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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-FMO-01
This interview focuses on first meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] and the Kennedy family, O’Ferrall’s personal relationship with JFK after World War II through his Presidency, and reflections on the Kennedy brothers, among other topics.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-PRP-01
This interview focuses on John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] relationship with the press prior to and during his presidency, among other topics.
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-002
Contains 5 photographic prints: (KFC2615P, KFC4268P, KFC2861P, KFC998N, KFC1972N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-011-030
Contains 15 photographic prints: (KFC1107N, KFC1108N, KFC1112N, KFC1113N, KFC1970N, KFC1971N, KFC1976N, KFC1979N, KFC2906P, KFC4236P, KFC4238P, KFC4239P, KFC4240P, KFC4241P, KFC4242P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-011-029
Contains 13 photographic prints: (KFC2037N, KFC2038N, KFC2039N, KFC2040N, KFC2043N, KFC2044N, KFC2045N, KFC2047N, KFC2030N, KFC2032N, KFC2033N, KFC2034N, KFC2035N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-011-028
Contains 7 photographic prints: (KFC1955N, KFC1956N, KFC1968N, KFC1977N, KFC1981N, KFC2862P, KFC4235P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-011-026
Contains 7 photographic prints: (KFC455N, KFC2905P, KFC4222P, KFC4224P, KFC4225P, KFC4226P, KFC4227P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-011-025
Contains 5 photographic prints: (KFC2130P, KFC2746N, KFC2747N, KFC2860P, KFC2739N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-010-005
Contains 6 photographic prints: (KFC1091N, KFC1092N, KFC1097N, KFC1095N, KFC1096N, KFC1094N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-008-033
Contains 16 photographic prints: (KFC2321P, KFC2813P, KFC2740N, KFC2241P, KFC3625P, KFC3626P, KFC3627P, KFC3628P, KFC3629P, KFC3630P, KFC2745N, KFC2744N, KFC2743N, KFC2741N, KFC2742N, KFC2067P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-007-032
Contains 6 photographic prints: (KFC2042N, KFC2031N, KFC2029N, KFC2041N, KFC2046N, KFC2036N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-007-031
Contains 5 photographic prints: (KFC2007N, KFC2009N, KFC2008N, KFC2006N, KFC2010N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-007-030
Contains 7 photographic prints: (KFC1957N, KFC1958N, KFC1959N, KFC1961N, KFC1962N, KFC1963N, KFC2005N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-007-028
Contains 6 photographic prints: (KFC3538P, KFC1965N, KFC1984N, KFC1974N, KFC3539P, KFC1293P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-029
Contains 24 photographic prints: (KFC1471N, KFC1472N, KFC1473N, KFC1477N, KFC1479N, KFC1480N, KFC1531N, KFC1532N, KFC1534N, KFC1535N, KFC1536N, KFC1537N, KFC1538N, KFC1539N, KFC1540N, KFC1541N, KFC1542N, KFC1543N, KFC1544N, KFC1545N, KFC1546N, KFC1548N, KFC1549N, KFC1550N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-028
Contains 1 photographic print: (KFC1559N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-001-021
Contains 30 photographic prints: (KFC1162N, KFC1163N, KFC1445N, KFC1461N, KFC1462N, KFC1463N, KFC1464N, KFC1465N, KFC1466N, KFC1467N, KFC1468N, KFC1469N, KFC1470N, KFC1474N, KFC1475N, KFC1476N, KFC1478N, KFC1516N, KFC1517N, KFC1520N, KFC1521N, KFC1524N, KFC1525N, KFC1526N, KFC1528N, KFC1547N, KFC1551N, KFC1552N, KFC1553N, KFC1554N)
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-002-004
This folder contains records related to air travel arrangements for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, Vienna, and London in 1961. Types of material include flight itineraries, schedules, and passenger lists of the press pool and Air Force personnel.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-002-003
This folder contains records related to air travel arrangements for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, Vienna, and London in 1961. Types of material include flight itineraries, schedules, passenger and crew lists, official telegrams, and weather forecasts.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-002-002
This folder contains records related to air travel arrangements for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, Vienna, and London in 1961. Types of material include flight itineraries, schedules, passenger and crew lists, determinations of per diem allowances, and official telegrams.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Godfrey T. McHugh
JFKWHSFGTM-002-001
This folder contains records related to air travel arrangements for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, Vienna, and London in 1961. Types of material include flight itineraries, schedules, passenger and crew lists, determinations of per diem allowances, and communications information.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-080-001
This volume, compiled by Kathleen Kennedy, chronicles her service as a Staff Assistant for the American Red Cross in London, England, during World War II, primarily between May and July, 1943. A handwritten note in pencil on the front cover reads, “Kathleen Hartington / [Keep/Keys(?)] Keep RFK / July 1949.” Diary entries are inscribed directly on the pre-printed ruled pages in pencil and black ink, as well as typed on the back of American Red Cross notepaper sheets. In her diary entries, Kathleen writes about the completion of her Red Cross training; her preparations for and departure to England, including crossing the Atlantic Ocean aboard the R.M.S. Queen Mary, converted to a troopship; her work at American Red Cross service clubs in London; and dinners, parties, weekend trips, and other social events. Of note is an undated, unstamped, and blank telegram with a handwritten note in black ink signed, "Your loving brother : Kennedy," inserted at the front of the book. Also of note are three handwritten letters written in black or blue ink between Kathleen and her husband, William “Billy” Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, placed in an envelope addressed to “Capt. : The Marquess of Hartington : 5th Bn.: Coldstream Guards : British Liberation Army,” in Kathleen’s hand, postmarked July 17, 1944. This volume contains 30 telegrams, 10 typed diary entries, five handwritten letters, four newspaper clippings, three photographic prints, two magazine clippings, and various printed ephemera, including a schedule, vaccine card, matchbox, invitation, shipping ticket, menu, handwritten notes, and miscellaneous booklets and pamphlets.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-072-001
This diary, kept by Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy as a 6- and 7-year old child, contains handwritten entries detailing his daily activities from January 1, 1939, through September 9, 1939, while residing at 14 Prince’s Gate in London, England, where the Kennedy family lived during Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to Great Britain. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Diary / No. 28 / 1939.” Pages contain pre-printed ruling and text, including entry dates, as well as manuscript entries written in black ink. Most entries were not written by Ted, but most likely by Kennedy family nurse, Luella Hennessey, with Ted dictating. Ted’s handwriting appears in entries from July 11, 12, 16, 17, and 18. Entries cover a variety of topics, including Ted’s education at the Gibbs School and St. Thomas More School, both in London; various train and boat rides during the family’s travels; social events, including a party attended by the British royal family at which Ted danced with Princess Elizabeth; outings to parks, zoos, movies, and pantomime performances; and playtime and sports activities with family and friends. Specific events and experiences that Ted mentions include a family trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland; Adolf Hitler’s Reichstag speech; the death of Pope Pius XI; Ted’s seventh birthday, for which he received a new dog, named “Sammy”; the family’s trip to Rome in Italy, as well as the Vatican, during which he received his First Holy Communion from Pope Pius XII; bombings of London by the Irish Republican Army; a visit to the estate of family friend, Sir James Calder, in Norfolk, England; a family trip to Cannes and Antibes in France; events leading up to Great Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, including the relocation of members of the Kennedy family to financier John Pierpont Morgan, Jr.'s country estate in Hertfordshire, England, while awaiting transport back to America; and the sinking of the S.S. Athenia. Luella Hennessey and the Kennedy children's governess, Elizabeth Dunn, also feature prominently throughout the diary. About half of the pages for July and August do not contain entries. The last entry of the diary is September 9, 1939; the remaining pages dated through December 31, 1939, are blank. The diary also contains three loose photographs, one loose newspaper clipping, and one loose printed birthday invitation.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-042-001
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents her travels as a young woman, specifically a 1911 Boston Chamber of Commerce trip to Europe, as well as later social activities and family vacations during the first several years of her marriage to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Photographs of the Boston Chamber of Commerce trip, on which Rose and her sister, Agnes, accompanied their father, then-Mayor of Boston, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, capture the trans-Atlantic voyage aboard the R.M.S. Franconia, as well as numerous travel destinations, including Ireland, England, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Cities that are pictured include London, England; Paris, France; Hamburg, Dresden, Nuremberg, and Berlin, Germany; and Vienna, Austria. Other locations and landmarks pictured include the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Loreley Rock in Germany, the Rhine River, and the Alps. Later photographs, dated between 1916 and 1923, document Fitzgerald and Kennedy family vacations in Palm Beach, Florida, and Poland Spring, Maine, as well as other events and activities. Of note are photographs of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., as a baby at the Kennedy family home on Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts; of Rose's brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald, posing in military dress; and of a Cecilian Guild picnic in June 1921. Others who appear in the album include Rose's mother, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her brothers, John F. Fitzgerald, Jr., and Frederick H. Fitzgerald; and family friends and associates, including Sir Thomas Lipton; John Hays Hammond, Sr.; Francis Abott Goodhue, Jr.; Lillian M. "Lilla" Morrison; and Hugh Nawn. Original handwritten captions are written in white ink on the leaves beneath many photographs, or in black ink and pencil on the rectos of some photographs. Some photographs, including five full panoramic views, were printed on postcard stock. This photograph album contains 171 photographic prints.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-071-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and family life from 1938 to 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, "Scrap Book." It contains photographs of and printed ephemera related to trips to Europe in 1938 and 1939; his election as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his enrollment at Harvard Law School in 1940; and time spent with family and friends at the Kennedy family residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and on trips to St. Moritz, Switzerland, and the French Riviera, including at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Mexico, Spain, Poland, Ireland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, and California. Of note are photographs of the Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp for Republican refugees in Argelès-sur-Mer, France, which Joe, Jr., visited before touring Spain in the final months of the Spanish Civil War, as well as a photograph of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy christening the Esso Richmond, a new tanker ship, alongside her parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, and her daughter, Eunice Kennedy. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including an event at Buckingham Palace; fliers for discussions, rallies, and debates featuring Joe, Jr., that were held by organizations including College Men for Defense First, Brotherhood of Temple Ohabei Shalom, and the Young Democrats of Massachusetts; Spanish paper currency; and telegrams regarding political events and rallies sent by representatives of both State and National Democratic Committees. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs and clippings include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Torbert Macdonald; Hugh Fraser; Tom Killefer; Tom Egerton; and Diana Maria Gerli. Loose materials include a photographic postcard from Sofia, Bulgaria and Shawmut Bank promotional material, possibly a bookmark. The scrapbook contains 133 photographic prints (including a contact print of a strip of three 35mm black and white negatives, and one photo fragment); 32 photographic postcards; and 62 pieces of ephemera, including invitations, correspondence, telegrams, tickets, newspaper clippings, calling cards, advertisements, programs, and fliers.