* In a 1983 article in Esquire, Styron wrote that he cruised with Kennedy in late August 1963. Thirteen years later in Vanity Fair, he put the cruise the year before, in August 1962. If the cruise occurred in 1963, it would have happened on September 1, when the Secret Service records show Kennedy motoring to Martha’s Vineyard. It is also possible that Styron cruised with Kennedy in both 1962 and 1963, explaining his confusion. In any case, Kennedy’s obsession with Kazin’s article and the verdict of history would have been the same in either year.