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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-17351
Congressional Coffee Hour (House of Representatives). L-R: White House Photographer, Captain Cecil Stoughton (face hidden by camera and hand); President John F. Kennedy; unidentified man, with back to camera; Congresswoman Edna Kelly (New York), in back; House Minority Leader, Charles Halleck (Indiana), partially in shadow; unidentified man, talking with President Kennedy; unidentified man, front and center, with back to camera; Congressman J. Floyd Breeding (Kansas); Congressman Michael A. Feighan (Ohio), partially hidden behind Breeding; several unidentified persons; Photographer Jacques Lowe; two unidentified persons. Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-17350
Congressional Coffee Hour (House of Representatives). L-R: Unidentified man; Congressman Kenneth A. Roberts (Alabama); unidentified man; President John F. Kennedy (with a bandage above his left eye); House Minority Leader, Charles Halleck (Indiana); Congressman Daniel B. Brewster (Maryland); Congressman George M. Wallhauser (New Jersey); Congressman Samuel N. Friedel (Maryland). Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C.