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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

  • White House Photographers

    Tue, Dec 17, 2002
    National Public Radio Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg moderates this slide presentation and conversation with a number of official White House photographers who covered the Presidents, their families, and their administrations.
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  • Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights

    Tue, Dec 17, 2002
    In the wake of the upheavals in corporate America, Orin Smith, CEO of Starbucks; Richard K. Donahue, former President of Nike, Inc.; Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General; and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, discuss corporate responsibility, both in general, and as it relates to the advancement of human rights at home and abroad.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Cuban Missile Crisis and the Media

    Mon, Oct 28, 2002
    A panel that includes White House correspondents Sander Vanocur and Robert Pierpoint, former CBS Moscow Bureau Chief Marvin Kalb, pollster Tom Smith, and former FCC Chair Newton Minow discusses the role the media played during the Missile Crisis in the attempt to avert nuclear war. Should our country face another confrontation of this magnitude how would today's media respond?
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  • George Mitchell: Brokering Peace

    Mon, Sep 18, 2006
    Former United States Senator George Mitchell analyzes the primary issues involved in resolving the conflicts in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. The forum is moderated by Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Rebuilding Afghanistan

    Mon, Sep 25, 2006
    Former National Public Radio correspondent Sarah Chayes, who has been living in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, and award-winning journalist Sebastian Junger, who has covered Afghanistan for ABC News and other publications, discuss efforts to help reconstruct Afghanistan after 9/11. Jessica Stern, an expert on terrorism who teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, moderates.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Welfare Reform: Did it Work?

    Mon, Sep 20, 2004
    Jason DeParle, *New York Times* senior writer and author of *American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare*; David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; and Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, examine our nation's policies regarding poor people. William Julius Wilson of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government moderates.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Where Has All the News Gone?

    Mon, Dec 6, 2004
    Ben Bradlee, long-time executive editor of *The Washington Post*, and Don Hewitt, creator of *60 Minutes* and executive producer of *CBS News*, talk about how print and broadcast news have changed over the last 40 years. Meredith White, executive producer of *ABC News* and former senior editor at *Newsweek*, moderates the discussion.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • My Life with the Hemingways

    Mon, Nov 8, 2004
    After more than 40 years of virtual silence, Valerie Hemingway, the confidante of Ernest, shares stories of her years living and traveling with Ernest and Mary Hemingway. Her new book, *Running with the Bulls: My Life with the Hemingways,* was provoked by an editor's discovery of uncataloged papers, manuscripts and letters rotting in the basement of the Hemingways' former home in Cuba. Valerie, having put the papers in the basement to begin with, agreed to sort through them and prepare them for deposit at The Kennedy Library. The process spurred her finally to write the memoir that she had started repeatedly but had never been able to complete. The critical response to Ms. Hemingway's book is that it has been well worth the wait.
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  • State of Affairs: Our Economy and the 2004 Campaign

    Mon, Oct 18, 2004
    MacArthur fellow and senior economic advisor at the Brookings Institute, Alice Rivlin; former secretary of labor under President Clinton and professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis University, Robert Reich; and professor of economics at Boston University, Glenn Loury, discuss the state of the economy with *Boston Globe* Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Tom Oliphant.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Senator John Kerry: Distinguished American

    Mon, Feb 28, 2005
    Senator Edward Kennedy presents Senator John Kerry with a bronze bust of President Kennedy in recognition of Kerry's lifelong commitment to public service, a career that includes service in the United States Navy (1966-1969) during which he was decorated for combat in Vietnam War; assistant district attorney for Middlesex County, MA (1977-1982); lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1982-1984); US senator representing Massachusetts since 1984; and Democratic candidate for US president in 2004. The Kennedy Library Foundation's Distinguished American series invites men and women who have played significant roles in American public affairs to share their insights and experiences with the public and to be recognized for honoring President Kennedy's call for public service and his belief that one person can make a difference and every person should try. Past recipients of the Distinguished American Award include President George H. W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, Harry Belafonte, James Farmer, Helen Thomas, Congressman John Lewis, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State James Baker, Daniel Schorr, John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Douglas Dillon, Mary McGrory, Betty Freidan, Tom Wicker, Ben Bradlee, Dorothy Height, George Reedy, Liz Carpenter, Myer Feldman, Nicholas Katzenbach, McGeorge Bundy, David Broder, Stewart Udall, Archibald Cox, Marian Wright Edelman, Congressman Joe Moakley, Diane Nash, Sargent Shriver, and Kenneth Feinberg.
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