Andrew Dowdy Collection of Material about John F. Kennedy, ca. 1959-1969

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Andrew Dowdy Collection of Material about John F. Kennedy, ca. 1959-1969

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Andrew Dowdy (b.1904) was the chairman and professor of the Department of Radiology, and one of the five original founders of the School of Medicine at the UCLA. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) started as a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, went on to the Senate in 1953, and was elected the 35th President of the U.S. in 1961. He was killed in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. The collection consists primarily of miscellaneous magazines, books, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the life and presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, and materials about members of the Kennedy family, including Robert Kennedy.

8 boxes (4.0 linear ft.); 6 oversize boxes

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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

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Dowdy, Andrew Hunter, 1904-

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