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Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-CFNS-01
Cull, Ffrench, Noto, and Schoenenberger discuss why the Immigration and Naturalization Service was tasked with planning the prisoners’ homecoming along with the actual planning, preparations, and concerns over the prisoners’ homecoming, among other issues.
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0004-001-018
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Robert J. "Bob" Dole of Kansas debate failed legislation to give new powers to INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) border patrol agents to fight drug smuggling. The episode aired on Friday, October 24, 1986, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0007-035-016
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate the Immigration and Naturalization Service's (INS) proposed policy to detain and deport those from Central America currently seeking political asylum in Texas if their applications for refugee status are determined to be frivolous. The episode aired on Thursday, March 2, 1989, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0411-016
This folder contains constituent correspondence received by Senator John F. Kennedy's office that pertains to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It also includes several publications, such as A Digest of "Whom We Shall Welcome," The Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization, printed by the League of Women Voters of Milton, Massachusetts; two reprints from Congress Weekly: A Review of Jewish Interests of articles by Israel Goldstein and Phil Baum on immigration policy; and a fact sheet on the McCarran-Walter Immigration Law prepared by the Boston Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. House of Representatives Files
JFKREP-0004-010
This file contains correspondence between the Boston congressional office of Representative John F. Kennedy's secretary, Francis X. Morrissey, and various persons both known and unknown to the Congressman. Materials are mainly expressions of and responses to public opinion regarding Latvian refugees in Boston, Massachusetts. Of note are appeals made by Representative Kennedy to President Harry S. Truman, the Department of Justice, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); and correspondence between Mr. Morrissey and Mary W. Davis, Representative Kennedy's secretary in the Washington, D.C., congressional office, regarding legislation proposed by the Congressman to address the issue.
Collection
USDJ
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of material generated by the Department of Justice during the Kennedy administration. Contains a wide variety of legal and administrative paperwork from various offices within the agency. Currently only select records from the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division are open for research.