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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TMH-01
In this interview Hesburgh discusses his contact with John F. Kennedy [JFK] before he was elected President; Harris Wofford on JFK’s staff; different members of the Commission on Civil Rights; meeting with President JFK about the Commission’s reports and recommendations; JFK versus Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights, respectively; JFK’s political priorities as President and what that meant for civil rights issues during his Administration; tension between the Commission and the Department of Justice; JFK’s characterization of civil rights as a moral problem; and a shift in Commission reports towards the local level, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-AEH-02
In this interview Henry discusses how he first got involved in civil rights activity and how he became an active leader in the NAACP; contact with the Justice Department during the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration; the FBI investigation into Henry and into the civil rights movement; Henry’s relationship with Medgar Evers; voting rights and voter registration campaigns; beatings and killings of activists in Mississippi; the NAACP and the 1960 presidential election; Jim Silver; Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders; labor movement leadership and the NAACP in the sixties; the relationships among the various civil rights organizations, including the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, SCLC, and SNCC; organizing boycotts of certain stores; Henry’s arrest in 1961; and the disappearance and murder of Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner, and James Chaney in 1964, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JRL-01
In this interview Lewis discusses President John F. Kennedy on civil rights; Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] as Attorney General and civil rights; working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign; RFK’s assassination, 1968; J. Edgar Hoover and FBI investigations of the civil rights movement; discrimination, hatred, and violence; and the march from Selma to Montgomery and “Bloody Sunday,” 1965, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EOG-02
Guthman discusses the press coverage of civil rights during the Kennedy Administration, RFK’s relationship with the press, and Guthman’s involvement in the investigation of James R. Hoffa, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EOG-01
Guthman discusses the press coverage during the Kennedy Administration, RFK’s relationship with the press, and Guthman’s involvement in the investigation of Jimmy Hoffa, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-WIAG-01
Geoghegan discusses the 1960 campaign in Ohio and the operation of the Department of Justice under Robert F. Kennedy, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JLF-01
Farmer discusses the 1960 presidential campaign; the relationship between Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration, interactions with Robert F. Kennedy and the Justice Department, the Freedom Rides and other civil rights actions; and JFK’s impact on civil rights, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JCR-01
Rosenthal discusses working with Robert F. Kennedy in the Justice Department, contributions of the department, and the Civil Rights Movement, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-NAS-01
Schlei discusses the Civil Rights Act of 1963, passing immigration legislation, and the atmosphere of the Justice Department, among other issues.
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-001-002
Collection
VSNPP
Papers 1954-1976. Journalist. Author, Kennedy Justice (1971). Research materials, drafts, interviews, notes, and correspondence.
Collection
USDJ
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of material generated by the Department of Justice during the Kennedy administration. Contains a wide variety of legal and administrative paperwork from various offices within the agency. Currently only select records from the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division are open for research.