Curtis LeMay
Curtis LeMay was an Air Force General and commander of the Strategic Air Command. LeMay and JFK held each other in very low regard, Kennedy…
Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien was a Cambridge, Massachusetts undertaker and political operative. When JFK was considering entering politics, O’Brien supported his opponent Mike Neville. O’Brien was openly…
Gore Vidal
Write Gore Vidal was both a Kennedy friend (in part through his family “connection” with Jacqueline Bouvier) and then later rejected
John B. White
John B. White ran in the same social crowd in 1942 Washington D.C populated by Jack and Kick Kennedy.
Kohei Hanami
Kohei Hanami was the commander of the Japanese destroyer Amagiri on the night it collided with PT 109. Hanami apparently bore JFK no personal ill-will…
Mike Neville
Mike Neville was the former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who ran in the special primary for the Eleventh Massachusetts Congressional District against JFK. Like several…
Richard Nixon
JFK described Nixon as a “nice fellow in private but… he seems to have a split personality and he is very bad in public” [15,xxii]
Selig S. Harrison
Selig S. Harrison was editor of the Harvard Crimson when JFK was running for Congress in 1946. Like many of the idealistic, liberal-leaning college students…
Stephen Reynolds (pseudonym)
Stephen Reynolds is the pseudonym given to a man who was interviewed for The Gay Metropolis, a book of the gay community in New York…
Ted Dealey
Edward Musgrove “Ted” Dealey was the publisher of the Dallas Morning News and harbored great animosity against JFK. Most notably, he told Kennedy to his…
Vincent J. Celeste
Vincent J. Celeste was a little-known East Boston attorney who was the Republican candidate running against JFK in both the 1950 Congressional election and the…