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Finding Aid for the Andrew Dowdy Collection of Material about John F. Kennedy, ca. 1959-1969
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Title: Andrew Dowdy Collection of Material about John F. Kennedy,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1959-1969
Collection number: 1118
Creator:
Dowdy, Andrew Hunter, 1904-
Extent: 8 boxes (4.0 linear ft.)
6 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Andrew Dowdy (b.1904) was the chairman and professor of the Department of Radiology, and one of the five original founders
of the School of Medicine at the UCLA. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) started as a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area,
went on to the Senate in 1953, and was elected the 35th President of the U.S. in 1961. He was killed in Dallas, Texas, November
22, 1963. The collection consists primarily of miscellaneous magazines, books, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the life
and presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, and materials about members of the Kennedy family, including Robert Kennedy.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dr. Andrew H. Dowdy, 1972.
[Identification of item], Andrew Dowdy Collection of Material about John F. Kennedy (Collection 1118). Department of Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Dowdy was born in Missouri, November 24, 1904; chairman and professor of the Department of Radiology and one of the five original
founders of the School of Medicine at the UCLA.
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, 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, September 12,
1953; wrote
Profiles in courage (1955) and won the Pulitzer Prize in history; Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the U.S. in 1961; the youngest man
elected President, he was killed in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963.
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.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963.
Periodicals.