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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JPH-01
In this interview Healey discusses meeting the Kennedy brothers at Harvard; John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] campaign for the House of Representatives in 1946; Healey’s political experience in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Michael J. Neville; Massachusetts politics in the postwar period; the “age factor” in the 1946 campaign; the development of JFK’s public speaking ability; engaging with the academic community in Cambridge during the 1946 campaign; Kennedy family members helping out on JFK’s campaigns; JFK’s worries after his election to his first term in Congress and his work once the term began; JFK on the House Labor Committee and the Hartley Bill in the House; the petition for the pardon of James Michael Curley and issues for JFK; Paul A. Dever; JFK’s 1952 campaign for Senate; Henry Cabot Lodge; speechwriting during the 1952 campaign; and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and JFK’s campaigns, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BAJ-01
In this interview Jacobson discusses meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] at Harvard University in 1936 and interactions with him at the school; visiting the Cape with the Kennedy family, 1937–1938; JFK’s plans for after his Harvard graduation; JFK’s 1946 congressional campaign; flying back with JFK from the 1960 Democratic National Convention; interactions with the Kennedy boys at Harvard; social interactions with JFK; visiting JFK in Washington, D.C.; JFK’s distrust of Fidel Castro; and Jacobson’s long relationship with JFK and the Kennedy family, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JFD-01
Dempsey comments on the Kennedy family's life in Hyannisport, traveling with Senator John F. Kennedy, the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Skating Center, and President Kennedy's relationship with the Secret Service, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-PDF-01
This interview focuses on Fine’s work with the Jewish communities of Massachusetts on behalf of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] Senate campaign, Fine’s personal relationship with JFK, and JFK’s response to Senator McCarthy, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-FMO-01
This interview focuses on first meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] and the Kennedy family, O’Ferrall’s personal relationship with JFK after World War II through his Presidency, and reflections on the Kennedy brothers, among other topics.
Collection
PCP
Photographs, 1919-1963 (bulk 1937-1963). Photographs of John F. Kennedy, his family, his friends and colleagues, and his political activities. Contains photographs of Kennedy's early years, family homes, his naval service during World War II, and his political activities in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The largest portions of this collection cover Kennedy's Senate Years (1953-1960), and the 1960 Presidential Campaign.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-09-07-B
ST29
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-28-A
ST27
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-15-A
ST12
Moving image
President's Personal Pictures
JFKPPP-36
Silent motion picture containing candid footage of President John F. Kennedy's family weekend at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Squaw Island, Massachusetts. Included is footage of President Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Director of the Peace Corps R. Sargent Shriver, Eunice Shriver, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Rose Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Paul B. "Red" Fay, Jr., Sally Fay, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, and unidentified guests.Photography by: Cecil W. Stoughton.
Source: Paul Fisher, White House Item #35 of Box 17.
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-013-015
Contains 25 photographic prints: (KFC73N, KFC2737N, KFC2738N, KFC289P, KFC2907P, KFC2908P, KFC2151P, KFC2687P, KFC4406P, KFC4408P, KFC4409P, KFC4410P, KFC4411P, KFC4412P, KFC4413P, KFC4414P, KFC4415P, KFC4416P, KFC4417P, KFC4418P, KFC4419P, KFC4420P, KFC4421P, KFC4422P, KFC4423P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-013-014
Contains 34 photographic prints and one duplicate print: (KFC75N, KFC77N (2 copies), KFC4356P (original negative is KFC75N), KFC90N, KFC94N, KFC98N, KFC78N, KFC80N, KFC1791N, KFC1801N, KFC1818N, KFC93N, KFC1794N, KFC1804N, KFC72N, KFC76N, KFC87N, KFC70N, KFC1795N, KFC79N, KFC92N, KFC1793N, KFC1796N, KFC1792N, KFC85N, KFC86N, KFC1803N, KFC1802N, KFC1805N, KFC83N, KFC1817N, KFC218N, KFC10N, KFC223N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-024
Contains 37 photographic prints and two duplicate prints: (KFC1676N, KFC1677N, KFC1678N, KFC1679N, KFC1681N, KFC1683N, KFC1684N (2 copies), KFC1685N, KFC1686N, KFC1688N, KFC1691N, KFC1702N, KFC1703N, KFC1689N, KFC1690N, KFC4152P, KFC6124P, KFC4150P, KFC4355P, KFC1708N, KFC1709N, KFC1707N, KFC1711N, KFC2015N, KFC1700N, KFC2016N, KFC1705N, KFC1699N, KFC1701N, KFC1706N, KFC1710N, KFC-C2642P (2 copies), KFC-C4357P, KFC-C4358P, KFC-C4359P, KFC-C4360P, KFC-C4361P)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-012-023
Contains 44 photographic prints: (KFC1666N, KFC1672N, KFC789N, KFC1687N, KFC1663N, KFC2024N, KFC1670N, KFC1669N, KFC2019N, KFC1667N, KFC1664N, KFC1665N, KFC1668N, KFC2023N, KFC202N, KFC2022N, KFC1991N, KFC2021N, KFC2018N, KFC1675N, KFC1673N, KFC1674N, KFC97N, KFC95N, KFC84N, KFC88N, KFC91N, KFC81N, KFC71N, KFC96N, KFC1693N, KFC1692N, KFC1696N, KFC1695N, KFC1694N, KFC1682N, KFC1680N, KFC1704N, KFC2017N, KFC74N, KFC1698N, KFC1671N, KFC89N, KFC1662N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-003
Contains 2 photographic prints: (KFC344N, KFC809N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-003-041
Contains 43 photographic prints: (KFC21N, KFC22N, KFC23N, KFC24N, KFC25N, KFC26N, KFC27N, KFC28N, KFC29N, KFC33N, KFC37N, KFC38N, KFC39N, KFC41N, KFC42N, KFC43N, KFC44N, KFC45N, KFC46N, KFC47N, KFC50N, KFC51N, KFC52N, KFC53N, KFC590N, KFC591N, KFC592N, KFC593N, KFC594N, KFC595N, KFC597N, KFC601N, KFC622N, KFC772N, KFC778N, KFC779N, KFC780N, KFC781N, KFC782N, KFC785N, KFC788N, KFC1501N, KFC1944N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-016-022
Contains 2 photographic prints: (KFC1606N, KFC1605N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-006-026
Contains 7 photographic prints: (KFC790N, KFC640N, KFC1937N, KFC1938N, KFC1939N, KFC1936N, KFC1940N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-006-025
Contains 14 photographic prints: (KFC638N, KFC636N, KFC635N, KFC634N, KFC637N, KFC641N, KFC911N, KFC912N, KFC913N, KFC914N, KFC915N, KFC916N, KFC917N, KFC918N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-035
Contains 10 photographic prints: (KFC1833N, KFC3346P, KFC3347P, KFC1836N, KFC1840N, KFC1839N, KFC1838N, KFC1837N, KFC1835N, KFC1834N)
Photograph folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-005-019
Contains 9 photographic prints: (KFC3332P, KFC2883P, KFC524N, KFC522N, KFC521N, KFC523N, KFC1028N, KFC794N, KFC1599N)
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-049-002
This photograph album, compiled by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1933 to 1936. Photographs capture Rose and her family at their residences in Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, Bronxville in New York, and Palm Beach in Florida; at the beach at The Breakers Hotel and at the Sea Spray Club in Palm Beach; at the Ostrich-Alligator Farm & Zoo in Lantana, Palm Beach County; and at the West Beach Club on Cape Cod. Also of note are photographs of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter celebrations; birthday parties for Eunice Kennedy and Jean Kennedy; a Native American sun dance ceremony in Palm Beach; gymnastics exercises and boxing matches at the Sea Spray Club, in which Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy participated; Jean dressed for her First Communion and Confirmation in Bronxville; Ted’s picnic on the lawn of the family’s home in Bronxville with a friend identified as “Rita”; a visit to a warship in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Jean dressed in a Scottish tartan and kilt; and other activities including swimming, sailing, sledding, horseback riding, football, and other sports. Other Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs include Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; John F. “Jack” Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy (referred to as “Rose” in original captions); Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy; Patricia “Pat” Kennedy; Rose’s parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; Rose’s sister, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and brother-in-law, Joseph F. Gargan, Sr.; Rose’s niece, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, and nephew, John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald (the children of her brother, Thomas A. Fitzgerald); nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy; governess to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Betsey Cushing Roosevelt; Jean K. Webber; Eileen Morell; Frances “Sancy” Falvey; Mary O’Keefe; Olive Cawley; Nancy Tenney; and Jack’s Choate School classmate, Thomas Morgan Schriber. Others identified in original captions include, “Francis,” “Tommy,” “Gilbert,” “Miss Hood,” “Jean’s godmother” (“Mrs. Greene”), and “Mary.” All leaves contain original handwritten captions in white ink, although the handwriting does not belong to Rose and the writer has not been determined. This photograph album contains 322 photographic prints, two photographic postcards, and one photograph fragment.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-088-001
This photograph album, likely compiled by Eunice Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family from 1950 to 1953, particularly at their residence in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and at other locations on Cape Cod. An original typed inscription taped on the front pastedown reads, "I should appreciate it if no one remove pictures from this book. If you do so, it will not be so interesting for other people. Personally, I should like to keep all the pictures to look at myself, because as you know we lost all the moving pictures of you children. Many of these pictures have been lost in the past, due to the clamor of newspapermen, so please do not remove any more. Thank you. Rose Kennedy." In addition to Eunice, those pictured include her parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; siblings, John F. Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy; sister-in-law, Ethel Skakel Kennedy; cousin, Joseph Francis “Joe” Gargan, Jr.; and family friends, including Edward E. “Eddie” Moore and Mary Moore, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, United States Senator Joseph “Joe” McCarthy, and journalist Frank Conniff. Of note are photographs of family members and friends aboard the “S.S. Hortense” off the coast of Cape Cod; birthday parties for Rose and Eunice; the christening of Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of Robert and Ethel; Jean posing at the Takadip Bath House in Old Orchard Beach, Maine; Rose, with Joseph, Sr., and Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Francis Spellman, receiving a Catholic Youth Organization 1953 Club of Champions Medal framed certificate; and Joseph, Sr., and John with Cardinal Spellman at the unveiling of a portrait of Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., who was killed in action during a U.S. Navy aviation mission in 1944. Two loose items found between leaves of the album are a Washington Times-Herald newspaper clipping titled, “The Eisenhower Myth” and dated August 8, 1951, and an envelope containing original paper corners used for mounting photographs to album pages. This photograph album contains 59 photographic prints, one newspaper clipping, and one envelope containing paper photo mounting corners.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-075-001
This guest book contains signatures and handwritten notations in black or blue ink and pencil from visitors to the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, from 1940 to 1947, including friends, family, and associates. The front cover features the engraved title, “Guest Log,” as well as a printed list titled, “Rules of This Tavern.” Those who signed the guest book include: George S. Seabury; Nancy Tenney; Cyrus R. “Cy” Taylor; Phyllis “Phyl” Childs; Blair Clark; Eben W. Pyne; Charlotte McDonnell; Marie Murray; Richard J. “Dick” Cotter; John “Johnny” Coleman, Jr. (also known as “Zeke”); Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Danuta Zoltowska; Nelson Macy, Jr.; Muriel “Mew” Macy; Torbert Macdonald; Frazier L. O’Leary, Jr.; David O. Puckett; Phil Perabo, Jr.; Tom Killefer; Lenore Conway; Max O’Rell Truitt; Rosalind M. Fitzgerald; Joseph F. “Joe” Timilty; Mary Jo Gargan; Paul J. Chase; Harriet “Etsie” Wells; Robert W. “Mac” Macnamara; Peggy Edgerton-Bird; Peter L. “Pete” MacLellan, Jr.; James A. “Jim” Reed; Leonard “Lenny” Thom; George H. R. “Barney” Ross; Julia Read; Catherine “Kay” Thom; Ewell Sale; Diana Mowrer; Mary Cremmen; Walter J. Cummings, Jr.; Lydia Langer; Louise Tinsley “Tinnie” Steinman; Edith “Edie” Klugh; Mark J. Dalton; Peter W. Hoguet; Dean F. Markham; Mila Leslie Carolan; Betsy Flynn; Leo M. Flynn; Marjorie Cummings; Leonard Cummings; Wallace J. “Wally” Flynn; Cleo A. O’Donnell; Nicholas “Nick” Rodis; Thomas H. “Chip” Gannon; Edward “Ned” “Wewey” Dewey; Helen Sullivan; James F. “Jim” Noonan; Kenneth P. “Ken” O’Donnell; Charles R. “Chuck” Glynn; Alison “Ally” Pyne; and John T. “Jack” Fallon.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-068-001
This photograph album, compiled by Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, documents various moments in the lives of the Kennedy family between 1922 and 1944, with most materials dating between 1931 and 1944. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” Photographs capture Kathleen with family and friends at the Kennedy family’s residences in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts; Bronxville, New York; and Palm Beach, Florida. Other photographs capture family members and friends in Plymouth, Massachusetts; at the American Embassy in London, England; aboard an ocean liner traveling from England to the United States; and at various other locations. In addition to Kathleen, those pictured include her parents, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her siblings, Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., John F. "Jack" Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia “Pat” Kennedy, Robert F. “Bobby/Bob” Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy; her aunt, Agnes Fitzgerald Gargan, and uncle, Joseph Francis Gargan, Sr.; her cousins, John F. “Jackie” Fitzgerald, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald, Mary Jo Gargan, Joseph Francis “Joey” Gargan, Jr., and Ann Gargan; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine “Kicko/Kiko” Conboy; governesses to the Kennedy children, Alice Cahill and Elizabeth Dunn; nurse to the Kennedy children, Luella Hennessey; and Kennedy family friends, Edward E. Moore, Sally Bottomley, Anne McDonnell, Mary Frances "Sancy" Falvey, Grover Loening, Tom Killefer, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Max O’Rell Truitt, Paul Jerome "Boogie" Chase, Harriet “Etsie” Wells, David L. “Dave” Hackett, and Michael J. “Mike” Egan. Other friends identified in original captions and inscriptions include Mary Louise Ghert, Mary Hubbard, Donald “Donny” Cobb, Tommy Dean, Joey Crowley, Jean Duff, “Rita,” “Jimmy,” “Frances,” “Frankie,” and “Barbara,” as well as a woman named “Mrs. Greene,” identified as Jean’s godmother. Also pictured are horses and other animals, including two of the Kennedy family’s dogs, Fury and Spooky, as well as boats, including Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.'s yacht, the “Davilis.” Original handwritten captions are written in blue and black ink and pencil on many of the leaves and on the versos of some photographs. This photograph album contains 191 photographic prints and three photographic postcards.