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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TGW-01
In this interview Wicker discusses early impressions of John F. Kennedy [JFK], 1952–1961; Lyndon B. Johnson campaigning for JFK in the South, 1960; Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge’s 1960 presidential campaign; JFK and Johnson in the August 1960 special session of Congress; Wicker’s first interview with President JFK for the New York Times, 1961; building a rapport with JFK’s staff; various Times articles, by Wicker and others, about the Kennedy Administration and White House reactions to them; Wicker’s arguments with Pierre E.G. Salinger over certain articles; year-end briefings in Palm Beach; and President JFK’s press conferences, among other issues.
Collection
NYTPC
Photographs, 1957–1970. Black-and-white prints of images made by New York Times photographers featuring John F. Kennedy and administration officials during the Kennedy Presidency; Robert F. Kennedy as Senate counsel, United States Attorney General, U. S. Senate candidate, United States Senator for New York, and 1968 Presidential candidate; and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library at the Federal Archives and Records Center in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Collection
LMPC
Photographs, 1957-1963. 8” x 10” black-and-white prints. Images made by LOOK Magazine, Cowles Communications, Inc., featuring John F. Kennedy at various events during his tenure as Senator through his presidency. Members of the Kennedy family, Kennedy administration and foreign dignitaries also appear.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-28-J
ST13
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-12-06-E
AR30, ST17
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-092-001
This scrapbook is a self-published work that documents John F. Kennedy’s political career from the perspective of the volume’s creator, 1960 presidential campaign volunteer, founder of the Allen Dental Medical Corporation, and Kennedy family friend, Frank Allen Orofino (known professionally as Frank Allen). A limited number of copies of the scrapbook were made for President Kennedy’s family, friends, and associates; the full list of recipients is included at the end of the scrapbook. An original typed inscription taped to the inside front free endpaper reads, “Dedicated in gratitude to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy who shared with this country and the world John Fitzgerald Kennedy." The handwritten inscription in black ink below the typed inscription reads, "In friendship to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy / Frank Allen Orofino / Vol I / '68." A typed preface written by Orofino is also included. The scrapbook contains materials related to President Kennedy’s United States Senate career, his 1960 presidential campaign, and his presidency. It contains facsimiles of correspondence between Orofino and members of the Kennedy family, including Senator (later President) John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Patricia "Pat" Kennedy Lawford; Robert F. "Bob" Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy; and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy. It also contains facsimiles of correspondence between Orofino and various associates of the President and First Lady, including the President’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln; Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal secretary, Mary Gallagher; campaign aide and later Special Assistant to the President, Lawrence “Larry” O'Brien; White House housekeeper Anne Lincoln; White House Secret Service agent, John J. "Muggsy" O'Leary; Governor of Florida, Farris Bryant; Boston Secret Service agent, Frank V. McDermott; and Kennedy family financial advisor, Thomas J. Walsh. Photographs are accompanied by facsimiles of Orofino’s handwritten captions and notations. Those pictured in photographs include President and Mrs. Kennedy; Caroline Kennedy; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Joseph, Sr.; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Patricia; Bob; Jean Kennedy Smith and Stephen E. Smith; Ted; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; campaign aide and later White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, and Nancy Joy Salinger; entertainer Frank Sinatra; Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Francis Spellman; Mary and Ray Gallagher and their children, Christopher and Gregory Gallagher; Larry O’Brien; secretary to then-Senator Kennedy and later Mrs. Kennedy’s Press Secretary, Pamela Turnure; presidential campaign manager and later special assistant to President Kennedy, Timothy J. “Ted” Reardon, Jr., and Betty Jane Reardon; John J. “Muggsy” O’Leary; Evelyn Lincoln; democratic politician and Chairman of the Board of the Coca-Cola Export Corporation, James A. “Jim” Farley, Sr.; democratic politician, Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr.; Kennedy family friend and former Boston Police Commissioner, Joseph F. Timilty; Governor of California, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; and various campaign and office staff members. Orofino also included photographs of himself and his family. Also pictured are presidential campaign items designed by Orofino, including a tie clip modeled after PT-109. Events pictured include the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, California; the Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.; and the Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. This scrapbook contains 115 photographic prints, 45 photocopied letters, five other printed items, and one oil painting reproduction.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6378-N
Head table at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Postmaster General J. Edward Day; New York Herald Tribune reporter Donald Wise; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; editor of the Washington Star and president of the Associated Press Benjamin M. McKelway; Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-285-73-61
President John F. Kennedy prepares to step into a car at the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) Terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. The President was returning from Palm Beach, Florida, following his trip to South America. Also pictured: Special Assistant to the President Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; White House Secret Service agents Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn and Arthur L. “Art” Godfrey; United Press International (UPI) photographer James K. W. Atherton.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C422-15-63
Mourners enter the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle for the requiem mass in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Those pictured include: Representative Leslie C. Arends (Illinois); Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Representative Charles A. Halleck (Indiana); Personal Secretary to President Kennedy, Evelyn Lincoln; Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Special Counsel to President Kennedy, Theodore C. Sorensen; Associate Press Secretary, Andrew T. Hatcher; Special Assistant to President Kennedy for National Security, McGeorge Bundy; Auxiliary Bishop of New York, Bishop John J. Maguire; White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman and Ron Pontius. Washington, D.C. [Discoloration along left side of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6988-A
President John F. Kennedy attends the 1962 Savings Bond Conference. Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon, stands just behind President Kennedy, and Press Secretary Pierre Salinger stands in doorway. "Mrs. U.S. Savings Bonds," Emily Terrall (from St. Helens, Oregon), stands at far left; others unidentified. Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-362-20-62
Participants of the White House Summer Seminar attend an American jazz concert on the Ellipse, President’s Park, Washington, D.C. White House staff assistant and Director of the Seminar, Dorothy H. Davies, and Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger, sit in front row at left.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7626-C
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation First International Awards Dinner for achievement in research, service, and leadership in the field of intellectual disability (then referred to as "mental retardation"). Left to right: United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and Master of Ceremonies, Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Also pictured (in background): White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger. Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.