Papers of John F. Kennedy
President's Office Files
Presidential Recordings
Current Status of Telephone Recordings

All of the Telephone Recordings deposited in the Kennedy Library have been processed and made available for research use except as indicated.  Transcripts are imperfect abstracts of spoken conversation, and erroneous interpretations of recordings are always possible.  Users are strongly urged to check all transcript renditions against the actual tape recordings.  For additional Telephone Recordings, please see the Telephone Recordings Addendum.  

Certain conventions are used throughout the list of telephone conversations:

a. "JFK," "RFK," and "EMK" are used for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy, respectively;

b. Other names are given in full, both given name and surname, when they are known or can be deduced from context;

c. Names appearing in brackets are offered with strong reservations, and all name identifications are subject to further research and verification;

d. If a person is identified by given name only in the conversation and the surname cannot be deduced from context, then "[?]" appears in place of the surname.

e. White House operators are unidentified except by the word "Operator;"

f. Only the principal or overriding topics of conversation are noted, and incidental mention of passing topics will not be found in this list.

* Conversations marked with an asterisk are also available as part of a subject area package set which was opened during the 1980s.

Item	Transcript	Date	Participants	Topic of Conversation
1 1
CASSETTE A (Side 1)
2A.1	Yes	10/22/62	Evelyn Lincoln Operator	Gromyko public statement
2B.1 2	Yes		Chester V. Clifton JFK	Forthcoming--Life article
3A.1	Yes	9/10/62	Evelyn Lincoln Phil Reagan	Calling David McDonald
3A.2	Yes	9/10/62	Evelyn Lincoln Robert Troutman	Auto accident in Los Angeles, 1960
3A.3	Yes	9/10/62	JFK  David McDonald	Appointment of W. Willard Wirtz as Secretary of Labor
3A.4	Yes	9/10/62	Operator Pierre Salinger	Placing call to J.C. Haggerty for JFK
3A.5	Yes	9/10/62	Unidentified Unidentified	Brief and badly garbled item
3A.6	Yes	9/10/62	JFK C. Douglas Dillon	Self-employed Individuals Retirement Act of 1962 (HR 10)
3A.7	Yes	9/10/62	Operator Operator	Extremely brief and fragmentary exchange
3A.8	Yes	9/10/62	JFK Unidentified	Guerrillas in Colombia? 3 (very poor qualityrecording)
3B.1	Yes	9/13/62	JFK  John McCormack Thomas E. Morgan Carl Vinson	Congressional resolution on Cuba
4A.1*	Yes	9/../62 (probably 9/28 or 9/29)	JFK Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi crisis
4A.2*	Yes	9/../62	JFK Theodore C. Sorensen	Speech on Mississippi crisis
4B.1	Yes	9/../62	JFK LeMoyne Billings	Missed plane connection and weekend plans
CASSETTE A (Side 2)
4C.1*	Yes	9/../62 (probably 9/28 or 9/29)	JFK  RFK  Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi crisis
4D.14
4D.2	Yes	9/../62	JFK Torbert MacDonald	Appointment for Monday morning
4E.1*	Yes	9/30/62	JFK Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi crisis
4F.1*	Yes	9/30/62	JFK Ross Barnett	(Continuation of above)
4F.2*	Yes	9/30/62	Jack Rosenthal Evelyn Lincoln	Report of death of British newsman, Paul Guihard, in Mississippi
4F.3*	Yes	9/30/62	RFK Cyrus Vance	Report on operations connected with University of Mississippi crisis
4F.4*	Yes	9/30/62	JFK Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi Crisis
4F.5*	Yes	9/30/62	JFK Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi crisis
4F.6*	Yes	9/30/62	Burke Marshall Ramsey Clark	University of Mississippi crisis
4F.7*	Yes	[10/1/62]	Creighton Abrams RFK	University of Mississippi crisis
CASSETTE B (Side 1)
4G.1 *	Yes	[10/1/62]	Creighton Abrams RFK	(Continuation of above)
4G.2*	Yes	[10/1/62]	JFK Creighton Abrams	University of Mississippi crisis
4G.3*	Yes	10/1/62	JFK Ross Barnett	University of Mississippi crisis
4G.4*	Yes	10/1/62	JFK Archibald Cox	University of Mississippi crisis
4G.5a*	Yes	10/1/62	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified person in usher's hall	Fragment; reports President has left with hat in hand
4G.5b*	Yes	10/1/62	Evelyn Lincoln Operator Robert S. McNamara	Fragment; trying to contact JFK
4H.1*	Yes	[10/1/62]	JFK Cyrus Vance Robert S. McNamara	University of Mississippi crisis
4J.1*	Yes	10/2/62	JFK Cyrus Vance	University of Mississippi crisis
4J.2*	Yes	10/2/62	JFK Cyrus Vance	University of Mississippi crisis
4J.3 5
4J.4	Yes	10/2/62	Evelyn Lincoln William H. Brandt (White House Police)	Jimmy Deakins with a visitor from Germany (probably James A. Deakins, bill clerk of the House Committee on Armed Services)
4J.5	Yes	10/2/62	Evelyn Lincoln Operator	Placing a call to the Duchess of Devonshire
4J.6	Yes	10/2/62	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	Ordering envelopes from White House supply room
4K.1	Yes	10/2/62	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	(above continued)
4K.2	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln Operator	Incoming call from J. Robert Greenberg in Greenwich, Connecticut
4K.3	Yes	../../..	JFK John McCormack	Foreign aid bill
4K.4	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln George [Burkley?]	Death of John P. Harrington of New York
4K.5	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln  Madelyn [?]	Death of John P. Harrington of New York; relay of information to Lawrence O'Brien's office
4K.6	Yes	../../..	JFK  Lawrence F. O'Brien	Informs him of talk with McCormack
4K.7	Yes	../../..	JFK Mike Mansfield	Legislative matters; focus not clear from context
4K.8	Yes	../../..	JFK Albert [Raines?]	Self-employed Individuals Retirement Act of 1962 (HR 10)
CASSETTE B (Side 2)
5A.1	Yes	../../..	JFK John J. McCloy Dean Rusk	Meetings with Kuznetsov and surveillance of Cuba
5A.2	Yes	../../..	Chester V. Clifton Unidentified	Trying to arrange meeting with JFK for Francis of General Foods and S.H. Egbert of Studebaker at behest of Eisenhower
5A.3	Yes	../../..	Dean Rusk Unidentified	Negotiations on Cuba at the United Nations
6A.16	Yes	11/7/62	JFK EMK	Senatorial election in Massachusetts
6A.2	Yes	11/7/62	JFK Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown	Gubernatorial election in California
6A.3	Yes	11/7/62	JFK William L. Guy	Elections in Midwest (Guy was Governor of North Dakota)
6A.4	Yes	11/7/62	JFK John B. Connally	Gubernatorial election in Texas
CASSETTE C (Side 1)
6B.1	Yes	11/7/62	JFK John B. Connally	Gubernatorial election in Texas (above conversation continued)
6B.2	Yes	11/7/62	JFK John W. Reynolds	Gubernatorial election in Wisconsin
6B.3	Yes	../../..	JFK Evelyn Lincoln	Inconsequential office chatter with phone off hook
6B.4	Yes	11/17/62	JFK Unidentified	Cuban sabotage plot report [from Justice Department?]
6B.5	Yes	../../..	JFK Unidentified	Topic unknown from brief fragment of conversation
6B.6	Yes	../../..	JFK Evelyn Lincoln	Conversation completely unintelligible
6B.7	Yes	12/17/62	JFK Dwight D. Eisenhower	Skybolt background
6C.1	Yes	12/17/62	JFK Dwight D. Eisenhower	(above continued)
7A.1	Yes	../../..	JFK W. Willard Wirtz	New York newspapers strike and Boeing aerospace problems
8A.1	Yes	2/28/63	JFK George Meany	Setting a date for a White House reception for labor leaders
8A.2	Yes	2/28/63	JFK Ed Edmondson	Airline merger proposal for American and Eastern airlines
8A.3	Yes	3/2/63	JFK Theodore W. Kheel	New York newspapers strike
8A.4	Yes	3/2/63		Surveillance of Cuba
CASSETTE C (Side 2)
8B.1	Yes	3/2/63	JFK Robert S. McNamara	(above continued)
8B.2	Yes	3/2/63	JFK McGeorge Bundy	Surveillance of Cuba
8B.3	Yes	3/2/63	JFK  Robert S. McNamara	Surveillance of Cuba; surveillance of NATO fleet and of merchant ships
8B.4	Yes	3/2/63	JFK RFK	Stennis committee review of Bay of Pigs
8B.5	Yes	3/2/63	JFK RFK	Stennis committee review of Bay of Pigs; recent Gallup poll results (separate conversation from above)
9A.1	Yes	3/2/63	JFK RFK	(above continued)
9A.2	Yes	3/4/63	JFK Carl Kaysen	Balance of trade
9A.3	Yes	3/4/63	JFK	Not a phone conversation; apparently remarks to a group of foreign visitors
9A.4	Yes	../../..	Unidentified [JFK?]	Very brief fragment; no topic discernable
9A.5	Yes	3/4/63	JFK William C. Baggs	Proposed-Inter-American exposition in Miami
9A.6	Yes	3/4/63	JFK RFK	John McCone's testimony and press stories; TFX and missile crisis
9B.1	Yes	3/4/63	JFK RFK	(above continued)
9B.2	Yes	3/4/63	JFK McGeorge Bundy	McCone testimony and press stories
9B.3	Yes	3/4/63	JFK Arthur Sylvester	Review of prelude to Cuban missile crisis
9B.4	Yes	../../..	JFK Al [?]	Movie version of P.T. 109 story
9B.5	Yes	3/6/63	JFK W. Willard Wirtz	New York newspapers strike
9B.6	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	Fragment; package from William Haddad to be delivered
9B.7	Yes	../../..	JFK George Burkley	President's medication
9B.8	Yes	3/6/63	Evelyn Lincoln RF K	RFK asks chance to talk with JFK before meeting with USSR ambassador
CASSETTE D (Side 1)
10A.1	Yes	3/6/63	Evelyn Lincoln RFK	(above continued)
10A.2	Yes	3/6/63	JFK, McGeorge Bundy	Report that Arkansas national guard people were involved in Bay of Pigs
10A.3	Yes	3/6/63	JFK McGeorge Bundy	Report on Arkansas  and Alabama people national guard personnel involved in Bay of Pigs
10A.4	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Richard Helms	Report on Arkansas and Alabama national guard personnel involved in Bay of Pigs
10A.5	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Lawrence F. O'Brien	Congressional concern with subversion in Latin America; review of Bay of Pigs
1OA.6	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Clark Clifford	Impending article in Washington Post re Communications Satellite Corporation
10A.7	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Nicholas deB. Katzenbach	Communications Satellite Corporation
10B.1	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Nicholas deB. Katzenbach	(above continued)
10B.2	Yes	3/6/63	JFK W. Willard Wirtz	Unemployment figures
10B.3	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Lawrence F. O'Brien	Issue of participation of Arkansas national guard fliers in Bay of Pigs
10B.4	Yes	3/6/63	JFK Henry H. Fowler	Location of IRS facility
10B.5	Yes	3/6/63	Evelyn Lincoln Mary Wilder	Resignation of Philip L. Graham as anincorporator of the Communications Satellite Corporation
11A.1	Yes	3/6/63	JFK George Ball	Cancellation of French official's visit
11A.2	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Chester V. Clifton	Issue of participation of Arkansas national fliers in Bay of Pigs
11A.3	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Adrian Fisher	Response to statement by Senator Thomas Dodd
11A.4	Yes	3/7/63	JFK George Ball	International trade; wool, oil, pipe embargo, etc.
11A.5*	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Nicholas deB. Katzenbach	Civil rights in Mississippi and Louisiana
11A.6	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Unidentified	Notifying JFK of death of Tom Shannahan in New York
CASSETTE D (Side 2)
11B.1	Yes	3/7/63	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	(above continued)
11B.2	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Myer Feldman	Topic uncertain; something re fish. Very brief.
11B.3	Yes	3/7/63	JFK George H. Mahon	Speech in Congress by Mahon re intelligence briefings on Cuba
11B.47	Yes	3/7/63	JFK EMK	EMK's speed reading course; prospective visit; JFK speech at Boston College for 4/19/63; ...
11C.1	Yes	3/7/63	JFK EMK	(above continued) . . . meeting with wool industry representatives re international trade
11C.2	Yes	3/7/63	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	Fragment of operator chatter
11C.3	Yes	3/7/63	JFK Robert Lovett	Lucius Clay report on foreign aid
11C.4	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln Unidentified	Arrival of a car; fragmentary conversation
12A.1	Yes	3/8/63	JFK Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.	Topic uncertain; prospective meeting of a group?
12A.2	Yes	3/8/63	JFK Robert Weaver	Proposal of a separate FHA authority for multi-family dwellings
12A.3	Yes	3/8/63	JFK RFK	Proposed B&O-C&O railroad merger
12A.4	Yes	3/8/63	JFK Robert F. Wagner	New York newspapers strike
12B.1	Yes	3/8/63	JFK Robert F. Wagner	(above continued)
12B.2	Yes	3/8/63	JFK Averell Harriman	B&O-C&O merger proposal
CASSETTE E (Side 1)
13A.1	Yes	3/9/63	JFK Robert Lovett	Lucius Clay report on foreign aid
13A.2	Yes	3/9/63	JFK Harold Hughes	Pending execution in Iowa; clemency appeal
14A.1	Yes	3/9/63	JFK Harold Hughes	(above continued)
14A.2	Yes	../../..	JFK RFK	Articles in Newsweek and Time magazines; school construction program on military bases in the South
14A.3	Yes	3/11/63	JFK Edwin Martin	Presidential trip to Costa Rica
14A.4	Yes	3/11/63	JFK Arthur Sylvester	Press interpretations of TFX hearings
14A.5	Yes	3/12/63	JFK C. Douglas Dillon	IRS rules on expense accounts
14B.1	Yes	3/12/63	JFK C. Douglas Dillon	(above continued)
14B.2	Yes	3/12/63	JFK Paul B. Fay	Naval base closings; San Francisco as 1964 Democratic Convention site
14B.3	Yes	3/12/63	JFK Richard Goodwin	Presidential trip to Costa Rica
14B.4	Yes	3/12/63	JFK Roswell Gilpatric	TFX hearings
14B.5	Yes	3/12/63	JFK Lawrence F. O'Brien	[Military?] construction bill
14B.6	Yes	3/12/63	JFK Arthur Sylvester	TFX hearings
15A.1	Yes	3/13/63	JFK Dean Rusk	Disbursement of local currency payments to congressmen abroad
15A.2	Yes	3/13/63	JFK David Hackett	U.S. hockey team loss to Sweden
15A.3	Yes	../../..	JFK Unidentified	Setting up a meeting prior to trip to Costa Rica; fragment of conversation
15B.1	Yes	3/22/63	JFK Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.	Prospective posting to Latin America for Samuel H. Beer; Schlesinger trip to England; Profumo scandal
CASSETTE E (Side 2)
16A.1	Yes	../../..	JFK	Excerpt of JFK remarks to a visiting group (possibly MIT Sloan fellows); not a phone conversation
16A.2	Yes	3/26/63	JFK RFK	Fragmentary conversation about an unidentified congressional hearing, possibly TFX
16A.3	Yes	3/26/63	JFK Robert S. McNamara	TFX hearings
16A.4	Yes	../../..	JFK RFK	TFX hearings; Cuban exile raid
16A.5	Yes	3/28/63	JFK William Tyler	Diefenbaker and a Rostow paper
17A.1	Yes	4/2/63	JFK Robert V. Roosa	International monetary liquidity
17A.2	Yes	4/2/63	JFK David Ormsby-Gore	Prospective JFK meeting with Harold Wilson
17A.3	Yes	4/2/63	JFK Eugene Black	Lucius Clay report on foreign aid
17A.4*	Yes	4/2/63	JFK Sargent Shriver	Keeping CIA out of the Peace Corps
17B.1*	Yes	4/2/63	JFK Sargent Shriver	(above continued)
17B.2	Yes	4/3/63	JFK Robert S. McNamara	Use of polygraphs in tracing Defense Department leaks
17B.3	Yes	../../..	JFK Louis Harris	Polling on various subjects
17B.4	Yes	../../..	JFK Unidentified	Request for presidential interest in application of student to Harvard
CASSETTE F (Side 1)
18A.1	Yes	4/4/63	JFK Walter Heller	Budget (conversation fragment only)
18A.2	Yes	4/4/63	JFK Ralph Dungan	Letter from Lucius Clay (conversation fragment only)
18A.3	Yes	../../..	JFK Unidentified	Topic uncertain, possibly wage-price matter
18A.3A	Yes	../../..	Evelyn Lincoln Operator	Notifies of an incoming call from Robert Troutman (not recorded)
18A.4	Yes	4/10/63	JFK Averell Harriman	Laos situation
18A.5	Yes	4/10/63	JFK McGeorge Bundy	Laos (conversation fragment only)
18A.6	Yes	5/6/63	JFK Dean Rusk	Rusk's trip to Europe
18A.7	Yes	5/7/63	JFK Edith Green	Education bill
18B.1	Yes	5/7/63	JFK Edith Green	(above continued)
18B.2	Yes	5/8/63	JFK Dean Rusk	Voting line-up in the UN on an unidentified issue
18B.3	Yes	../../..	JFK RFK	Administering the State Department; staff changes at Justice and FCC; Eduardo Mondlane
19A.1	Yes	5/16/63	JFK  Dean Rusk	Appointment of William Crockett; William Orrick; Haiti; trip to Scandinavia for LBJ
19A.2	Yes	5/16/63	JFK Dean Rusk	Probably test ban negotiations
19A.3	Yes	5/16/63	JFK Gordon Cooper	Congratulations on orbital flight
19A.4	Yes	5/17/63	JFK John McCormack	Congressional reception for Gordon Cooper
19A.5	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Clinton Anderson	Agriculture; wheat legislation
CASSETTE F (Side 2)
19B.1	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Clinton Anderson	(above continued)
19B.2	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Orville Freeman	Wheat policy
19B.3	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Orville Freeman	Agriculture legislation
19C.1	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Orville Freeman	(above continued)
19C.2	Yes	5/22/63	JFK George Aiken	Thanks for help on "the coffee thing"
19C.3	Yes	5/22/63	JFK Roswell Gilpatric	Positions of under secretary and congressional liaison and public affairs at Defense
19C.4	Yes	5/22/63	JFK  George Meany	Thanks for help on "that Canadian thing"
20A.1	Yes	5/27/63	JFK Dean Rusk	Illness of Pope John XXIII
20A.2*	Yes	5/28/63	JFK George Smathers	Unidentified legislation and tax bill prospects
20A.3	Yes	5/28/63	JFK Russell Long	Debt limit bill; 1964 election prospects; Louisiana politics and gubernatorial election
20B.1	Yes	5/28/63	JFK Russell Long	(above continued very briefly; fragment only)
20B.2	Yes	../../..	JFK Dean Rusk	Unidentified trip plans (conversation fragment only)
21A.1*	Yes	6/3/63	JFK Jimmy Davis	Independent electors and 1964 election prospects
21A.2	Yes	6/4/63	JFK LBJ	Decision of Juan Trippe to go ahead with supersonic transport plans
21A.3	Yes