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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-06
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss civil rights legislation, and how it was innovative and yet inevitable; meetings between RFK and businessmen on civil rights legislation; RFK’s unintentional intimidation of the businessmen based on his history with Senate hearings on labor; attempting to put leadership in the community (North and South) to deal with the problem of segregation and other racial discrimination; hostile treatment of RFK in Alabama; working with the NAACP on school desegregation; the desegregation of the University of Alabama, and the question of if and how to bring in troops to help; and using the incident at the University of Alabama as a political stepping stone, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-01-01-B
ST19
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C1-6-63
President John F. Kennedy (right) watches the Orange Bowl football game played between the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma. Also pictured in the crowd: Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Representative Claude Pepper (Florida); Governor of Florida Farris Bryant; Senator Spessard L. Holland (Florida); former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Grant Stockdale; Representative Dante B. Fascell (Florida); Director of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law to President Kennedy Sargent Shriver; brother-in-law to the President Peter Lawford; Assistant Physician to the President, Rear Admiral Dr. George G. Burkley; White House Secret Service agents Floyd Boring, Toby Chandler, and Bob Lilley; and Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. Orange Bowl Stadium, Miami, Florida.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C1-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) sits in the President's box during the Orange Bowl football game played between the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma. Governor of Florida Farris Bryant sits right of President Kennedy. Those pictured in the stands behind the President include: White House Secret Service agents Floyd Boring and Arthur L. "Art" Godfrey; Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); and Representative Claude Pepper of Florida (partially hidden on edge of frame). White House Secret Service agent Ronald "Ron" Pontius stands left of the President. Orange Bowl Stadium, Miami, Florida. [Scratches are original to the negative.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-1-14-63
President John F. Kennedy tosses a coin from the stands prior to the start of the Orange Bowl football game played between the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma. Team captains, Lee Roy Jordan of Alabama (back to camera, with jersey number 54) and Leon Cross of Oklahoma (at left, in front of the referee), look on. Those pictured in the crowd right of President Kennedy include (L-R): Senator Spessard L. Holland of Florida (in profile, immediately in front of the President); former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Grant Stockdale (bottom right); Governor of Florida Farris Bryant (right of Senator Holland); Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana (with pipe); and Representative Claude Pepper of Florida (right of Senator Mansfield). Orange Bowl Stadium, Miami, Florida. [Scratches are original to the negative.]