1.In November 2011, 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE, determined that the “proper title” for the magazine’s most famous photo should be V-J Day, Times Square, New York City, 1945.
Chapter 2. The Place Where People Meet
1.Darcy Tell, Times Square Spectacular: Lighting Up Broadway (New York: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2007), 20.
2.Ibid., 42.
3.Ibid., 43.
4.Ibid., 44.
5.Ibid., 40.
6.Bill Harris, “Catching the World Series, 1919,” in The Century in Times Square, edited by Merrill Perlman (New York: Bishop Books Inc., 1999), 25.
7.Tell, Times Square Spectacular, 174.
8.Ibid., 174.
9.Jill Stone, Times Square: A Pictorial History (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982), 113.
10.Tell, Times Square Spectacular, 120.
11.Ibid., 121.
12.Harris, “Catching the World Series, 1919,” 77.
13.Anthony Bianco, Ghosts of 42nd Street (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 120.
14.Stone, Times Square, 119.
15.Ibid., 119.
16.Tell, Times Square Spectacular, 122.
17.Ibid., 122.
18.Harris, “Catching the World Series, 1919,” 56.
Chapter 3. The Publication
1.Wendy Kozol, Life’s America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), 8.
2.Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt (New York: Abbeville Press Publications, 1985), 64.
3.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 10.
4.Ibid., 10.
5.Wendy Kozol, Life’s America, 42.
6.Ibid., 29–30.
7.James L. Baughman, “Who Read Life? The Circulation of America’s Favorite Magazine,” in Looking at LIFE Magazine, edited by Erika Doss (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), 46.
8.Kozol, Life’s America, 35.
9.Baughman, “Who Read Life?” 46.
10.Ibid., 44.
11.Ibid., 45.
12.Ibid., 42.
13.Ibid., 42.
14.Peter Bacon Hales, “Imagining the Atomic Age,” in Looking at LIFE Magazine, 105.
15.Erika Doss, “Rethinking America’s Favorite Magazine, 1936–1972, in Looking at LIFE Magazine, 3.
16.Loudoun Wainwright, Great American Magazine: An Inside History of LIFE (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), 122.
17.“The Ten Years,” LIFE, November 25, 1946, 117.
18.Baughman, “Who Read Life?” 44.
19.Kozol, Life’s America, viii.
20.Baughman, “Who Read Life?” 44.
21.Doss, “Rethinking America’s Favorite Magazine,” 7.
22.Loengard, Life Photographers, 9.
23.Ibid.
24.Doss, “Rethinking America’s Favorite Magazine,” 18.
25.Wainwright, Great American Magazine, 122.
Chapter 4. The Duck from Portuguee Island
1.R. A. Scotti, Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (New York: Chapter & Verse, Ink., 2003), 98.
2.WPRI 12 Home Page, August 21, 2009, http://www.wpri.com/dpp/weather/local_wpri_hurricane_of_1938_retrospective_20090820_nek (accessed June 12, 2011).
3.R. A. Scotti’s Sudden Sea, speaks in detail of the approach of the Long Island Express, also known as the Hurricane of ’38, through personal accounts of those who witnessed the storm’s quick arrival. Those accounts echo George Mendonsa’s memory of the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Rhode Island’s coast.
4.Tom Clavin and Bob Drury, Halsey’s Typhoon (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007), 66.
5.Ibid., 66.
6.Ibid., 152.
7.Charles Lilly, Journal On Board USS “The Sullivans” DD537, December 23, 1943–July 4, 1945, 68.
8.Clavin and Drury. Halsey’s Typhoon, 106.
9.Ibid., 169.
10.Ibid., 77.
11.Ibid., 153.
12.Ibid., 169.
13.Ibid., 266.
14.Ibid., 51.
15.Ibid., 52.
16.Maxwell Taylor Kennedy. Danger’s Hour (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 294.
17.Ibid., 468.
18.NavSource Online: Aircraft Carrier Photo Archive, http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/17.htm (accessed June 18, 2011).
19.Kennedy, Danger’s Hour, 275.
20.Ibid., 2.
21.Rich Lillie, survivor from burning Bunker Hill, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, November 19, 2009.
22.Kennedy, Danger’s Hour, 342.
23.2009 Lillie interview.
24.Pacific Wrecks, 1995, www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/DD-537.html (accessed May 9, 2011).
25.Kennedy, Danger’s Hour, 311.
Chapter 5. The Saved
1.Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, 12th ed. (New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1996), 286.
2.Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–1945, 6th ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975), 127.
3.“Broken Lives,” LIFE, vol. 4, no. 113 (March 28, 1938), 23.
4.Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, 286.
5.Ibid., 287.
6.Jewish Virtual Library, 2011, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/FloorScrub.html (accessed May 2, 2011).
7.Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933–1945, 507.
8.New York Goes to War, DVD, directed by Julie Cohen (New York: WLIW, 2007).
9.“Atoms Burst in Air to cut Loss of Life,” New York Times, August 12, 1945, 28.
Chapter 6. The Model
1.David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 454.
2.Ibid., 459.
Chapter 7. The Father of Photojournalism
1.Bryan Holmes, “Introduction,” in Eisenstaedt Remembrances, by Alfred Eisenstaedt and Doris O’Neil (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990), ix.
2.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 13.
3.Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt (New York: Abbeville Press Publications, 1985), 7
4.Loengard, Life Photographers, 23.
5.Ibid., 23.
6.Holmes, “Introduction,” ix.
7.Ibid., x.
8.Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, 9.
9.Loengard, Life Photographers, 14.
10.Holmes, “Introduction,” x.
11.Eisenstaedt and O’Neil, Eisenstaedt Remembrances, 26.
12.Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, 61.
13.Loengard, Life Photographers, 19.
14.Ibid., 19
15.Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, 40.
16.Ibid., 72.
Chapter 8. Morning, V-J Day, 1945
1.David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 459.
2.David Brinkley, Washington Goes to War (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), 277.
3.Jan Morris, Manhattan ’45 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 210.
Chapter 11. In Search of the Picture
1.Wendy Kozol, Life’s America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994), 57.
2.Ibid., 56.
Chapter 13. Pictures from V-J Day
1.Paul D. Casadorph, Let the Good Times Roll (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 255.
2.Christopher Westhorp, ed., VJ Day in Photographs (London: Salamander Books, 1995), 20.
3.Peter Carlson, “The Happiest Day in American History,” American History 45, no. 3 (August 2010), http://www.web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=b5eddf6e-72af-447f-bedb-f6620e31e455%40sessionmgr110vid=26&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9Whvc3QtbG1Zq%3d%3d#db=f5h&AN=5161313 (accessed August 5, 2011).
4.LIFE, September 27, 1945, 32.
5.David Brinkley, Washington Goes To War (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), 278.
6.Westhorp, VJ Day in Photographs, 29.
7.Brinkley, Washington Goes To War, 278.
8.Ray Hoopes, Remember the Home Front (New York: Hawthorne Books, Inc., 1977), 361.
9.Westhorp, VJ Day in Photographs, 18.
10.Carlson, “The Happiest Day in American History.”
11.Alexander Feinberg, “All City Lets Go,” New York Times, August 15, 1945.
12.Carlson, “The Happiest Day in American History.”
13.Bill Rufty, “Lakeland Couple Shared Their Own Timeless Kiss on V-J Day,” theledger.com (accessed August 14, 2007).
14.Gerard Meister, “It Was Nothing Like Eisenstaedt’s,” American Heritage (July 2005), 77.
15.Ibid., 77.
16.Carlson, “The Happiest Day in American History.”
17.Ibid.
18.Ibid.
19.Feinberg, “All City Lets Go.”
20.Carlson, “The Happiest Day in American History.”
Chapter 14. No One Seemed to Notice
1.John Loengard, Life Photographers:What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 24.
2.James Sheridan, phone interview with Lawrence Verria, August 4, 2007.
3.“Ten Years Later,” LIFE, November 25, 1946, 120.
Chapter 15. Eisenstaedt Names the Nurse
1.Many sources claim the photo was taken in September 1945. Of course, that is impossible because it first appeared in LIFE on August 27, 1945. Part of the confusion might stem from the fact that there were three V-J Days—August 14, August 15, and September 2 when the Japanese formally surrendered on board USS Missouri.
2.Bobbi Baker Burrows, interviewed by Lawrence Verria, Time-Life Building, New York, March 9, 2008.
3.Kristen Rothwell, “A Nurse’s Iconic Kiss That Marked the End of World War II,” 2005, Nursezone.com/include/PrintArticle.asp?articleid=14241&Profile=Spotlight=on=nurses (accessed August 19, 2007).
4.Dean Lucas, VJ Day Times Square Kiss, May 2, 2007, http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=VJday_Times_Square_Kiss (accessed August 19, 2007).
5.Ibid.
6.“Camera at Work,” LIFE 3 (August 1980), 8.
7.Michael J. Kennedy, “Celebrating the V-J Day Kiss Seen ‘Round the World,’” August 14, 2005, http://articles.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/local/me-kiss14 (accessed November 10, 2008).
8.Ibid.
9.Rothwell, “A Nurse’s Iconic Kiss That Marked the End of World War II.”
10.Kennedy, “Celebrating the V-J Day Kiss Seen ’Round the World.’”
11.Edith Shain, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, December 9, 2008.
12.Rothwell, “A Nurse’s Iconic Kiss That Marked the End of World War II.”
13.2008 Shain interview.
14.Ibid.
15.Rothwell, “A Nurse’s Iconic Kiss That Marked the End of World War II.”
16.“From Celebration to Circus, Caught Up in the March of Time,” Barista: Head Starters for the Hungry Mind, August 17, 2005, http://barista.media2.org/?p=2085 (accessed August 19, 2007).
17.“Nurse Recalls Times Square Kiss 60 Years Later,” in CTV.CA, 2007, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20050812/famous_kiss-050812/?hub=CanadaAM&subhub+PrintStory (accessed August 19, 2007).
18.2008 Shain interview.
19.Lucas, “VJ Day Times Square Kiss.”
20.“Who Is the Kissing Sailor?” LIFE 3 (October 1980), 72.
21.Pat Milton, “Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss,” August 14, 2005, News Herald.com (accessed August 7, 2007).
22.“Who Is the Kissing Sailor?”
23.“Nurse Recalls Times Square Kiss 60 Years Later.”
24.Kennedy, “Celebrating the V-J Day Kiss Seen ‘Round the World.’”
25.2008 Shain interview.
26.“Our Special Guest—Edith Shain 2007,” California Pioneers of Santa Clara County, 2007, http://www.californiapioneers.com/Edith%20Shain/Edith%20Shain.html (accessed October 13, 2008).
27.Emma Brown, “Anonymously World-Famous after WWII Photo, She Didn’t Kiss and Tell,” Washington Post, June 24, 2010, B5.
28.“The Nurse,” LIFE.com, April 20, 2010, http://www.life.com/gallery/45081/a-ailor-nuse-a-legendary-kiss#index/3 (accessed July 25, 2011).
29.Lisa Huriash, “Kissing Sailor Remembers Nurse from WWII Photo ‘Left Me Breathless,’” Palm Beach Post, June 24, 2010, http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/kissing-sailor-remembers-nurse-from-wwii-photo-left-766334.html?printArticle+y (accessed January 27, 2011).
Chapter 16. LIFE’s Invitation
1.In a 1987 letter to George Mendonsa, Ann Morrel, a LIFE secretary, referenced the whole ordeal involving the search for the kissing sailor as “fun.” As it turned out, the thirty-plus-year ordeal was not fun for either LIFE or Mendonsa.
2.Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., “Editor’s Note,” LIFE 3, no. 8 (August 1980), 4.
3.“Letters to the Editors,” LIFE, vol. 19, no. 12 (September 11, 1945), 2
4.Bobbi Baker Burrows, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, July 22, 2011.
Chapter 17. I’m the Real Kissing Sailor
1.“Letters,” LIFE, vol. 3, no. 12 (December 1980), 33.
2.Ibid.
3.Ibid.
4.“Who Is the Kissing Sailor?” LIFE, vol. 3, no. 10 (October 1980), 70.
5.Ibid.
6.Ibid.
7.Ibid.
8.Ibid.
9.Ibid.
10.Ibid.
11.Ibid.
12.George Byron Koch, “Letter to the Editor,” Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1996, http://www.georgekoch.com/articles/sailor.htm (accessed July 10, 2011).
13.Koch, “Letter to the Editor.”
14.Chris Palmer, “Chris’ Old Life Magazines,” http://www.kissingsailor.com (accessed October 10, 2007).
15.Ibid.
16.Carli Teproff, “WWII ‘Kissing Sailor’ Carl Muscarello Visits Fort Lauderdale School Kids,” Miami Herald, October 15, 2010, http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-10-14/news/fl-kissing-sailor-20101014_1_kiss-carl-muscarello-submarines (accessed January 22, 2011).
17.Carl Muscarello, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, July 19, 2011.
18.Ibid.
19.Andrea Elliot, “Carl and Edith Touch Lips Again,” New York Times, October 16, 2005, http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/carl-and-edith-touch-lips-again/2005/08/15/1123958007037.html?from=morestories (accessed August 19, 2007).
20.Lisa Huriash, “Kissing Sailor Remembers Nurse from WWII Photo ‘Left Me Breathless,’” South Florida Sun-Sentinel, June 24, 2010, http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/kissing-sailor-remembers-nurse-from-wwii-photo-left-766334.html?printArticle=y (accessed January 27, 2011).
21.Carl Muscarello, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, March 4, 2008.
22.Huriash, “Kissing Sailor Remembers Nurse from WWII Photo.”
23.Dean Lucas, VJ Day Times Square Kiss, May 2, 2007, http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=VJday_Times_Square_Kiss (accessed August 19, 2007).
24.Ibid.
25.Teproff, “WWII ‘Kissing Sailor’ Carl Muscarello Visits Fort Lauderdale School Kids.”
26.2008 Muscarello interview.
27.Ibid.
28.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1998), 24.
29.2008 Muscarello interview.
30.Eugene Cunningham, letter provided Carl Muscarello, date unknown.
31.Flori Meeks, “Spring Resident Recounts ‘THE KISS’ that Signified the End of World War II,” Chronicle, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/spring/news/5130483.html (accessed March 14, 2010).
32.David Freelander, “Kiss Isn’t just a Kiss for Times Square Sailor,” http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-kiss0814,0,1019922,print.story (accessed January 24, 2008).
33.Flori Meeks, “Spring Resident recounts ‘THE KISS’ that signified the end of World War II,” Chronicle, http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/spring/news/5130483.html (accessed March 14, 2010).
34.Glenn McDuffie, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, February 24, 2008.
35.Ruth Sheenan, “N.C. Boy Knew How to Celebrate,” News Observer, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sheehan/story/1130415.html (accessed July 7, 2008).
36.“Glenn McDuffie,” Good Moring America, New York, August 14, 2007.
37.Archie Satterfield, “Mystery Kisser Identified?” Satterfield Newsletter, July 28, 2007, http://www.archiesatterfield.com/newletter.htm (accessed September 21, 2007).
38.Juan Lozano, “Sailor in Famous Photo Identified,” Time.com, August 3, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1649714.00.html (accessed August 19, 2007).
39.Emily Friedman, “Man Claims He’s the Mystery Sailor in the ‘The Kiss,’” Good Morning America, August 7, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnlyinAmerica/story?id=3422191&page=1 (accessed August 15, 2007).
40.Meeks, “Spring Resident Recounts ‘THE KISS.’”
41.Lois Gibson, “Homepage,” 2005, http://www.loisgibson.com/kissing_sailor.asp (accessed October 9, 2007).
42.“Forensic Expert Identifies Mariner in Famed VJ New York Times Square Kiss,” August 2007, http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2007/August/13/Forensic-expert-identifies-11606.asp (accessed January 24, 2008).
43.Lois Gibson, “Comparison with a Scale,” e-mail to Lawrence Verria, July 8, 2008.
Chapter 18. For Dissemination of News
1.Ronald R. Lagueux, “George Mendonsa, Plaintiff, v. Time Inc., Defendant C.A. No. 87-0371 L.,” United States District Court, Rhode Island, February 23, 1988, http://nsulaw.nova.edu/faculty/documents/Mendonsa.htm (accessed August 3, 2010).
2.Ibid.
3.Ibid.
4.“Ex-Sailor Settles Lawsuit Over 1945 ‘Kiss’ Photo,” Desert News Publishing Company, October 16, 1988, http://www.desertnews.com/article/print/20765/Ex-SAILOR-SETTLES-LAWSUIT-OVER-1945-KISS-PHOTO.HTML (accessed July 28, 2011).
Chapter 20. You Want to Believe Them All
1.Dan Okrent, “Letter to the Editor,” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 1996.
2.Edith Shain, “Letter to the Editor,” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 1996.
3.Chris Palmer, Chris’ Old Life Magazines, http://www.kissingsailor.com (accessed August 9, 2007).
4.Dirk Halstead, “Eisenstaedt,” e-mail to Lawrence Verria, October 23, 2007.
5.Ken McNeel, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, February 23, 2008.
6.Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt (New York: Abbeville Press Publications, 1985), 72.
7.“Kissing the War Good-Bye—The Real Kissing Sailor,” OldLife Magazines.com, http://www.kissingsailor.com (accessed August 19, 2007).
8.Carl Muscarello, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, July 24, 2008.
9.2008 Muscarello interview.
10.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 24.
11.Michael Kennedy, “Celebrating the V-J Day Kiss Seen ‘Round the World,’” Los Angeles Times online, August 14, 2005, http://www.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/local/me-kiss14 (accessed November 10, 2008).
12.Edith Shain, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, December 9, 2008.
13.After looking at a picture of Carl Muscarello standing beside Edith Shain and learning that Muscarello claimed to be five feet eleven inches tall, Lois Gibson (Glenn McDuffie promoter) argued in an e-mail to the author, “Good grief, Carl Muscarello is practicing deception here. . . . You can tell from the scale he is taller than that! If he is just under 6’, then Edith Shane must be 4’, and it is a matter of record she is taller than that.” Following Gibson’s reasoning, Muscarello stands in at approximately six feet, eight inches.
14.Vincent Bugliosi, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President Kennedy (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007), 521n.
15.Gerald Posner, Case Closed (New York: Doubleday, 1994), 272.
16.Lois Gibson claims no other pictures of Glenn McDuffie exist from 1943 to 1946.
17.“Cambridgeshire: People Like You,” British Broadcasting Corporation, http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2007/08/16/kiss_eisenstaedt_feature.shtml (accessed August 18, 2007).
18.David Freelander, “Kiss Isn’t just a Kiss for Times Square Sailor,” AM New York, August 14, 2007, http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-kiss0814,0,1019922.print.story (accessed January 24, 2008).
19.Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, 74.
20.Loengard, Life Photographers, 23.
21.Eisenstaedt, Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, 74.
22.Archie Satterfield, “Mystery Kisser Identified?” Satterfield Newsletter, July 28, 2007, http://www.archiesatterfield.com/newletter.htm (accessed September 21, 2007).
23.“Kissing Sailor—Found at Last,” Lois Gibson’s Home Page, 2005, http://www.loisgibson.com/kissing_sailor.asp (accessed October 9, 2007).
24.Steve Martin, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, December 12, 2008.
25.James Sheridan, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, August 4, 2007.
26.Gerald O’Donnell, interviewed by Lawrence Verria, Middletown, Rhode Island, May 12, 2007.
27.Ibid.
28.“Kissing Sailor—Found at Last,” Lois Gibson’s home page.
29.“Ibid.
30.Ibid.
31.Satterfield, “Mystery Kisser Identified?”
32.Lois Gibson, “Black Triangle on Shoulder,” e-mail to Lawrence Verria, September 7, 2008.
33.Ibid.
34.Richard Benson, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, September 13, 2008.
35.Emily Friedman, “Man Claims He’s the Mystery Sailor in the ‘The Kiss,’” Good Morning America, August 7, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnlyinAmerica/story?id=3422191&page=1 (accessed August 15, 2007).
36.Juan Lozano, “Sailor in Famous Photo Identified,” Time.com, 3 August 3, 2007, http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1649714.00.html (accessed August 19, 2007).
37.Glenn McDuffie, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, February 24, 2008.
38.Satterfield, “Mystery Kisser Identified?”
39.Jacqui Goodard, “A Kiss is Just a Kiss . . . But This One Was Mine,” Timesonline, August 13, 2007 timesonline.com (accessed September 26, 2007).
40.Freelander, “Kiss Isn’t just a Kiss for Times Square Sailor.”
41.Ibid.
42.2008 McDuffie interview.
Chapter 21. More Plot Than Proof
1.“The Kissers,” America in World War II, http://www.americainwwii.com (accessed August 19, 2007).
2.Tom Huntington, “The Kissers,” America in World War II, December 2005, http://www.americaiinwwii.com/stories/kissers.htm (August 19, 2007).
3.Gerald O’Donnell, interviewed by Lawrence Verria, Middletown, Rhode Island, May 12, 2007.
1.George Mendonsa’s lawyer hired John Hopf to take photos of George’s arms, hands, and face for use in a 1987 lawsuit against Time Inc. George brought the case against Time Inc. for the use of his likeness for their profit. The specifics of that case are discussed in Chapter 24.
2.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 24.
3.Ibid.
4.Alexander Feinberg, “All City ‘Lets Go,’” New York Times, August 15, 1945, 1.
5.Christopher Westhorp, ed., V-J Day in Photographs (London: Salamander Books, 1995), 25.
6.Loengard, Life Photographers, 24.
7.Ibid.
8.Richard Benson, The Benson Report, Newport, Rhode Island, 1987.
Chapter 23. A Mountain of Evidence
1.George Mendonsa, Plaintiff vs. Time, Incorporated Defendant is discussed in considerable detail in Chapter Eighteen.
2.Richard Benson, The Benson Report, Newport, Rhode Island, 1987.
3.Ibid.
4.Ibid.
5.Ibid.
6.Ibid.
7.Lois Gibson claims that she determined that McDuffie’s hands are the same exact size as the kissing sailor’s.
8.Benson, The Benson Report.
9.Ibid.
10.Ibid.
11.Gerald O’Donnell, interviewed by Lawrence Verria, Middletown, Rhode Island, May 12, 2007.
12.“VJ Day Sailor,” Navy War College Museum, 2006, http://www.nwc.navy.mil/museum/VJDaySailor/ (accessed September 24, 2006).
13.Ibid.
14.Baback Moghaddam, Hanspeter Pfister, Jinho Lee, “3D Facial Modeling & Synthesis of the Sailor in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s ‘VJ-Day Kiss’ Photo,” Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 2005, http://www.merl.com/people/baback/vj/ (accessed April 3 2007).
15.“VJ Day Sailor.”
16.Mark D. Faram, “The Kiss Heard ‘Round the World,” Navy Times (October 24, 2005), 16.
17.“60 Year-Old Mystery Solved—MERL IDs ‘Kissing Sailor’ of WWII,” CONNECTions, vol. 5, no. 2 (Winter 2006), 2.
18.In his 1987 study, Richard Benson of Yale University determined the dark spot on the kissing sailor’s arm was a dark and thick patch of hair. Benson found that this thicker patch of hair is also present on George Mendonsa’s arm, as evidenced in a photo taken by John Hopf in 1987.
19.Norman Sauer, KS Inclusions, e-mail to Lawrence Verria, May 27, 2009.
20.Ibid.
Chapter 24. Indisputable? The Case for Greta
1.Edith Shain, “Letter to the Editor,” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 1996.
2.“Camera At Work,” LIFE, vol. 3, no. 8 (August 1980), 7.
3.“Who Is the Kissing Sailor?” LIFE, vol. 3, no. 10 (October 1980), 69.
4.Bobbi Baker Burrows, “In Appreciation of Eisie,” The Digital Journalist, http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/burrows.htm (accessed September 29, 2007).
5.Bobbi Baker Burrows, interviewed by Lawrence Verria, Time-Life Building, New York City, March 27, 2008.
6.“Nurse in Times Square War Photo Reunites with Navy,” NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story.php?storyId=96801284 (accessed November 10, 2008).
7.Edith Shain, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, December 9, 2008.
8.Kristin Rothwell, “A Nurse’s Iconic Kiss That Marked the End of World War II,” Nurse Zone, 2005, Nursezone.com (accessed August 19, 2007).
9.“Who Is the Kissing Sailor?” 72.
10.Pat Milton, Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss, August 14, 2005, News Herald.com (accessed August 7, 2007).
11.Richard Goldstein, “Edith Shain, Who Said Famous Kiss Came Her Way, Dies at 91,” New York Times, June 24, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/nyregion/24shain.html?pagewanted=print (accessed November 24, 2010).
12.Greta Friedman, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, August 24, 2008.
Chapter 25. The Carnival
1.John Loengard, Life Photographers: What They Saw (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 24.
2.Philip Kunhardt’s inaccurate date reference was interpreted by claimant kissing sailor Glenn McDuffie as an attempt to deny him his due. McDuffie claimed to have kissed the nurse on August 14, 1945.
3.Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., “Editor’s Note,” LIFE, vol. 3, no. 8 (August 1980), 4.
4.George Mendonsa, interview by Lawrence Verria, September 21, 2008.
5.Bobbi Baker Burrows, phone interview by Lawrence Verria, July 22, 2011.
6.“From Celebration to Circus, Caught Up in the March of Time,” New York Times, August 17, 2005, http://barista.media2org//p=2085 (accessed August 19, 2007).
7.Greta Friedman, letter to Dr. Guido Knopp and Ullrich Lenze, June 1, 1991.
Chapter 26. The Circus
1.David Kindred, “It Started with a Kiss,” Golf Digest, January 2007, 77.
2.“Kissing Sailor, 80, Fells Burglar,” CBS News, September 18, 2006, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/18/national/main201892.shtml (accessed September 24, 2006).
3.Ibid.
4.“Kissing Sailor Debate,” Brandemeier in the Morning on WLUP (Chicago), August 2007.
5.“Life Magazine Sailor Nurs—Kiss and Did Not Make Up,” JB1TV, June 23, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/user/JB1TV?blend=22&ob=5 (accessed July 24, 2011).
6.“Kissing Sailor Debate.”
7.Ibid.
8.Ibid.
9.“Life Magazine Sailor Nurse.”
10.Mike Saewitz, “Sculptor at Center of Copyright Infringement Case,” Herald Tribune, May 9, 2006, http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/NEWS/605090464 (accessed November 11, 2007).
11.Ibid.
12.Juan Lozano, “Sailor in Famous Photo Identified,” Time.com, August 3, 2007 http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1649714.00.html (accessed August 19, 2007).
13.Guy Fletcher, “A Kiss For the Ages,” Frederick 291 (September 9, 2009), 55.
14.“Marshall Berman, Everyman in Times Square,” Columbia College Today (excerpt from Berman’s On the Town), http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar_apr07/forum.php (accessed September 3, 2008).
15.Natalie Andrews, “The Other Woman in the WWII ‘Kiss’ Photo,” Daily Herald, November 11, 2006, http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/199837/ (accesed October 4, 2007).
16.Recollections of Gloria Delaney, believed to be the Nurse in the Background of Lt. Victor Jorgensen’s V-J Day Photo (see Andy Newman’s “Nurse’s Tale of Storied Kiss. No, Not That Nurse,” on the front page of the New York Times, August 14, 2010), indicate that Eisenstaedt’s picture was taken during the afternoon well before 7:00 p.m.
17.Sewell Chan, “62 Years Later, a Kiss That Can’t Be Forgotten,” New York Times City Room, August 14, 2007, http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/62-years-later-a-kiss-that-cant-be-forgotten (accessed November 28, 2008).
18.John Louis Lucaites, “CSI Expert Determines Famous Times Square Kisser,” No Caption Needed, August 4, 2007, http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/?p-150 (accessed January 24, 2008).
19.Chan, “62 Years Later, a Kiss That Can’t Be Forgotten”
20.Erin Overbay, “Remembering that Immortalized Kiss,” The New Yorker, June 24, 2010, newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2010/06/back-issues-edith-shain.html (accessed July 17, 2011).
21.“From Celebration to Circus, Caught Up in the March of Time,” New York Times, August 17, 2005, http://barista.media2org//p=2085 (accessed August19, 2007).
22.Chan, “62 Years Later, a Kiss That Can’t Be Forgotten.”
23.Michael Kennedy, “Celebrating the V-J Day Kiss Seen ’Round the World’” Los Angeles Times online, August 14, 2005, http://www.latimes.com/2005/aug/14/local/me-kiss14 (accessed November 10, 2008).
24.“From Celebration to Circus, Caught Up in the March of Time.”
25.Carl Muscarello grew uncomfortable with Edith Shain “using” the V-J Day Kiss for profit. At one point he thought Edith Shain hired an agent to book engagements involving her part in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photo. Edith Shain denied the employment of an agent to handle any of her affairs.
26.“From Celebration to Circus, Caught Up in the March of Time.”
Chapter 27. The Current
1.“Sailor Donates Famous Poster,” Houston News, June 16, 2009, http://www.click2houston.com/news/19769326/detail.html (accessed June 2, 2011).
2.“The Kissing Sailor,” Pentagon Channel, 2009, youtube.com/watch?v=POPAL-AzryE (accessed June 21, 2011).
3.Halle Stockton, “Big Kiss Looms Large over Anniversary,” Herald Tribune, August 16, 2009, http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090816/ARTICLE/908161041?template=printpicart (accessed July 13, 2011).
4.Billy Cox, “One Half of an Immortal Kiss?” Herald Tribune, August 14, 2009, http://www.heraldtribune.com/article2009081/ARTICLE/9081410114?p=1&tc=pg (accessed July 14, 2011).
5.“The Kiss of a Generation,” Manatee’s Military Moms, August 16, 2009, http://manateesmilitarymoms.blogspot.com/search/labelTerry%20Longpre (accessed July 12, 2011).