Source Notes ABBREVIATIONS AFIP, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ARRB, Assassination Records Review Board ARRB MD, Assassination Records Review Board, Medical Deposition ASAIC, assistant special agent-in-charge (Secret Service) CD, Warren Commission document CE, Warren Commission exhibit DA, district attorney DMA, Dallas Municipal Archives DOJ, Department of Justice DOJCD, Department of Justice, Criminal Division DPD, Dallas Police Department FOIA, Freedom of Information Act H, Warren Commission hearings and exhibits (volumes 1–15 are testimony; volumes 16–26 are exhibits) HPSCI, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence HSCA, House Select Committee on Assassinations JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson NARA, National Archives and Records Administration NAS-CBA, National Academy of Science’s Committee on Ballistic Acoustics NSA, National Security Agency ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence SA, special agent SAC, special agent-in-charge (FBI) SAIC, special agent-in-charge (Secret Service) SSCIA, Senate Select Committee on the CIA WC, Warren Commission WCT, Warren Commission testimony WR, Warren Report Z, Zapruder film 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Stephen Ambrose, quoted in John Broder, “Greatness in the Eye of the Beholder?” Los Angeles Times, November 22, 1993, pp.1, 10. 2. O’Donnell and Powers with McCarthy, Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, p.472. 3. Ambrose, quoted in Broder, “Greatness in the Eye of the Beholder?” Los Angeles Times, Novem- ber 22, 1993, pp.1, 10. 4. USA Today, November 22, 1993. 5. Dallas Morning News, November 17, 2003, p.14. 6. New York Times, November 4, 2004, p.4; Phillips, “Fat City,” p.49. 7. Ashley Powers, “The Mythical Man of Camelot,” Dallas Morning News, November 16, 2003, pp.1A, 18A. 8. Reeves, “JFK: Secrets & Lies,” p.155. 9. Thurston Clarke, “Ask How,” New York Times, January 15, 2005, p.A15. 10. Connally and Herskowitz, From Love Field, p.25. 11. Evening Press (Binghamton, NY), November 27, 1963, p.55. 12. Thomas Powers, “The Sins of a President,” review of The Dark Side of Camelot, by Seymour M. Hersh. New York Times Book Review, November 30, 1997, p.14. 13. Berquist, “John Fitzgerald Kennedy,” p.35. 14. Editorial, Evening Press (Binghamton, NY), November 26, 1963, p.6. 15. A late September 1964 Harris national poll, survey number 1384, found that 55.5 percent ofAmer- icans believed Oswald acted alone, 31.6 percent believed he was part of a conspiracy, and 13 per- cent said they were “not sure” (In addition, 86.3 percent said he was the assassin, 1.7 percent said he was not, and 12 percent said they were not sure.) See also Washington Post, October 19, 1964. 16. Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1991, p.M1. 17. Bunton, “Texas Judge Offers Perspectives on Presiding at Oswald’s Trial,” p.1045; Telephone interview of jury foreman Jack Morgan by author on December 27, 2002. 18. Time Out, November 19, 1986. 19. Roffman, Presumed Guilty, p.9. 20. McKnight, Breach of Trust, pp.127, 153. 21. Interview of Jim Garrison by Murphy Martin, WFAA-TV, Dallas, Texas, on December 9, 1967. 22. Washington Post, January 10, 1992. 23. Specter with Robbins, Passion for Truth, p.123. 24. Letter from David Slawson to author dated May 27, 1999. 25. Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1999, p.B7. 26. Mosk, “Conspiracy Theories and the JFK Assassination,” p.37. 27. Warren, Memoirs, pp.366–367. 28. Transcript of CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report, part IV, June 28, 1967, p.18, CBS Tele- vision Archives. 29. Transcripts of twenty-three taped phone conversations President Johnson had with various pub- lic officials from November 24 through November 29, 1963, and the one phone conversation between Moyers and Rostow on November 24, 1963, contained in “Selected Telephone Conver- sations concerning the Special Committee to Investigate the Assassination of President Kennedy” at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas (hereafter “LBJ Library”); see also 3 HSCA 693. 30. HSCA Report, p.95. Note: All references to the HSCA Report in this book are from the final report of the House Select Committee dated March 29, 1979, not the earlier report filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives on January 2, 1979. 31. HSCA Report, pp.103, 129, 147, 181, 225. 32. HSCA Report, p.225. 33. HSCA Report, pp.80, 96. 34. Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 9, 1984, p.37. 35. Letter from Jack Morgan to author dated April 10, 2003. 36. “Best of ’86,” p.78; see also Zoglin, “What If Oswald Stood Trial?” p.60. 37. Warren, Memoirs, p.367. 38. Sparrow, After the Assassination, p.69. 39. Dallas Morning News, November 23, 2003, p.5H. 40. Dallas Morning News, November 17, 2003, p.14E. 41. Adler, Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, pp.132–133; “Growing Rift of LBJ and Kennedy,” p.25. 2 Introduction 3 42. “URI Professor: Oswald Acted Alone—Recent Research Relies on Neutron Activation Analy- ses,” University of Rhode Island press release, October 14, 2004, available at http://www.uri .edu/news/releases/index.php?id=2835. 43. New York Times, November 29, 1964, p.63. 44. Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp.115, 328. 45. 11 H 304, WCT Maj. Eugene D. Anderson. 46. Brown, Treachery in Dallas, p.26. 47. 3 H 441–443, 449, WCT Ronald Simmons. 48. WR, p.105; CE 346, 16 H 943; CEs 697 and 698, 17 H 354; 5 H 132, WCT Thomas J. Kelley; JFK Exhibit F-13, 1 HSCA 36; CE 885, 18 H 26. Conspiracy theorists routinely allege that Con- nally was seated directly in front of the president. For example: “Inasmuch as Governor Con- nally had been sitting directly in front of President Kennedy . ,” Jim Garrison advises his readers on page 281 of his book, On the Trail of the Assassins. 49. CE 885, 18 H 24–28; 6 HSCA 54. 50. 5 H 132, WCT Thomas J. Kelley. 51. WR, pp.91, 105; 2 HSCA 192. 52. Transcript of CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report, part IV, June 28, 1967, p.14, CBS Tele- vision Archives. 53. Belin, November 22, 1963, p.256. 54. WR, p.243. 55. JFK Document 22, 11 HSCA 151–165. 56. WR, appendices XVI and XVII, pp.779–816. 57. Bethell, “Jim Garrison’s Great Escape,” p.20; Bethell, Electric Windmill, p.62. 58. See CE 2195, 25 H 25–74; CE 2196, 25 H 75. 59. FBI Record 124-10104-10000, March 7, 1964, p.2. 60. Weisberg, Oswald in New Orleans, p.214. 61. WR, p.105. 62. 25,000 interviews: WR, p.xii; “Truth about Kennedy Assassination,” p.45; 3,154 items of evi- dence: New York Times, February 22, 1966, p.10; Morin, Assassination, p.177. 63. “Truth about Kennedy Assassination,” p.63. 64. Devlin, “Death of a President, the Established Facts,” p.112. 65. Roberts, Truth about the Assassination, p.22. 66. Freese, “Warren Commission and the Fourth Shot,” p.453. 67. Brown, Warren Omission, p.76 68. 11 HSCA 235–237. 69. 11 HSCA 224–232. 70. 11 HSCA 260–261. 71. Lifton, Best Evidence, p.8. 72. Eddowes, Oswald File, p.x. 73. Roberts, Truth about the Assassination, p.9. 74. Lane, Rush to Judgment, pp.xxv–xxvi. 75. Lane, Rush to Judgment, pp.65, 123. 76. Moore, Conspiracy of One, pp.61, 87, 94. 77. Posner, Case Closed, p.177. 78. 11 H 382, 385, 388, WCT Sylvia Odio. 79. Posner, Case Closed, pp.446, 494. 80. Telephone interview of Roger McCarthy by author on March 9, 1999. 81. Posner, Case Closed, pp.483–485. A list of allegedly mysterious deaths essentially the same as Pos- ner’s appears in an earlier book (1989), Jim Marrs’s Crossfire, at pp.558–566; though, unlike Pos- ner, Marrs does not set forth any refutation of the allegation that these were, in fact, murders. 82. Weisberg, Never Again! pp.vii, xii. 83. Tague, Truth Withheld, p.111. 84. Letter from Harold Weisberg to author dated July 20, 1999, p.3. 85. Gates, with Manly, Forte, and Washington, “Bottom Line: How Crazy Is It?” p.54. 86. Transcript of CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report, part III, June 27, 1967, p.20, CBS Tele- vision Archives. 87. Los Angeles Daily News, November 17, 1993, p.4. 88. Bob Katz, “JFK and the Search for Truth,” Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1991. 89. Flammonde, Kennedy Conspiracy, p.192. 90. Telephone interview of Bill Drenas by author on August 20, 2005. FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER 1. 1 H 65–66, 69, 72, 121–122, WCT Marina N. Oswald; 3 H 68, WCT Ruth Hyde Paine; McMil- lan, Marina and Lee, pp.524–525; Manchester, Death of a President, p.111. 2. McMillan, Marina and Lee, p.73. 3. 1 H 22, 46, 52, 64–66, WCT Marina N. Oswald; 2 H 515–516, 3 H 41, 44–47, WCT Ruth Hyde Paine; height and weight of Oswald: CE 1981, 24 H 7; McMillan, Marina and Lee, pp.515–517. 4. 2 H 508, 3 H 46, 56–57, 9 H 414–415, WCT Ruth Hyde Paine; 1 H 65, WCT Marina N. Oswald; lonesome for girls: McMillan, Marina and Lee, p.521. 5. 1 H 65–67, 69, WCT Marina N. Oswald; McMillan, Marina and Lee, pp.524–525; teaches part- time: 4 H 448, WCT James Patrick Hosty. 6. McMillan, Marina and Lee, p.525; 1 H 70, 72, WCT Marina N. Oswald; 3 H 112–113, WCT Ruth Hyde Paine. 7. 1 H 72, WCT Marina N. Oswald; 3 H 112, WCT Ruth Hyde Paine; McMillan, Marina and Lee, pp.525, 544; Manchester, Death of a President, p.111.