The "Big Bite"
Thirteenth installment of The Big Bite. Comment on JFK, Cuba, Jacqueline Kennedy, politics, and death. The first 500 words comment on Mailer's October column and note that the remainder (approximately 2,500 words) is reprinted from The Presidential Papers (63.37), which was published 8 November. The reprinted text comes from eight sections of 63.37: pp. 26-27, 60-61, 64-65, 81-82, 161, 151-52, 214-15, 214.
The “Big Bite.” Esquire, November 1963, 26, 28, 30, 32. Column. Comment on J.F.K., Cuba, Jacqueline Kennedy, politics, and death.
This column issue is contemporary with the 8 November 1963 publication of The Presidential Papers (63.37) — and falls two weeks before the 22 November 1963 assassination of Kennedy in Dallas. The first 500 words of the column comment on Mailer’s October column (63.11); the remainder (approximately 2,500 words) is reprinted from The Presidential Papers itself, divided into eight sections drawn from the following pages of 63.37, in this order: 26–27, 60–61, 64–65, 81–82, 161, 151–52, 214–15, 214.