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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JRL-01
In this interview Lewis discusses President John F. Kennedy on civil rights; Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] as Attorney General and civil rights; working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign; RFK’s assassination, 1968; J. Edgar Hoover and FBI investigations of the civil rights movement; discrimination, hatred, and violence; and the march from Selma to Montgomery and “Bloody Sunday,” 1965, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-31-A
AR28
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7568-B
President of John F. Kennedy addresses the graduating class of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy. Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7568-A
President John F. Kennedy walks with Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, during FBI National Academy graduation exercises. White House Secret Service agents, Jerry Behn (left) and Emory Roberts (right), follow behind. Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7568-D
President John F. Kennedy receives an honorary badge from Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, during FBI National Academy graduation exercises. Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7568-C
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) addresses the graduating class of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy. Seated onstage (L-R): Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; Milbank Professor of Religion at George Washington University, Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo; unidentified. Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D.C.