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would make of his curse a romance. “The fullness of life is in the hazards of life” was a passage from Aeschylus he had underlined. “To the heroic, desperate odds fling a challenge.” Archibald MacLeish, on that golden late October day in 1963 in Amherst at the dedication of the Robert Frost Library, had described such a hero, Oedipus. Blinded and alone for his father’s sins and his own, he was yet able, as MacLeish put it, to “face his dark pursuers. By embracing his tragic fate, Oedipus had shown us self without self-pity.” Bobby Kennedy used his rage to make amends. His presidency would create a new basis for power — the poor and minorities — that would renew our humanity.
    Here the Kennedys, with all their romance and irony, finally unite in an aesthetic comparable to the Greeks that they read about and quoted: they were daring and they were doomed, and they knew it and accepted it. They would die and make their deaths into creative acts of history. They would be heroes. And they would give their country an imperishable poignancy in its heart.

Index
Aaron, Matt
Abernathy, Ralph
Abrams, Creighton
Accardo, Anthony (“Joe Batters”)
Acheson, Dean
Adler, Richard
AFL-CIO
Africa
RFK’s trip to
Agency, The: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (Ranelagh)
Alabama:
Birmingham
University of
Alarcon, Ricardo
Aleman, Jose, Jr.
Aleman, Miguel
Alessio, John
Alger, Bruce
Algeria
Ali Khan, Liaquat
Alinsky, Saul
Allison, Graham
Alpha
Alsop, Joseph
Alsop, Susan
American Indians
American University, JFK’s speech at
Amherst College, Robert Frost Library at
Anastasia, Albert
Anderson, Jack
Anderson, Rudolf, Jr.
Angleton, James J.
Anslinger, Harry
Aracha-Smith, Sergio
Arendt, Hannah
Artime, Manuel
Arvad, Inga
As We Remember Joe
Attwood, William
Ayer, A. J.
Ayers, Bradley J.
Baker, Barney
Baker, Bobby
Baldwin, James
Baldwin, Roger
Ball, George
on Vietnam
Balletti, Arthur J.
Baltimore Sun
Banister, Guy
Bao Dai
Barnett, Ross
Barry, Bill
Battaglia, Gus
Bayo, Eddie (Eduardo Perez)
Bay of Pigs
release of prisoners from
veterans of, in training program
Bayo-Pawley mission
Beck, Dave
Becker, Ed
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Belafonte, Harry
Belgian Congo. See Congo
Belgium
Belk, Samuel E.
Bell, Griffin
Bellino, Carmine
Berle, Milton
Berlin
JFK in
Berlin, Richard
Bickel, Alexander
Billings, Lemoyne
Binion, Benny
Birmingham, Ala.
Biryuzov, S. I.
Bissell, Richard
Black, Fred B., Jr.
Black Muslims
blacks. See civil rights
Blakey, G. Robert
Blight, James
Block, Max and Louis
Blough, Roger
Boggs, Hale
Bohlen, Charles
Bolshakov, Georgi
Boswell, William
Boutwell, Albert
Bowers, Lee
Bowles, Chester
Brading, Eugene Hale
Bradlee, Ben
Brandon, Henry
Branigan, Roger
Breslin, Jimmy
Brod, Mario
Bronson, Charles
Browder, William
Brown, Pat
Bruno, Jerry
Buchan, John
Buckley, William F.
Bufalino, William
Bundy, McGeorge
Burke, Arleigh
Cabell, Charles
Caifano, Marshall
Cain, Richard
California
Campbell, Judith (Judith Exner)
JFK assassination and
Campbell, William
Camus, Albert
Cannizziro, Edward
Caplin, Mortimer
Capone, Al
Cardona, Miro
Carmen, Jeanne
Casares Rovirosa, Bias
Cassara, Tom
Castro, Fidel
assassination plot against, JFK assassination and
Bay of Pigs and. See also Bay of Pigs
Cain in plot against
Khrushchev and
La Coubre incident and
Latin America operations of
New York trip of
prisoner releases and
RFK’s vendetta against
Skakel family and
U.S. actions and plots against
Veciana and
See also Cuba
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
in actions against Castro
Bayo-Pawley mission and
and Castro’s actions in Latin America
JM/WAVE division in
leadership of, RFK and
Lumumba and
Mafia and
RFK’s suspicions about, after JFK assassination
Rosselli’s meetings with
ZR/RIFLE division in
Chafin, Raymond
Chanson, General
Chavez, Cesar
Cheasty, John Cye
Cheyfitz, Eddie
Chicago, voting fraud in
Chicago Outfit
Chicago Sun-Times
China
Christian Science Monitor
Christofferson, Kit
Church Committee
Churchill, Pamela
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Winston S.
civil