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18
. Ibid., p. 366.

19
. Folsom Exhibit No. 1, Vol. XIX, p. 683.

20
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 367.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid., p. 620, note 4.

23
. Ibid., pp. 367–368.

24
. Ibid., p. 360.

25
. Ibid., p. 621, note 6.

26
. Ibid., p. 368.

27
. Ibid., p. 369.

28
. Ibid., pp. 369–370.

29
. Ibid., p. 370.

Chapter 7: The Man Who Would Take Over the Team

1
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 373.

2
. Ibid., p. 374.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 322–323.

4
. Ibid., p. 321.

5
. Ibid., pp. 233–234.

6
. Ibid., pp. 240–241.

7
. Ibid., pp. 291–292.

8
. Ibid., p. 300.

9
. Ibid., pp. 292–293.

10
. Ibid., p. 295.

11
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 87.

12
. Ibid., pp. 89–94.

13
. Ibid., pp. 94–95.

14
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 624, notes 8–11.

15
. Ibid., pp. 376–377.

16
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 214.

17
. CE 200, Vol. XVI, p. 580.

18
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 297–298.

19
. WC Hearings, Vol. VIII, p. 317.

Chapter 8: Return to Moscow and Minsk

1
. HSCA Report, p. 371.

Chapter 9: Maternity House

1
. CE 1127, Vol. XXII, pp. 100–101.

2
. CE 206, Vol. XVI, pp. 594–595.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 205–207.

4
. Ibid.

PART II: CHARITY IN FORT WORTH

Chapter 1: Honeymoon

1
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 136.

2
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 234.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 6; 5.

4
. Ibid., p. 136.

5
. CE 984, Vol. XVIII, p. 619.

6
. WC Testimony, Vol. IV, pp. 416–426.

7
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 133–135.

Chapter 2: In the China Closet

1
. WC Testimony, Vol. II, pp. 338–339.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 351–352.

3
. Ibid., pp. 363–364.

4
. Ibid., pp. 371–372.

5
. Ibid., p. 384.

6
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 134–135.

Chapter 3: Deep in the Heart of Texas

1
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 242.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 380.

3
. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 122.

4
. WC Testimony, Vol. II, p. 305.

5
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 72.

6
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 436–437.

7
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, pp. 10–11.

8
. Ibid., pp. 138–139.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 383.

10
. Ibid., p. 365.

11
. Ibid., p. 397.

12
. Ibid., p. 376.

Chapter 4: The Well-born Friend

1
. De Mohrenschildt’s name is spelled in various places as de Mohrenschildt and De Mohrenschildt. Since the Warren Commission chose the latter form, it was decided to go along with it even if the correct spelling is likely to be in the first form.

2
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 265.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 99.

4
. Ibid., p. 270.

5
. Ibid., p. 222.

6
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 75.

7
. Ibid., p. 76.

8
. Ibid., p. 153.

9
. Ibid., p. 115.

10
. Ibid., pp. 182–183.

11
. Ibid., p. 97.

12
. Ibid., p. 111.

13
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 225.

14
. Ibid., p. 228.

15
. Ibid., p. 273.

16
. Ibid., p. 282.

17
. Ibid., p. 266.

18
. Ibid., p. 241.

19
. Ibid., p. 236.

20
. Ibid., p. 237.

21
. Ibid., p. 242.

22
. Ibid., p. 243.

Chapter 5: Not in a Million Years

1
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 116.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 261–263.

3
. Ibid., p. 235.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Ibid., pp. 253; 264.

6
. Norman Mailer,
Harlot’s Ghost,
pp. 414–417.

7
. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 558–559.

PART III: DARK DAYS IN DALLAS

Chapter 1: Evenings in Dallas

1
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 89.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 96.

3
. Ibid., p. 78.

4
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 138.

5
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 82–83.

6
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 166.

7
. Ibid., p. 165.

8
. By the time she testified in 1964, Alexandra had divorced Gary Taylor and remarried. The transcript identifies her as “Mrs. Gibson”; her first name has been added for clarity.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 148.

10
. Ibid., pp. 134–135.

11
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 178.

12
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 86.

13
. Ibid., p. 233.

14
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 366.

15
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 254.

Chapter 2: Oswald’s
Kampf

1
. McMillan, op cit., pp. 257–258.

2
. Adolf Hitler,
Mein Kampf,
p. 25.

3
. Ibid., p. 34.

4
. Ibid., pp. 21–22.

5
. Ibid., pp. 516–517.

6
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 467–468.

7
. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 120.

8
. Hitler, op cit., p. 435.

9
. Ibid., p. 34.

10
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 48.

Chapter 3: “I Refused to Tell a Lie”

1
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 323–324.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 127–128.

3
. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 121–122.

4
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 143.

5
. Ibid., p. 144.

6
. Ibid., p. 147.

7
. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, pp. 121–122.

8
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 260.

9
. WC Hearings, Vol. XI, p. 121.

10
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 140–141.

11
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 262.

12
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 239; 242–243.

13
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 386.

14
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 263.

15
. Ibid., pp. 280–281.

16
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 238.

17
. Ibid.

18
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 138.

19
. WC Testimony, Vol. I, p. 11.

20
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 232.

21
. HSCA, Vol. XII, pp. 138–141.

22
. WC Testimony, Vol. II, pp. 302–303.

23
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 284.

24
. Ibid., p. 285.

25
. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 625.

26
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 325.

27
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 286.

28
. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 625.

29
. Robert Oswald, with Myrick and Barbara Land,
Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald,
pp. 130–131.

Chapter 4: Christmas and Red Caviar

1
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 167.

2
. Ibid., p. 275.

3
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 128.

4
. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 624.

5
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 309.

6
. Ibid., pp. 309–310.

7
. Ibid., p. 306.

8
. Ibid.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 319.

10
. Ibid., p. 320.

11
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 305.

12
. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 481–482.

Chapter 5: Grubs for the Organism

1
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 564.

2
. Ibid., p. 565.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 235.

4
. For these figures, the author is indebted to Mary McHughes Ferrell’s compilation of financial data from Warren Commission Testimony and Exhibits. Her individual sums, which were calculated to the penny, are here rounded off to the nearest dollar.

5
. Mailer, op. cit., pp. 418–419.

Chapter 6: Trouble at Work

1
. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, p. 626.

2
. Ibid.

3
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 307.

4
. Ibid., p. 308. In the course of interviewing Marina, Priscilla Johnson McMillan induced her to write the letter again from memory, perhaps a year and a half after it was first composed.

5
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 482.

6
. Weinstock Exhibit No. 1, Vol. XXI, p. 721.

7
. Dibbs Exhibit No. 12, Vol. XIX, p. 579.

8
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 172.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 204.

10
. Ibid., p. 206.

11
. Ibid., p. 187.

Chapter 7: In Order to Feel a Little Love

1
. Epstein, op. cit., pp. 484–485.

2
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 317.

3
. Ibid., p. 318.

4
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, pp. 167–168.

5
. CE 51, Vol. XVI, pp. 187–188.

6
. CE 986, Vol. XVIII, p. 501; translated from the Russian by the Warren Commission.

7
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 299.

8
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 328.

9
. Ibid., p. 329.

10
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 256.

11
. Ibid., pp. 247; 242.

Chapter 8: Hunter of Fascists

1
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 332.

2
. Ibid., p. 333.

3
. CE 322, Vol. XVI, p. 886.

4
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 189.

5
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 488.

6
. CE 2694, Vol. XXVI, p. 60.

7
. Mary McHughes Ferrell, chronological compilation of Warren Commission Testimony and Exhibits.

8
. CE 2694, Vol. XXVI, p. 60.

9
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 349.

10
. WC Testimony, Vol. X, p. 190.

11
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 351.

12
. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 779.

13
. CE 1, Vol. XVI, pp. 1–2.

Chapter 9: Stoicism, Majestic in Purpose

1
. CE 98, Vol. XVI, p. 433.

2
. CE 97, Vol. XVI, p. 424.

3
. Ibid., pp. 429–430.

4
. Ibid., pp. 425–426.

5
. Ibid., pp. 426–427.

6
. CE 98, Vol. XVI, p. 434.

Chapter 10: Waiting for the Police

1
. CE 1401, Vol. XXII, p. 756.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 405.

3
. Ibid., p. 410.

4
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 491.

5
. CE 2521, Vol. XXV, p. 730.

6
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 359.

7
. Gerald Posner,
Case Closed,
p. 116.

8
. CE 2001, Vol. XXIV, p. 40.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 446.

10
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 647, note 1.

11
. Posner, op. cit., pp. 116–117.

Chapter 11: Telescopic Sight

1
. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 777.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, p. 293.

3
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 358.

4
. Ibid., p. 357.

5
. Ibid., p. 373.

6
. Ibid., p. 374.

7
. CE 1403, Vol. XXII, p. 777.

8
. WC Testimony, Vol. V, p. 619.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 248–250.

10
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 349.

11
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 314.

12
. Ibid., p. 315.

13
. Ibid.

14
. Ibid., p. 316.

15
. Ibid., p. 317.

16
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 564.

17
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, pp. 317–318.

18
. CE 994, Vol. XVIII, pp. 629–630.

19
. WC Testimony, Vol. IX, p. 234.

20
. Epstein, op. cit., p. 648, note 10. In an interview with Lawrence Schiller, Marina confirmed that Lee bought the rifle with the $25 and that she did tell De Mohrenschildt about it and spoke of Lee as her “fool husband.”

PART IV: THE BIG EASY

Chapter 1: “A Terrifically Sad Life”

1
. Unpublished interview of Marguerite Oswald by Lawrence Schiller, conducted in 1976.

2
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, pp. 58–59.

3
. Ibid., p. 46.

4
. Ibid., pp. 46–48.

5
. Ibid., pp. 51–52; 55.

Chapter 2: “He Walks and Talks Like a Man”

1
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 384.

2
. HSCA, Vol. XII, p. 170.

3
. WC Testimony, Vol. VIII, p. 183; 186.

4
. Ibid., pp. 135–136.

5
. Ibid., p. 151.

6
. Ibid., p. 136.

7
. McMillan, op. cit., p. 388.

8
. Posner, op. cit., p. 427.

9
. WC Testimony, Vol. XI, pp. 326–327.

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