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ION CONTAI on Edward Mee the election on 11-6-62. for re-election. ¢) {|withdraw and apply for readmission later. S UNCLASSIFIED EXC O RWIS ENT fk enator Benj WHERE SHOV SE. “SE sf emorandum } —< TO : Mr. DeLoach FROM : np . SUBJECT: EDWARD M. "TEDDY" KENNEDY (D) SENATOR-ELECT--MASSACHUSETTS BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Su tard ARs P 11-21-62 , uly. vel — Trotter - Tele. Room . Holmes é Gandy r Pi nnedy defeated Republican candidate George C. Lodge during amin A. Smith , Wane Yee be had om Chote , the incumbent, was not a candidate The 9-28-62 issue of "Time" magazine contained an article concerning Senator Kennedy which reflected that he had obtained.a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1956 from Harvard, and when he was turned down by the Harvard Law School, he entered the University of Virginia Law School where he earned a Bachelor of Laws Degree in 1959. The 4-9-62 issue of 'U. S. News and World Report" carried an article concerning the announcement by Kennedy that during his second semester at Harvard, he was having difficulty in a foreign language course and arranged for a fellow freshman to take the {examination for him. When school officials. learned of this, both students were asked to children, Kara and Edward, Jr. INFORMATION IN BUFILES: On 5-11-54 Kennedy's father, Jose Kennedy was married in 1958 and has two Sa ” sc 2S2 2 <= ay Sad Ny TM ny ph P. Kennedy, called the Bureau and spoke to former Assistant to the Director Nichols. He advised he had feceivéd information been permitted to go to school at Fort, Holabird, Maryland, while in thé U. S? Army that Drew Pearson was going to write a story about his son "Teddy" insthat 'Feddy" had Re t. because of an adverse FBI report which linkéd him to a group of "pinkos.'"' Mr. Kennedy stated’ he had sent word to Pearson that he would sue him for libel if he printed so much as one word of this in that he would not tolerate his son being victimized in any form. Mr. Kennedy stated that his son had enlisted in the Army at the age of 19 after attending Harvard for one year. Bufiles reflected that we had conducted no investi Edward Kennedy,..and.Mr. Kennedy was advised of this fact. In June, 1956, information a visa for travel to. Egypt'as a representative of the InternationlO\We? sl Service. es /jltbfd ces was received that 4 Lez: As tem (7 2 ODS oS , Edward Kennedy had requeg 960, the North Carolina State BUT@au of Investigaty In Nove 1- Mr. Morrell RLR:cho (5 iS @ DE telephoned Kennedy at Hyannis. Port, MassachuS¥ gation concerning