Chapter Seven: The League of Wives

  1.     Judi Clifford and Paul Galanti, in conversation with the author, May 2016–December 2017.

  2.     Jane Maury Denton diary, March 4, 1967, JJDPC.

  3.     Ibid.

  4.     Ibid.

  5.     Mrs. James A. Mulligan Jr. to Governor Averell Harriman, Ambassador at Large, Washington, DC, April 8, 1967, record group 59, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

  6.     Phyllis Eason Galanti to Averell Harriman, April 10, 1967, folder 5, PEGP.

  7.     Jane Maury Denton diary, April 4, 1967, JJDPC.

  8.     Ibid.

  9.     Helene Knapp, “Helene’s Memoire from the Years 1946–1978” (unpublished memoir, 1978), 8; Helene Knapp, in conversation with the author, March 15–18, 2015.

  10.   McDaniel, After the Hero’s Welcome, 30.

  11.   Ibid., 39.

  12.   Ibid., 41–42.

  13.   Jane Maury Denton diary, July 18, 1967, JJDPC.

  14.   Dorothy McDaniel, in conversation with the author, January 16, 2018.

  15.   Ibid.

  16.   Ibid.

  17.   Jane Maury Denton diary, July 31, 1967, JJDPC.

  18.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 218; Douglas Martin, “Jack Anderson, Investigative Journalist Who Angered the Powerful, Dies at 83,” obituary, New York Times, December 18, 2005.

  19.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 218–19; Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 80–81, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  20.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 80–85, box 11, folder 22, SBSP; Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 219–22.

  21.   Sybil Stockdale to Phyllis Galanti, December 1, 1966, folder 4, PEGP.

  22.   Phyllis Galanti to other POW wives, August 16, 1967, folder 5, PEGP.

  23.   Grubb and Jose, You Are Not Forgotten, 74.

  24.   Sybil Stockdale, “Thank you, Mr. Watterson” speech, n.d., JSSP.

  25.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 216.

  26.   Pat Twinem, in conversation with the author, June 6, 2017.

  27.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 225.

  28.   Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 89, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  29.   Stockdale and Stockdale, In Love and War, 225; Sybil Stockdale diary, n.d., 88–89, box 11, folder 22, SBSP.

  30.   Shirley Stark, email message to author, September 26, 2017.

  31.   Stockdale, “Thank you, Mr. Watterson” speech.

  32.   Sybil Stockdale, oral history interview with Steven L. Smith, June 16, 2000, in Smith, “Reluctant Sorority.”