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Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-185-001
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s address at a convocation held in Nashville, Tennessee celebrating the 90th anniversary of Vanderbilt University and the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In his speech the President discusses the educated citizen's obligations to serve the public, uphold the law, and defend the pursuit of learning.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-044-020
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's address at a celebration held in Nashville, Tennessee commemorating the 90th anniversary of Vanderbilt University and the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority. In his speech the President discusses the educated citizen's obligations to serve the public, uphold the law, and defend the pursuit of learning. Materials in this folder include a press copy and reading copies of the speech (one with handwritten notations by the President), in addition to a program for the celebration and a copy of the President's remarks reprinted in the Vanderbilt Gazette.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C164-6-63
During a Founder's Day ceremony at Vanderbilt University, President John F. Kennedy presses a gold telegraph key that will remotely explode the first charge of dynamite at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' construction site of the Cordell Hull Dam on the Cumberland River in nearby Carthage, Tennessee. President Kennedy delivered an address at the ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the university's founding and the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Dudley Field, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.