The following is a list of collections relating to the Administration of John Fitsgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963.

Kennedy Administration, Oral Histories.

Part I: White House & Executive Depts. Part II: Congress, individuals, etc. (318 microfiche) (Microform & printed guide Micro Coll E846 .O72 1986x) This set contains over 500 oral histories, some of the better known interviewees and key players are listed below, others are not referenced and you will need to consult the guide:

Elie Abel Ross Barnett Edmund Brown Richard Cardinal Cushing J. William Fulbright Walter Heller Hubert Humphrey Henry Cabot Lodge John McCormack George Meany James Meredith Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Stewart Udall

Dean Acheson Chester Bowles Chiang Kai-shek Felix Frankfurter W. Averell Harriman Richard Helms Nikita Khrushchev Henry Luce Thurgood Marshall Marie McGuire Gaylord Nelson Esther Peterson Maxwell Taylor Roy Wilkins

Much primary resource material is available in regards to the Kennedy Administration's foreign relations. Check InfoTree under National Security File for more information on the following series.

Africa;
Asia and the Pacific;
Crisis in Panama and the Dominican Republic;
Latin America;
Middle East;
United Nations;
USSR and Eastern Europe;
Vietnam. 1961-1963
Western Europe.

President Kennedy and the Press, 1961-1963. From the "Presidential Documents" Series. (20 rolls microfilm and printed guide, Micro Coll E841 .P7 1981a.)

Note: the guide also covers the Appointment Book of President Kennedy, a set not owned by the Library.

The Digital National Security Files contains on-line, full-text, resources of similiar materials by general topic or event. In regards to the Kenndey Administration note the following series:

Berlin Crisis 1958-1962;

Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962;

Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976;

Presidential directives on national security from Truman to Clinton;

U.S. Espionage and Intelligence: Organization, Operations, and Management, 1947-1996;

The U.S. Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947-1989;

U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991;
U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955-1968;

U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945-1991.

For previously classified federal government documents in general, including those from the Kennedy Administration era, see the Declassified Documents Reference System.

The following also has much in the way of primary resource material. Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political: United States of America, Politics and Diplomacy, 1960-1974. (Microfilm and guides, E 183.8 .G7 F57 1997.)

This series issued by Adam Matthew Publications as the Foreign Office files, United States of America. Series one... It consists of materials selected from the Public Record Office class FO/371 series. Of interest here is Part 1, the John F. Kennedy years, 1960-1963 (rolls 1-26); and part 2, the Lyndon B. Johnson years 1964-1968 (rolls 27-56).