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Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-111-001
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks at the Unidad Independencia Housing Project in Mexico City, Mexico. In his speech President Kennedy discusses the goals of the Alliance for Progress, compliments the housing project’s staff on their accomplishments, and explains the ways housing, education, and employment impact political equality.
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-110-006
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks at a civic ceremony held at the Municipal Palace in Mexico City, Mexico. In his speech President Kennedy discusses the goals of the Alliance for Progress, explains the two countries’ shared history of revolution, and thanks President Adolfo López Mateos and the people of Mexico for their warm welcome.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-01-C
ST12, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-01-B
ST12, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-01-A
ST12, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-H
ST11, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-G
ST11, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-F
ST11, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-D
ST11
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-C
KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-B
KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-A
ST11, KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-H
ST11
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-G
ST11
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-F
KN18
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-E
ST11
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-D
ST11, KN18
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-C
ST11, KN18
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-B
ST11, KN18
Textual folder
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF093-009
This file contains French-language menus for various luncheons and dinners held at the White House, including those in honor of foreign heads of state. Also included are Spanish-language menus for a luncheon held in Mexico City during President John F. Kennedy's trip to Mexico.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-070-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his travels, family life, political work, and naval career between 1938 and 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Scrap Book.” It contains newspaper clippings, photographic prints and postcards, handwritten and typed letters, and printed ephemera related to his travels in the United States and Europe, including a 1939 visit to Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War; his involvement with the Democratic Party, including as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and his diplomatic work as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom; his family's travels between the U.S. and England; his naval training at the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy, Massachusetts; and other news and current events of the time. Other Kennedy family members mentioned in clippings include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy; grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; aunt, Margaret L. Burke; uncle, Thomas A. Fitzgerald; cousins, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald and John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald; and his sister Kathleen's future husband, William "Billy" Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. Photographs feature Joe, Jr., attending unidentified events, with fellow trainees at the Squantum Naval Air Station, and holding a fish. An additional photograph shows an aerial view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. Photographic postcards feature images of canals in Xochimilco, Mexico, and of Joe, Jr., in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Senders of typed and handwritten correspondence include British politician Arthur Greenwood; politician and Democratic National Convention Chairman, James A. Farley; journalist Arthur Krock; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, J. W. Farley; and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Printed ephemera include a dance card with a pencil attached by string; a flier advertising a debate on Lend-Lease policy; a printed menu and seating chart for a dinner attended by Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, R. B. Pearson; a ticket book for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1940; and a printed booklet published by the Squantum Naval Air Station titled, "Flight 62 / Knocks It Off," and dated August 7, 1941. Another item of note is a paper bag printed with Spanish text; bags of this type originally contained loaves of bread and were part of a campaign by General Francisco Franco in which airplanes dropped bread over Madrid, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. Original notations are written in blue and black ink and pencil on the rectos and/or versos of some of the clippings. This scrapbook contains 75 newspaper and magazine clippings, nine photographic prints and postcards, six pieces of correspondence, and seven other pieces of printed ephemera.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-108-003
This folder contains a chart folio prepared for President John F. Kennedy by the United States Navy Hydrographic Office for the President's flight from Andrews Air Force Base to Mexico City.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22666-X
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy visit with clergymen following mass at the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe) in Mexico City, Mexico. Those visiting with President and Mrs. Kennedy include: Archbishop of Mexico City, Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez; Archpriest of the Basílica, Monsignor Gregorio Aguilar; Apostolic Delegate to Mexico, Archbishop Luigi Raimondi; Superior of the Guadalupe Missionaries, Bishop Alonso Escalante, M.M. (mostly hidden). Also pictured: General Cristóbal Guzmán Cárdenas; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Kenneth P. O'Donnell; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; White House Secret Service agents, James J. Rowley, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, Bill Payne, Mike Mastrovito, Lubert “Bert” de Freese, Clint Hill, and Morgan Gies. The Presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental with bubble-top) is visible in the foreground.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22666-KK
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend a reception in their honor at the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Relations) in Mexico City, Mexico. Standing behind President and Mrs. Kennedy: Guadalupe Macías de Tello; General Cristóbal Guzmán Cárdenas; Foreign Minister of Mexico, Manuel Tello. Also pictured: U.S. Military Attaché to Mexico, Brigadier General Chester L. Johnson, and White House Secret Service agent, Dick Johnsen.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22666-DD
President John F. Kennedy (center right) tours the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History) in Mexico City, Mexico. Also pictured: Director of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Dr. Eusebio Dávalos Hurtado; Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropología, Arturo Romano Pacheco; Chief of the Cultural Department at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Joaquín Cortina Goribar; Maureen Hayes Mansfield (wife of U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield).