Rfk Diaries Shed Light On An Era
April 03, 1994|By Boston
WASHINGTON — Less than
three months after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the Johnson
administration was asking Robert F. Kennedy to review the funeral bills,
according to documents released for the first time Friday by
the John F. Kennedy Library and the National Archives.
"I tried to pass this on to
Sarge," wrote Robert Kennedy's secretary, Angie Novello, referring to
Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, after the White House requested a
meeting on the funeral expenses. "But they referred it back to us.
Couldn't someone else do this?"
….The records do not include Kennedy's desk diaries for 1963
or for periods in 1962, including a 13-day stretch beginning the day before Marilyn
Monroe died on Aug. 4. Steven Tilley, head of the Kennedy collection at the
National Archives, said his agency has requested those documents from the
Kennedy Library in Boston
"We've never seen the desk diaries for 1963 or for the
gaps in 1962," said Will Johnson, the chief archivist at the Kennedy
Library. "We've asked the Kennedy family for them, but no one really
seemed to know if they existed."
I have been told by other researchers that some materials
that had not been made available by the presidential library, the Kennedy
Presidential Library, up here -- and I know that you were there yesterday and
that you doubtless know more about those than I do, and so, I'm just going to
give a written summary of oral histories, but there were some gaps in the
Robert Kennedy material, including his desk diaries -- the year 1963 was
missing -- telephone messages for '62 and '63 are missing but resume in
'64, and logs of Robert Kennedy telephone conversations. I have a feeling you
know much more about this than I do.
No comments:
Post a Comment