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  • it to start looking like the Johnsons lived here. I put out a picture of President and Mrs. Kennedy--no, I believe it’s just the President--and Caroline, and the pony, the little pony that Lyndon gave them. And then I put out a picture of Daddy with Tommy
  • Friends help Lady Bird decorate family quarters with books and Dorothy Doughty birds; Lady Bird puts out photos of JFK with Caroline, the Taylors and Johnsons; Lady Bird has business meeting with Sheldon Cohen and Walter Jenkins where they discuss
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • as a secretary to Ralph Dungan. He was a special assistant to President Kennedy. His main job was to--he was a talent scout for President Kennedy with the ambassadors and cabinet officers. Latin America was on his wing [?] and we were pretty busy. And President
  • How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American to integrate
  • recalled the situation when FDR closed the banks, and when President Kennedy faced the Bay of Pigs and the Vienna Conference. "We don't spend enough time remembering back, and not enough time looking ahead." He said he recalled that in 1948 only two members
  • you can see how they would have that added feeling of poignant grief, that their own state had to be embarrassed about it. So this is something that those of us in the Kennedy and the Johnson officia l family would like to seal off. Did you come
  • that he didn't have a civil rights record at all, although Senator Kennedy didn't have a great civil rights record either. As a matter of fact my feeling about the two of them at that time was that it didn't make very much difference who was the nominee
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
  • Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
  • had ca Ll. ed the FBI in New Or l ea ns . Hen r y Wolf , a ttorney fo r the Go odman family, ca lled to say that Robe r t Kennedy ha d bee n c on tacted . 1 : 40 PM : Me r i dian r epor t e d tha t a ttempts ha d been ma de t o call loca l ai r fo r
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
  • Senator Edward Kennedy's plane crash; Lady Bird calls Rose Kennedy, Birch Bayhs and Mrs. Edward Kennedy; telephone conversation with Lynda Johnson about security problem on her flight; office work; Lady Bird reads; walk around White House
  • , and then w hen e v e r y th in g i s in p la c e in it it w i l l be turned o v e r to the F e d e r a l g o v e r n m e n t, B obby w a s e a s y , r e la x e d , but he i s an e n ig m a to m e . M r s , R o s e Kennedy w a s th e r e , a s s lim and p r e
  • Women Doers Luncheon with speaker, Jane Jacobs; funny story about Mrs. Charles Marsh; LBJ makes brief appearance; office work; Dorris Powell tells stories about Lady Bird's mother; LBJ & Lady Bird to dinner in New York honoring Jacqueline Kennedy
  • and pull grapefruit out and hull it with their teeth because they didn't have food. And I lived through the Roosevelt Era and the Truman Era and the Eisenhower Era and the Kennedy Era. I knew all of those men, and I knew them reasonably well. And all
  • assassination -- to reassure a nervous world that "the gove nment in Washington lives", and to acquaint millions abroad with the new leader of America and the free world. Minutes after the bullets struck John Kennedy, USIA threw all its resources into this task
  • viewpoint and have asked the Attorney General to go into some detail in connection with the principles that we would have in this bill. We are very anxious to have Democratic and Republican support. As you know, President Kennedy in the Kennedy-Johnson
  • realised then. that poa·i tive action was long ,ove.r- dtta,. :action had: to be ca.k•n" Mom•ntum b elvil s-lshta l~om aceele.~ated tbat pojnt 011 under the le.adersh!p of tbe Kennedy- Jolut•on adm!m•~on .an4. 'by the :rietng Udo of Nes•o· ~nmtl­
  • Johnsons attend Christian Church; LBJ gives kisses to small girl, Kimberly Frye; lunch at White House with the McNamaras; Jacqueline Kennedy; bowling with Lynda; dinner with the Bill Whites and the Jack Brooks; Jake Pickle, Clark Clifford
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
  • on to the essentials it, they that to be done. Lady B~rd typified ·, in from the it by the act ' oj coming I• ,. 0 funeral simple of President Kennedy( certainly his death I ¢, . was. one of the greatest 0 she.walked ' in her -house, to go
  • LBJ to California; Lady Bird's television taping for Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation; visits by family friends; shopping; dinner with Luci Johnson, Dr. Jim Cain & Jack Valenti; to Olney Theatre for play; airplane crash of Sen. Edward Kennedy
  • ·ticipating in the "Mississippi Freedom SW111ler" project. A.copy of the letter ls enclosed. We have mailed the original directly to the President with a carbon copy sent to Attorney General Kennedy. ·1t is our feeling that a state of emergency exists
  • in our national policy. In the seven years prior to the Kennedy-Johnson Administra­ • tions, the United States suffered three recessions. A large proportion o! our industrial plant went unused, and our national production grew ..... at a rate o! only
  • Act; Lady Bird observes Robert Kennedy; LBJ & Lady Bird to LBJ Ranch
  • at .the Kennedy. Expressway and Addison Street.at 9:30 a.m. and is to consist of about_ 200 cars. The plan calls for the motorcade to.proceed to the city. hall in· the downtown Loop area and then to·· the residence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of-Chicago
  • iclent From: Larry O'Brien Carding - Letter to LBJ from Seno Robert for courtesy at signin g of civil rights bill Kennedy thank i ng him [2 of 2 (front)] ,-- . ..... .. . # •• - RE El E1J NOV 8 1965 CEN rR L FILES [2 of 2 (back
  • . "'"LE MllSTA , II. I. l'llAllL M. SAYllll, OKLA . 011 , MAllY SINCLAIR CllAW,.0110, CALIP'. MAllY C . KENNEDY, I ND. MAllY .I. •RANDON, OHIO C . TELEPHONE: LINCOLN • · 1210 ... , Chllirtn411, EMMA GUFFEY MILLEI, PENNSYLVANIA .! February 5, 1 . y
  • Tweed and · Bernard G. Segal who organized the Committee in 1963 at the request of President Kennedy and resigned as Co-Chairmen effective September 1. The Lawyers' Committee, with headquarters in Washington and a field office in Jackson, Mississippi
  • of Public Service; why LBJ kept Kennedy appointees; Lady Bird gives Pat Nixon tour of family quarters; photo montage for press women; performance of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" in East Room; dinner; LBJ has a cold
  • Lady Bird to beauty shop and works on magazine article; LBJ gives Distinguished Service Medal to Gen. Ted Clifton; Lady Bird to Jacqueline Kennedy Garden for beautification ceremony; Lady Bird looks at photos with Luci and Lynda Johnson of Lynda's
  • eynolds Russell Giffen Harry Baker Louis Robinson Russell Kennedy Accompanied by Senator Thomas K uchel of California, and California Congressmen: Harlan Hagen B. F. Sisk John Tunney 1:00 pm LUNCH with Secretary Rusk, Secretary McNamara, and McGeorge
  • of arousing life; they are now acting out fear and despair," of treat­ iri real homes and real ing "hope as the four-letter streets the splintered fanta- Ted l(ennedy Stops Parade SEN. Ted Kennedy (D· Mass.) made an unex­ pected appearance at the Purim
  • and keep to a bare minimum personal meetings between the two, such meetings have been observed. On November 20, 1963, King met personally with Levison at the International Hotel, Kennedy International Airport, New York City. The site was a room registered
  • LBJ, Lady Bird, Lynda & Luci to Paltka, FL, for Intercoastal Canal ceremonies, flipping switch for initial excavation, and presentation of ceramic bull; to Palm Beach to visit Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Kennedy; to reception for President's Club
  • ., Rcservatlon Dcr;k> Aerorn:-rves de l-~cxJ.co., 500 5th Avenue., Nc.n,JYork G,:i.t.y, 1 acl.v:U;cd SA \JOHN E. WJi;~-~ .CiIO]?F ths.t LP,tJT~ENCEnnd MJV.J:OW·_HENRY deptn:·ted frorn tTohn F'. Kennedy In'Lernr,tionnl Pij_rport, ·HGW York, via .Acrorw,ves c1e M
  • "h-'i th whor:i I uas in the) ·fight was l re~line Especially since th9 I th9 s3.r.;e Nr. Willis I _to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel. Ev~n· ?:1ore especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night
  • The White House Washington, D. C. cc: Mrs. F. Fullerwood Vice President Lyndon Johnson ACP:ms I 38 Bayview Drive St . Augu s tine , Florida September 27 , 1963 Mr . John F . Kennedy President of the United States The White House ashington , n. c. Dear