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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-28A-2
Sound recording of a telephone conversation held on October 28, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. President Kennedy asks Mayor Daley to speak to Representative Roland V. Libonati of Illinois about supporting a civil rights bill.The recording begins in mid-conversation.
Transcript included. This sound recording was originally recorded on Dictation Belt 28A, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. To hear all of the recordings on the Dictation Belt, see Digital Identifier: JFKPOF-TPH-28A, Title: Telephone recordings: Dictation Belt 28A.
Sound recording
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-28A
Dictation Belt 28A contains five sound recordings. Item 28A.1 is a telephone conversation held on October 24, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia. They discuss President Tito’s trip to New York. [White House Operator?] places the call at President Kennedy’s request. Item 28A.2 is a telephone conversation held on October 28, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago. President Kennedy asks Mayor Daley to speak to Representative Roland V. Libonati of Illinois about supporting a civil rights bill. The recording begins in mid-conversation. Item 28A.3 is a telephone conversation held on October 29, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Representative Charles Halleck of Indiana. They discuss a vote on a civil rights bill. [White House Operator?] speaks to Representative Halleck while he holds for President Kennedy. Item 28A.4 is a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana. They discuss economic and military assistance to Latin America and legislative strategy on a civil rights bill. Item 28A.5 is a brief telephone exchange on October 30, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and a [White House Operator]. President Kennedy asks the operator to place a call to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John W. McCormack of Massachusetts. The recording ends abruptly.Transcript included. Each item listed above is also available individually as an excerpt derived from this full-length digitized recording. See Related Records for more information.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-05-24-A
AR21, ST10
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-17920
Congressional Coffee Hour (House of Representatives). L-R: Congressman Abraham J. Multer (New York); Congressman Herman Toll (Pennsylvania); Congressman Robert N. C. Nix (Pennsylvania); President John F. Kennedy; Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois); Congressman M. Blaine Peterson (Utah); Congressman William S. Moorhead (Pennsylvania). Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17338
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy speaks from the lectern; attendees listen while seated in the audience and onstage; members of the United States Marine Band sit onstage at left. Seated in group at right onstage, L-R: Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), in second row; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio (on far right edge of frame). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17332
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. Front row, L-R: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio; President John F. Kennedy (with a cut above his left eye). Others include: Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), at left, behind Johnson’s shoulder; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut), third row, between Rayburn and Brosio, wearing glasses; Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York), in second row, between Brosio and President Kennedy; Congressman Silvio O. Conte (Massachusetts), behind Fino, face half-hidden; Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo (New York), right of the President, third row; Congressman George P. Miller (California), far right, second row. State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-M
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio, speaks from the lectern; several unidentified members of the United States Marine Band, seated behind Brosio; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle, seated at right; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-K
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. L-R: Unidentified piano player and several unidentified members of the United States Marine Band; Opera singer, Renata Tebaldi; Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, seated onstage in front row; Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois), seated behind Archbishop O’Boyle; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut), seated at back right; seated in front row of audience (facing away from camera), First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (third from right, wearing white hat). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6429-G
Ceremony celebrating the Unification of Italy. President John F. Kennedy, at lectern. Seated, L-R (front row): Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn; Italian Ambassador to the United States, Manlio Brosio. Second row (L-R): Congressman Roland V. Libonati (Illinois); two unidentified men; Congressman Paul A. Fino (New York). Back row (L-R): unidentified man; Congressman Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut); Congressman Emilio Q. Daddario (Connecticut); Congressman Silvio O. Conte (Massachusetts); Congressman Dominick V. Daniels (New Jersey); Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo (New York). State Department Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7266-H
President John F. Kennedy attends the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Rayburn House Office Building, dedicated to the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn. Also pictured: Representative William L. Dawson (Illinois); Representative Roland V. Libonati (Illinois); Architect of the Capitol, J. George Stewart; Speaker of the House and Chairman of the House Office Building Commission, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Representative Samuel S. Stratton (New York); Representative Roman C. Pucinski (Illinois); Representative Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (Maryland); White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Milt Wilhite. Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7266-F
President John F. Kennedy watches the lowering of a marble block during the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Rayburn House Office Building, dedicated to the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn. Others looking on include: Representative Roland V. Libonati (Illinois); Architect of the Capitol, J. George Stewart; Speaker of the House and Chairman of the House Office Building Commission, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Representative Samuel S. Stratton (New York); Representative Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (Maryland); White House Secret Service agents, Ron Pontius and Milt Wilhite. Washington, D.C.