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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TMH-01
In this interview Hesburgh discusses his contact with John F. Kennedy [JFK] before he was elected President; Harris Wofford on JFK’s staff; different members of the Commission on Civil Rights; meeting with President JFK about the Commission’s reports and recommendations; JFK versus Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights, respectively; JFK’s political priorities as President and what that meant for civil rights issues during his Administration; tension between the Commission and the Department of Justice; JFK’s characterization of civil rights as a moral problem; and a shift in Commission reports towards the local level, among other issues.
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
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-PBE-02
Edelman discusses Theodore H. White’s 1968 book The Making of the President, developing Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign speeches, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s withdrawal from the 1968 presidential race, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-09-B
KN38
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29405
President John F. Kennedy visits with officers and representatives of women’s organizations, following a meeting regarding civil rights. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy stands at far left; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands at right (with back to camera). Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29404
President John F. Kennedy visits with officers and representatives of women’s organizations, following a meeting regarding civil rights. Standing at far left are Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands at far right (with back to camera). Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29403
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) prepares to address a group of officers and representatives of women’s organizations regarding civil rights; attendees applaud the President prior to his opening remarks. Walking towards the chairs at left are Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29408-A
President John F. Kennedy (center, with back to camera) visits with officers and representatives of women’s organizations, following a meeting regarding civil rights. Standing at left are Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stands at far right (with back to camera). Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29408
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) addresses a group of officers and representatives of women’s organizations regarding civil rights. Seated behind the President at left are Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Associate Press Secretary Andrew T. Hatcher stands in doorway at left. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7993-B
Civil rights leaders pose with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. (L-R) Front row: unidentified man (mostly out of frame); Publisher of the Philadelphia Tribune E. Washington Rhodes; Director of the Anti-Defamation League B'nai B'rith Benjamin Epstein; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Attorney General Kennedy; executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Roy Wilkins; Vice President Johnson; President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Walter P. Reuther; President of the National Urban League Whitney M. Young, Jr. (partially hidden); Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; President of the Negro American Labor Council (NALC) A. Philip Randolph (partially out of frame). (L-R) Second row: unidentified man; President of the National Association of Colored Women Dr. Rosa Gragg; unidentified man (mostly hidden behind RFK). (L-R) Back row: unidentified man; Director of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) James Farmer; unidentified man; unidentified man (partially hidden); President of the Southern Regional Council James McBride Dabbs; lawyer James Scheuer; President of the National Council of Negro Women Dorothy Height (mostly hidden behind LBJ); program director for the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council Arnold Aronson (partially hidden behind Height’s hat); founder of the Catholic Interracial Council George K. Hunton; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference John F. Cronin. The Rose Garden, White House. Washington, D.C.