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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-MJH-01
In this interview Hillenbrand discusses President John F. Kennedy [JFK] entering office amid the Berlin crisis; working as the Director of the Office of German Affairs with JFK; the Berlin Task Force and the Ambassadorial Group; JFK's attitude towards the German problem and German reactions to the Kennedy Administration; the State Department and Germany; the 1961 Vienna talks with Nikita S. Khrushchev; the erection of the Berlin Wall and the crisis it generated; the Kennedy Administration's reaction and response to the Berlin Wall; talks with Russia over Berlin and the Wall; the press "leaks crisis" on the Germany problem; JFK's working style and approach to problems, according to Hillenbrand; the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the Berlin talks; JFK's German policy and relationship with German leaders; and what JFK accomplished related to Germany, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-C
ST34, KN40
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JFKWHP-1962-07-17-E
AR24
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JFKWHP-1962-05-03-A
AR20, ST10, KN16
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JFKWHP-1962-10-18-D
AR28, ST15, KN24
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JFKWHP-1963-01-09-C
AR31, ST19, KN28
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JFKWHP-1962-03-30-D
AR18, KN14
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JFKWHP-KN-C30697
Jacqueline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) greet guests during a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy shakes hands with First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anastas Mikoyan. Also pictured: Ambassador of the Soviet Union, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Chief of the American Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Smirnovsky; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C30691
Guests attend a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Those pictured include: Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Dr. Miguel Ángel Zavala Ortiz; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Julia Ann Shepard; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, Galileo Solis; Prince Gholam-Reza Pahlavi of Iran; Federal Minister of Defense of West Germany, Kai-Uwe von Hassel; Deputy First Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs of Indonesia, General Abdul Haris Nasution; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan, Antone Atallah; Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C30690
Guests attend a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Those pictured include: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Neftalí Ponce-Miranda; President of the Senate of Australia, Sir Alister McMullin; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Julia Ann Shepard; Deputy First Prime Minister for Defense and Security Affairs of Indonesia, General Abdul Haris Nasution; President of Indonesia, Ahmed Sukarno; Prime Minister of Norway, Einar Gerhardsen; Ambassador of the Ivory Coast, Konan Bédié; Prince Gholam-Reza Pahlavi of Iran; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan; Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Prime Minister of Jamaica, Sir Alexander Bustamante; Ambassador of Pakistan, Ghulam Ahmed; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Manuel Tello; Ambassador of Mexico, Antonio Carrillo Flores. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C30689
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts), Jean Kennedy Smith, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy (all in foreground) greet guests during a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; the Attorney General shakes hands with Ambassador of Norway, Hans Kristian Engen. Also pictured: Robin Chandler Duke, wife of U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Prime Minister of Jamaica, Sir Alexander Bustamante; Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Alec Douglas-Home; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events for the U.S. State Department, Samuel L. King; Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; King Baudouin of Belgium; Prince Harald of Norway; Director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Carlos Martinez Sotomayor; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Republic, Mahmoud Fawzi; Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Joseph Luns; Prime Minister of Norway, Einar Gerhardsen; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; Federal Councillor of Switzerland, Friedrich T. Wahlen; Chancellor of West Germany, Ludwig Erhard. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Sound recording
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-114-A49e
Sound recording of a meeting held on October 4, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Main topics of discussion are Secretary Dean Rusk’s meeting with Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin regarding Berlin, Germany; Secretary Rusk’s talks with Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko regarding Laos; President Kennedy’s meeting with Minister Gromyko; a "New York Times" article regarding the race to the moon; and the possibility of sharing space information with the Soviet Union. They also discuss the Caribbean and Latin American regions, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and civil rights. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 114/A49, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 114/A49 in its entirety.
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JFKWHP-KN-C25946
President John F. Kennedy meets with First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union (USSR), Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kuznetsov. Left to right: First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Viktor Pavlovich Karpov; assistant to Minister Kuznetsov, Lev Isaakovich Mendelevich; Ambassador of the Soviet Union, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Kuznetsov; President Kennedy. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C24663
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), Andrei Gromyko. Seated (L-R): Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Gromyko; President Kennedy (in rocking chair). Also pictured: US State Department interpreter, Alexander Akalovsky (standing second from right, in shadow); United Press International (UPI) photographer, Frank Cancellare (standing second from left in background); White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager (standing in back, hands folded). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C24662
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), Andrei Gromyko. Seated (L-R): Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Gromyko; President Kennedy (in rocking chair). United Press International (UPI) photographer, Frank Cancellare, stands at far left in background; others are unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C24661
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), Andrei Gromyko. Seated (L-R): Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Gromyko; President Kennedy (in rocking chair). Also pictured: US State Department interpreter, Alexander Akalovsky (standing third from right, in shadow); United Press International (UPI) photographer, Frank Cancellare (at far left in background); White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager (behind photographers). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C24660
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union (USSR), Andrei Gromyko. Seated (L-R): Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Vladimir S. Semenov; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Minister Gromyko; President Kennedy (in rocking chair). United Press International (UPI) photographer, Frank Cancellare, stands at far left in background; others are unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C20738
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin (left), in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. United States Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (far right), and unidentified photographers stand in background.
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JFKWHP-KN-21566
Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (center), visits with guests at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin, and his wife, Irina Nikolaevna, stand at left (on edge of frame). East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C154-24-62
Russian cosmonaut Major Gherman S. Titov and American astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. visit the White House. Left to right: Interpreter Walter Skuby; Special Assistant to the President, Dave Powers; Colonel Glenn; Major Titov; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Blurriness in image is original to the negative.]
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JFKWHP-ST-A35-5-62
President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with Russian cosmonaut Major Gherman S. Titov during his visit to the White House. Left to right: Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin (on edge of image); interpreter Walter Skuby; American astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.; President Kennedy; Major Titov; interpreter Ivan Shklyar. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A35-4-62
President John F. Kennedy visits with Russian cosmonaut Major Gherman S. Titov and American astronaut Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. Left to right: Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; interpreter Walter Skuby (in back, mostly hidden); Colonel Glenn; President Kennedy; Major Titov; interpreter Ivan Shklyar. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-C422-60-63
Jacqueline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) greet guests during a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy shakes hands with First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anastas Mikoyan. Also pictured: Ambassador of the Soviet Union, Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Chief of the American Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Smirnovsky; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (mostly hidden). Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21569
Guests attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Left to right: Erma Lee Udall, wife of Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; Postmaster General J. Edward Day; Irina Nikolaevna, wife of Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin; Secretary Udall; Ambassador Dobrynin. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-21568
Guests dance at a diplomatic reception at the White House. Ambassador of the Soviet Union (USSR), Anatoliy Fedorovich Dobrynin (center), dances with his wife, Irina Nikolaevna; Special Assistant to the President, Frederick G. Dutton, stands in background (right of Ambassador Dobrynin). All others are unidentified. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.