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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JJH-01
In this interview Holtz discusses his relationship with John F. Kennedy [JFK]; working on JFK’s 1952 Senate campaign; comparisons between JFK and Henry Cabot Lodge during the 1952 Senate race; JFK, Holtz, and the Algerian crisis; JFK’s involvement with Holtz’s 1954 and 1956 congressional campaigns; discussing Senator Joseph McCarthy with JFK; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; and JFK and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ wedding, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-09
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] decision to enter politics right after WWII; JFK’s campaign for the House of Representatives and Kennedy family and supporters’ roles in it; JFK as a campaigner, strengths and weaknesses; traveling around the world with JFK in 1951 and meeting foreign leaders; JFK’s interest in foreign affairs while in Congress; JFK’s 1952 Senate campaign; the Massachusetts Democratic Party; Adlai E. Stevenson; Paul A. Dever; the tea parties for JFK’s campaigns; the organization of JFK’s 1952 campaign; and the 1956 Democratic National Convention and the question of the vice-presidential nomination, among other issues.
Collection
PCP
Photographs, 1919-1963 (bulk 1937-1963). Photographs of John F. Kennedy, his family, his friends and colleagues, and his political activities. Contains photographs of Kennedy's early years, family homes, his naval service during World War II, and his political activities in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The largest portions of this collection cover Kennedy's Senate Years (1953-1960), and the 1960 Presidential Campaign.