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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-LEM-03
In this interview Martin discusses helping fill government positions after John F. Kennedy [JFK] is elected President, 1960; the appointment of African American judges, including Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; providing African American candidates for different agency positions; civil rights crises during JFK’s Administration; Lee White as the White House advisor on civil rights; the civil rights bill introduced in 1963; religious groups in the civil rights movement; the issue of “white backlash”; and working for President JFK versus working for President Lyndon B. Johnson, among other issues.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6280-1L
Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy along Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Motorcade with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; and Secretary of State Dean Rusk passes the reviewing stand. Members of the Kennedy family watch, including the President's brother Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; sisters Jean Kennedy Smith, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver; and brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver.