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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-04
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses American aid to Argentina; American, British, and French involvement in Africa; the 1962 executive order about segregation in federally-funded housing; appointing African-American judges; changes John F. Kennedy [JFK] was contemplating in the Alliance for Progress; the Dominican crisis; the wheat sale to the Soviet Union; the Bobby Baker case; preparing for JFK’s 1964 campaign; RFK’s return to work after JFK’s assassination and disagreements among the Cabinet members and under President Lyndon B. Johnson; changes in White House staff and the Democratic Party; RFK’s political plans for after 1964; and JFK’s opinions of his staff and appointees, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-25-B
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-25-A
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-24-B
ST26
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-23-B
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
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JFKWHP-1963-06-23-A
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-29-A
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-C
KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-30-B
KN19
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-29-B
ST11, KN18
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-29-D
ST26, KN37
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-29-E
KN37
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29299
President John F. Kennedy (center, back to camera) visits with U.S. Army Sergeant Major Richard C. Whitfield during a lunch with military officers in the mess hall at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also pictured: Commander of U.S. Army in Europe, General Paul L. Freeman, Jr.; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Dave Powers; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Associated Press photographer, Henry Burroughs.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-29204
President John F. Kennedy (center) sits with Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, during a ceremony at Kölner Rathaus (City Hall) in Cologne, West Germany (Federal Republic). Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Cologne, Theo Burauen (left, back to camera), delivers remarks. City Manager (Oberstadtdirektor) of Cologne, Dr. Max Adenauer, stands at center left; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber, and Director of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) in Berlin and translator for President Kennedy, Robert Lochner, stand behind the Chancellor and the President; Eunice Kennedy Shriver (right) stands in the background. Also pictured: U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Gerhard Schröder; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Chief of Protocol of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ehrenfried von Holleben; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; West German Ambassador to the United States, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, William R. Tyler; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George C. McGhee; Cecilia McGhee; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-282-103-61
President of Colombia Alberto Lleras Camargo speaks at a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia, marking the construction of homes and schools built through the Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso). On platform (L-R): First Lady of Colombia Berta Puga Martínez; United States Ambassador to Colombia Fulton Freeman; unidentified; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (partially hidden); President Lleras. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman (right of platform, facing right); Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (in background, behind Freeman), speaking with Special Assistant to President Kennedy Kenneth P. O’Donnell. Reporters, photographers, and Colombian military police stand around platform. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
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JFKWHP-ST-285-44-61
Attendees of a ceremony marking President John F. Kennedy’s arrival at El Dorado Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, stand in the receiving line. United States Ambassador to Venezuela Teodoro Moscoso stands fifth from left; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger stands in center.
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JFKWHP-ST-282-49-61
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Press Secretary Pierre Salinger upon President Kennedy’s arrival in Bogotá, Colombia. White House Secret Service agents Bill Greer (behind car) and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn (to right of the President) look on. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]
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JFKWHP-ST-285-11-61
President of Venezuela Rómulo Betancourt speaks at La Morita Resettlement Project in La Morita, Venezuela; President John F. Kennedy sits behind President Betancourt on the speakers’ stand, beneath a large banner illustrated with likenesses of President Kennedy and President Betancourt. Standing at left: White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Special Assistant to President Kennedy Kenneth P. O’Donnell.
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JFKWHP-ST-C231-23-63
President John F. Kennedy departs the Vatican following a visit with Pope Paul VI. In foreground (L-R): Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Majordomo of the Apostolic Palace, Monsignor Federico Callori di Vignale; President Kennedy; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Ceremonies, Archbishop Gennaro Verolino (shaking hands with Secretary Rusk). Also pictured: White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (walking down stairs). Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.
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JFKWHP-KN-C29322
President John F. Kennedy (center) greets members of the American Legion after arriving at the Sportsground in Galway, Ireland, by helicopter. Also pictured: Mayor of Galway, Alderman Patrick D. Ryan (in red robe); Ambassador to Ireland, Matthew McCloskey (right of Alderman Ryan); White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (left of Alderman Ryan); Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (far left, at edge of frame); Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, Sean Lemass (far left, in front of Brigadier General McHugh); and White House Secret Service agent Floyd Boring (in tan coat, behind the President).
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JFKWHP-ST-C230-45-63
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) delivers remarks at a press conference at the Foreign Office in Bonn, West Germany (Federal Republic); Director of Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) in Berlin and translator for President Kennedy, Robert Lochner, stands at microphones left of the President. Also pictured: White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke.
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JFKWHP-ST-C230-5-63
Arrival ceremony for President John F. Kennedy at Wahn Airport in Bonn, West Germany (Federal Republic). Standing on red carpet (L-R): U.S Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Gerhard Schröder; Cecilia McGhee; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer; Special Counsel to the President, Theodore C. Sorensen (near airplane stairs). Flanking the red carpet: U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George C. McGhee (left); Chief of Protocol of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ehrenfried von Holleben. Also pictured: Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger. Air Force One sits in the background. [Scratches on left side of image are original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-300-53-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy descend the stairs of Air Force One upon their arrival in Mexico City. Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, follows behind the President and First Lady. Also pictured: U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Kenneth P. O'Donnell; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger. Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico.
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JFKWHP-KN-22527
The U.S. Presidential party exits Air Force One upon their arrival in Mexico City. Descending the airplane stairs (from top): Special Assistant to the President of Mexico, Justo Sierra; Mexican Ambassador to the United States, Antonio Carrillo Flores; unidentified; White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Kenneth P. O'Donnell; Ann Gargan (cousin of President John F. Kennedy); Social Secretary to First Lady Kennedy, Letitia Baldrige; President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Harold F. Linder. Also pictured: U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Maureen Hayes Mansfield; U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Teodoro Moscoso; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes. Benito Juárez International Airport, Mexico City, Mexico.
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JFKWHP-KN-C29369
White House staff pose with the United States Ambassador to Ireland, Matthew McCloskey; Mayor of Limerick, Frances Condell; and the Bunratty Castle singers, dressed in medieval costume, at the Shannon Airport during President John F. Kennedy's departure from Ireland. Back row (L-R): Una Kelly; Jacqueline Doyle; Bobby O'Brien; Joy de Burgh O'Brien; Breda O'Donovan; Briget Fitzgerald; Mayor Condell; entertainments manager for Castle Tours, Ruth Hill (holding flowers); and Assistant Press Secretary, Malcolm Kilduff. Front row (L-R): Mary McElligott (in blue and white dress); harpist, Fionnuala O'Sullivan (in red and white dress); and Ambassador McCloskey. Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger (holding newspapers) and Presidential Assistant, John J. "Jack" McNally, kneel in front of the group. Three unidentified Gardaí (police) stand to the left of the group. Shannon, Ireland.