Collection of material about John F. Kennedy, ca. 1959-1969.

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Collection of material about John F. Kennedy, ca. 1959-1969.

Collection consists primarily of miscellaneous magazines, books, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the life and presidential administration of John F. Kennedy. Also includes materials about members of the Kennedy family including Robert Kennedy.

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

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7429094

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...

Dowdy, Andrew Hunter, 1904-

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Dowdy was born in MO, Nov. 24, 1904; chairman and professor of the Dept. of Radiology and one of the five original founders of the School of Medicine at the UCLA. Kennedy was born in Brookline, MA, May 29, 1917; graduated from Harvard (1940) and entered the Navy; started as a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area and went on to the Senate in 1953; married Jacqueline Bouvier, Sept. 12, 1953; wrote Profiles in courage (1955) and won the Pulitzer Prize in history; Ken...