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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-09-A
AR07
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-024-003
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s message on the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (later known as the Office of Civil Defense) for the emergency broadcast system CONELRAD. In his remarks President Kennedy discusses the role of telecommunications in the country’s civil defense program and the ways in which individuals can better prepare themselves for the possibility of war or attack.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-329-023
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 48 (NSAM 48) titled, “Level of U.S. Efforts – Military, Foreign Policy, Civil Defense, Para-military,” to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM) Frank B. Ellis from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-328-006
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number five (NSAM 5) titled, “Study of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization,” to Director of the Bureau of the Budget David Bell from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6412-B
Swearing-in ceremony, Frank B. Ellis, Director of Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM). L-R: Senator Allen J. Ellender (Louisiana); President John F. Kennedy; Alice Grima Ellis; Congressman Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Frank B. Ellis; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Chief Justice of Louisiana Supreme Court, John B. Fournet; Senator Russell B. Long (Louisiana), no glasses; Senator C. Estes Kefauver (Tennessee), in back; Herman Kohlmeyer, in front. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6412-A
Swearing-in ceremony, Frank B. Ellis, Director of Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM). L-R: Frank B. Ellis; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; President John F. Kennedy; Alice Grima Ellis; Congressman Hale Boggs (Louisiana). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6654-A
White House Administrative Officer Frank K. Sanderson (far right) swears in Edward A. McDermott as Deputy Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM). All others unidentified. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6575-A
Meeting with Governors on Civil Defense. L-R: Governor of South Carolina, Ernest F. Hollings; Governor of Massachusetts, John A. Volpe; Governor of New York, Nelson A. Rockefeller; President John F. Kennedy; Governor of Colorado, Stephen L. R. McNichols; Governor of California, Edmund G. “Pat” Brown; Director of Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), Frank Ellis. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.