This collection contains videocassettes, framed photographs, campaign buttons, bumper stickers, autographs and other memorabilia related to the lives and political campaigns of Robert Kennedy, Joe Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. The collection also contains an autographed Pro Set Senior PGA Tour card featuring Sam Snead.

This collection was donated to the William Madison Randall Library by Metta King in June 2003. Additional items donated August 2007.

The Collection has been designated Accession Number 247 of the Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297.

There are no access restrictions.

Processed by Melissa Reece
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library
The University of North Carolina Wilmington
June 10, 2003

Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File

247/1/1
Picture frame containing items related to the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy.
Kennedy bumper sticker, printed by New York press for Kennedy For President.
Political Flyer, Kennedy for President

247/1/3
Picture frame containing items related to Robert Kennedy. Button – “If I were 21 I’d vote for Kennedy”
1968 Kennedy for President - California Democratic Primary Election Precinct Volunteer Card.
Pamphlet – Make Your Vote Count – Kennedy for President – Democratic Primary, May 7, 1968
Robert Francis Kennedy Memorial Coin       
Robert Kennedy Autograph with Certificate of Authenticity signed by Bill Chapman, President of Sports Collectors, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Memorial Card for Robert Kennedy

247/1/4
Picture Frame containing program for requiem mass held in honor of Robert F. Kennedy at the Church of the Assumption, Rochelle Park, NJ on June 14, 1968.  

247/2/2
Picture frame containing Autographed photo of Joe Kennedy.

247/2/4
Picture frame containing 4 buttons related to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s 2004 presidential campaign and one bumper sticker - Townsend for Governor.

247/2/5
Picture frame containing an autographed Pro Set Senior PGA Tour card featuring Sam Snead.

247/3/1    
VHS  - "Biography – Robert F. Kennedy," 1996, A&E Home Video, Color & B/W, 50 min. 

247/3/2    
VHS  - "The Speeches Collection - Robert F. Kennedy," 1990, MPI Home Video, Color & B/W, 50 min. 

247/3/3     
VHS  - "Bobby Kennedy: In His Own Words," 1990, Kunhardt Productions, Inc. HBO Home Video, Color & B/W, 53 min.

247/3/4     
VHS  - "Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir," 1998, Stuart Television Productions, Inc. & Jack Newfield, 120 min.

247/3/5     
VHS  - "Thirteen Days," 2001, New Line Home Entertainment, Color, 147 min.

247/3/6    
VHS  - "JFK in Ireland," White Star, a Division of Kultur, Color, 42 min.

247/3/8    
VHS  - "The American Experience – The Kennedys: The Early Years (1900 – 1961)," 1992, WGBH Boston, 1994, Shanachie Home Video.

247/3/9    
VHS  - "The American Experience – The Kennedys: The Later Years (1962 – 1980)," 1992, WGBH Boston, 1994, Shanachie Home Video.

247/3/10     
Compact Disk – "Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Words," 1995, The Great North West Music Company, 39:24 min.

247/3/11    
1 Coffee Mug - “Bobby for President” logo. Mann Made Mugs Exclusive.

247/4/1
Plate with Robert F. Kennedy Design

247/5/1
Campaign Pamphlets/Brochures

247/5/2
Commemorative Stamps and Coin

247/5/3
Autographed Kennedy photos

247/5/4
Card, Pamphlet, and 45 Record regarding the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy

247/5/5
Time Magazine (Atlantic Edition), May and June 1968

247/5/6
Letters from Robert F .Kennedy while in Senate, 1967

247/6/1
Campaign Drive Posters/Announcements

247/6/2
“Kennedy” bumper stickers

247/6/3
Miscellaneous

247/7/1
Campaign Buttons

247/8/1
“Kennedy” Campaign Buttons

247/9/1
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Campaign Buttons, 2002 and 2004

247/10/1
Memorial Medal and “Bobby for President” Mug

247/11/1
Resolution of the Committee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate presented to Walter L. Reynolds
“Kennedy for President Election Extra”

Oversized posters

-Robert F. Kennedy on yellow background, signed
-B&W photo of RFK, “Kennedy” in red and blue lettering, copy 1
-B&W photo of RFK, “Kennedy” in red and blue lettering
-B&W photo of RFK, “Kennedy” in red and blue lettering, copy 2
-“All Chicago Welcomes Bob Kennedy”
-Color Photo of RFK face and red letters on black “Kennedy”
-“Elect Johnson, Humphrey, Kennedy AND THE ENTIRE…”
-Black lettering: “Kennedy” with red upper and blue lower stripe
-B&W smiling photo of RFK with “Kennedy” written in red
-Cut out B&W RFK photo, white background, “Kennedy” in red and blue letters
-Poster with only Kennedy’s face, printed in 1967
-“LET’S PUT ROBERT KENNEDY TO WORK FOR NEW YORK” in blue

COPYRIGHT:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.