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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-05
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss how John F. Kennedy [JFK] and RFK grew increasingly more involved with and concerned about civil rights; getting Martin Luther King out of jail during JFK’s 1960 campaign; civil rights advisers during JFK’s 1960 campaign; RFK becoming Attorney General amidst the civil rights battle and the transitional period in the Department of Justice [DOJ]; how Marshall got his position in the DOJ; the struggle over school desegregation; the New Orleans school crisis of February 1961; the Freedom Riders and violence against them; sending federal marshals to Alabama; trying to find a bus driver to get the Freedom Riders out of Birmingham, Alabama; criticism of RFK’s response to the Freedom Riders; how Freedom Riders were arrested and threatened in Mississippi; African-American voting rights in the South and DOJ authority; difficulties with judges; Supreme Court appointments; the FBI and organized crime; reorganization of the DOJ; RFK’s interactions with the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover after JFK’s death; Hoover’s allegations about JFK and the Kennedy family; the alleged FBI wiretapping of officials; JFK’s opinion of Hoover; FBI press releases; connecting the civil rights movement with communism to discredit it; FBI involvement in civil rights matters; issues with the FBI as having civilian control of a police force; JFK’s communication with King and other civil rights leaders; civil rights legislation; the issue of equal employment; the Civil Rights Commission; and violence against African Americans in Birmingham in the spring of 1963, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-CHS-01
This interview focuses on RFK’s complete dedication to his family, the public’s misconceptions of RFK, and the formative events of RFK’s political career, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-JEN-03
In this interview Nolan discusses working with Jesse M. Unruh on putting together the California delegation for Robert F. Kennedy [RFK], 1968; raising funds for RFK’s presidential campaign; Carmine S. Bellino as campaign treasurer; treating California like two different states, north and south; campaign staffing issues; RFK’s first campaign visit to California; working with different communities and groups in Los Angeles; campaign scheduling and advance teams; different types of campaign appearances made by RFK; and campaign security and working with the local police, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-30-C
AR19, KN15
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-01-28-D
AR31, ST19, KN29
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21301
President John F. Kennedy visits with newspaper executives from the Nashville Tennessean. Left to right: editor, John Seigenthaler; advertising manager, James H. Armistead; publisher, Amon Carter Evans; and Representative Ross Bass (Tennessee). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21300
President John F. Kennedy visits with newspaper executives from the Nashville Tennessean. Left to right: editor, John Seigenthaler; advertising manager, James H. Armistead; publisher, Amon Carter Evans; and Representative Ross Bass (Tennessee; partially visible at edge of frame). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21299
President John F. Kennedy visits with newspaper executives from the Nashville Tennessean. Left to right: editor, John Seigenthaler; advertising manager, James H. Armistead; publisher, Amon Carter Evans; and Representative Ross Bass (Tennessee). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7190-A
President John F. Kennedy visits with newspaper executives from the Nashville Tennessean. Left to right: editor, John Seigenthaler; advertising manager, James H. Armistead; publisher, Amon Carter Evans; and Representative Ross Bass (Tennessee). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7688-A
President John F. Kennedy (center, holding book) meets with members of the United States Advisory Commission on Information in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Staff Director for the Commission, Louis T. Olom; Chairman of Young and Rubicam, Sigurd S. Larmon; Executive Director of WSB Atlanta radio station, J. Leonard Reinsch; President Kennedy; correspondent for Cowles Publications, Clark R. Mollenhoff; radio consultant, Morris S. Novik; Editor of the Nashville Tennessean, John L. Seigenthaler; Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA), Edward R. Murrow.