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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF054-001
This folder contains materials regarding the christening of the USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier in Newport News, Virginia including correspondence, notes, an itinerary, a guest list, and a program. Also included in this folder are postcards containing details about the carrier, and copies of remarks by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-078-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, contains newspaper clippings and a photographic print documenting Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., receiving his commission as ensign in the United States Naval Reserve from his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., on May 5, 1942, in Jacksonville, Florida. The title on the front cover reads, “Ensign Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. U.S.N.R. / May 5, 1942”; the front cover also features a gold embroidered patch of the U.S. Naval Aviator insignia. This scrapbook contains 128 newspaper clippings and one photographic print.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-086-001
This scrapbook, compiled to commemorate the establishment, construction, and dedication of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Home for Children in the Bronx, New York, documents the life and naval career of Lieutenant Kennedy and the early history of the Home for Children that was named in his honor. The cover displays the engraving, "Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. / Home for Children / Bronx, New York." Newspaper clippings cover Lieutenant Kennedy’s enlistment and commission as ensign in the United States Naval Reserve; his death while piloting a U.S. Navy aircraft over Blythburgh, East Suffolk, England; his posthumous receipt of the Navy Cross; the launching of the U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., naval destroyer; the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation’s donation to the Archdiocese of New York for the establishment of the Home for Children; and the Home’s blessing and dedication on October 29, 1950. Photographs capture Lieutenant Kennedy posing in his Harvard University football uniform; receiving his wings from his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; wearing his flight jacket; and standing in flight gear with his airplane. Also pictured are interior, exterior, and aerial views of the Home for Children’s buildings; children and staff using the Home’s various facilities; Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Francis Spellman, and members of the Kennedy family at the blessing and dedication ceremony, including Joseph, Sr., Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel Kennedy, and Jean Kennedy; the unveiling of a portrait of Lieutenant Kennedy and a bronze plaque bearing his citation for the Navy Cross; the groundbreaking for the Home’s new chapel-gymnasium on March 5, 1951; children participating in a radio broadcast charity campaign; the Home’s first graduates; and children meeting the Mayor of New York City, Vincent R. Impellitteri. Other items of note are an invitation to and a program for the Home’s dedication ceremony. This scrapbook contains 27 photographic prints, ten newspaper clippings, one invitation, and one program.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-083-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents the christening and launching of the U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., on July 26, 1945, at the Bethlehem Steel Company’s Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts; the United States Navy destroyer was named in honor of Rose’s son, Lt. Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., a naval aviator who was killed in action in 1944. The title on the front cover reads, “U.S.S. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. / Launched July 26, 1945.” The cover also features a patch with two gold stripes and a gold star above the stripes. Newspaper clippings cover the events of the day, and photographs capture Kennedy family members who were present at the launch, including Rose; her husband, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; and her children, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Jean Kennedy (who served as the ship’s sponsor), and Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy. Of note are photographs of Boston Mayor Maurice J. Tobin delivering remarks during the launching ceremony; Jean christening the destroyer by breaking a bottle of champagne against its bow; Jean with two “maids of honor,” her cousin, Mary Jo Gargan, and family friend, Mary Carroll Mann, who assisted her in her role as sponsor; and Rose, Joe, Sr., Eunice, Patricia, Jean, Teddy, and Robert F. Kennedy receiving an oil painting of the vessel from Edward C. Geehr, assistant general manager of the shipyard. Also of note is a color chromogenic print of Lieutenant Kennedy wearing his naval uniform. Loose materials found between the leaves of the album include a handwritten note in black ink to Teddy from Kennedy family friends, Edward E. “Eddie” Moore and Mary Moore; four sheets of blank letterhead from Le Domaine de Ranguin in Mougins, France; and a newspaper clipping about lend-lease aid. This scrapbook contains 83 newspaper clippings, 18 photographic prints, four sheets of letterhead, and one handwritten note.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-037
This folder contains requests for John F. Kennedy's naval service records.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-036
This folder contains John F. Kennedy's Officer Service Record compiled by the United States Bureau of Naval Personnel. Materials in this folder include appointment forms, a letter to New York Senator (and former Attorney General) Robert F. Kennedy, and memoranda concerning duty assignments, physical examinations, identification cards, and the Naval Retiring Board.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-035
This folder contains John F. Kennedy's Officer's Selection Board Jacket compiled by the United States Bureau of Naval Personnel. Materials in this folder include correspondence, award citations, physical examination reports, appointment forms, a transcript of naval service, Kennedy's Harvard University transcript, reports on the sinking of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109, and memoranda concerning Kennedy's health and the Naval Retiring Board.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-034
This folder contains materials concerning the proceedings of the United States Naval Retiring Board in the case of Lieutenant John F. Kennedy. Materials in this folder include records of the proceedings, copies of physical examination reports, and memoranda regarding the transmission of related records.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-006-028
This folder contains John F. Kennedy’s identification card for the United States Navy.
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Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-01049-001
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-033
This folder contains materials concerning John F. Kennedy's appearance before the United States Naval Retiring Board. Materials in this folder include a telegram, memoranda, medical history forms, and reports of physical examinations.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-032
This folder contains John F. Kennedy's Officer's Miscellaneous Correspondence and Orders Jacket compiled by the United States Bureau of Naval Personnel. Materials in this folder include telegrams, beneficiary slips, medical history forms, compliance reports, leave of absence reports, officer's orders memoranda, uniform gratuity forms, reports from the Naval Retiring Board, and correspondence concerning medals awarded to Kennedy during his naval service.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-031
This folder contains John F. Kennedy's Officer Fitness Report Jacket compiled by the United States Bureau of Naval Personnel. Materials in this folder include fitness reports and memoranda concerning the Naval Retiring Board, the completion of correspondence classes in foreign intelligence, and the policies governing access to Navy and Marine Corps personnel records.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-029
This folder contains materials concerning medical treatment John F. Kennedy received at the United States Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts (previously known as Naval Hospital at Charlestown and later known as Naval Hospital Boston). Materials in this folder include memoranda, admission reports, examination reports, medical charts, dental records, accounts of Kennedy's medical history, and letters from physicians at the Lahey Clinic in Boston.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-028
This folder contains materials concerning medical treatment John F. Kennedy received at the United States Naval Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. Materials in this folder include memoranda, admission forms, examination reports, and medical charts.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-026
This folder contains materials concerning the activities of the United States Navy South Pacific Fleet during World War II. Materials in this folder include memoranda, lists of commanding officers, organizational charts, and service bulletins.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-008
This folder contains materials concerning John F. Kennedy's service in the United States Navy. Items in this folder include instructions on air raid procedures, an excerpt of letters received at the Veterans' Bureau Pension and Compensation Board, a bilingual pamphlet instructing on proper care for lost or injured military officers, and letters to John F. Kennedy from the Chief of Naval Personnel concerning duty assignments, the Purple Heart Award, and monetary compensation for service.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-007
This folder contains materials concerning John F. Kennedy's service in the United States Navy. Items in this folder include letters to John F. Kennedy from the Chief of Naval Personnel concerning duty assignments and travel expenses.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-011-006
This folder contains materials concerning John F. Kennedy's service in the United States Navy. Items in this folder include expenditure reports, a report of a physical examination, a copy of a log from the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center in Melville, Rhode Island, and letters to John F. Kennedy from the Chief of Naval Personnel concerning duty assignments, travel expenses, and correspondence courses.
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John F. Kennedy Personal Papers
JFKPP-004-038
This folder contains a letter to John F. Kennedy from his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, concerning the former's naval service during World War II.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-077-001
This scrapbook, compiled by John F. “Jack” Kennedy, documents his time serving in the United States Navy during World War II from 1941 through 1944, including his assignment in the Solomon Islands and his command of the motor torpedo boat, PT-109, as well as time spent on leave with family and friends. The gold stamped title on the front cover reads, “J.F.K.” The scrapbook contains photographic prints, newspaper and magazine clippings, several pieces of correspondence, and other types of printed ephemera. Of note are clippings related to the rescue of the PT-109 crew near the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean following its sinking by a Japanese destroyer; Jack’s receipt of the Navy and Marine Corps medal for his actions in the aftermath of the attack on PT-109; his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.’s military service and death while piloting a U.S. Navy aircraft over Blythburgh, East Suffolk, England; the marriage of his sister, Kathleen Kennedy, to William “Billy” Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington; and Billy Hartington’s death while serving in the British Army. Photographs show Jack in the Solomon Islands singly and with fellow U.S. Navy sailors, including George H. R. “Barney” Ross, James A. “Jim” Reed, Paul B. “Red” Fay, Allan “Al” Webb, Leon Emery Drawdy, Edman Edgar Mauer, Edmund T. Drewitch, John Edward Maguire, Charles Albert Harris, Maurice L. Kowal, Andrew Jackson Kirksey, and Leonard "Lenny" Thom. Also pictured is Jack in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts and Palm Beach, Florida, with family, including his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; siblings, Joseph, Jr., Kathleen, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; cousin, Joseph Francis "Joey" Gargan, Jr.; and friends, Jim Reed, Julia Reed, Lenny Thom, Catherine “Kate” Thom, Barney Ross, Nancy Tenney, Red Fay, Bernie Lyons, Torbert Macdonald, and John "Zeke" Coleman, Jr. Others who are pictured are U.S. Navy commissioned officers who served in the South West Pacific theater, including Commander Henry Charles Farrow, Jr.; Lt. Commander Robert Bolling Kelly; Commodore Edward J. “Mike” Moran; and Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Of note are two typed letters detailing Jack’s military orders during World War II; clippings related to and photographs of Jack receiving the Navy and Marine Corps Medal from Captain Frederick L. Conklin at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts; a typed letter awarding him a Purple Heart medal for injuries he sustained during his command of PT-109; a typed letter awarding him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal; a printed compilation of news releases issued by the “So-Pac Press,” a publication of the U.S. Naval Command in the South Pacific; a printed list of wartime instructions that American service members could distribute to native peoples in case of an emergency landing on one of the Solomon Islands; and a postcard sent to Jack with a handwritten message from his brother, Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy, postmarked from Palestine and featuring an image of Jerusalem. This scrapbook contains 66 photographic prints and postcards, 64 newspaper and periodical clippings (including several full periodical pages), four typed letters, and two other printed documents.
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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.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-039-028
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's remarks at the Navy Summer Festival at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Brunswick, Maine concerning the relationship between the Navy and the local community.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-327-007
This folder contains a memorandum from Tazewell Shepard, Naval Aide to the President, to McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, titled "Military Astronautics Programs," discussing the United States Navy's contributions to the space program in comparison to the United States Air Force, and arguing for the Navy's inclusion in the development of an anti-satellite program. The memorandum contains handwritten notes by McGeorge Bundy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-084a-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the United States Navy. Topics include a visit to European shipyards by Chief of the Bureau of Ships Ralph K. James, the first sea trials of the USS Bainbridge, naming of ships, Cuban Komar class motor torpedo boats, and a request for research and development of an ASW ship. Of note is a handwritten letter to the President from Under Secretary of the Navy Paul B. Fay. Also included in this folder are numerous condolence letters from the President to families of deceased Navy personnel.