Administrative Information
Historical Note
Collection Overview
List of Series
Series 1. General Correspondence
Series 2. Special Correspondence
Series 3. Speech Files
Series 4. Legislative Files
Series 5. Press Conferences
Series 6. Staff Memoranda
Series 7. Departments and Agencies
Series 8. Subjects
Series 9. Countries
Series 10. Personal Secretary's Files
Series 11. Special Events through the Years
Series 12. White House Signal Agency
Series 13. Presidential Recordings (White House Meetings and Telephone Recordings file)
ADDITIONS
Addition of June 2005
Collection Description
Series 5. Press Conferences.
Boxes 54-61
Eight boxes [3.3 linear shelf feet] of Press Conference files were opened to research in December 1973. Two boxes [0.84 linear shelf foot] were removed because of national security restrictions. In addition, a small amount of valuable original documents was removed and replaced in the open files by electrostatic copies.
Arranged chronologically, the Press Conference series contains the transcripts for John F. Kennedy's regular Washington press conferences throughout the three years of his presidency. The conferences were held bi-weekly and the materials reflect the regularity of information needed for these briefings. In addition to the transcripts, the files also include: department and agency summaries of bi-weekly activities; briefing papers on situations and developments in foreign countries; briefing papers on such issues as disarmament, foreign trade, civil rights, and employment; draft press releases; and news clippings. There are no transcripts in this series for the special or impromptu news conferences held in Washington, or for the press conferences at Hyannis Port, Palm Beach, Paris and Bonn.
For a good set of transcripts with index, researchers interested in President Kennedy's press conferences should consult the
Public Papers of the President, John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963
, and
Kennedy and the Press
, a collection of press conference transcripts annotated by Chase and Lerman (both available in the Kennedy Library).
Researchers should also consult other series of the President's Office Files, such as Departments and Agencies, Countries, Legislative Files, Staff Memoranda, and Subjects. They should also refer to the Papers of Pierre Salinger and to the PR portion of the White House Central Subject Files.
9 Boxes. [3.7 Linear Shelf Feet]
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Box 54
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General
1/25/61
2/1/61
2/1/61 Background Materials
2/8/61
2/8/61 Background Materials
2/15/61
3/1/61
3/8/61
3/11/61
3/15/61
3/23/61
4/12/61
4/21/61
5/5/61
6/27/61
7/19/61
8/10/61
8/10/61 Background Materials
8/30/61 |
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Box 55
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10/11/61
11/8/61
11/29/61
1/15/62
1/24/62
1/31/62
2/7/62
2/14/62
2/21/62
3/7/62
3/7/62 Background Materials [2 folders]
3/14/62
3/14/62 Background Materials
3/21/62
3/29/62 |
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Box 56
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4/11/62
4/11/62 Background Materials [2 folders]
4/18/62
4/18/62 Background Materials
5/9/62
5/17/62
5/23/62
6/7/62
6/7/62 Background Materials [2 folders]
6/14/62
6/14/62 Background Materials [3 folders]
6/27/62
6/27/62 Background Materials [3 folders] |
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Box 57
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7/5/62
7/5/62 Background Materials [2 folders]
7/23/62
8/1/62
8/22/62
8/22/62 Background Materials [3 folders]
8/28/62
8/29/62
8/29/62 Background Materials
9/13/62
9/13/62 Background Materials [3 folders]
9/26/62 |
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Box 58
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11/20/62
11/20/62 Background Materials [3 folders]
12/12/62
1/24/63
1/24/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
2/7/63
2/7/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
2/14/63
2/21/63
2/21/63 Background Materials [2 folders] |
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Box 59
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3/6/63
3/6/63 Background Materials [2 folders]
3/21/63
3/21/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
4/3/63
4/3/63 Background Materials [2 folders]
4/24/63
4/24/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
5/8/63
5/8/63 Background Materials [2 folders] |
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Box 60
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5/22/63
5/22/63 Background Materials [2 folders]
7/17/63
7/17/63 Background Materials [2 folders]
8/1/63
8/1/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
8/20/63
8/20/63 Background Materials [3 folders] |
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Box 61
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9/12/63
9/12/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
10/9/63
10/9/63 Background Materials [4 folders]
10/31/63
10/31/63 Background Materials [3 folders]
11/14/63
11/14/63 Background Materials |
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