Reminiscences of Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor : Oral history, 1994. 1995.

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Reminiscences of Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor : Oral history, 1994. 1995.

Family background and education; comments on Father Joseph Coughlin and Franklin D. Roosevelt; career in the priesthood: graduate education, service as military chaplain, on becoming Archbishop of New York; reflections of Cardinal Francis Spellman's political activities; relationship with Edward I. Koch [Koch]; response to Koch's Executive Order 50; Koch and the Catholic Church; relationship with Jesse Jackson; the Catholic Church and fight against racism and anti-semitism; support of unions in New York City.

Transcript: 27 pp.2 tapes: 1 reel.

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