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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-07-25-B
AR09, ST03
Sound recording
Edward M. Kennedy Senate Files
EMKSEN-AU0008-002-009
Sound recording of the radio program "Face Off." Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy of Massachusetts and Senator Alan K. "Al" Simpson of Wyoming debate nuclear arms control initiatives with the Soviet Union, and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's goal of negotiating to eliminate the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) short-range nuclear weapons arsenal deployed in Europe. The episode aired on Friday, May 19, 1989, on the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-085-001
This folder contains memoranda and telegrams regarding the United States, Soviet Union, and Berlin. Topics include the potential integration of West Berlin into the Federal Republic of Germany (also known as the Eleventh Land concept); the probable character of an air corridor contest between the Soviet Union and Germany (Democratic Republic), and the U.S., France, and Great Britain; an intelligence assessment of Soviet Union intentions for Berlin; and the closure of the Soviet Commandant’s office in East Berlin. Also included in this folder is a paper expressing the views of the Departments of State and Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff titled, “The Preferred Sequence of Military Actions in a Berlin Conflict.”
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-070-001
This folder contains telegrams and memoranda regarding Finland and its relations with the Soviet Union and United States including communism, policy towards the Soviet Union, and a visit by President Urho Kekkonen to the United States. Also included in this folder are memoranda of conversations between President Kekkonen, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and President Kennedy discussing nuclear testing by the Soviet Union, Berlin, and Germany (Federal Republic).
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-125a-009
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Soviet Union. Materials in this folder include a telegrams regarding a recent speech by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, memoranda from Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Special Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy, summaries of meetings between American and Soviet representatives concerning Laos and Berlin, and translations of a Soviet memorandum regarding a prospective peace treaty between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A45-1-61
President John F. Kennedy delivers a radio and television address to the nation on the Berlin Crisis. The President spoke from the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6712-D
President John F. Kennedy delivers a radio and television address to the nation concerning the impending possibility of war between the United States and the Soviet Union over the crisis in Berlin, Germany. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6712-C
President John F. Kennedy delivers a radio and television address to the nation concerning the impending possibility of war between the United States and the Soviet Union over the crisis in Berlin, Germany. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.