Kennedy for President papers, 1960-1963.

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Kennedy for President papers, 1960-1963.

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Papers of Jack DeWitt, a Madison, Wis., attorney, documenting the efforts of the Wisconsin Volunteers for Kennedy and the Citizens for Kennedy Committee of Dane County during the 1960 presidential election. DeWitt, along with Robert Martinson, served as a director for both groups which, along with the Kennedy for President Club of Wisconsin, worked together to promote Kennedy's candidacy during the 1960 election and to lobby his administration to employ Wisconsinites in the federal government.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Dewitt, Jack 1900-1981

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Kennedy for President Club of Wisconsin.

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Citizens for Kennedy Committee of Dane County (Wis.)

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Wisconsin Volunteers for Kennedy.

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

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