JFK's grades
This is John F. Kennedy's academic transcript from Harvard University, class of 1940.
Kennedy and Gromyko
Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko visited President John F. Kennedy on October 18, 1961. After discussing the situation in Berlin, Gromyko finally...
Kennedy's map of Cuba
President John F. Kennedy used this map during Cuban Missile Crisis meetings from September 1962 to October 1962 to show the location in Cuba of a potential missile...
“Keystone Kop”
Future president John F. Kennedy appears in this photograph dressed as a “Keystone Kop,” as his younger sister Eunice looks on. The picture was taken in...
Lee H. Oswald during his enlistment as a Marine
Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, worked at the book depository. He was arrested for Kennedy’s assassination on November 22. On November 24, while in police...
Memorandum for the President
Attorney General Robert Kennedy's October 24 report to his brother, the President, on his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin highlights the tensions...
Peace Corps Act
Passed in 1961, this Act formalized President John F. Kennedy’s vision of a volunteer organization to provide education and skilled manpower to developing nations....