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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-017-006
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0911-064
This file contains copies of Senator John F. Kennedy’s speech given at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee during his 1960 presidential campaign. In his speech he discusses the achievements of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and a need to re-establish the United States as a world leader to fight the growing threat of communism.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0911-063
This file contains a copy of Senator John F. Kennedy’s speech given at an airport rally in Knoxville, Tennessee during his 1960 presidential campaign. In his speech he discusses the achievements of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and a need to re-establish the United States as a world leader to fight the growing threat of communism.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C164-6-63
During a Founder's Day ceremony at Vanderbilt University, President John F. Kennedy presses a gold telegraph key that will remotely explode the first charge of dynamite at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' construction site of the Cordell Hull Dam on the Cumberland River in nearby Carthage, Tennessee. President Kennedy delivered an address at the ceremony to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the university's founding and the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Dudley Field, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
Collection
USTVA
Records 1960-1965 (bulk 1961-1963). Publications, scientific and technical reports, budget documents, correspondence, flood reports, forest inventory statistics, watershed resource summaries, press releases, photographs.