James Ellroy
Related Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator... LLOYD BENTSEN President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had. DAVID POWERS HOWIE CARR HELEN THOMAS I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi... JON TENNEY ANSELM KIEFER I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire"-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire. VIANKA VAN BOKKEM MUHAMMAD ALI ROBERT KENNEDY ANTHONY HOPKINS My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to ... DAVID KAY I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all ... JOHN SHERMAN COOPER Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi... BIRCH BAYH From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas. RED MCCOMBS I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me. D. A. PENNEBAKER He was kind of cheering me on. He has always had an interest in Edgar Kennedy. BILL CASSARA ALEXANDER HAIG PAUL JOHNSON KEVIN COSTNER CONOR MCGREGOR Golf has been used by presidents and presidential candidates for years. For example, President Eisen... HARRY HURT I was in a world where I was a beginner at everything. Everyday things that I'd been doing all of my... CLAIRE GILBERT CAMERON RUSSELL CATE TIERNAN But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis... MIKE SHINODA BENAZIR BHUTTO DAVID PIETRUSZA What you had at that time was a president really interested in tax reform and a very skillful Treasu... JOSEPH THORNDIKE I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised ... YUL VAZQUEZ PETE TOWNSHEND That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed. ALTA APANTENCO JON MEACHAM AASIF MANDVI STEVEN SEAGAL AMBER HEARD BABA KALYANI CHUCK TODD When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kin... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, a... JAIME PRESSLY I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competi... BRITTANY BOWE When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a ... AL YANKOVIC It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another ... LAURIE MATTHEW When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres... ANNE COX CHAMBERS There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i... LOUIS STOKES My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a... MARTIN DONOVAN DWIGHT D EISENHOWER In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, Presiden... TARIQ ALI NIGEL HAMILTON One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Tool... TOBIN BELL I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours... ZACH WOODS DREW BARRYMORE EMMA STONE When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I us... MARK HAMILL Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum ... MICKY DOLENZ TOM BROKAW I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we h... SAMANTHA BEE I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL JACK CANFIELD JESSE MCCARTNEY The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON LORNA LUFT JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL ERNEST HEMINGWAY My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s... HERMANN EILTS TERRY PRATCHETT Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all ... DAVID K. SHIPLER I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday eve... JACK MCDEVITT JOHN IRVING All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. JOSE MUJICA ERIC CLAPTON When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY ROBERT WILSON I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I kne... LYDIA LEONARD He was definitely fouled. And Kennedy was, in fact, shot. MARC IAVARONI ALEX HONNOLD MARK A. ROEDER When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and wh... JOE SCARBOROUGH I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted... FREYA NORTH I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub... EDWARD BROOKE And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that ... LINDY BOGGS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN President Kennedy loved the entertainment world, ... We were asking him -- he was newly in office --... ANGIE DICKINSON They tried White on Hatcher, and that would have been fine if it was just about keeping Hatcher from... CHARLIE COLES JOHN WATERS BILL BRADLEY BRANDON SANDERSON NORMAN ROCKWELL LOUISE ERDRICH I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL
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I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who dot... 
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