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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BBH-01
In this interview Hickenlooper discusses various meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] on foreign relations; Soviet and American nuclear testing; the nuclear test ban treaty; the Bay of Pigs invasion; Laos and Vietnam; the Punta del Este Conference in 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Hickenlooper's 1962 reelection campaign; traveling with JFK to Costa Rica; the 1961 Berlin crisis; JFK's congressional relations; and social occasions at the Kennedy White House, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-AUG-01
In this interview Heckscher discusses John F. Kennedy [JFK] and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as an “inspiration to cultural life”; Heckscher’s involvement in government affairs prior to becoming a Special Consultant to the President; the invitation of 168 artists to JFK’s 1961 inauguration and its impact; how Heckscher came to work for the White House; discussing Heckscher’s position with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; the reasoning behind the creation of the new position of Special Consultant on the Arts and the favorable public reaction to it; enlarging the definition of “The Arts,” especially regarding architecture; Arthur Goldberg; the establishment of the Freedom Medal; creating the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts through executive order; personal impressions of JFK; setting up Heckscher’s office and staff; how Heckscher was meant to advise JFK and what his position entailed; the Cultural Center [Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]; conversations with JFK; Mrs. Kennedy’s expansive work for the arts; the arts as part of national policy; working with other White House staff members and other Departments; designing special postage stamps; what the President’s role in the arts should be; and the Fine Arts Commission, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-27-C
AR07
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-JRR-03
This interview focuses on printed materials about the Kennedy Administration, Robert F. Kennedy’s [RFK] time as attorney general, and RFK’s efforts against organized crime, among other issues.
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-029
Contains 25 photographic prints: (KFC4367P (original negative is KFC1734N), KFC1734N, KFC1749N, KFC1752N, KFC1753N, KFC1754N, KFC1755N, KFC1756N, KFC1757N, KFC1758N, KFC1759N, KFC1760N, KFC1731N, KFC1733N, KFC1732N, KFC1735N, KFC1736N, KFC1737N, KFC1738N, KFC1741N, KFC1739N, KFC1740N, KFC1742N, KFC1743N, KFC1744N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-028
Contains 20 photographic prints: (KFC1785N, KFC1787N, KFC1784N, KFC4366P, KFC1832N, KFC1762N, KFC1761N, KFC1763N, KFC1768N, KFC1769N, KFC1778N, KFC1779N, KFC1780N, KFC1781N, KFC1786N, KFC1788N, KFC1789N, KFC17980N, KFC1831N, KFC1830N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-027
Contains 30 photographic prints: (KFC1829N, KFC1807N, KFC1783N, KFC1716N, KFC1745N, KFC1748N, KFC1713N, KFC1714N, KFC1782N, KFC1816N, KFC1806N, KFC1824N, KFC1825N, KFC1826N, KFC1827N, KFC1828N, KFC1808N, KFC1809N, KFC1810N, KFC1811N, KFC1812N, KFC1813N, KFC1814N, KFC1815N, KFC1800N, KFC1799N, KFC1798N, KFC1797N, KFC1715N, KFC1712N)
Textual folder
Arthur M. Schlesinger Personal Papers
AMSPP-P03-016
Textual folder
Arthur M. Schlesinger Personal Papers
AMSPP-P03-015
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-N
Guests sit at tables during President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-M
The cake for President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-L
Guests sit at tables during President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory; approximately 6,000 people in attendance. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-K
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. President Kennedy’s birthday cake sits in the foreground. Seated at the head table, L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey; two unidentified; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; unidentified; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-J
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); comedian, Jerry Lewis; Patti Palmer. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-H
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; Lady Bird Johnson; former President Harry S. Truman; unidentified; Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-D
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; Secretary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush (face obscured); White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; former President Harry S. Truman; dinner co-chairperson, Jane Wheeler; Treasurer of the DNC, Matthew H. McCloskey. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-C
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: President Kennedy; former President Harry S. Truman; unidentified woman; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; two unidentified women; Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman. The fund-raising dinner was given by the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-B
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. L-R: Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6620-A
President John F. Kennedy’s birthday party celebration at the National Guard Armory. President Kennedy hands plate to unidentified man; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), John M. Bailey, sits at right. The fund-raising dinner was given by the DNC and the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-073-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, documents her life, travels, and social activities from 1939 to 1942. Photographs document time spent at the Kennedy family’s residences in Palm Beach in Florida, Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and Bronxville in New York; aboard the S.S. Washington en route to New York City, New York, from Europe; at the 1939 New York World’s Fair; in Sainte-Marguerite-du-lac-Masson in Quebec, Canada; at the Maryland Hunt Cup near Reisterstown, Maryland; at the Berkshire Music Festival (now called the Tanglewood Music Festival) in Lenox, Massachusetts; at Bailey’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island; as a bridesmaid in the wedding of Kennedy family friend, Anne McDonnell, to Henry Ford II, in Southampton, New York; at the Edgartown Regatta on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; on a camping trip in Wise River, Montana; on a trip to England; at the Beachcomber Lounge in Boston, Massachusetts; at Club Waikiki in New York City; at the Scranton family estate in Scranton, Pennsylvania; on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota; at the Coleman and Schweppe family estates in Lake Forest, Illinois; and at parties at both Kathleen’s apartment and the apartment of Kennedy family friend Inga Arvad in Washington, D.C. Other locations pictured include Narragansett, Rhode Island; Greenwich, Connecticut; Lexington and Chatham, Massachusetts; Seminole, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Charleston, South Carolina. Family members pictured in photographs include Kathleen’s parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bob/Bobbie” [sic] Kennedy; Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted/Teddy” Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; and cousin, Joseph Francis “Joey” Gargan, Jr. Over one hundred friends and acquaintances also appear in photographs, many of whom are identified in original captions. Those who appear more than once within the album include: Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Tom Killefer; Torbert "Torb" Macdonald; Richard J. “Dick” Cotter, Jr.; Nancy Van Vleck; Beverley A. “Bev” Bogert; C. Z. “Cizzie” Cochrane; John “Zeke” Coleman, Jr.; Nancy Tenney; Charlotte McDonnell; Francis Huger “Mac” McAdoo, Jr.; Cynthia “Cynth” McAdoo; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem/Leem” Billings; Thomas Henry “Harry” Dixon; John “Johnny” Pyne; Appie Whitney; Eben Pyne; Alison “Allie/Ally” Pyne; Cammann “Cam” Newberry; Constance “Connie” Shepard; James Ayer “Jim” Rousmaniere; Helen MacDonald; Marie Murray; Cyrus Robinson “Cy” Taylor; Nelson Macy, Jr.; William Fuller “Bill” Borland; George Morris Cheston; William Warren “Bill” Scranton; Abbott Widdicombe; Gaspard d’Andelot “Don” Belin; Harriet Bundy “Hattie” Belin; Stanley Rogers “Stan” Resor; Anne Reed; Charles Alfred “Chuckie/Chucky” Pillsbury; Jane "Pil" Pillsbury; Muriel Macy; Demarest "Demi" Lloyd, Jr.; George Houk Mead, Jr.; Richard R. “Dick” Flood; Elizabeth Wayne “Betty” Coxe; Charles “Chuck” Spalding; Inga Arvad; and Mary Dickey. Also pictured are industrialist Henry Ford, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill. Original handwritten captions are written in black ink on many of the leaves. This photograph album contains 636 photographic prints and two photo fragments.
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01760N
An unidentified man reclines on a sofa at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01759N
An unidentified woman (left, seated in an armchair) and man (right, seated on an ottoman) attend a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spotting in upper portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01758N
Kennedy family friend, Elizabeth Wayne "Betty" Coxe (standing in doorway, partially obscured), attends a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C.; man wearing a fedora hat (left) and man wearing a military uniform and cap (with his back to the camera) are unidentified. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001. Spotting in right portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01757N
Kennedy family friend, Charles "Chuck" Spalding, attends a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]
Photograph
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-01756N
An unidentified man reclines in an armchair at a party at the apartment of Kathleen Kennedy in Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also vintage print in album KFC-073-001.]