Roswell L. Gilpatric Personal Papers, 1956 - 1967. Kennedy Family Files, 1962 - 1969.

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Roswell L. Gilpatric Personal Papers, 1956 - 1967. Kennedy Family Files, 1962 - 1969.

1962-1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47831779

This series includes Roswell Gilpatric’s correspondence setting up a "Hickory Hill Seminar" with Dr. David Donald of Princeton University, the Civil War/Reconstruction historian. This session of the Seminar was held in the White House, although originally it was intended to be held at the Gilpatrics. There is some correspondence between Gilpatric and President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline B. Kennedy. A folder of Robert F. Kennedy material includes documentation of a very limited role by Gilpatric in the Birmingham civil rights crisis on 1963, and contains some correspondence after Robert Kennedy left his post as Attorney General. Also included is some correspondence on Sargent Shriver’s proposed program of legal services for the poor and some commentary on the security aspects of Theodore Sorensen’s book, Kennedy.

2 linear inches

eng, Latn

John F. Kennedy Library

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John F. Kennedy Library

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Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

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