Harvard, Kennedys Launch Drive To Get $6 Million for JFK Library

President Pusey, Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy announced plans yesterday to raise $6 million to build the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library on a Business School site overlooking the Charies River.

At a meeting in Boston they formed a corporation to prepare specifications for the building and to conduct a public fund drive. The Attorney General and his brother will serve as president and vice president of the corporation; other incorporators in addition to President Pusey, include Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, special assistant to the President, and Evelya Lincolin, President Kennedy's secretary.

Harvard Deeds Land

Pusey told a press conference that Harvard would deed several acres for the library to the federal government. Although money for the memorial will be raised by public subscription, funds for its upkeep will be forthcoming under federal legislation, and the Bureau of Archives will provide a staff. The Truman and Eisenhower Presidential libraries are maintained in this way.

"A Fitting Memorial"

Pusey termed the library "a fitting memorial for an outstanding scholar of our times." He explained that the building would house some of the late President's personal effects, as well as state papers, in order to establish "the public character of the library as well as its schoiarity aspects."

No Architect

No architect has been selected yet to design, the building, Pusey stated. However, John, Warnecke, a California architect who is delighting the Kennedy tomb at Arlington, has been mentioned for the project.

The corporation formed yesterday will appoint a board of trustees to do the bulk of the fundraising. Both the Attorney General and the Senator said they would take roiled in the end cavor.

The site for the memorial library was choses by Kenneday himself after several visits to the University. Pusey said he had last met with the late President to plan the structure on Oct. 21, a month before the association. He said Kenneday was "most anxious that the library for his papers should be immediately accessible to scholars."