For Immediate Release: August 25, 2006
Further information: Brent R. Carney (617) 514-1662, Brent.Carney@JFKLFoundation.org
Boston, MA – Today, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced it has processed and made available for research the personal papers of Victor S. Navasky, journalist and author of Kennedy Justice, a book about Robert F. Kennedy’s role as Attorney General. The papers are a collection of approximately 22 cubic feet, consisting of research materials, drafts, interviews, notes, and correspondence. The collection spans from 1954 to 1976.
Among the many items included in this newly opened collection are research files relating to Navasky’s book Kennedy Justice, published in 1971, which analyzed the Justice Department under the leadership of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Included in the files are documents, notes and interviews relating to the Civil Rights Movement, specifically the integration of the University of Mississippi and the Freedom Riders; organized crime; the relationship between Robert Kennedy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; and issues surrounding wiretapping and other means of government surveillance. The collection also includes research material created and collected by Navasky for a 1976 report on the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA).
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s Archives include 48 million pages of documents from the collections of more than 340 individuals, organizations, or government agencies; oral history interviews with 1,300 people; and more than 30,000 books. The Audiovisual Archives administers collections of more than 400,000 still photographs, 7,550,000 feet of motion picture film, 1,200 hours of video recordings, over 9,000 hours of audio recordings and 500 original editorial cartoons.
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