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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

  • Art of Political Humor

    Wed, Oct 16, 2002
    Join comedian and political satirist Al Franken in a discussion of the use, history and importance of humor in our national politics, with Helen Thomas and Senator Alan Simpson. CNN senior analyst, Jeff Greenfield, will be the moderator.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Jeffrey Sachs: Ending Global Poverty

    Tue, Mar 5, 2002
    Jefferey Sachs discuses the challenge of ending the poverty that afflicts so much of the world today. **Jeffrey Sachs**, renowned expert on the economic and social devastation of AIDS in developing countries, has been recently named by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General, as Special UN Advisor on Poverty, Health and Education.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Theodore Roosevelt: The White House Years

    Tue, Mar 5, 2002
    As part of the Kennedy Library Presidential Historian Series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Edmund Morris discusses his new, best-selling book, *Theodore Rex*, the second of a proposed three-volume biography. Morris' first volume, *The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt* (1979), won a Pulitzer Prize. President McKinley's assassination brought the 43-year-old Roosevelt a challenging presidency, which included persuading Congress to curb competition-stifling corporate trusts, monopolistic transcontinental railroads, and unhygienic food industries. He also faced labor and racial strife. Abroad, the American presence in Cuba and the Philippines brought criticism, the Russo-Japanese conflict threatened major power shifts in the Far East and Europe, and a politically and financially fraught decision on the Central American canal route, Panama or Nicaragua, loomed large. Despite the demands of family and social life, he read, wrote, and traveled extensively, and put national parks and conservation of natural resources on the legislative agenda.
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  • 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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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Combating AIDS: The Human Rights Perspective

    Tue, Dec 10, 2002
    This forum examines HIV/AIDS as a human rights crisis On December 10, Human Rights Day, 54 years after the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations. HIV/AIDS has become the greatest health crisis in human history. To date, 21 years into the AIDS pandemic, 25 million people have lost their lives and 40 million are currently living with HIV. Every day, there are 15,000 new infections and 8,200 deaths reported. Of the 28 million people in sub-Saharan Africa living with AIDS, 58% are women aged 15-49. The disease is halting economic development, unraveling communities, and destabilizing societies.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • 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

  • 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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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Search for Kennedy's PT 109

    Mon, Nov 11, 2002
    Lieutenant Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for extremely heroic conduct as Commanding Officer of PT 109 following its sinking in the Pacific War Area on August 1-2, 1943. The JFK Library and Museum's screening of the National Geographic EXPLORER film about the recovery of PT 109 includes a panel discussion with Dr. Robert Ballard, Expedition Leader, Richard Keresey, PT 105 Captain, and Maxwell Kennedy, Expedition Crew Member. The panel discussion is moderated by Boyd Matson, host of National Geographic EXPLORER.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Bystanders to Genocide

    Mon, Feb 3, 2003
    Samantha Power and Elizabeth Neuffer examine the US responses to genocide since the holocaust.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Presidential Tapes Conference

    Mon, Feb 17, 2003
    A panel of presidential historians examines what the recordings of presidents between Roosevelt and Ford reveal about the essence of each man. Presidential taping systems, begun under Roosevelt and discontinued by Ford, have played a unique role in our country's history. Uncovered at the Watergate hearings, the tapes have been processed over time by the National Archives and Records Administration and now serve as a treasure trove for journalists and historians.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
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