
Jack’s affairs and
Jack’s assassination and
LBJ and
Lincoln assassination and
Mafia and
Monroe and
presidential ambitions of
Kennedy, Rose (mother)
Khrushchev, Nikita
Bay of Pigs and
Berlin Wall and
Cuban missile crisis and
Stalin and
trip to U.S. and
Khrushchev, Yefrosinia
King, Coretta
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
assassination of
FBI and
Jack meets with
March on Washington and
Ku Klux Klan
LaLanne, Jack
Landers, Ann
Landis, Paul
Lansky, Meyer
Lawford, Patricia Kennedy (sister)
Lawford, Peter (brother-in-law)
Lawson, Winston G.
Leavelle, J. R.
Lee, Robert E.
LeMay, Curtis E.
Life
Lincoln, Abraham
assassination of
funeral of
Lincoln, Evelyn
Lincoln, Willie
Lincoln Memorial
London Sunday Times
Look
Luciano, Lucky
Macmillan, Harold
Mafia
Bobby and
Jack and
Jack’s assassination and
Monroe and
Mahfouz, Naguib
Malcolm X
Malraux, André
Manchester, William
Mao Zedong
March on Washington
Marshall, Thurgood
Martin, Dean
Martin, Louis
Massachusetts
primaries of 1946
Teddy as senator for
McCarthyism
McIntyre, Bill
McKinley, William
McNair, Denise
McNamara, Robert
Mearns, David
Meredith, Lynn
Midnight Ride, Operation
Milam, J. W. “Big”
Militant (newspaper)
Miller, Arthur
Mississippi
Mona Lisa (da Vinci painting)
Mongoose, Operation
Monroe, James
Monroe, Marilyn
Napoléon Bonaparte
National Gallery of Art
National Indignation Convention
Nazi Germany
Nelson, Doris
Newman, Larry
Newsweek
New York Times
New Zealand
Nhu, Ngo Dinh
Nicaragua
Nixon, Richard
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
nuclear weapons
Ocean’s Eleven (film)
O’Donnell, Kenneth
Onassis, Aristotle
Oneal, Vernon
Oswald, Audrey Marina
Oswald, June Lee
Oswald, Lee Harvey
arrest of
assassination executed by
assassination planned by
attempts to go to Cuba
burial of
childhood and youth of
children of
CIA and
conspiracy theories and
Cuban missile crisis and
defects to Soviet Union
escapes after assassination
family and
FBI and
jobs of
killed by Ruby
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and
marries Marina
marines discharge of
marital problems of
moves to Dallas
moves to New Orleans
psychology of
returns to U.S.
Texas School Book Depository job and
Tippit shot by
Walker shot by
weapons bought by
Oswald, Marguerite
Oswald, Marina Prusakova
eve of assassination and
FBI and
later life of
Lee’s attack on Walker and
marital problems of
marries Lee
moves to U.S.
pregnancy of
Oswald, Robert
Otash, Fred
Paine, Ruth
Pakistan
Parker, John
Parker, William
Parkland Memorial Hospital
Peace Corps
Pentagon
People
Perry, Mac
Pillar of Fire (Branch)
Porter, Rachel
Portrait of a President (Manchester)
Postal, Julia
Powers, Dave
presidents, deaths of, in office
Presley, Elvis
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy)
Profumo, John
Protective Research Section (PRS)
Prusakov, Ilya
PT-109
Radziwill, Lee (Jackie’s sister)
Rather, Dan
Ray, James Earl
Ready, John
Reagan, Ronald
Republican Party
Resolute desk
Reston, James
Roberts, Emory
Roberts, Ralph
Robertson, Carole
Robertson, James, Jr.
Roman Catholic Church
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
assassination attempt on
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy”
Rose, Earl
Ross, George “Barney”
Rowland, Aaron
Rowland, Barbara
Ruby, Jack
Rusk, Dean
Salinger, Pierre
Schirra, Wally
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schlossberg, Edwin
Secret Service
Jackie and
Jack’s assassination and
Sequoia (presidential yacht)
Seward, William H.
Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery (Fort Worth, Texas)
Shaw, Maud
Simon, Carly
Sinatra, Frank
Sirhan, Sirhan
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham) bombing
Skelton, Byron
Smathers, George
Socialist Workers Party
Solomon Islands
Sorensen, Ted
Sorrels, Forrest V.
South Vietnam
Buddhist protests in
Diem assassination and
Soviet Central Committee
Soviet Communist Party
Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs
Soviet Politburo
Soviet Union
Bay of Pigs and
Cuban missile crisis and
“Great Purge” of 1934
nuclear test ban treaty and
Oswald and
Profumo and
space race and
wheat sale to
space program
Stalin, Joseph
Stalingrad, Battle of
State Department
Stevenson, Adlai
Strategic Air Command
Suddenly (film)
Sullivan, William C.
Swindal, Jim
Tactical Air Command
Taft, William Howard
Texas
election of 1960 and
election of 1964 and
Jackie’s popularity in
Jack’s trip planned
LBJ and
Oswald and
Texas Criminal Court of Appeals
Texas Democratic National Committee
Texas Observer
Texas School Book Depository
Thailand
Thich Quang Duc
Thomas, George
Thoreau, Henry David
Till, Emmett Louis
Time Man of the Year
Tippit, J. D.
Tolson, Clyde
Tretick, Stanley
Truman, Harry
Turkey, missiles in
Turnure, Pamela
U-2 spy planes
United Auto Workers Union
United Nations
United Nations Day
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
First Armored Division
Map Service
U.S. Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Jack elected to
U.S. Marines
U.S. Navy
U.S. Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Vidal, Gore
Viet Cong
Vietnam War
Walker, John
Walker, Ted
Wallace, George
Wall Street Journal
Walsh, John
War Is Hell (film)
Warren, Earl
Warren Commission
Washington Post
Wear, Priscilla
Wesley, Cynthia
West Germany
West Virginia
We Were Strangers (film)
White, Theodore
White House
East Room
family residence
Jackie’s renovation of
Jackie’s TV tour of
Lincoln Bedroom
Oval Office
Truman Balcony
West Wing built
White House staff
Wood, Homer
Wood, Sterling
Worker (newsletter)
World War I
World War II
Wright, Moses
Xuan, Mai Huu
Yarborough, Ralph
Zangara, Giuseppe “Joe”
Zapata, Operation. See Bay of Pigs invasion
About the Authors
BILL O’REILLY is the anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news show in the country. He also writes a syndicated newspaper column and is the author of several number-one bestselling books. He is, perhaps, the most talked about political commentator in America.
MARTIN DUGARD is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, including Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone and The Last Voyage of Columbus. He is also the author of To Be a Runner, a collection of essays about distance running. Mr. Dugard lives in Southern California with his wife and three sons.
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Killing Kennedy: the end of Camelot / Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.—First edition.
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1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917–1963—Assassination. I. Dugard, Martin. II. Title.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
A Note to Readers
Prologue
Part I: Cheating Death
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Part II: The Curtain Descends
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Part III: Evil Wins
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Afterword
Epilogue
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
Copyright