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Archive of approximately 35 original office records from Peter Lawford’s Chrislaw Productions and related files, dating from March–December 1962, consisting of long-distance telephone records, Desilu Productions message sheets, daily contact lists, and handwritten office memoranda. The records document communications involving an extraordinary cross-section of political, entertainment, and social figures, including President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Evelyn Lincoln, Pierre Salinger, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Barron Hilton, Sargent Shriver, Arthur Krim, Pat Newcomb, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, and numerous others. Particularly notable are records from July and August 1962, immediately before and after Marilyn Monroe’s death, with repeated references to Monroe’s press agent and close confidante Pat Newcomb and communications among members of the Kennedy–Lawford–Sinatra circle. Included are multiple Chrislaw Productions long-distance telephone logs, Desilu Productions message sheets dated August 7, August 16, and August 20, 1962, handwritten contact lists, office notes, and a large-format photograph of President Kennedy at the Lawford residence. In overall very good to fine condition, with expected handling wear and filing marks.
Peter Lawford occupied a unique position at the intersection of Hollywood and the Kennedy White House, serving as both a Rat Pack insider and the brother-in-law of President Kennedy. These contemporaneous office records provide a rare documentary glimpse into the communications network surrounding Lawford during one of the most scrutinized years in American political and entertainment history. Spanning the months of Kennedy’s celebrated May 1962 birthday gala, Marilyn Monroe’s final summer, and the immediate aftermath of her death, the archive preserves the names, messages, and telephone activity of many of the era’s most recognizable figures, offering an unusual behind-the-scenes record of the social and professional circles that connected Hollywood, Washington, and the Kennedy family.
