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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

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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.
    Forum Network
    Civil Rights Movement Series
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • 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."
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    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.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • 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.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Frank McCourt on Teaching in NYC

    Mon, Apr 26, 2004
    Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis, discusses his 45 year career as a high school English teacher in New York City with Scott Simon, the host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Recovering from 9/11

    Fri, Sep 10, 2004
    Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduces Kenneth R. Feinberg, the special master administering the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001. Mr. Feinberg discusses his efforts to compensate the families of victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Jack Rosenthal, president of The New York Times Company Foundation and founder of the 9/11 Neediest Fund, moderates this discussion with Mr. Feinberg.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk

    Tue, Oct 26, 2004
    Maureen Dowd draws upon her celebrated columns to probe the group she has made recognizable by their first names, middle initials, nicknames, or numbers as they seek an extreme makeover of the country and the world. For 30 years, Maureen Dowd has written about Washington, and America, in a voice that is passionate, outraged and incisive. Nothing has engaged her as powerfully as the life and politics of George W. Bush.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    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.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Presidents at War

    Mon, Oct 4, 2004
    Former JFK advisor and historian Arthur Schlesinger, journalist Tom Wicker, and veteran political analyst and former Nixon staffer Kevin Phillips explore the varying legacies of our wartime presidents. David Gergen of the Kennedy School of Government, and a former Reagan staffer, moderates.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • The Art of Political Cartoons

    Sun, Oct 24, 2004
    Cartoonists Mike Peters of *The Dayton Daily News*, Mike Luckovitch of *The Atlanta Journal Constitution*, and Dan Wasserman of *The Boston Globe*, present a show-and-tell about their craft. Scott Simon, host of NPR's *Weekend Edition Saturday*, moderates.
    Forum Network
    Partner:
    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
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