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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.
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USPCPC
Photographs, 1961-1968 and undated. Black-and-white images of United States Peace Corps administrators and staff, both at headquarters and in the field, as well as images of volunteers working at their duty stations abroad. Photographers include Rowland Scherman, Paul Conklin and Abbie Rowe.
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JFKWHSFHW
Lawyer, government official. Assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy (1960); Special Assistant to the President for Civil Rights (1961-62). Contains correspondence, progress reports, speeches, and occasional background material on civil rights cases.
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BLBPP
Papers 1955-1966. Businessman, New Hampshire political figure, government official. Mayor of Laconia, N.H. (1955-1959); Kennedy campaign worker (1960); Deputy Administrator and Administrator, General Services Administration (1961-1964); Deputy Director, Office of Economic Opportunity (1965-1968). Correspondence, memorandums, appointment books, schedules, and speech files relating to New Hampshire politics, the 1960 presidential campaign, the General Services Administration, and the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Collection
GWBPP
Management consultant. Director of Training for the Far East (1962-1964), Special Assistant to the Director (1964-1965), Peace Corps. Research materials for his doctoral dissertation, The Peace Corps: A Study in Open Organization (1968); includes memorandums, reports, notes, speeches, records of the Director's staff meetings, records of decisions, and weekly reports to the President.
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FMPP
Papers 1962-1978. Journalist, author, political figure. Peace Corps Country Director, Peru (1962-1964), Peace Corps Regional Director, Latin America, (1964-1966); press secretary to Robert Kennedy (1966-1968); manager of George McGovern's Presidential campaign (1972); author, Perfectly Clear (1973), U.S. vs. Nixon (1975), and Remote Control (1978). Correspondence, memoranda, reports, polls, speeches, and research materials.
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RPCV
Manuscripts, documents, printed materials, oral history interviews, 1961-2020. Donations by private individuals documenting personal experiences while serving in the Peace Corps. Includes correspondence, diaries, journals, publications, sketches, memoirs, books, maps, poems, project descriptions, audiovisual materials (including oral history recordings), and songs.
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RSSPP
Papers 1948-1976. Brother-in-law of President Kennedy, lawyer, businessman, government official, diplomat. Assistant general manager, Merchandise Mart (1948-1961); Director, Peace Corps (1961-1966); Director, Office of Economic Opportunity (1964-1968); Special Assistant to the President (1965-1968); Ambassador to France (1968-1970); Vice Presidential candidate (1972); Presidential candidate (1976). Personal and professional papers relating to Shriver’s work as the first director of the Peace Corps, as the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and as United States Ambassador to France. The collection also covers Shriver’s role in John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential campaign, his 1970 bid for governor of Maryland, his 1972 campaign for the Vice Presidency, and his 1976 campaign for the Presidency.
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KJPP
Papers 1963-1974. Peace Corps volunteer, Dominican Republic (1963-1965); Peace Corps staff, Washington, D.C. (1965-1967); campaign aide in Robert F. Kennedy's (1968) and George McGovern's presidential campaigns (1972); co-author, With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1975). Papers relating to the Peace Corps, presidential campaigns, and a series of interviews about Cuba with Fidel Castro.
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SPHPP
Social psychologist, economist. Consultant to the Peace Corps (1961-1969). Contains correspondence, news clippings, and working files relating to Peace Corps organization and training.
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WHJPP
Papers 1961-1966. Lawyer. General Counsel, Peace Corps (1961-1966). Microfilm copy of unclassified chronological correspondence files.
Collection
USPC
Records 1961-1992. Microfilm copies of Director's staff meeting reports, press releases, weekly reports to the President, volunteer information reports, and publications. Hard copy consists of publications, reports, country studies, training manuals etc.
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LSPP
Papers 1962-1968. Wife of Peace Corps country program director John Guy Smith, member of first Micronesia Peace Corps Programming Team (1966). Correspondence, reports, retrospectives, diaries, and a manuscript related to Peace Corps life in the 1960s.
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WHBPP
Papers, 1961-2008. Personal papers of William Henry Byrd focusing on his tenure as director of the Peace Corps outdoor fitness training programs in Puerto Rico from 1962 to 1963. Contains textual materials, photographic prints, negatives, and slides.
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LHBPP
Peace Corps Country Director for Malaysia (1963-64), Peace Corps consultant (1961-68), lawyer (1952-), California Bar Committee member, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1969-71), activist. Evaluations of Peace Corps education programs in Somalia, Nigeria, and Nepal; interview notes from Peace Corps volunteers, staff members, and government officials; administrative notes in preparation for official evaluative reports; final reports for early Nigeria and Nepal programs; Malaysian, Peace Corps volunteers newsletter collection (1962-65).
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JFKWHSFCSB
Accountant, investigator. Special consultant to President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963). Materials relating to investigations of Peace Corps activities and to stockpiling of materials for national emergency.
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ERBPP
Papers 1961-1963. Government official. Director of Public Information, Peace Corps (1961); Special Assistant, Office of the White House Press Secretary (1961); Director, Information Staff, Agency for International Development (1961-63). Photocopies of correspondence, memorandums, speech files relating to the White House press office, the Peace Corps, AID, and Wisconsin political affairs. Originals deposited in the Wisconsin State Historical Society.
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RNGPP
Papers 1961-1965. Lawyer. Assistant Special Counsel to the President (1961); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1961-1962); Director, International Peace Corps Secretariat (1962-1964). Memorandums, reports, and correspondence.