Palmer, Henry, 146

Pappas, Ike, 378

paraffin tests, 348–49

Parkland Hospital, 118n, 203, 231, 239, 292, 298n, 395

Kennedy’s emergency treatment at, 285–91, 303–1

Ruby at, 371–73, 401

Partin, Edward, 457

Passport Office, U.S., 68

Patterson, B. M., 275

Paul, Ralph, 366–67, 372n, 374, 376, 387n, 388–89, 488

Pawley, William, 497

Pecora, Nofio, 156n, 363, 364n

Pelou, François, 385

Pena, Orest, 166n

Pence, Art, 103, 325

Perrin, Robert, 446n

Perry, David, 464

Perry, Malcolm, 287, 288, 289, 290–91, 304, 308, 310–11, 313

Peters, Paul, 288, 291, 309n, 310, 311

Peterson, Niles, 439

Pfisterer Dental Laboratory, 17

Phelan, Jim, 435–36, 437–38, 446

Philby, Kim, 35

Phillips, David Atlee, 165n, 187

Pic, John, 5, 6, 7, 8–9, 17n, 19

Oswald’s relationship with, 10–11, 95

Pic, Marge, 10

Pierce, Rio, 393, 394, 395n

Pitts, Elnora, 390

Pitzer, William, 494

Piziali, Robert, 333, 334, 339

Plausible Denial (Lane), 465

Playboy, 433n, 440, 445, 449

Plot to Kill the President, The (Blakey), 456

Plumeri, James, 496

polygraph tests, 400, 405, 452

Popkin, Richard, 413, 414n, 431, 446

Portrait of a President (Manchester), 134n

Portrait of the Assassin (Ford), 415

Postal, Julia, 279–80

Powdrill, Jerry, 283

Powell, John, 228

Powers, Daniel, 21, 23, 25, 27

Powers, Francis Gary, 498

Pravda, 82

Preludin, 374

Price, Jesse, 252–53

Price, Malcolm, 213

Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 134n

Prouty, Fletcher, 466n

Pryor, Roy, 380–81

Pullin, Leonard, 494

Pullman, Edward, 358

Queen Bee nightclub, 25

Quigley, John, 153–55

Quiroga, Carlos, 159, 431, 434

Rachley, Virgie, 225, 324, 326

Rackley, George, 265

Ragano, Frank, 460–61, 463, 483

Raigorodsky, Paul, 86, 488

Raikin, Spas T., 74, 74n

Ramack, James, 265

Ramirez Ortiz, Autulio, 195

Ramsey Panel, 240

Randle, Linnie Mae, 200, 202, 202n, 223, 270

Rankin, J. Lee, 62, 404, 405, 406–7, 408, 415n

Rather, Dan, 412

Ray, Frank, 94

Ray, Girod, 132

Ray, James Earl, 453

Ray, Valentina, 59, 94

Raymon, Buddy, 376

RCA, 440

Reasonable Doubt (Hurt), 11n, 23n, 118n, 121n22n, 165n, 465

Records Building, 416

Red Cross, 56, 57, 61n

Redhead, Mark, 192–93

Redlich, Norman, 406n

Reeves, Huey, 387

Reid, Mrs. Robert, 227, 236, 265, 478

Reiland, Ron, 244n

Reilly, Frank, 254

Reily Coffee Co., 123, 124, 129, 131, 134, 140, 153, 166

Reissman, Leonard, 153n

Revill, Jack, 225n

Reynolds, Warren, 275, 278n

Rhodes, James, 433n

Richey, Marjorie, 383

Rivera, Geraldo, 452

Roberts, Charles, 415

Roberts, Delphine (daughter), 138, 139, 140

Roberts, Delphine (mother), 138, 139–40, 483

Roberts, Dorothy, 200, 207

Roberts, Earlene, 201, 267, 272, 276, 368n, 485

Roberts, Emory, 232

Robertson, Victor, 376

Rockefeller Commission, 303, 313

Rodriguez, Ernesto, 183

Rodriguez, Miguel, 26

Roemer, Bill, 352, 354, 461

Rogers, Eric, 170

Rolleston, Cedric Younger von, 442

Rome, Howard, 221n

Roppolo, Carl, 458

Rose, Earl, 293–94

Rose, Gus, 5, 280

Roselli, Johnny, 453n, 497

Rosen, H., 14

Rothstein, David, 221n

Rowland, Arnold, 228–29

Rowland, Barbara, 319

Rubenstein, Ann, 376

Rubenstein, Eileen, 351n, 372, 373–74

Rubenstein (Grant), Eva, 351, 353, 353n, 366, 370, 371, 373–75, 386–87, 388, 390, 397, 399

Rubenstein, Fanny, 350, 351, 352

Rubenstein, Hyman, 376–77

Rubenstein, Joseph, 350

Rubenstein, Marion, 376

Rubenstein, Sam, 354

Ruby, Earl, 350, 351, 352, 355, 356n, 360, 362, 370, 398, 400

Ruby, Jack, 174, 213, 215, 228, 250, 350–401, 405, 416, 427, 440, 442, 444, 481n

in aftermath of Kennedy assassination, 370–98

in aftermath of shooting Oswald, 396–401

AGVA union and, 361–64

anti-Semitism fought by, 353, 357

arrest record of, 360–61

birth and childhood of, 350–51

as brawler, 350, 351, 353, 356–57

business ventures of, 351–52, 353, 354–55, 367

at Dallas Morning News offices, 258, 368–71, 372

at Dallas police headquarters, 373, 375–76, 377–79, 384–86, 393–97

Dallas policemen and, 359

death of, 401, 485

dogs of, 358n, 392n

finances of, 354–55, 362, 365, 374–75

Kennedy revered by, 357n, 373–74, 375

mental condition of, 350–51, 354, 357–59, 374, 397, 398–400, 409

name changed by, 352n, 354

new trial granted to, 400–1

organized crime ties of, 351–52, 352n, 353–54, 359–62, 363–64, 409

Oswald despised by, 375, 376–77, 378, 380, 381

Oswald shot by, 395, 456

Oswald’s ties to, 259, 368n, 401–2

at Parkland Hospital, 371–73, 401

sale of gun of, 468

sexuality of, 350, 356n, 358n, 444n

suicide attempts of, 399

trial and sentencing of, 398–99

Weissman ad and, 370–71, 380–81, 382, 383, 386, 387, 399

Ruby Cover-Up, The (Kantor), 380n

Rudberg, Max, 365, 398n

Rush, Johann, 157, 158, 316n

Rush to Judgment (Lane), 228n, 248, 270n, 349n, 412–13

Rusk, Dean, 403

Russell, Harold, 486

Russell, Richard, 404, 408–9, 443n, 465

Russian language, 34n, 77, 100

Oswald’s study of, 28–29, 31, 46, 52–53, 62–64

as sole language spoken in Oswald’s home, 156, 159–60

Russo, Perry Raymond, 141n42n, 436–38, 447, 448

Rutledge, John, 376–77

Saenz, Mona, 493

Sahl, Mort, 431

Salandria, Vincent, 410, 431

Sasha, 35, 36

Saturday Evening Post, 435, 436

Saunders, Richard, 372

Sauvage, Leo, 413, 415

Sawyer, Herbert, 247

Scalice, Vincent, 284

Scavengers, The (Lewis), 297n, 415

Scheim, David, 13n, 31n, 118n, 352n, 366n, 390n, 425n, 457, 482n

Schmidt, Volkmar, 98, 100

Schrand, Martin, 23n

Sciambra, Andrew “Moo,” 435, 437

Scoggins, William, 274–75, 276, 278n

Scott, Winston, 187

Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers Union, 352

Seaport Traders, 97, 104

Second Oswald, The (Popkin), 413

Second Training Battalion, 20

Secret Service, 130, 137, 209, 217, 231–32, 233, 254, 259, 262, 267, 286, 289, 292, 293–94, 343, 405, 465

Selective Service, 174–75

Seligman, Rabbi, 382

Semichastny, Vladimir, 55n, 70

Senate Intelligence Committee, 215

Senate Judiciary Committee, 403

Senate Select Committee to Study

Governmental Operations with

Respect to Intelligence

Activities, 452

Senator, George, 356n, 368, 376, 381–82, 390, 391, 395n

Serur, William, 359

Setyayev, Lev, 48

Seymour, William, 177–78

Shaneyfelt, Lyndal, 325

Shanklin, J. Gordon, 215–16

Shaw, Clay, 432, 445, 487

Clinton meeting and, 141–43, 143n, 144, 145, 146, 147

Garrison’s investigation and

prosecution of, 143n, 145, 429–30, 434–40, 441–44, 446–50

Shaw, J. Gary, 482n

Shaw, Robert, 292–93, 336n

Shelley, William, 236, 260, 263n

Sheridan, Walter, 439, 441

Sherman, Mary, 492

Shirkovskiy, Eduard, 46n, 59

Shirokova, Rima, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51

Sibert, James W., 295–96, 298, 299

Silverman, Hillel, 357n, 377n, 399, 400

Simmons, James, 254

Sims, Richard, 345

Sinatra, Frank, 249

Singapore Supper Club, 353

“single” bullet, 316, 326–35, 472, 475, 476–77

conspiracy critics on, 293n, 326, 334–35, 337n, 413

deformation of, 324–26, 480

discovery of, 293, 316, 335

neutron-activation tests on, 340–42

speed of, 337–39, 476, 477, 480

Warren Commission on, 293n, 326–27, 408–9

Six Seconds in Dallas (Thompson), 235n, 236, 311, 416

Skelton, Royce, 254, 320, 324n

Skrivanek, Jesse, 174

Slack, Garland, 213, 489

Slawson, W. David, 187

Smith, Bruce, 299

Smith, Mrs. Earl, 484

Smith, William Arthur, 275, 276, 278n

Snyder, Richard, 52, 61, 63, 67–68, 75

Soccaras, Carlos, 497

Socialist Labor party, 171

Socialist Party of America, 18–19

Socialist Workers Party of America, 91, 125, 126, 165

sodium pentothal, 433, 437

Solie, Bruce, 42, 43

Sol’s Turf Bar, 383, 383n

Sorrels, Forrest, 209, 217, 229, 231–32, 248n, 267, 394n, 396

Soviet embassy, Mexico City, 181n, 183–85, 186, 190, 195–96, 207, 217n

Soviet embassy, Washington, D.C.:

Marina Oswald’s correspondence with, 99–100, 101, 102, 128, 133–34, 150n

Oswald’s letters to, 82, 96, 125, 211–12, 216, 217

Soviet Union, 30

Kennedy assassination and, 53, 402, 403, 411

Oswald in, 46–73, 192

Oswald refused second visa by, 183–85, 195–96

Oswald’s defection to, 24, 25, 32, 45–51, 60–61, 67, 79, 133n, 160, 161

Oswald’s disillusionment with, 59, 60–61, 73, 74–75, 77, 104–5, 110, 125, 135, 155–56, 161–62

Oswald’s memoirs of, 76–77, 104

U.S. defectors to, 49, 57, 62n, 64n, 71n, 78n

Sparacio, Bennierita, 15

Sparrow, John, 415

Spartan Novelty Company, 352

Specter, Arlen, 252

Spiesel, Charles, 447

Sports Drome Rifle Range, 212–13

Sprague, Richard, 431, 453–54

Springer, Pearl, 230

Staples, Lou, 497

State Department, U.S., 52n, 79, 163, 186

and Oswald’s return to U.S., 61–62, 68, 71, 72, 75, 97, 133n

Steele, Charles Hall, Jr., 158n

Stevenson, Adlai, 204

Stoiaken, Nick, 38, 41

Stokes, Louis, 454

Stone, Oliver, 138, 216n, 249, 255n, 258, 282, 444n, 450, 451n, 454n, 456n, 466, 468n

Stovall, Richard, 280

Stovall, Robert, 109, 197, 202n

Strickman, Evelyn, 11

Stringer, John, 300–1

Stuckey, Bill, 157, 158–59, 160–61

Sturdivan, Larry, 335n, 338

Sturgis, Frank, 271, 465

Styles, Sandra, 263n

Sullivan, William, 497–98

Summers, Anthony, 5, 11n, 46, 152n, 175, 193, 226, 228, 240n, 247n, 367n, 369n, 377n, 456n

Alba interviewed by, 130

on backyard photos of Oswald, 107–8

on Clinton meeting, 143, 144, 145, 147

on de Mohrehschildt, 85–86

on Garrison, 451

on Oswald-FBI connection, 153–54

on Oswald’s KGB interrogation, 43, 47, 63n

on Oswald’s Mexico City visit, 190–93

on Oswald’s return to U.S., 73

on Oswald’s Russian fluency, 62

on Oswald’s transfer to Minsk, 56n57n

Roberts interviewed by, 138–40

on Schrand’s death, 23n

Summers, Malcolm, 257, 482

Sunday Times (London), 481

Supreme Court, U.S., 423, 449

Suydam, Hank, 485

Sweatt, Allan, 245, 488

Tague, James, 236, 324–25, 341n, 475

Tannenbaum, Harold, 363

Tasco scopes, 213

Tatum, Jack R., 275–76, 278n

Taylor, Gary, 92

Texas:

inquiry proposed in, 402–3

Miranda warning in, 343n44n

murder laws in, 398

political conservatism of, 99, 100, 204

see also specific towns and cities

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 401

Texas Employment Commission, 80, 89, 110, 197, 198, 199

Texas Liquor Control Board, 360–61

Texas School Book Depository, 107, 207, 369

gunmen observed at, 228–31, 244–49

location of, 218–19, 219n

Oswald hired at, 200, 201–2

Oswald’s escape from, 263–65, 471, 47879

Oswald’s preassassination actions at, 223–28

Oswald’s sniper’s nest in, 225, 245, 245–46, 263, 268–70, 473

as source of shots, 233, 235–37, 241–42, 244–49, 280, 295, 320–21, 334, 416, 445, 457

Texas Theater, 3, 244n, 279–80

“They’ve Killed the President!” (Anson), 270n, 280n, 431n

Thompson, Josiah, 11n, 13n, 31n, 235n, 236, 236n, 311, 410, 411, 416

Thorburn’s Position, 328, 476

Thornley, Kerry, 22, 29–30, 33, 441

“three tramps,” 271, 446, 465n

Tice, Wilma, 372n

Tilson, Judy, 258

Tilson, Tom, 257–58

Tippit, G. M., 370n

Tippit, J. D., 3, 4, 370n, 380, 387, 416, 463, 481n

Oswald’s murder of, 272–78

Titovets, Ernst, 57, 58–59, 64, 65, 66, 134

Tobias, Mrs. Mahlon, 94–95

Today, 238n, 482

Tolson, Clyde, 488

Tomlinson, Darrell, 293

Tonahill, Joe, 380n

Tonight Show, The, 440, 444

Torres, Miguel, 439

Tower, John, 70

Townley, Richard, 441

Trade Mart, 209, 217, 219n, 232, 240, 242

Trafficante, Santo, 360n, 452n, 456, 457–58, 460, 461, 463

Trammel, Connie, 365, 366n

Traveler’s Aid Society, 74

“Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald,” 192n, 224n

Trillin, Calvin, 415

Truly, Roy, 200–2, 237, 263–64, 271, 478

Truth About the Assassination, The (Roberts), 415

Truth and Consequences, 430n, 449

Tulane University, 153

Turku University, 32, 32n

Turner, F. M., 229

Turner, Jim, 394

Turner, William, 430

Twiford, Estelle and Horace, 171

U-2 spy planes, 22, 48

umbrella man, 258–59

Underhill, Gary, 492

Underwood, James, 236

United States embassies:

Mexico City, 194

Moscow, 35, 48, 51–52, 61, 65, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72

Vaughn, E. Roy, 393, 395n

Veciana Blanch, Antonio, 165n, 166n

Vegas Club, 357n58n, 359, 365, 366, 368, 377, 378

Vmson, Philip, 7–8

Voebel, Edward, 15–16

Voice of America, 66

Voshinin, Igor, 86–87

Wade, Henry, 282, 348n, 349, 350, 378–79, 384, 385

Waldo, Thayer, 386

Walker, C. T., 4

Walker, Edwin, 119n, 156, 163, 204, 205, 206, 219, 262, 340n, 463

background of, 98–99

Oswald’s attempted assassination of, 112–16, 118

Oswald’s surveillance of, 102, 104, 109n, 110, 116n17n

Wall, Breck, 389, 397, 427

Wallace, George C., 453

Walle, Marilyn “Delilah,” 493

Walter, William, 155n

Walter Reed Hospital, 297

Walther, Carolyn, 230

Walthers, Buddy, 324, 326n, 495

Ward, Hugh, 491

Ward, Theron, 293

Warner, Wynn, 358, 373

Warren, Earl, 38, 400, 401, 404–5

commission appointment of, 403–4

Dallas billboard on, 381, 382, 383, 387

death of, 487

Kennedy’s autopsy photos and X rays viewed by, 306n, 407–8

Warren Commission, 39, 62, 166n, 183n, 190, 195, 195n, 215, 227n, 228, 235, 250, 252, 253–54, 259, 267n, 276–77, 303, 306n, 308–9, 310, 349n, 388n89n, 390, 400, 402–20, 427, 427n, 430–31, 448, 452, 453

Alba’s testimony to, 131

and analysis of shots, 316–42

on backyard photos of Oswald, 107

ballistics tests of, 307n

Benavides’s testimony to, 274n

books written in support of, 415–16

and Brennan’s description of gunman, 248n, 248–49

and Camp Street connections, 137

Connally’s testimony to, 321, 331–32

conspiracy denied by, 409–10

creation of, 403–4

critics of, see conspiracy critics

de Mohrenschildts’ testimony to, 87, 117n

Donovan’s testimony to, 22n

FBI’s hostility to, 405–6

Hartogs’s testimony to, 12–13

Hosty’s testimony to, 216n17n

index to report of, 416–17

Kennedy’s autopsy photos and X rays in, 306n7n, 407–8

on “magic bullet,” 293n, 326–27, 408–9

Marguerite Oswald’s testimony to, 6n, 11n, 14, 18n, 82

on Marina Oswald’s relationship with Oswald, 221n

Marina Oswald’s testimony to, 116n, 210n, 213n, 404

Nosenko and, 36, 38

Odio’s testimony to, 176–77

on Oswald’s diary, 50n

Oswald’s escape reconstructed by, 264n, 273n

on Ruby, 358n59n, 362, 364n, 368n, 371–72, 373, 383n, 384–85, 400, 409

Ruby’s testimony to, 371–72, 375–76, 394

self-created difficulties of, 407–10

witness guidelines of, 404–5

Washington Post, 62n, 187, 452, 456

Waterman, Bernice, 68

Watherwax, Arthur, 380

Watkins, John, 35

Watts, Frank, 490

WBAP, 385, 390n

WDSU, 157, 159, 436–37

Webster, Robert, 49, 62n

Wecht, Cyril, 296, 302, 313n, 340–41

Weekly People, 171

Wegmann, Cynthia, 449

Wegmann, Edward, 144n, 436n, 445n

Weiner, Irwin, 362–63, 364n

Weinstein, Barney, 376

Weinstein brothers, 361–62, 366, 374, 389

Weisberg, Harold, 11n, 13n, 18n, 20n, 150n, 412, 413n, 418, 430, 445, 451, 452

Weiss, Mark, 238, 455

Weiss, Victor, 444n

Weissman, Bernard, anti-Kennedy ad placed by, 370–71, 380–81, 382, 383, 386, 387, 400

Weitzman, Seymour, 255, 269

West, Joe, 237n

West, Michael, 316n, 329–30

West, Troy, 226

Westbrook, W. R., 276

Western Cartridge Company, 103, 115n, 341

Western Union, 392–93, 395n

Weston, James, 490

West Side State Bank, 33

WFAA, 242

Whaley, William, 266–67, 273n, 493

Wheeler, Earl, 488

White, Jack, 106

White, Ricky, 466

White, Roscoe, 466

Whitewash (Weisberg), 11n, 412

Who Killed Kennedy? (Buchanan), 412

Who Was Jack Ruby? (Kantor), 456

Wilcott, James B., 27n

Willens, Howard, 407–8

Williams, Bonnie Ray, 202, 224, 225, 227, 241, 263n, 271

Willis, Bill, 356, 398n

Willis, Phil, 320

Willis, Rosemary, 321, 322

Wilson, Gary S., 209

Wilson, Paul David, 133n

Winston, Patricia, 172–73

Wise, Wes, 384–85

Witt, Louie, 258–59

WNEW, 378

Worker, 31, 91, 106n, 108, 131, 165, 202n

Worrell, James, 245, 494

Wright, Norman, 356n

Wrone, David, 297n, 413n, 467

Wulf, William, 16

Yaras, Dave, 496

Yarborough, Ralph, 232, 245n, 256n

Yatzkov, Pavel Antonovich, 184–85, 190

YMCA, 197, 198

Youth House, 10n, 11–12

Zahm, James, 20, 20n21n

Zangetty, Jack, 491

Zapruder, Abraham, 233n, 236, 237, 416n, 487

Zapruder, Henry, 416n

Zapruder film, 246, 250, 260, 416, 431, 471

and analysis of shots, 316–23, 326–34, 475

bootleg copies of, 448n, 468

camera speed and, 318

computer enhancements of, 316, 320, 322, 327, 328–29, 333–34, 472, 475

Kennedy’s head movements in, 314, 315, 452

Kennedy’s wounds in, 308–9

overdubbing of, 238n

vantage point of, 233n, 237

Ziger, Alexander, 57, 61n, 73, 134

Zoppi, Tony, 355, 356, 361, 369, 373, 376, 397