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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-AC-01
Carillo Flores discusses his role as Ambassador to the United States from Mexico, Mexico’s response to the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-TCM-01
This interview focuses on the Kennedy administration’s policies concerning Latin America and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, among other topics.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-FUF-01
Freeman discusses being named Ambassador to Colombia, the episode involving the possible cancellation of Kennedy’s visit to Colombia, and working with the foreign ministers and President Lleras, among other issues.
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-111-004
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks to the staff of the American Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico. In his speech President Kennedy thanks his audience for their diplomatic service, and explains that foreign policy should ideally promote peace.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-070-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his travels, family life, political work, and naval career between 1938 and 1941. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Scrap Book.” It contains newspaper clippings, photographic prints and postcards, handwritten and typed letters, and printed ephemera related to his travels in the United States and Europe, including a 1939 visit to Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War; his involvement with the Democratic Party, including as a Massachusetts delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and his diplomatic work as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom; his family's travels between the U.S. and England; his naval training at the Squantum Naval Air Station in Quincy, Massachusetts; and other news and current events of the time. Other Kennedy family members mentioned in clippings include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy; grandparents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; aunt, Margaret L. Burke; uncle, Thomas A. Fitzgerald; cousins, Marion Eunice Fitzgerald and John F. “Jack” Fitzgerald; and his sister Kathleen's future husband, William "Billy" Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington. Photographs feature Joe, Jr., attending unidentified events, with fellow trainees at the Squantum Naval Air Station, and holding a fish. An additional photograph shows an aerial view of the Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. Photographic postcards feature images of canals in Xochimilco, Mexico, and of Joe, Jr., in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Senders of typed and handwritten correspondence include British politician Arthur Greenwood; politician and Democratic National Convention Chairman, James A. Farley; journalist Arthur Krock; Executive Director of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, J. W. Farley; and Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Printed ephemera include a dance card with a pencil attached by string; a flier advertising a debate on Lend-Lease policy; a printed menu and seating chart for a dinner attended by Chairman of the London Stock Exchange, R. B. Pearson; a ticket book for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in July 1940; and a printed booklet published by the Squantum Naval Air Station titled, "Flight 62 / Knocks It Off," and dated August 7, 1941. Another item of note is a paper bag printed with Spanish text; bags of this type originally contained loaves of bread and were part of a campaign by General Francisco Franco in which airplanes dropped bread over Madrid, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War. Original notations are written in blue and black ink and pencil on the rectos and/or versos of some of the clippings. This scrapbook contains 75 newspaper and magazine clippings, nine photographic prints and postcards, six pieces of correspondence, and seven other pieces of printed ephemera.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6348-B
President John F. Kennedy meets with Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group in Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R): Unidentified man (mostly hidden); Senator Ernest Gruening of Alaska; Congressman Harris B. McDowell of Delaware; Congressman William Springer of Illinois; Senator Carl T. Curtis of Nebraska (mostly hidden); Senator Dennis Chávez of New Mexico; unidentified man; Senator Clair Engle of California; Congressman Walter Norblad of Oregon (behind Engle); Congressman J. T. Rutherford of Texas; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; unidentified man; Ambassador of Mexico Antonio Carrillo Flores; Senator Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee; Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6348-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group in Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. The group presented the President with a silver tray from the Governor of the state of Jalisco, Mexico Juan Gil Preciado (who was not present at the meeting). (L-R) Senator Clair Engle of California; unidentified; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Ambassador of Mexico Antonio Carrillo Flores; Senator Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee; Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana; Congressman D.S. Saund of California.
Collection
DOHPP
Economist, diplomat, government official. Economic officer and Foreign Service officer, Mexico (1942-1943), Chile (1943), Bolivia (1943-1947), Department of Commerce (1947-1950), Switzerland (1950-1956); Assistant Director, Economic Defense Administration, Department of State (1956-1959); Economic Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d'affaires, U.S. Embassy, Peru (1960-1963); Ambassador to Bolivia (1963-1968). Official, personal and family correspondence with speech files, clippings, scrapbooks, and subject files pertaining to Foreign Service work and life abroad. Also papers of wife Dorothy documenting life of a Foreign Service family abroad.
Collection
JFKWHSFRAD
White House Staff Files, 1955-1963. Government official; Special assistant to the President (1961-1964). Subject files, including correspondence, memorandums, reports relating to the Agency for International Development (AID), civil rights, and the Colorado River salinity question (Mexico).