John F. Kennedy's 42nd news conference

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Date
1962-08-29
Summary
President announces the retirement of Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and his appointment of Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg to fill the vacancy, and the Soviet proposition that an agreement should be reached on a cut-off time for all nuclear weapons tests. Reporters ask about reducing tensions in Berlin, nuclear testing, the Postmaster General and pornography, his brother’s campaign for Senate, the foreign aid bill, Cuba, Berlin, the Laos Conference, UN bonds, and the dangers from the widespread use of DDT and other pesticides.
Publisher
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Group W
Genre
Special events radio coverage
Collection
Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Physical Description
sound tape reel
Notes
A guide to the full collection of Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes is available in our archival collections: https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/43884
Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: bcast-077363; Other: 0492-MMC

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