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John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation's thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world. Our purpose is to advance the study and understanding of President Kennedy's life and career and the times in which he lived; and to promote a greater appreciation of America's political and cultural heritage, the process of governing and the importance of public service. We accomplish our mission by: preserving and making accessible the records of President Kennedy and his times; promoting open discourse on critical issues of our own time; and educating and encouraging citizens to contribute, through public and community service, to shaping our nation's future.break

http://www.jfklibrary.org

  • Presidency of Harry S. Truman: Part II

    Sun, Apr 28, 2002
    Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University; Melvyn Leffler, professor of history at the University of Virginia; and Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of Harry S. Truman, discuss the Truman presidency. This is the second in a two-part series. The death of Franklin Roosevelt catapulted Harry S. Truman, former farm boy, World War I soldier, failed haberdasher, and district judge turned US senator, into the 33rd president of the United States. With a candor that was to be his trademark, he shared with the world his own misgivings at the turn of events that made him president. "I pray to God," he quipped, "that I can measure up to the task." As the historian, Alan Nevins, wrote, "This mixture of modesty and confidence was part of Truman's great appeal." While he made his share of mistakes, "To err is Truman," carped one critic, he also faced a myriad of difficult issues in a distinctly clear-sighted and confident manner. The very fact that someone so seemingly like us could come to power in such extraordinary times helps explain in part the position President Truman continues to hold in our nation's memory.
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  • Celebrating America's National Pastime: Baseball

    Tue, Mar 30, 2004
    ABC *Good Morning America's* Charles Gibson moderates this discussion about baseball's enduring hold on our national imagination with Boston Red Sox CEO and President Larry Lucchino, *New Yorker* writer Roger Angell, Dan Shaughnessy from The Boston Globe, and NECN Red Sox announcer, Jerry Remy.
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  • Evolution of Political Advertising

    Mon, May 3, 2004
    Washington Post columnist David Broder and others discuss the role of political advertising in presidential campaigns and review some of the most effective and notorious ads in recent times.
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  • Celebrating Brown and The Little Rock Nine

    Mon, May 17, 2004
    This special forum includes Ernest Green, the first student of color to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, and one of nine students of color, known as the Little Rock Nine, who broke the color barrier at that school in September 1957, following the Supreme Court ruling. May 17, 1954 marks the US Supreme Court ruling stating that racial segregation in the public schools is unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
    Civil Rights Movement Series
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • RFK Remembered

    Sun, Apr 25, 2004
    Veteran journalist Jack Newfield, who authored *Robert Kennedy: A Memoir* and *Newsweek*'s Evan Thomas, who wrote *Robert Kennedy: His Life*, discuss the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy. CNN's Jeff Greenfield, a former speechwriter for Robert F. Kennedy, moderates.
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  • Living with Terror: How To Reduce the Threat

    Mon, Apr 5, 2004
    Former Senator Sam Nunn explores the topic, "Living in a World of Terrorism: Reducing the Threats from Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons."
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  • Writers on War

    Sun, Mar 21, 2004
    Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled *Hemingway on War*, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of *The Great War and Modern Memory*, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, *Fields of Fire*. Harvard Professor Susan Suleiman, who has recently written about World War II and memory, moderates the discussion. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway's works.
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  • 2004 PEN Awards for Literature

    Sun, Apr 4, 2004
    The 2004 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN Awards are presented. Jennifer Haigh is honored as the 2004 recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Mrs. Kimble. Sean Hemingway, the grandson of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the award. The ceremony also honors writers Carlo Rotella and Joan Leegant as cowinners of the 2004 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award, given annually to an author from New England or to an author whose writing includes a New England setting. Mr. Rotella is being recognized for Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, and Ms. Leegant for An Hour in Paradise. The L.L. Winship/PEN Award honors long-time Boston Globe editor Laurence L. Winship and is sponsored by the Boston Globe and PEN/New England. Award-winning novelist Russell Banks, whose works Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter were made into movies and Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, serves as the ceremony's keynote speaker.
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    Condoleezza Rice: Extraordinary, Ordinary People

    Thu, Oct 28, 2010
    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses her book, *Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family*, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns.
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  • President Obama: Year One

    Tue, Jun 1, 2010
    Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor and Columnist for *Newsweek*, discusses his new book, *The Promise: President Obama, Year One* with his *Newsweek *colleague, Eleanor Clift.
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