All 50 Uses of
John F. Kennedy
in
Killing Kennedy
- President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, Texas, and taken to the hospital.†
p. 1.2John F. Kennedy = U.S. president whose term was cut short by assassination in 1963
- After chronicling the last days of Abraham Lincoln, the progression to John Kennedy was a natural.†
p. 2.4
- Do you, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear ...†
p. 7.2 *
- "I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear," the new president repeats in a clipped Boston accent.†
p. 7.3
- But John Kennedy ignores the cold.†
p. 8.5
- John F. Kennedy well understands that the public adores Jackie.†
p. 9.7
- In less than 1,400 words, John Fitzgerald Kennedy defines his vision for the nation.†
p. 12.9
- For John Fitzgerald Kennedy is on a collision course with evil.†
p. 13.5
- Approximately 4,500 miles away, in the Soviet city of Minsk, an American who did not vote for John F. Kennedy is fed up.†
p. 13.6
- Lee Harvey Oswald has nothing against John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†
p. 15.5
- The skipper, and the man responsible for allowing such an enormous vessel to sneak up on his boat, is Lieutenant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†
p. 22.0
- But the sinking of PT-109 will be the making of John F. Kennedy—not because of what just happened, but because of what is about to happen next.†
p. 22.5
- John Kennedy will one day liken the relationship to that of puppets and their puppet master.†
p. 23.4
- Finally, John F. Kennedy takes charge.†
p. 24.0
- John Kennedy pries off his heavy shoes and lets them fall to the sea bottom, thinking that the reduced drag will allow him to swim more easily.†
p. 28.5
- John Kennedy is out of solutions.†
p. 30.5
- So it is that John F. Kennedy is placed in the bottom of a canoe, covered in palm fronds to hide him from Japanese aircraft, and paddled to a hidden location on New Georgia Island.†
p. 30.9
- There is another incident that influences John Kennedy's journey to the Oval Office.†
p. 31.2
- But that explosion marked the moment when John F. Kennedy became a politician and began the journey into the powerful office in which he now sits.†
p. 31.4
- Less than six months after the war ends, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of ten candidates running in the Democratic primary of Boston's Eleventh Congressional District.†
p. 31.5
- Thanks to Dave Powers's insistence on making the most of PT-109, John F. Kennedy is elected to Congress.†
p. 32.5
- Dave Powers is willing to do anything for John Kennedy.†
p. 32.9
- But even Dave Powers, with his remarkable powers of intuition, cannot possibly know what "anything" means—nor can he predict that even as he witnessed John Kennedy's first-ever political speech, he will also witness his last.†
p. 32.9
- John Kennedy does this to soothe his aching back, a problem for him ever since he was a student at Harvard.†
p. 33.3
- He and Jackie keep separate bedrooms, connected by a common dressing room—which is not to say that John Kennedy limits his sexual relations to the First Lady.†
p. 37.5
- John F. Kennedy absentmindedly buttons his suit coat.†
p. 42.1
- But it is not vanity that drives John Kennedy's obsession with clothing.†
p. 42.7
- John F. Kennedy steps through the Rose Garden entrance into the Oval Office, with its gray carpet and off-white walls.†
p. 43.8
- John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator still months away from beginning his campaign for the presidency, knew that Batista was a ruthless despot who had murdered more than twenty thousand of his own people.†
p. 48.4
- As John Kennedy prepared to take office, roughly one in every nineteen Cubans was a political prisoner.†
p. 49.6
- It was no longer about the United States versus Cuba, but about John F. Kennedy versus Fidel Castro, two extremely competitive men battling for ideological control over the Western Hemisphere.†
p. 50.8
- As all this was taking place, John Kennedy hid in the country.†
p. 52.9
- Other than John Kennedy, only two men are allowed to enter the Oval Office through the Rose Garden door: Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.†
p. 53.5
- John Kennedy has purposely focused his brother on domestic policy issues, preferring to let others advise him on international matters.†
p. 56.3
- But now, in a moment of great insecurity, John Kennedy understands his father's wisdom.†
p. 56.5
- John Kennedy stands in the Oval Office, helpless to stop what he has started.†
p. 56.6
- But it was not the CIA or the Joint Chiefs who ordered the invasion; it was John Kennedy.†
p. 57.1
- But even now, with Bobby at his side, John Kennedy feels the crushing loneliness of being the president of the United States.†
p. 57.4
- I knew, even then, that there was an inner hardness, often volatile anger beneath the outwardly amiable, thoughtful, carefully controlled demeanor of John Kennedy.†
p. 60.8
- John Kennedy has joined his wife on camera for the last few minutes of the broadcast special, explaining the importance of Jackie's ongoing efforts and what the White House means as a symbol of America.†
p. 69.4
- John F. Kennedy is tired but alert.†
p. 70.1
- The success of her television special confirmed what her husband has known for years: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is John Fitzgerald Kennedy's number one political asset.†
p. 71.6
- Sex is John Kennedy's Achilles' heel.†
p. 76.1
- Frank Sinatra and John Kennedy have shared many laughs, many drinks, and, as the FBI suggests, a woman or two.†
p. 79.2
- A gold plaque has been hung in the bedroom the president will use, forever commemorating the night when "John F. Kennedy Slept Here."†
p. 80.5
- John Kennedy stands just outside a back door watching the crowd drifting in and out of Bing Crosby's home.†
p. 81.1
- When she puts Kennedy on the phone, Roberts doesn't know it's the president he's talking to, but he can't help but think that the man on the other end sounds just like John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†
p. 82.9
- Bobby would do anything for his country, and so would I. I will never embarrass him as long as I have memory, I have John Fitzgerald Kennedy.†
p. 83.3
- In addition, some believe that John Kennedy's personal tragedies—the death of his brother and of his infant child, and his own brushes with death—have given him a fatalistic attitude.†
p. 83.9
- John Kennedy's appearance may be robust, but he suffers from a nervous stomach, back pain, and Addison's disease.†
p. 84.1
Definition:
35th U.S. president who led the Space Race, ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion, managed the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was assassinated (1917-1963)