Textual folder
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Personal Papers
JBKOPP-SF043-001
This file contains memoranda and correspondence between Jacqueline Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy, and various persons regarding the rescue and relocation of the Abu Simbel temple complex and the Temple of Dendur from the threat of high waters as a result of construction on the Aswan High Dam and creation of Lake Nasser in Egypt (part of the United Arab Republic). Also included is a proposal to relocate the Temple of Dendur from Egypt to Washington, D.C.