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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EHB-01
Blaik discusses John F. Kennedy's (JFK) love of football, civil rights arbitration in Birmingham, Alabama, and JFK’s views on the system of appointments to West Point, 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
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.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-05
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss how John F. Kennedy [JFK] and RFK grew increasingly more involved with and concerned about civil rights; getting Martin Luther King out of jail during JFK’s 1960 campaign; civil rights advisers during JFK’s 1960 campaign; RFK becoming Attorney General amidst the civil rights battle and the transitional period in the Department of Justice [DOJ]; how Marshall got his position in the DOJ; the struggle over school desegregation; the New Orleans school crisis of February 1961; the Freedom Riders and violence against them; sending federal marshals to Alabama; trying to find a bus driver to get the Freedom Riders out of Birmingham, Alabama; criticism of RFK’s response to the Freedom Riders; how Freedom Riders were arrested and threatened in Mississippi; African-American voting rights in the South and DOJ authority; difficulties with judges; Supreme Court appointments; the FBI and organized crime; reorganization of the DOJ; RFK’s interactions with the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover after JFK’s death; Hoover’s allegations about JFK and the Kennedy family; the alleged FBI wiretapping of officials; JFK’s opinion of Hoover; FBI press releases; connecting the civil rights movement with communism to discredit it; FBI involvement in civil rights matters; issues with the FBI as having civilian control of a police force; JFK’s communication with King and other civil rights leaders; civil rights legislation; the issue of equal employment; the Civil Rights Commission; and violence against African Americans in Birmingham in the spring of 1963, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-JTC-03
In this interview Conway discusses getting Martin Luther King out of jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963; Robert F. Kennedy’s [RFK] view of King and his actions; the March on Washington; working with RFK and the Justice Department on civil rights legislation; Walter Reuther; Conway’s decision to leave John F. Kennedy’s Administration and working on legislation from the outside; the Community Action Program; working with Senator RFK during the Johnson Administration; Senator RFK’s involvement in the labor movement; Jesse M. Unruh, RFK, and the 1968 California presidential primary; Department of Urban Affairs legislation; getting accelerated public works legislation through Congress; Housing and Home Finance Agency staff members; and the attempt to pick up congressional seats in 1962 and 1964, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-09-23-E
AR40
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-021-005
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-030-007
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-019-002
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-019-001
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-018-008
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-018-005
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-018-004
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-018-001
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-016
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-015
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-012
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-011
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-010
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-009
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-008
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-017-007
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-019-001
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. Miscellaneous Presidential Files. Public Opinion Mail
JFKMPFPOM-0220-002
This folder consists of letters and telegrams to President John F. Kennedy from members of the public expressing opinions on the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama by a group of white supremacists, which resulted in the murder of four Black children.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8140-A
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with General Kenneth Royall (left), and Colonel Earl H. “Red” Blaik; President Kennedy designated General Royall and Colonel Blaik as a committee to survey the racial situation in Birmingham, Alabama. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.