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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-05
In this interview Komer discusses working with McGeorge Bundy; the “inner circle” of the Bundy State Department; Komer’s major contacts; the intelligence system; the power and responsibilities of the State Department; how Bundy screened what President John F. Kennedy [JFK] would see; relations with other key officials; Robert F. Kennedy and foreign policy issues; the Bundy State Department and White House staff; the “little State Department” in the White House; the bureaucratic role of the State Department; U.S. foreign policy in Asia; relations with key U.S. Ambassadors; handling Arab-Israeli issues; domestic pressures of American-Jewish community on JFK; Arabists in the Kennedy Administration; working with Myer Feldman on Israeli issues; the United States, Saudi Arabia, and oil; filling the power vacuum left by the British; dealing with Congress on foreign aid matters; counterinsurgency; and looking back at programs during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C422-72-63
Jacqueline Kennedy exits the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle with her children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., following the requiem mass in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, walks down stairs behind Mrs. Kennedy. At left, honor guard pallbearers carry the flag-draped casket of President Kennedy to a horse-drawn caisson, for the procession to Arlington National Cemetery. Also pictured: Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Cardinal Cushing; Archbishop of Washington, Patrick A. O’Boyle; Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, Bishop Philip Hannan; Auxiliary Bishop of New York, Bishop John J. Maguire; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Earle G. Wheeler; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral David L. McDonald; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, Admiral Edwin J. Roland; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard. Washington, D.C.