Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation (4 page)

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Martin Luther King Jr.:
Minister, activist leader of the civil rights movement, and later Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

RICHARD NIXON

Richard Nixon:
President Eisenhower’s vice president, presidential candidate against Kennedy.

HARRY TRUMAN

Harry Truman:
Thirty-third president of the United States.

GEORGE WALLACE

George Wallace:
Governor of Alabama.

SECRET SERVICE, FBI, AND POLICE

U. E. BAUGHMAN

U. E. Baughman:
Head of the Secret Service.

Arnold J. Brown:
Texas-based FBI agent who investigates Lee Harvey Oswald and his mother.

Jesse Curry:
Dallas police chief.

John Fain:
Texas-based FBI agent who investigates Lee Harvey Oswald.

Bill Greer:
Secret Service agent driving the presidential limousine.

CLINT HILL

Clint Hill:
Secret Service agent in charge of Jackie Kennedy’s detail.

J. EDGAR HOOVER

J. Edgar Hoover:
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States.

James Hosty Jr.:
FBI’s expert on Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald.

Roy Kellerman:
Secret Service agent protecting JFK.

WINSTON G. LAWSON

Winston G. Lawson:
Secret Service special agent in charge of organizing JFK’s travel protection.

Eugene “Bull” Connor:
Birmingham, Alabama, public safety commissioner.

J. D. TIPPIT

J. D. Tippit:
Officer of the Dallas police force who is killed by Oswald.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD, FAMILY, AND ACQUAINTANCES

GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT

George de Mohrenschildt:
Russian-American businessman who helps the Oswalds.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

Lee Harvey Oswald:
U.S. Marine, defector to the Soviet Union, assassin of Kennedy.

MARGUERITE OSWALD

Marguerite Oswald:
Mother of Lee Harvey Oswald.