Too Many Bullets

For DAVE THOMAS

friend and collaborator.

Today’s topic...

“Success was so assured and inevitable

that his death seems to have cut into

the natural order of things.”

JOHN F. KENNEDY

On his brother Joe’s wartime passing

“This could very easily happen.”

GEORGE AXELROD, screenwriter,

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

“If they’re going to shoot, they’ll shoot.”

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROBERT F. KENNEDY, April 1968