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Last spring, the Carnegie Corporation gave $300,000 for the project and named Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, to head a committee which would direct interviews with the late President's intimate friends, advisors, and selected public officials...
...Handlin committee was to oversee the first phase of the oral history, which would be a series of spontaneous interviews with those close to the President The committee was then to write a report, detailing the project's second phase, which was to be a more systematic account of the Kennedy years...
After several months of interviewing, the Handlin committee wrote its report, recommending that the whole project be transferred to Washington to be near the majority of its subjects. As a result, the Carnegie funds have recently been real-located to the Federal government, the project has been moved to the National Archives in Washington, and Charles T. Morrissey, former staff member of the Harry S. Truman Library, has replaced Handlin as director of the oral record...
Other Faculty members are Ernest R. May, Senior Tutor of Kirkland House; Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy and an Associate of Kirkland House; Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History and a Fellow of Leverett House; and B.J. Whiting '25, professor of English and a Fellow of Lowell House...
...Handlin was a member of a faculty committee which last year recommend abolition of all elements of choice in House assignment in favor of assignment by computer...