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Sound recording
United States Information Agency Audio Recordings Collection
USIAAU-041-r02
Sound recording of a March 31, 1965, Voice of America (VOA) radio broadcast covering the opening of the John F. Kennedy Library exhibit (a traveling exhibit) at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Voice of America commentary is in Spanish. Dave Powers, former Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and Museum Curator of the John F. Kennedy Library, answers questions about the the exhibit's reception in Europe. Accession MR-1965-305-r02.
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-020-006
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-020-002
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-020-001
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-019-013
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-019-012
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-019-006
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-018-011
Textual folder
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-018-008
Textual folder
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF070-010
This file contains an invitation to a dinner celebrating the life of President John F. Kennedy held at the John F. Kennedy Library.
Textual folder
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-003-001
Textual folder
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-002-001
Textual folder
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-001-001
Photograph
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-002-001-p0011
Photograph of the outside of the National Archives Federal Records Center building in Waltham, Massachusetts. This location was the temporary facility for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library until construction was complete on the permanent Presidential Library building. Verso of photo is stamped, “Credit Line, Photo No. 71-13:1, In the John F. Kennedy Library.”
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Photograph
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-002-001-p0007
Photograph of an aerial view of the proposed site and surrounding area of President John F. Kennedy’s future Presidential Library, along the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bennett Street Yards, owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), in the foreground of the photograph was the proposed site for the Library. Verso of photo is stamped, “Credit Line, Photo No., In the John F. Kennedy Library.”
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Photograph
Robert P. Fitzgerald Personal Papers
RPFPP-002-001-p0009
Photograph of President John F. Kennedy’s rocking chair used in the Oval Office. Verso of photo is stamped, “Credit Line, Photo No., In the John F. Kennedy Library.”
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Photograph
David F. Powers Personal Papers
DFPPP-018-011-p0201
Photograph of an architectural model of the John F. Kennedy Library designed by I.M. Pei and Partners Architects, and the University of Massachusetts Harbor Campus, Columbia Point, Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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Collection
AMSPP
Papers 1939-1969. Historian, government official, Special Assistant to the President for Latin American Affairs (1961-63); author, A Thousand Days (1965). Correspondence, reports, speeches, subject files, news clippings, research materials, book drafts, writings, diaries, White House files.
Collection
WWPP
Papers 1944-1991. Painter, author, Kennedy and Hemingway family friend. Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (1963-1971); trustee, John F. Kennedy Library Inc. Correspondence with the Kennedys and Hemingways; records from the Commission of Fine Arts, in particular relating to Washington D.C. and to Pennsylvania Avenue; items from political campaigns; correspondence, transcripts, news clippings, and photographs relating to the selection of an architect to design the John F. Kennedy Library; photographs of Elaine De Kooning's portraits of President Kennedy; a letter from Mary Hemingway; copy of A Civil War Courtship: the Letters of Edwin Weller from Antietem to Atlanta (1980) and correspondence with the Kennedys, Martha Gellhorn and Beatrice Kaufman.
Collection
RCWPP
Educator, political scientist, Presidential adviser, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Professor of political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1959-1966); President, University of Massachusetts. Personal papers. Material relating to the selection of UMass as the site of the John F. Kennedy Library.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-206-1-63
President John F. Kennedy motions with his arm towards the proposed site of his future Presidential Library, along the banks of the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. Standing with President Kennedy at right: Archivist of the United States, Dr. Wayne C. Grover; Administrative Vice President of Harvard University, Lewis Gard Wiggins; Edward B. Hanify, attorney for the firm of Ropes & Gray. Also pictured: Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott “Chub” Peabody; White House Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring and Ron Pontius. Harvard University’s Eliot House and Dunster House are visible in the background. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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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.