Chief Counsel Robert Kennedy, Senator John F. Kennedy, and Senator Karl E. Mundt at the Hearing of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Activities in Labor-Management Relations, 1957 (Douglas Jones for LOOK Magazine)
The complete audio recording from Air Force One on the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination has now been made available online, including 42 minutes of previously unreleased tape. It covers a phone call of condolence from newly sworn-in President Johnson to Rose Kennedy, as well as code-name heavy communications between Air Force chief of staff General Curtis LeMay, an outspoken critic of Kennedy.
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