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The Kennedy Collection documents the lives of Dr. Thomas Simpson Kennedy, Judge Willaim T. Kennedy, and John D. Kennedy and their family. The collection includes photographs of the Kennedy family, manuscripts, and a research file. The manuscripts were written by William T. Kennedy and primarily describe vignettes from his early law career and the career of his father, Dr. Thomas Kennedy.

Newspapers, magazines, journal articles, and other materials relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy including issues of the New York Times, Life, Look , National Geographic, and other printed and published materials. Other topics include the Bay of Pigs, Ethel Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Kenneth D. Kelly served in the 78th US Naval Construction Battalion during World War II on New Caledonia, the Admiralty Islands, and on Okinawa. Included in his collection are a number of news articles related to the Seabees, his typed memoir, and a copy of the unit's battalion log.

Consists of Kent Spriggs' case files related to the 1973 retrial of Dave Keaton and Johnny Frederick of the Quincy Five and those related to Keaton et al. v. Townsend, a civil case brought by the Quincy Five against the State of Florida and Joe Townsend for the coerced testimony that implicated the men in the case. Included in these files are correspondence with Alfonse Figgers, Dave Keaton, David Charles Smith, Johnny Frederick, and Johnny Burns who were collectively known as the Quincy Five.

The collection consists primarily of correspondence and documents relating to Ken van Assenderp's involvement with Florida State University in the years since his time as a student.