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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-WAH-01
In this interview Harriman discusses early interactions with John F. Kennedy [JFK], from 1945 to 1956; the 1956 and 1960 Democratic National Conventions; helping get JFK the votes from New York state for the presidential nomination; traveling to Africa in 1960 and the problems with the Department of State’s work there; meeting with JFK and discussing various presidential appointments between JFK’s election and inauguration; and the religious demographics in New York state and how they impacted JFK’s 1960 victory, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-26-A
ST05, KN08
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-D
ST04, KN08
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-C
ST04
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-B
ST04, KN08
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-A
ST04
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-02
In this interview Komer discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] personal diplomacy with the United Arab Republic [UAR] through letters; normalizing U.S.-Egypt relations; the Yemen conflict and U.S. interests; negotiating Yemen with M. Harold Macmillan and the attempt to have the United Kingdom recognize the Yemen Republic; dealing with Gamal Abdel Nasser; and difficulties with Saudi Arabia and the UAR, among other issues.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-061-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and other aspects of his life from 1936 to 1940. The scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, postcards, and printed ephemera related to his time at Harvard University; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; trips to various European countries; and social events and activities. Newspaper and periodical clippings cover a wide range of topics, including Joe, Jr.’s athletic career and involvement in student government at Harvard; the Kennedy family’s arrival in London, England, following Joe, Sr.'s appointment as ambassador; the prospect of British involvement in the global conflict that became World War II; Joe, Sr.'s opinions on and actions related to the war; and other political and society news and events. Others featured in clippings and pictured in photographs include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; his grandparents, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; his cousin, Joseph Francis Gargan, Jr.; and family friend, Hugh Fraser. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including a ball at Buckingham Palace; event programs; menus; tickets; and calling cards. Of note are a set of fingerprints that Joe, Jr., had taken during a visit to the Boston Police Headquarters; an envelope containing five bird feathers; photographs of Joe, Jr., dressed in drag for a Harvard theater production; clippings related to his purported relationship with figure skater Megan Taylor; a letter from British Member of Parliament, Anthony Eden; photographic prints and postcards that capture a Kennedy family trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland; a photograph of Joe, Jr., aboard the R.M.S. Mauretania; clippings related to Joe, Jr.’s voyage from London to New York City, New York; Spanish paper currency; an unsent postcard addressed to Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy, nanny to the Kennedy children, signed by Joe, Jr.; a photographic postcard signed by Alois Lang, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; contact prints of strips of 35mm black and white negatives that capture scenes from Joe, Jr.’s 1939 trip to Spain with Kathleen following the end of the Spanish Civil War, including images of Spanish Loyalist tanks and damage from the siege of the Alcázar of Toledo; a photographic postcard featuring an image of Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Hermann Göring; signed portrait photos of several unidentified women; and prints of four watercolor illustrations depicting scenes from the Spanish Civil War, credited to “Artillery Lieutenant Luis Serrano.” Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Warsaw, Poland; Cannes, France; Capri, Rome, Venice, Naples, and Amalfi, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark; Czechoslovakia; Killarney and other locations in Ireland; and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Original handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in black ink on some of the leaves. This photograph album contains 164 photographic prints and postcards, 134 newspaper and periodical clippings, 29 pieces of printed ephemera, six banknotes and two banknote fragments, four pieces of correspondence, and four prints of watercolor drawings.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18904
President John F. Kennedy and United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Adlai Stevenson greet delegates to the General Assembly of the UN at United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York. President of the UN General Assembly Mongi Slim (in foreground, back to camera) looks on.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A10-1-61
President John F. Kennedy addresses the delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations at the General Assembly Hall, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-71-61
President John F. Kennedy and President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina attend a breakfast conference in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Secretary of State Dean Rusk; President Frondizi; State Department interpreter Donald Barnes; President Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Argentina Miguel Angel Cárcano.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-70-61
President John F. Kennedy and President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina attend a breakfast conference in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Secretary of State Dean Rusk; President Frondizi; State Department interpreter Donald Barnes (partially hidden); President Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Argentina Miguel Angel Cárcano.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-31-61
President John F. Kennedy, President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and Foreign Minister of Argentina Miguel Angel Cárcano talk to reporters and photographers at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-30-61
President John F. Kennedy, President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and Foreign Minister of Argentina Miguel Angel Cárcano talk to reporters and photographers at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-81-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-80-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny; Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-79-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (partially hidden); Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-78-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Prince Sihanouk; Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny; President Kennedy; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; unidentified reporter; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-77-61
President John F. Kennedy meets with Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (partially out of frame); United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-76-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (back to camera, bottom right); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-75-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble. Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (partially out of frame) is at bottom right.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-74-61
President John F. Kennedy gestures toward a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong; United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble (partially hidden); John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-72-61
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia presents President John F. Kennedy with a silver urn in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-68-61
Guests attend a luncheon with the Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York. [Low light original to negative]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-67-61
President John F. Kennedy, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and others talk with members of Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) during a luncheon at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York.