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Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-DLH-01
In this interview Hackett discusses meeting Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] for the first time at Milton Academy and their continued friendship; working on John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, including observations of other members of the campaign staff; the lead up to and working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign, including tensions between three different camps and Edward M. Kennedy’s role in the campaign; how RFK changed over the course of his 1968 campaign; and why Hackett thought RFK would have been an unpopular President, among other issues.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-044-001
This photograph album, likely compiled by a Kennedy family member or friend, documents various moments in the lives of the Fitzgerald and Kennedy families between 1907 and 1947. The gold stamped title on the cover reads, “Photographs.” Those pictured include Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; her parents, John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald; her siblings, Agnes Fitzgerald, Thomas A. Fitzgerald, John F. Fitzgerald, Jr., Eunice Fitzgerald, and Frederick H. Fitzgerald; and her children, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy. Of note is a photograph of John F. Kennedy celebrating his victory in the 1946 primary election for the Massachusetts 11th congressional district with family members, friends, and campaign volunteers, including his grandparents, Honey Fitz and Mary Fitzgerald; his sister, Eunice; family friends, Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, Kenneth P. O’Donnell, and Helen Sullivan (later O’Donnell); deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, Francis X. Morrissey; and former Boston Police Commissioner, Joseph F. Timilty. Also of note are photographs of Honey Fitz ice skating on a frozen pond and standing in a theater lobby while holding a WCOP radio station microphone. Locations featured in photographic prints and postcards include Boston, Massachusetts; Hull, Massachusetts, where the Fitzgerald family owned a summer home; and Palm Beach, Florida. This photograph album contains 26 photographic prints, four photographic postcards, and one loose photographer’s address label.
Textual folder
Kennedy Family Collection
KFC-075-001
This guest book contains signatures and handwritten notations in black or blue ink and pencil from visitors to the Kennedy family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, from 1940 to 1947, including friends, family, and associates. The front cover features the engraved title, “Guest Log,” as well as a printed list titled, “Rules of This Tavern.” Those who signed the guest book include: George S. Seabury; Nancy Tenney; Cyrus R. “Cy” Taylor; Phyllis “Phyl” Childs; Blair Clark; Eben W. Pyne; Charlotte McDonnell; Marie Murray; Richard J. “Dick” Cotter; John “Johnny” Coleman, Jr. (also known as “Zeke”); Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings; Danuta Zoltowska; Nelson Macy, Jr.; Muriel “Mew” Macy; Torbert Macdonald; Frazier L. O’Leary, Jr.; David O. Puckett; Phil Perabo, Jr.; Tom Killefer; Lenore Conway; Max O’Rell Truitt; Rosalind M. Fitzgerald; Joseph F. “Joe” Timilty; Mary Jo Gargan; Paul J. Chase; Harriet “Etsie” Wells; Robert W. “Mac” Macnamara; Peggy Edgerton-Bird; Peter L. “Pete” MacLellan, Jr.; James A. “Jim” Reed; Leonard “Lenny” Thom; George H. R. “Barney” Ross; Julia Read; Catherine “Kay” Thom; Ewell Sale; Diana Mowrer; Mary Cremmen; Walter J. Cummings, Jr.; Lydia Langer; Louise Tinsley “Tinnie” Steinman; Edith “Edie” Klugh; Mark J. Dalton; Peter W. Hoguet; Dean F. Markham; Mila Leslie Carolan; Betsy Flynn; Leo M. Flynn; Marjorie Cummings; Leonard Cummings; Wallace J. “Wally” Flynn; Cleo A. O’Donnell; Nicholas “Nick” Rodis; Thomas H. “Chip” Gannon; Edward “Ned” “Wewey” Dewey; Helen Sullivan; James F. “Jim” Noonan; Kenneth P. “Ken” O’Donnell; Charles R. “Chuck” Glynn; Alison “Ally” Pyne; and John T. “Jack” Fallon.