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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF07-005
This folder contains material pertaining to the former Mitchel Air Force Base in Hempstead, New York, which was deemed surplus federal property. Formats include maps, publications, notes, correspondence, reports on the disposition process, and press releases. Items include an issue of the Congressional Record (Vol. 109, No. 61, 26 April 1963); an application from Nassau Community College; a report by the Nassau County (N.Y.) Committee on Development of Mitchel Field titled "The Abandonment of Mitchel Field as an Air Force Base and Its Conversion to the Best Community Use" (August 1961); "A Report on Mitchel AFB, Hempstead, N.Y." by the Federal Aviation Agency, Eastern Region; a revised application for surplus land submitted by Nassau County; a report on a Nassau Community College student census; a booklet on "Community College Law" published by the State University of New York (SUNY); a State University of New York (SUNY) Summary Bulletin, 1961-1962; and a supplemental report by the Nassau County Committee on Development of Mitchel Field (July 1962).
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF07-002
This folder contains correspondence, memoranda, and news articles regarding the granting of land at the former Mitchel Air Force Base to Mitchel College of Long Island University. Items include a Mitchel College brochure for the Fall 1962 semester.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF07-001
This folder contains material pertaining to petitions in favor of granting surplus land at the former Mitchel Air Force Base to the East Meadow School District, Nassau County, New York, for construction of a public school building.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF06-003
This folder contains letters, memoranda, reports, and news clippings regarding the disposition of and potential uses for the former Mitchel Air Force Base in Hempstead, New York, which was deemed surplus federal property. Correspondents include local citizens, elected officials, other government agencies, and commercial developers. Items includes a quitclaim deed conveying land to Long Island University, and draft purchase agreements for the sale of land to Nassau County, New York.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF06-001
This folder contains letters, memoranda, press releases, and news clippings regarding the disposition of and potential uses for the former Mitchel Air Force Base in Hempstead, New York, which was deemed surplus federal property. Correspondents include local citizens, elected officials, other government agencies, and commercial developers. Items include a quitclaim deed conveying land to Nassau County, New York, for the use of Nassau Community College, and another quitclaim deed conveying land to Hofstra College.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JKJ-01
In this interview Javits discusses first meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] in 1946; working with JFK in the House of Representatives on housing and veterans issues and in the Senate on different pieces of legislation; the confrontation between Javits and JFK in the Senate on medicare; social interactions with Senator JFK; JFK’s occasional “offbeat position;” the 1960 presidential election; and JFK’s sense of humor, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-06-A
ST11
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0914a-013
This file contains a photocopy and press release of Senator John F. Kennedy's remarks given at the Long Island Arena (also known as the Commack Arena) in Commack, New York, during his 1960 presidential campaign. In his speech the Senator asks whether the nation's strength is increasing enough to compete with the Communists. He also discusses education and proposes national scholarships and a government loan program.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0914-033
This file contains a copy and press release of Senator John F. Kennedy's remarks given at the Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn, New York City, during his 1960 presidential campaign. In his speech the Senator lists five key differences between himself and Vice President Nixon. The differences relate to the high cost of living, housing, education, and civil rights.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-057-001
This diary, kept by Kathleen Kennedy, contains handwritten entries detailing her daily activities for the year 1935. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Day by Day Diary.” Pages contain pre-printed ruling and text, including entry dates, as well as manuscript entries in blue and black ink and pencil, both on dated pages as well as on other pre-printed pages at the end of the diary. Entries cover a variety of topics, including her education at the Noroton School of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Noroton Heights, Connecticut, and at the Holy Child School in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; her relationships with family and friends; and films, parties, dances, and other social events that she attended. Other locations she spent time in include Palm Beach, Florida; New York City, Saratoga, and Southampton, New York; and Paris, France.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-061-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and other aspects of his life from 1936 to 1940. The scrapbook contains clippings, photographs, postcards, and printed ephemera related to his time at Harvard University; his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; trips to various European countries; and social events and activities. Newspaper and periodical clippings cover a wide range of topics, including Joe, Jr.’s athletic career and involvement in student government at Harvard; the Kennedy family’s arrival in London, England, following Joe, Sr.'s appointment as ambassador; the prospect of British involvement in the global conflict that became World War II; Joe, Sr.'s opinions on and actions related to the war; and other political and society news and events. Others featured in clippings and pictured in photographs include Joe, Jr.’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; his siblings, John F. “Jack” Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; his grandparents, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; his cousin, Joseph Francis Gargan, Jr.; and family friend, Hugh Fraser. Printed ephemera pasted into the scrapbook include invitations to various parties, receptions, luncheons, dinners, weddings, meetings, and banquets, including a ball at Buckingham Palace; event programs; menus; tickets; and calling cards. Of note are a set of fingerprints that Joe, Jr., had taken during a visit to the Boston Police Headquarters; an envelope containing five bird feathers; photographs of Joe, Jr., dressed in drag for a Harvard theater production; clippings related to his purported relationship with figure skater Megan Taylor; a letter from British Member of Parliament, Anthony Eden; photographic prints and postcards that capture a Kennedy family trip to St. Moritz, Switzerland; a photograph of Joe, Jr., aboard the R.M.S. Mauretania; clippings related to Joe, Jr.’s voyage from London to New York City, New York; Spanish paper currency; an unsent postcard addressed to Katherine “Kikoo” Conboy, nanny to the Kennedy children, signed by Joe, Jr.; a photographic postcard signed by Alois Lang, the actor who portrayed Jesus in the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; contact prints of strips of 35mm black and white negatives that capture scenes from Joe, Jr.’s 1939 trip to Spain with Kathleen following the end of the Spanish Civil War, including images of Spanish Loyalist tanks and damage from the siege of the Alcázar of Toledo; a photographic postcard featuring an image of Adolf Hitler shaking hands with Hermann Göring; signed portrait photos of several unidentified women; and prints of four watercolor illustrations depicting scenes from the Spanish Civil War, credited to “Artillery Lieutenant Luis Serrano.” Other destinations pictured in photographic prints and postcards include Warsaw, Poland; Cannes, France; Capri, Rome, Venice, Naples, and Amalfi, Italy; Copenhagen, Denmark; Czechoslovakia; Killarney and other locations in Ireland; and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Original handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in black ink on some of the leaves. This photograph album contains 164 photographic prints and postcards, 134 newspaper and periodical clippings, 29 pieces of printed ephemera, six banknotes and two banknote fragments, four pieces of correspondence, and four prints of watercolor drawings.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-054-001
This scrapbook, compiled by Joseph P. “Joe” Kennedy, Jr., documents his education, travels, and family life between 1932 and 1938. The title on the cover reads, “Album.” The scrapbook contains photographs of and printed ephemera related to his studies at the London School of Economics (1933-1934) and Harvard University (1934-1938), as well as time spent with family and friends at the Kennedy family residences in Bronxville in New York, Palm Beach in Florida, and Hyannis Port in Massachusetts, and traveling in Europe. Destinations pictured include Switzerland, England, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, Bermuda, Georgia, and France. Of note are telegrams from Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy to their son; photographs of Joe, Jr., skiing with friends in Zermatt, Switzerland; two portrait cards from the Residenz Museum in Munich, Germany; photographic postcards featuring images of the 1934 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, Germany; an invitation from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to Joe, Jr., for an event at the White House; materials related to Joe, Jr.’s athletic career at Harvard, where he participated in football, swimming, and rugby, including photographs of the 1936 Bermuda Rugby Week competition; a Bermuda Islands court summons issued to “Joseph Kennedy” and dated March 30, 1936; and telegrams sent to Joe, Jr., for his birthday. Kennedy family members and friends pictured in photographs and clippings include Joseph, Sr.; Rose; John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; John F. Kennedy; Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy; Patricia Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jean Kennedy; Edward M. Kennedy; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; nanny to the Kennedy children, Katherine Conboy; Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Sir James Calder; and economist Harold Laski. Handwritten captions and inscriptions are written in blue and black ink on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 224 photographic prints (including three tintypes), 53 newspaper and magazine clippings, and 36 photographic postcards, as well as telegrams, letters, invitations, menus, tickets, picture postcards, calling cards, and other types of printed ephemera.
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Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-053-001
This scrapbook, compiled by John F. "Jack" Kennedy, documents his time at the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, from 1933 to 1935. The front cover features the school seal stamped in gold. The title page reads, “The National Memory and Fellowship Book,” with a nameplate reading, “John F. Kennedy / West Wing - Choate School / Wallingford, Conn / 1933.” The first half of the scrapbook consists of pre-printed pages with space for signatures and messages from classmates, photographs and printed ephemera, and Jack’s notes on his academic and athletic endeavors, social activities, and daily life. Many of these pages are pre-printed with topical titles, including “Faculty and Campus,” “Student Hall of Fame,” “Comparative Athletic Record,” “Clubs and Societies,” “School and Social Functions,” “My Favorites,” “Entertainments, Lectures, Plays,” and “Memorable Trips.” Topical pages are followed by monthly dated calendar pages, some of which contain original handwritten entries in black and blue ink and pencil. The second half of the scrapbook consists of blank leaves that contain newspaper clippings; photographs; correspondence; printed ephemera, including invitations, tickets, membership cards, pamphlets, business cards, and programs; and other items pertaining to Jack’s education at Choate and his activities during that time. Of note are photographs of Jack and his classmates who formed the “Muckers” club, including Ross Edwards Allen; Roy Oliver “Bob” Beach, Jr.; Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Paul J. “Boogie” Chase; Ralph D. “Rip” Horton; Charles Edward Marsh II; Irving Hudson Meehan, Jr.; John Whiting Morse; Charles “Butch” Schriber II; Maurice Arthur “Maure/Moe” Shea, Jr.; and James DeWitt “Smoky/Smokey” Wilde III. Also included are invitations to events at the White House; handwritten birthday messages in black and blue ink to Jack from his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; an autograph from the writer Gertrude Stein; a handwritten letter in black ink from star Harvard University football player Huntington Reed “Tack” Hardwick; a receipt for a $2.50 fine paid to the Palm Beach Police Department in Florida; autographed photographs from members of the Choate football team, including Gordon Thayer Barlow, Bob Beach, Hugh De Neufville “Bud” Wynne, Lem Billings, Irving Hudson Meehan, Jr., William Joseph “Bill” Albinger, and Moe Shea; and a postcard sent to Jack by his mother from aboard the S.S. Bremen. Also featured in photographs, clippings, and other materials in the scrapbook are Jack’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; his sister, Kathleen Kennedy, and brother, Robert F. Kennedy; his grandfather, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; family friends, Edward E. Moore and Mary Moore; Choate School headmaster, George Clair St. John; English teacher, Harold L. Tinker; members of Choate yearbook (“The Brief”) committee, for which Jack was the Business Manager; and other classmates and friends, including Ruth Marian Quigley (later Moffett), Ruth Moffett (later Johnson), Olive Cawley, Thomas Morgan Schriber, Charles Nelson “Charlie” Hoyt, Adelaide Moffett, Gloria Baker, Eleanor Young, Katherine Barker, and Helen Barker. Locations pictured in photographs include the Choate School campus and the Kennedy family home and surrounding area in Palm Beach. The scrapbook contains a selection of loose materials that were enclosed in an envelope adhered to the inside back cover; many of these items pre- and post-date the scrapbook itself and represent dates from 1929 through 1950. Original handwritten entries, captions, and inscriptions are written in black and blue ink on many of the leaves. This scrapbook contains 88 newspaper clippings, 78 photographic prints, and 74 other items, including correspondence and printed ephemera.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0898-007
This folder contains a copy of a speech by Senator John F. Kennedy at the Iona College convocation in New Rochelle, New York and a draft of his speech at the Saint Vincent College convocation in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. In the speeches the Senator discusses the importance of parochial education.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0894-016
This folder contains copies of Senator John F. Kennedy’s speech honoring James J. Lyons’ establishment of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York and discusses its importance to medical research and scientific advancement.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0897-016
This folder contains drafts and a copy of Senator John F. Kennedy's commencement speech at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. In his speech the Senator discusses the shared histories of scholars and politicians, and a need for greater scholarship in politics. Of note is a draft with notations by Senator Kennedy.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-255-8-62
President John F. Kennedy attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. President Kennedy (center left) greets three cadets whom he nominated to the USMA while Senator of Massachusetts. The cadets are (L-R): Peter J. Oldfield (shaking hands with the President), David G. Binney, and Kevin G. Renaghan. Also pictured: Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland (far left); Major General Henry Clay Hodges, Jr. (in wheelchair, partially hidden), of the class of 1881. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-255-7-62
President John F. Kennedy (center right, in background) attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. Those standing with President Kennedy include: Color guard cadets; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr.; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker; Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton. Honor guard cadets stand in foreground. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-255-5-62
President John F. Kennedy attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. President Kennedy visits with Major General Henry Clay Hodges, Jr. (in wheelchair), of the class of 1881. Also pictured: Cadets David G. Binney and Peter J. Oldfield; Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-255-4-62
President John F. Kennedy attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. President Kennedy visits with Major General Henry Clay Hodges, Jr. (in wheelchair), of the class of 1881. Also pictured: Cadets David G. Binney and Peter J. Oldfield; Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr.; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; General Maxwell D. Taylor. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Presidential Campaign Files, 1960
JFKCAMP1960-1057-011
This folder contains speeches given by Senator John F. Kennedy in Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. In his speeches Senator Kennedy discusses the economy, labor, international relations, education, and the need for strong Democratic leadership to achieve change and improve domestic policies.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Presidential Campaign Files, 1960
JFKCAMP1960-1027-014
This folder contains Senator John F. Kennedy’s itinerary for New England and copies of speeches given in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island during his 1960 presidential campaign. Topics include a proposal for a Peace Corps, education, the economy, and support in the election. Also included in this folder is a transcript from a television program in which Senator Kennedy answers questions regarding religion, Communism, Fidel Castro, agriculture, and foreign policy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Presidential Campaign Files, 1960
JFKCAMP1960-1026-007
This folder contains copies, excerpts, and press releases of speeches given in Maryland, Nebraska, New York, and West Virginia by Senator John F. Kennedy during his 1960 presidential primary campaign. Topics include the need for industrial development for economic growth, disarmament, the educational system, issues between India and China, and the importance of voters in primary elections. Also included in this folder is an incomplete listing by date of the Senator’s campaign stops and speeches given in each city.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Presidential Campaign Files, 1960
JFKCAMP1960-1040-012
This folder contains correspondence between members of Senator John F. Kennedy’s campaign staff and various individuals from New York, newspaper clippings, and an address delivered by Senator Kennedy titled, “The Crisis in American Education.” Topics include the 1960 presidential campaign and education.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C255-28-62
President John F. Kennedy attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. President Kennedy (center left) visits with three cadets whom he nominated to the USMA while Senator of Massachusetts. The cadets, standing at right, are (L-R): Peter J. Oldfield, David G. Binney, and Kevin G. Renaghan. Also pictured: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr. (partially hidden); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; General Maxwell D. Taylor (partially hidden); Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Major General Henry Clay Hodges, Jr. (in wheelchair), of the class of 1881. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.