White House Films (Kennedy Administration). 1/20/1961 - 11/25/1963. Films

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White House Films (Kennedy Administration). 1/20/1961 - 11/25/1963. Films

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John F. Kennedy Library

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Atkins, Thomas M. (Thomas Maurer), 1934-

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Tom Atkins (1934- ) graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1956. In the same year, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a photographer of motion pictures and television producer. He did tours of duty with the Naval Photographic Center in Washington, D.C., the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Group, the Pentagon, and the White House. He spent six years as a cinematographer at the White House and was the Kennedy family's personal cinematographer. In November 1963 he...

Knudsen, Robert L. (Robert LeRoy), 1929-1989

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