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About Oral History
Digital Identifier
JFKOH-JRL-01
Interviewee(s)
Lewis, John R. (John Robert), 1940-2020
Biographical Note
(1940 - ). United States Representative, Georgia (1987 - ); Cofounder, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1960), Chairman (1963 - 1966).
Interviewer(s)
Vicki Daitch
Access Restriction Status
Open
Use Restriction Status
None
Description
In this interview Lewis discusses President John F. Kennedy on civil rights; Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] as Attorney General and civil rights; working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign; RFK’s assassination, 1968; J. Edgar Hoover and FBI investigations of the civil rights movement; discrimination, hatred, and violence; and the march from Selma to Montgomery and “Bloody Sunday,” 1965, among other issues.
Date(s) of Materials
19 March 2004
Deed Status
Deeded
Copyright Status
Donated to the United States
Collection
Series
Series 1. John F. Kennedy Oral History Interviews, 1964-2012.
Preferred Citation
John R. Lewis, recorded interview by Vicki Daitch, March 19, 2004, (page number), John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
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Accession Number
OH 2005-005
Transcript
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