Correspondence, press releases, news clippings, photographs and other materials documenting President John F. Kennedy's visit to Amherst College on October 26, 1963 for a special convocation at which he and poet Archibald MacLeish were awarded honorary degrees, and for a groundbreaking ceremony for the Robert Frost Library.

This collection is organized into seven series:

• PREPARATIONS, 1963
• SPEECHES, 1963
• PHOTOGRAPHS, 1963 Oct 26
• PRESS COVERAGE OF THE EVENTS, 1963
• SCRAPBOOKS, 1963
• POST-EVENT CORRESPONDENCE, 1963-1968
• RETROSPECTIVES, 1963-2005