The Day Kennedy Was Shot (95 page)

Teague, Olin, 103

Teamsters Union, 91

Temple Shearith Israel (Dallas), 427, 465, 562–565

Texas Industries, 206

Texas School Book Depository (Dallas), 33–36, 48–49, 56–60, 68, 74–75, 125–129, 154–155, 160–161, 162–173, 175–176, 179–185, 189, 192–194, 207, 221–222, 227–228, 252–256, 302–303, 325–326, 344, 349, 422–423, 687, 689

Texas Theatre (Dallas), 273–281, 462, 586

Thomas, Albert, 118, 203, 262, 337

Thomas, George, xv, 4–5, 17, 22, 55, 87, 412–413, 559

Thomas, Walter E., 640

Thompson, Father James, 116, 204, 222–225

Thompson, Josiah, xvii

Thompson, Tommy, 505–508

Thornberry, Homer, 203, 250, 262

Time
magazine, 266

Tippit, John D., 50–51, 54, 149–150, 225, 256–260, 263–264, 279, 280, 281, 322, 324, 333–334, 389, 473, 480–481, 484–485, 504–505, 523, 585, 630, 646, 689–690

Todd, Elmer, 470

Tower, John, 63, 539

Trade Mart (Dallas), 9–11, 35, 52, 58–59, 64, 66, 75, 76, 84, 88, 93–95, 113–114, 118–121, 135, 150, 155–157, 170, 188–190, 204–206, 255, 301–302, 394–395

Tropic of Cancer
(Miller), 147

Truly, Roy, 33–34, 59–60, 127, 154–155, 162–163, 180, 182, 228, 303, 422, 463, 674, 689, 690

Truman, Harry S, 249, 454–455, 547, 550, 556

Truth About the Assassination, The
(Roberts), xvii

Tuckerman, Nancy, xiv, 236

Tumulty, Joseph, 43

Turner, Patrolman F. M., 130

Turnure, Pamela, 42, 117, 246–247, 357, 408

u

Udall, Sec. Stewart, 137, 212, 616

United Nations, 26, 282–283, 372, 487

United Press International (UPI), 42, 109, 132, 133, 181–182, 191–192, 212–213, 310, 355–356

United States Supreme Court, 89–90

University of Dallas, 145

Uzee, Norris, 244–245

V

Valachi, Joseph, 92

Valenti, Jack, 307, 318, 337, 354, 396, 463–464, 531–532, 543, 560, 595–596, 616, 663, 690

Van Haesen, John, 609, 647–648

Vegas Club (Dallas), 151, 565, 575–576, 633–634, 634, 658

Victoria, Queen, 338, 346, 488

Vienna Summit Conference, 24, 44

Viet Nam, 25, 79, 81, 136–138

Vogelsinger, Sue, 619

Volpert, Ann, 526

Volstead Act, 136

w

Wade, District Attorney Henry, 283–284, 290, 330–331, 377, 471–473, 521, 526, 569–570, 586–592, 614–615, 617–619, 626–635, 643–644, 650, 654, 659

Waldman, William J., 675–676

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York), 72

Waldo, Thayer, 589

Walker, C. T., 263–265, 277–278, 281

Walker, Gen. Edwin, 14, 160, 325, 495, 541, 688

Walker, Roy, 50–51

Walsh, Dr. John, 412

Walter Reed Hospital (Washington, D.C.), 357

Walther, Carolyn, 165

Walton, William, 489–490, 551, 637–638

Ward, Judge Theron, 288, 290

Warren, Sgt., 645, 655

Warren Commission Report, xvi, 656
n
, 686, 690–691

Warren, Earl, 144, 409, 414–415

Washington Cathedral, 436–437

Washington, George, 37, 681

Washington Hotel Building (Washington, D.C.), 337, 523

Washington Post
, 23–24

Weatherford, Harry, 361

Webster, Chuck, 604, 628

Webster, Jane Carolyn, 243

Wehle, Gen. Philip, 439, 452, 453, 487

Weissman, Bernard, 98–100, 151, 644

Weitzman, Deputy Constable Seymour, 183, 207–208

Wells, Lt. T. P., 456–457, 484–485

West, Bernard, 36–37, 466

Westbrook, Capt. W. R., 188–189

Western Union, 133

Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, 310, 318

Westminster Cathedral (London), 667

Westphal, Roy, 95

West, Troy, 56–58

Whalen, Tom, 297

Whaley, William, 217–219

While England Slept
(J. F. Kennedy), xv–xvi

White, Byron, 579

White, Dr., 201

“White House switchboard,” 6

Wicker, Tom, 42, 265–266, 298, 333

Williams, Bonnie Ray, 57, 126–129, 154–155, 180–181

Williams, Doyle, 222

Wilson, Woodrow, 43, 436–437

Wirtz, Sec. Willard, 212, 343–344, 616

WNEW (New York City), 634–635

Wolf, Monsignor Vincent, 72–73, 78, 232

Worrell, James R., 172, 181

Wright, James (Jim), 61, 62, 79, 369

Wright, Lloyd, 636, 637

Wright, O. P., 244, 296–297

Wright, Zephyr, 518

Y

Yarborough, Senator Ralph, 20–21, 44–47, 61, 62, 70, 87–88, 100–103, 109, 117, 118, 123, 129–130, 132, 173, 175, 183, 196, 245

Youngblood, Rufus (Rufe), 47–48, 54, 132, 172, 173, 183, 195, 197–199, 248, 251, 261–262, 300, 311, 416, 433, 531–532, 542, 561, 595

z

Zangara (Assassin), 547

Zapruder, Abraham, xvii, 163, 174–175, 687

Zboril, Charles, 41

Zoppi, Toni, 120

JIM BISHOP
was a syndicated columnist and author of many bestselling books, including
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
,
The Day Christ Died
, and
A
Day in the Life of President Kennedy
. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Bishop died in 1987.

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*
This book was originally under contract with Random House, but for reasons completely apart from the Kennedys' pressure on that publisher, I decided to have Funk & Wagnalls bring it out.

*
Washington time is one hour later than at Dallas.

*
Within a year, George Jackson was dead of cancer.

*
On October 26, 1963, while showing the private quarters of the Kennedy family to the author and his wife.

*
He brought it up to the author at the White House, October 28, 1963.

*
Mr. Kennedy referred to this matter obliquely several times during the author's stay at the White House.

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Nixon confided these plans to me at the Key Biscayne Hotel, Miami, Fla., in January 1963.

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It has been suggested that, in a group of carts, this bullet may have fallen from Kennedy's. The President was still lying on his cart at this time, and, of those carts at the elevator, Connally's was the only one involving a bullet wound.

*
Mr. O'Donnell denied that he was asked about
Air Force One
. There is no doubt that Johnson, thinking ahead, wanted to show that, even in tragedy, the continuity of government would be smooth. Therefore, from the start, he wanted to be aboard 26000 with his dead chieftain and the widow.

*
This was a lapse of memory on all sides. Although the Constitution of the United States does not require a time element, the oath should be taken as quickly as possible to ensure smooth continuity of government in the executive branch.

*
Cloy's alleged statement, “We were rehearsing for the funeral a week,” led to the ugly rumor that Defense Secretary McNamara had the army practicing for the burial of John F. Kennedy before the trip to Dallas.

*
The doctors complained bitterly that they were misquoted or
quoted out of context. In truth, they were incompetent to discuss the wounds of the President because they had not examined the body. They had no knowledge of the crime, the scene of it, the trajectory of projectiles, or whether wounds could be called entrance or exit. They could have drawn up a preliminary draft of treatment and given it to Dr. Burkley, the President's physician. Instead they chose to lend themselves to a press conference. As a result, Burkley could not discuss the President's wounds with competence at the Bethesda autopsy.

*
The spot where Oswald, who had shot two strangers, would be shot by one on Sunday morning.

*
The cost of the casket was $3900. Oneal sent bills to Mrs. Kennedy for a year. He says that the family never paid for it. A government agency got in touch with him fourteen months later and said it would give him $3400—no more. He accepted. The check came from the government. Because he demanded proper payment, his business in Dallas fell off 50 percent.

*
Four months after the assassination, I sat with Rose and Joe Kennedy at their home in Palm Beach. Mrs. Kennedy said: “I have not heard from ‘Mrs. Kennedy' since the funeral.”

*
O'Brien and Bundy were the only Kennedy men who remained with Lyndon Johnson. Both, as noted by Charles Roberts in the
The Truth About the Assassination
, were branded by the Clan Kennedy as “traitors.” Bundy's response was that the presidency is bigger than any man. O'Brien shrugged and said: “You do what needs to be done.”

*
Throughout the book, all times given are Central Standard. At this time, it is 4:20
P.M.
in Dallas, 5:20
P.M.
in Washington.

*
After Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby on Sunday, November 24, 1963, the first cell was occupied by the nightclub owner.

*
A few months later, in Atlantic City, N.J., I saw O'Donnell holding a door open at the back of the limousine. Jokingly, I said: “Ah, you are now the Johnson door-opener.” He grinned. “Yeah,” he said. “I hold doors for him.” Shortly after, he quit to run for office in Massachusetts and lost.