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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TGW-02
In this interview Wicker discusses John F. Kennedy's [JFK] unique way of giving speeches; Lyndon B. Johnson’s unhappiness with his position as Vice President; Anthony J. Celebrezze’s appointment to the Cabinet, 1962; Wicker’s sources for Kennedy Without Tears; traveling with JFK to Texas in November, 1963; the motorcade through Dallas on November 22, 1963; the confusion after the shooting and learning what happened; gathering information from witnesses and hospital staff at Parkland Hospital; the announcement of JFK’s death and the general atmosphere after; Johnson’s swearing in as President; reporting on the day’s events from the airport; and the rapid transition to the Johnson White House, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-10-A
AR29, ST15
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JFKWHP-ST-A31-7-62
Funeral services for Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano; Representative James Roosevelt (California); Gladys Irene Roosevelt; Elliott Roosevelt; Patricia Peabody Roosevelt; John Aspinwall Roosevelt; Anne Lindsay Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Halsted; James A. Halsted; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren; Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg; Dorothy Goldberg; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Esther Peterson; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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JFKWHP-ST-A15-2-61
Graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Seated in the front row are (L-R) former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others attending the service include Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana), and Representative John W. McCormack (Massachusetts).
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JFKWHP-ST-A15-1-61
Graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Reverend Bernard Braskamp (standing next to the casket), Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, presides over the ceremony. Seated in the front row are (L-R) former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others attending the service include Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana), Representative John W. McCormack (Massachusetts), and Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri).
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JFKWHP-ST-A15-5-61
Graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Reverend Bernard Braskamp (standing next to the casket), Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, presides over the ceremony. Seated in the front row are (L-R) former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others attending the service include Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana), and Representative John W. McCormack (Massachusetts).
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JFKWHP-ST-A15-4-61
Graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Reverend Bernard Braskamp (standing behind the headstone), Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, presided over the ceremony. Seated in the front row are (L-R) former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others attending the service include Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana), Representative John W. McCormack (Massachusetts), and Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri).
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JFKWHP-ST-A15-3-61
President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman depart the graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Also attending the ceremony are Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton and Secretary of the Navy John Connally, Jr.
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JFKWHP-ST-271-1-61
Graveside funeral service for Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn at Willow Wild Cemetery in Bonham, Texas. Reverend Bernard Braskamp (standing next to the casket), Chaplain for the United States House of Representatives, presides over the ceremony. Seated in the front row are (L-R) former presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Carl Hayden (Arizona), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Others attending the service include Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana), Representative John W. McCormack (Massachusetts), and Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri).
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JFKWHP-ST-485-21-62
President John F. Kennedy, former presidents, Harry S. Truman and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York.
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JFKWHP-ST-485-2-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; former president, Harry S. Truman; Bess Truman; diplomat Ralph Bunche; Ruth Harris Bunche; Susan Wagner (wife of Mayor of New York City, Robert F. Wagner, Jr.); Margaret Truman Daniel.
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JFKWHP-ST-485-14-62
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Also pictured: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; former president, Harry S. Truman; Mayor of New York City, Robert F. Wagner, Jr.; Susan Wagner; Ruth Harris Bunche (wife of diplomat Ralph Bunche); Margaret Truman Daniel; United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Adlai Stevenson.
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JFKWHP-ST-485-12-62
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (both in center) walk with an unidentified woman (left) to St. James’ Episcopal Church for the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt. Hyde Park, New York. White House Secret Service agent, Paul S. Rundle, walks second from right.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-P
Funeral services for Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy (face obscured); First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano; Representative James Roosevelt (California); Elliott Roosevelt; Patricia Peabody Roosevelt; John Aspinwall Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Halsted; James A. Halsted; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (face obscured); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren; Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg; Dorothy Goldberg; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Ambassador of Peru, Fernando Berckemeyer; United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Adlai Stevenson; Margaret Truman Daniel; Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig; White House Secret Service agent, Roy Kellerman.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-O
Funeral services for Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano; Representative James Roosevelt (California); Gladys Irene Roosevelt; Elliott Roosevelt; Patricia Peabody Roosevelt; John Aspinwall Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Halsted; James A. Halsted; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Suzanne Perrin Roosevelt; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren; Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg; Dorothy Goldberg; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Esther Peterson; Margaret Truman Daniel; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; Marian Cannon Schlesinger; Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-N
Funeral services for Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Elliott Roosevelt; Patricia Peabody Roosevelt; John Aspinwall Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Halsted; James A. Halsted; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Margaret Truman Daniel.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-M
Funeral services for Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Laura Franklin “Polly” Delano; Representative James Roosevelt (California); Gladys Irene Roosevelt; Elliott Roosevelt; Patricia Peabody Roosevelt; John Aspinwall Roosevelt; Anna Roosevelt Halsted; James A. Halsted; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren; Supreme Court Justice, Arthur Goldberg; Dorothy Goldberg; Margaret Truman Daniel; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-L
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt in the rose garden on the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park, New York. Also pictured: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; former president, Harry S. Truman; former president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Margaret Truman Daniel.
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JFKWHP-AR7579-E
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (both at right) arrive at St. James’ Episcopal Church for the funeral of Eleanor Roosevelt. Hyde Park, New York.