Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-061-002
This folder contains background material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, for the President's News Conference of September 12, 1963 (News Conference 61). Materials primarily consist of department reports and briefing papers for the President on domestic and foreign affairs and national security. Topics include the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Vietnam, civil rights, the balance of payments, and the dynamiting of Canadian ship Howard Shaw in Chicago as a result of a labor dispute. Also included are draft press conference announcements, some with handwritten editorial marks and annotations by the President, and newspaper clippings. Of note are copies of a congressional hearing and report concerning Russian trawler traffic in U.S. territorial waters.