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Airport, New York City:The law changing the name of Idlewild International Aerodrome to John F. Kennedy International Airport was signed by New York Mayor Robert Wagner on Midweek, December 18, 1963. A dedication ceremony was held on Tuesday, December 24, 1963 at 11:00 AM. Meet theNew York Timescommodity of December 19, 1963, p. 25.

Appointment Books, General Information: The White Firm appointment books were kept by Evelyn Lincoln, the President's secretary, and recorded his workday appointments and activities. The Kennedy assistants White House appointment books are past no means the consummate record of the President'southward activities that such books tend to exist for modern presidents.

Armorial Bearings of President John F. Kennedy

Bump-off:

• November 22, 1963
• Dallas, Texas (Dealy Plaza)
• 12:thirty p.m., CST (fourth dimension approx.)
• Pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital 1:00 p.m., CST
• First printing report by UPI 12:34 p.m. CST

B

Back Caryatid: Markings on the brace that President Kennedy wore point that it came from the Washington, D.C. firm of Nelson Kloman Surgical Supply Visitor.

Baseball game: During his school years, John F. Kennedy played baseball every bit a pitcher (right-handed) and 3rd baseman. John F. Kennedy threw out the opening solar day pitch for the Washington Senators, who were playing the Baltimore Orioles, on Apr viii, 1963.

Nascence: May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy was born in the primary chamber on the second floor of 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.

Boats:

• The Manitou:
  • Length: 62 feet overall (44 feet on water line). Beam: 13 anxiety. Draft: 9 feet.
  • Ability: gasoline engine (7-8 knots).
  • Equipment: radio direction finder, fathometer, radio telephone.
  • Accommodations: icebox, propane stove, usable fireplace, head forward, and head admidships. Sleeps 3 crew forwards, four in main cabin and the main stateroom aft sleeps 2.
  • Marconi rigged yawl.
  • Requires at least 3 experiened hands to sail her and some other 2 or 3 to handle the sails and gear.
  • In addition to regular working sails, has a complete ready of racing sails.
  • Designed for off-shore sailing with comfortable accommodations.
  • Donated in 1955 to the Coast Guard University.
  • Built in 1947 by Thousand. M. Davis and Son in Solomans, Maryland for the James Lowes of Chicago.
  • Named after Manitou Passage in Lake Michigan. "Manitou" means "Spirit of the H2o."
  • Chosen by President Kennedy in 1962: "floating White Firm."
  • Sold by government (Defense Surplus Sales Office) on May 23, 1968 to the Harry Lundeberg Schoolhouse of Seamanship at Piney Point, Maryland for $35,000. Used for training the Merchant Marine.
• Honey Fitz:
  • Length: 92' three"
  • Beam: 16' 6"
  • Typhoon: 4' x"
  • Cruising Speed: 12 knots
  • Weight: 88 tons
  • Built: 1931 by Defoe Boat Works in Bay City, Michigan
• Marlin:
  • Owned by the Kennedy family from 1952 to 1970.
  • Length: 52'. Axle: 12'. Typhoon: iii.5'.
  • Deputed by Edsel Ford.
  • Designed by Boston naval architect Walter J. McInnis and constructed by F. D. Lawley of Quincy, Massachusetts in 1930.
  • Rum-runner hull configuration and two Sterling Dolphin six-cylinder 300hp engines allow speeds of thirty knots and more.
  • Built of double plank mahogany with wide hull and varnished superstructure.
  • Open up cockpit frontwards measuring 9' x 10'.
  • Combination galley and crew'southward quarters aft of the forward cockpit.
  • Originally designed with open bridge and powered by Chrysler Royal iii cylinder marine engine.
  • Special equipment: fathometer and ship-to-shore radio.
• The Caroline K.
  • Classed as an outboard runabout.
  • 17' in length, 5' beam.
  • Cruising speed 35 mph.
  • Built by Kenway Boat Co., of Saco, Maine.
  • Purchased by Joseph P. Kennedy in July 1960 as a birthday gift for Jacqueline Kennedy.
  • Powered past a 75hp Evinrude outboard motor.
• The Flash II:
  • A one-blueprint International Star Form gunkhole No. 902.
  • Built in 1930, it was sold to John F. Kennedy and his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in 1934. After Joseph was killed in 1944, the boat was sold to a crewman in Maine.
• The Victura:
  • Wiano Senior Grade Sloop, 25' long 8' wide, 3500 lbs
  • Built past Crosby Boatyards, Osterville, MA in 1932.

Books, Favorites as Child (Rose Kennedy Personal Papers, "Modernistic Times: Memorials, grandchildren, etc. and the futurity")

• Arabian Nights
• Baton Whiskers series
• Kidnapped past Robert Louis Stevenson
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Child's Garden of Verses past Robert Louis Stevenson
• King Arthur and the Round Table by A.Thou. Hadfield
• Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Macauley
• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
• Kim past Rudyard Kipling
• Bambi by Felix Salten
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Peter Pan by J.Yard. Barrier
• Black Dazzler past Anna Sewell
• Story of a Bad Male child by Thomas B. Aldrich
• Wing and Fly by James Fenimore Cooper
• Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest T. Seton
• At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
• Pilgrim'due south Progress by John Bunyan
• Wonder Tales From East and West, Introduction past Maud Wilder Goodwin

Books, Favorites equally President (White Firm Central Subject field Files, Box 722, "PP xv-5: Preferences and hobbies, Books-Authors-Poetry-Prose-Fiction")

• Lord Melbourne past David Cecil
• Montrose by John Buchan
• Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
• John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis
• The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
• The Toll of Union past Herbert Agar
• John C. Calhoun past Margaret L. Coit
• Talleyrand past Duff Cooper
• Byron in Italia by Peter Quennell
• The Reddish and the Black by Yard. de Stendhal
• From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
• Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan

Male child Scouts: The President was a Boy Scout in Troop 2 for two years in Bronxville, New York. He was also active in the Boston Council from 1946 to 1955: as Commune Vice Chairman, Member of the Executive Board for more than four years, Vice President for one yr, and National Council Representative for two years. He was Honorary President of the National arrangement of the Boy Scouts of America in 1961.

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Campaign 1946: On April 25, 1946, John F. Kennedy entered the race for the 11th Congressional District seat, which was being given up by James Michael Curley. The District comprised Boston wards one, two, 3, and 22; Cambridge; and Somerville wards ane, 2, and 3.

Campaign 1952: Announced his candidacy on Apr half-dozen, 1952.

Car: 1959 Pontiac Convertible Coupe. Vehicle Identification/Engine #859F-1111.

Christmas Cards (White House)

Churches Attended

Condolence Carte sent by Mrs. Kennedy

Cigars:John F. Kennedy smoked 4-5 a twenty-four hour period. His preference was for Upmanns or Monticellos. (White House Cardinal Subject Files, Box 722, "PP 15: Preferences and Hobbies, General")

Confirmation Proper name: Francis

Cuban Missile Crunch: List of letters exchanged past Kennedy and Khrushchev. Too a chronology of events.

D

Desk in the Oval Role: History of desk, and items it independent.

Doodles: From 1952 until the President's death, Mrs. Evelyn Lincoln, his personal secretary, accumulated and catalogued these materials. Virtually of the doodles are part of the Personal Papers of John F. Kennedy and farther information can be institute in the finding aid of that collection.

East

Ballot 1960: Announced his candidacy January ii, 1960 in Washington, DC.

• Statement
• Primaries
• Tabulation of first ballot for presidential nominees
• Complete results
• Closeness of results

Schedule of debates:

• First Debate, 9/26/sixty: Originated from CBS in Chicago and was carried by all networks. Watched past an estimated 70,000,000 people.
• Second Contend, ten/seven/lx: Originated from NBC in Washington, D.C. carried by all networks.
  3rd Fence, 10/13/60: Entitled "Face-to-Confront, Nixon-Kennedy" originated ABC Hollywood (Nixon) and New York (John F. Kennedy) carried by all networks.
• 4th Debate, 10/21/threescore: Originated from ABC New York carried by all networks.

Eulogies to President Kennedy Delivered in the United states of america Capitol, 11/24/63

F

Favorites:

• Quotations:
  • "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for practiced men to exercise zippo." (Edmund Burke)
  • FromOne Human being's America, by Alistair Cooke: On the 19th of May, 1780, as Mr. Cooke describes information technology, in Hartford, Connecticut, the skies at apex turned from blue to gray and past mid-afternoon had blackened over and so densely that, in that religious age, men savage on their knees and begged a final blessing before the end came. The Connecticut House of Representatives was in session. And as some men fell downward in the darkened chamber and others clamored for an firsthand adjournment, the Speaker of the House, one Colonel Daveport, came to his feet. And he silenced the din with these words: "The Twenty-four hours of Judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be establish doing my duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought."
  • From Dante'due southInferno.
• Sports: Golf game, Sailing, Swimming, Lawn tennis

Funeral:

• After Activity Written report
• Casket Data: President Kennedy had ii caskets. The first, which was used in transit from Parkland Memorial Hospital to Bethesda Naval Hospital, was a Handley Britannia model manufactured by the Elgin Catafalque Company. The casket, a 400-pound, double-walled, hermetically sealed coffin made of solid bronze, was damaged when it was removed from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base of operations on November 22, 1963. The second (burial) casket was selected at Joseph Gawler's Sons, Inc. of Washington, D.C. Manufactured by the Marsellus Casket Company, the coffin was fabricated of manus-rubbed, 500-year-old African mahogany and upholstered in white rayon.
• Eulogies at U.Due south. Capitol
• Music
• Pallbearers ("We carried Kennedy'southward coffin," by Ed Hymoff,Pageant magazine, December 1965.)
  • George A. Barnum (Declension Baby-sit)
  • Hubert Clark (Navy)
  • Timothy F. Cheek (Marines)
  • Richard E. Gaudreau (Air Force)
  • Samuel R. Bird (Ground forces, commanding)
  • James L. Felder (Army)
  • Douglas A. Mayfield (Army)
  • Larry B. Smith (Navy)
  • Jerry J. Diamond (Marines)

G

Godfather: Thomas A. Fitzgerald (maternal uncle)

Godmother: Loretta Connelly (aunt)

Grave:

• Description
• Inscription on granite wall below grave: Excerpts taken from President Kennedy's January 1961 Countdown Address. Stonework was done by John E. Benson of Newport, Rhode Isle
• Children: On December four, 1963 the bodies of John F. Kennedy'southward unnamed babe girl, still-born on August 23, 1956, and Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, who died on August 9, 1963 2 days after birth, were brought to Washington, DC. aboard the Kennedy family unit plane, the "Caroline," so interred in graves on either side of their begetter, the girl to the correct, the boy to the left, at Arlington National Cemetery. They were moved along with their father to the permanent grave on March 14, 1967.

H

Harvard Years:

• Address 1939-40: Winthrop Business firm F 14
• Field of Concentration: Government
• Graduation Date: June xx, 1940, S. B. cum Laude

Height: six' 1"

"High Hopes" Campaign Song:Sung past Frank Sinatra to the tune of his 1959 hit single, "High Hopes," only with lyrics changed in back up of the 1960 Autonomous presidential candidate.

I

Inaugural Accost: Fewer than 1900 words (the shortest since 1905), between 16-17 minutes long.

Inaugural Poem (Robert Frost): "The Souvenir Outright." Frost had composed a longer poem, "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration," simply was plain unable to see his text in the mid-mean solar day glare and recited the older poem instead.

Inauguration:

• Oath: Administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren
• Bible held by Clerk of the Supreme Court James Browning, later a Federal Appellate Judge in the 9th commune with offices in San Francisco
• Encounter theBoston Earth, Saturday, Jan 21, 1961 for a story on the family unit'southward children during the inaugural.

L

Legislation:

• First bill signed into law: (PL 87-3) an human activity restoring military rank to former President Eisenhower. Signed 3/22/61.
• Concluding bill signed into police force: (PL 88-185) authorizing the hitting of medals to commemorate the founding of the first union health center of the ILGWU. Signed eleven/xx/63.
• Summaries of legislation passed during Kennedy years are independent in the publicationSummary of the Iii-year Kennedy Record and Digest of Major Accomplishments of the Lxxx-7th Congress and the Lxxx-eighth Congress, Usa Congress.

License: #53332D

License Plate: As Senator: MA-1995

Limousine, Presidential: 1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine "10-100" in "metalic navy bluish." Equipped with ii jump seats, the car could seat 6 adults. The blueish interior had mouton carpeting on the flooring, a wool broadcloth roof interior and all leather seats. Storage space for machine guns under the front seat and in the trunk compartment. Rear seat power operated and rose approximately ten and one one-half inches, putting the President in full view. Contained foot stands for the President's feet. Accessories: two flagstaffs (one on each front fender), ii flashing type reddish lights located only above the front end bumper, a siren, 2 spotlights for the flags on the fender, a ii way radio telephone, an A-M radio and speaker in the rear compartment, a floodlight to illuminate the rear seat, lap robes incorporating the Presidential Seal, grab handles, a first assistance kit, emergency lite fire extinguisher. A continental rear tire organisation at the rear held the spare tire. On either side of the tire was a stand for hugger-mugger service men, also as toward the front and rear on each side.

M

Movies: The following are some of the movies that John F. Kennedy saw during his presidency:

• Spartacus, February 3, 1961
• The World of Apu, February 16, 1961
• 1-Eyed Jack, March 30, 1961
• All in a Night's Work, April two, 1961

N

Navy Years:

• Draft number data: While at Stanford in 1940, John F. Kennedy registered for the typhoon. Thirteen days afterward Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, blindfolded, reached into the ten-gallon "fishbowl" and began cartoon numbers for the typhoon lottery. On the eighteenth draw he pulled out number 2748, Kennedy'due south. As a higher student, however, he was able to defer until July of 1941.
• Separation information: Serial # 116071/1109
• Medals and awards:
• Navy and Marine Corps Medal
• Regal Heart Medal
• American Defence force Service Medal
• American Entrada Medal (LST-449 P19-1)
• Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with 3 bronze stars) (PT-59 P24-iv)
• World War II Victory Medal PT-109 P21-1

O

Officials of the Kennedy Administration: January xx, 1961 - November 22, 1963.

Oval Part:Listing of items in the office and on the desk.

P

Pets in the White House: Two parakeets: Bluebell and Maybell; three dogs: Charlie, Pushinka and Clipper; and ii ponies: Macaroni and Tex. Complete list of pets.

Portraits: The portraits of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline B. Kennedy hanging in the White Firm were painted by Aaron Shikler.

Presidential Medal of Freedom (Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President'due south Part Files. Subjects. Medal of Laurels, Medal of Freedom)

PT 109:

• P.T. 109 was congenital by the Elco Naval Division of the Electric Post Company in Bayonne, N.J. It was delivered to the Navy on July 10, 1942. Fitting was completed at the New York Naval Shipyard. Lieutenant John F. Kennedy took command of P.T. 109 on April 24, 1942. He was the third commander of the ship. It was cutting in two by the Japanese destroyer Amagari on 8/two/43.
• Words on Coconut: Lieutenant Kennedy sent a bulletin by style of friendly islanders who had found him and his men after their shipwreck. The message was composed of these words carved into the pare of a coconut: NAURO ISL...COMMANDER...NATIVE KNOWS POS'It...HE Tin PILOT...11ALIVE...NEED SMALL Boat...KENNEDY.

Q

Quotations

R

Reading Speed: John F. Kennedy could read 1,200 words a minute. In 1954-1955 he attended meetings at the Foundation for Better Reading in Baltimore.

Residences

S

Secret Service Code Names

Senate Role: Room #362 Senate Part Building

Social Security Number: 026-22-3747

Speeches

Sunglasses: Two pairs of glasses with tortoise shell frame, one with inscriptions "American Optical" and "True color Polaroid tc74-51" and the other with "Cabana TS 2505."

T

Telly Appearances (Before September 26, 1960)

V

Voting Record and Stands on Issues, Pre-Presidential

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Wedding Details

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