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Copyright © 1998 by Caryl Rivers
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First Diversion Books edition June 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-626810-03-7
To Steve, Connie and Lauren,
and to Alyssa, Ogie, Zuey and Azalea,
with all my love.
And to the memory of Alan, the light of my life.
The life and times of John F. Kennedy have been chronicled by a number of historians and journalists, whose work has been very helpful in the writing of this book. They include Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys; Nigel Hamilton, J.F.K.: Reckless Youth; Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Kennedys: An American Drama; Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy; and Arthur Schlesinger, A Thousand Days. For the events of November 22, I relied on the account of William Manchester in The Death of a President. For many of the actual events described, the March on Washington, JFK and Martin Luther King press conferences, the visit of the astronauts to the White House and other events, I relied on my own firsthand observations and notes.