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RFKOH
Oral History Program conducted on behalf of the John F. Kennedy Library with the purpose to collect, preserve, and make available interviews conducted with individuals who have recollections of events and people associated with Robert F. Kennedy.
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FFREC
Records 1969-1981. Charitable organization. Project evaluations of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Development and Services Corporation, and information about the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City.
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WPPP
Papers 1965-1967. Legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1964-1968). Letters, memos, statements and testimony collected by Pigman during his tenure with Senator Kennedy.
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PBEPP
Papers 1964-1968. Lawyer. Legislative assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1964-1968). Legislative subject files.
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AWPP
Papers 1958-1968. Lawyer. Attorney, Department of Justice (1963-64); legislative assistant and speechwriter to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (1964-68). Correspondence, memorandums, speeches, reports, and press releases.
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MSGPP
Lawyer, author. Chief speech writer, Robert F. Kennedy's senatorial campaign (1964); director of public affairs, Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign (1968); author (with William vanden Heuvel), On His Own: Robert F. Kennedy, 1964-1968 (1970). Background research materials and drafts.
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TMCJPP
Papers 1966-1969. Businessman. Executive assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, New York City (1966-1968); Robert F. Kennedy's representative, Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation. Materials relating to the Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation and to Robert Kennedy; includes correspondence, memorandums, minutes, legal documents, project proposals, financial and budget statements, reports, and resumes.
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JRRPP
Papers 1955-1968. Lawyer, government official. Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice (1961-1964); Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (1964-1967). Copies of interoffice memorandums, correspondence, etc.
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FMPP
Papers 1962-1978. Journalist, author, political figure. Peace Corps Country Director, Peru (1962-1964), Peace Corps Regional Director, Latin America, (1964-1966); press secretary to Robert Kennedy (1966-1968); manager of George McGovern's Presidential campaign (1972); author, Perfectly Clear (1973), U.S. vs. Nixon (1975), and Remote Control (1978). Correspondence, memoranda, reports, polls, speeches, and research materials.
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BJCPP
Journalist. White House press aide (1961-1962); aide in Robert Kennedy's Presidential campaign (1968). Miscellaneous political papers.
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SESPP
Papers 1968. California political figure. Manager for Southern California, Robert Kennedy's Presidential campaign (1968). Pacific polls of California voter opinions.
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WJVHPP
Papers 1966-1968. New York political figure. Aide to Robert Kennedy; vice president of the New York State Constitutional Convention (1967); president, International Rescue Committee. Materials relating to New York State politics, State-City relations, the International League of Human Rights, and the New York City Board of Corrections; includes speeches, correspondence, notes, and schedules for Robert Kennedy's trips abroad and 1964 campaign materials.
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JFKWHSFKPO
White House Staff Files 1962-1963. Assistant to the President (1961-1965); appointment secretary to the President (1961-1963); Special Assistant to the President (1961-1965). Correspondence fragment.
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KDGPP
Legislative assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1967-1970); national Presidential campaign assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1968). Memoranda, correspondence, speeches, schedules and other campaign materials.
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USHHFA
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of subject files, legislative proposals, weekly activity reports, minutes, memorandums, speeches, and publications. Paper records include reports, publications, press releases, hearings, legislation, and statistics concerning the Community Facilities Agency, Urban Renewal Administration, and Public Housing Authority; includes speeches by Robert C. Weaver, Sidney H. Woolner, William L. Slayton, Marie C. McGuire, and Neal J. Hardy.
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PSPP
Papers 1957-1995. Journalist, government official. Press secretary to Senator John F. Kennedy (1959-1960); press secretary to the President (1961-1964). Investigative files from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor and Management Field, Robert F. Kennedy 1968 presidential campaign files, and personal files on the Kennedy family and the Kennedy Library.
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DLHPP
Urban affairs consultant. Member, John F. Kennedy's and Robert F. Kennedy's Presidential campaign staffs (1960, 1968). Delegate lists, political polls, petitions, campaign correspondence, speeches, campaign schedules.
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LFOPP
Personal and professional papers relating to his work in the legal field, including with such organizations as the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; speeches, scrapbook, select case files, and recommendations on several Supreme Court appointments; microfilm copy of his diary relating to the Cuban prisoner exchange in 1962.
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WHOPP
Papers 1961-1965, 1968. Lawyer, government official. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division (1961-1962), Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division (1963-1965), Department of Justice; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration (1962-1963). Correspondence, reports to the Attorney General, appointment records, judgeships and employment file, case files, and speeches.
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KPOPP
Papers 1924-1977. Assistant and friend to Robert and John F. Kennedy, government official, politician, author, businessman. Assistant Counsel, Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations in the Senate (1957-59); campaign director, Kennedy for President (1960); appointment secretary to the President (1961-1963); Special Assistant to the President (1961-1965); president, Kenneth P. O'Donnell and Associates (1965-1977); Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate (1966, 1970); co-author (with David F. Powers and Joe McCarthy), "Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye" (1972). Personal and professional papers relating to Harvard College football, the Kennedy Administration, national and Massachusetts state politics and campaigns, and O’Donnell's work in private industry.
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WLDPP
Papers 1947-1980 (bulk 1952-1968). New Hampshire political figure. Democratic Party worker. Kennedy campaign coordinator in New England and New York (1960). Materials relating to the Democratic Party in New Hampshire, primary elections, Presidential campaigns, and state elections.
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WWPP
Papers 1944-1991. Painter, author, Kennedy and Hemingway family friend. Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (1963-1971); trustee, John F. Kennedy Library Inc. Correspondence with the Kennedys and Hemingways; records from the Commission of Fine Arts, in particular relating to Washington D.C. and to Pennsylvania Avenue; items from political campaigns; correspondence, transcripts, news clippings, and photographs relating to the selection of an architect to design the John F. Kennedy Library; photographs of Elaine De Kooning's portraits of President Kennedy; a letter from Mary Hemingway; copy of A Civil War Courtship: the Letters of Edwin Weller from Antietem to Atlanta (1980) and correspondence with the Kennedys, Martha Gellhorn and Beatrice Kaufman.
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JVBPP
Penologist, government official. Director, Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice (1937-64). Materials relating to his career, the Bureau, and many prison or crime related issues including gun control, sentencing, and post World War II German prisons.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-EAG-06
Graves discusses the Bedford-Stuyvesant project, his and RFK’s involvement, project management issues, and the roles played by men such as Tom Johnston, Ed Logue, and John Doar, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-EAG-05
Graves discusses the volunteer work he was involved in before joining RFK’s presidential campaign (1968), how his relationship with RFK formed and evolved, and his own experience campaigning for others who were seeking elected government positions, among other issues.