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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BNH-01
In this interview Harlow discusses hearing about John F. Kennedy’s assassination and Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death, in 1963 and 1945 respectively; the possibility of a recorded interview or oral history with former President Richard M. Nixon; and Nixon comforting Senator Edward M. Kennedy after the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EDAG-05
In this interview Gullion discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] concept of the American presidency; JFK’s evolving relationships with different family members and friends; how history will treat JFK; how people venerated JFK after his death; and what Gullion considers JFK’s greatest contributions, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-RWG-01
In this interview Greene discusses how she started working for the RFK Project; the process of obtaining an oral history, including how the interviewer should act and how to get the interviewee to speak more candidly; her relationship with Ethel Skakel Kennedy; the similarities and differences in the relationships among the Kennedy brothers; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and his work on the Kennedys; and the difficulties in an oral history project, among other issues.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-007
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the John F. Kennedy Library. Types of items include correspondence, memoranda, lists, and notes. Most documents pertain to plans for the acquisition of records for the Library, and arrangements for Heller and other members of the Council of Economic Advisers to record oral history interviews.
Collection
BIBPP
Papers 1958-1972. Lawyer, government official. General Attorney, Staff Director, Executive Staff Director, Commission on Civil Rights (1958-1963); campaign aide to Senator Edmund S. Muskie (1971-1972). Memorandums, correspondence, and speech files relating to his government and political work, to the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to the District of Columbia Board of Higher Education, and to the John F. Kennedy Library oral history program.
Collection
MBPP
Author, professor, government official. Research Assistant to Henry L. Stimson (1946-1948), Lecturer and Professor of Government, Harvard (1949-1953), Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard (1953-1960), Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs (1960-1966), President, Ford Foundation (1966-1980), Professor, New York University (1980-1990), Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Corporation (1990-1996). Personal and professional papers consisting of letters, memos, research notes and drafts, writings, publications, photographs, and ephemera. Includes information regarding social and professional organizations and 20th-century personalities, academic figures and government officials. Topics include World War II, Harvard University, the John F. Kennedy Library, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, civil rights, United States foreign policy, and atomic weapons development and control.