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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Tim Russert, host of NBC's *Meet the Press*, shares insights from his 20 years in broadcast journalism covering politics. NPR senior national correspondent Linda Wertheimer moderates the conversation.
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  • A panel discuss strategies to help eliminate the spread of disease and hunger in the developing world. Panelists include Paul Farmer, who for the last 20 years has worked in Haiti with poor communities to combat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Amartya Sen, a Harvard economist who has won a Noble Prize for his work on world poverty, and Lincoln Chen, director of Harvard's Center for Global Poverty. **Paul Farmer**, a medical anthropologist and physician has dedicated his life to treating some of the world's poorest populations, in the process helping to raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world. A founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty, Dr Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policy makers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor areas. With colleagues in Haiti and Peru, Farmer has helped lead the international response to mutlidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), later found to be endemic in the former Soviet Union, by establishing pilot MDR-TB treatment programs and organizing effective delivery systems for medications. Working closely with the Open Society Institute, he has participated in evaluations of TB treatment programs in Russia, Peru, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Kazakhstan, with a special interest in TB among prison populations. Dr Farmer was instrumental in establishing the World Health Organization's Working Group on MDR-TB and has been a member of DOTS-Plus Working Group for the Global Tuberculosis Program of the World Health Organization; chief advisor of tuberculosis programs of the Open Society Institute; chief medical consultant for the Tuberculosis Treatment Project in the Prisons of Tomsk (Siberia); and a member of the Scientific Committee of the WHO Working Group on DOTS-Plus for MDR-TB. He has served on the Scientific Review board of ten of the last international conferences on AIDS, and has been a leading voice on behalf of HIV/AIDS and MDR-TB patients across the world. Listen to a complementary [interview with Amartya Sen](http://thoughtcast.org/casts/economist-amartya-sen-on-identity-and-violence) on Thoughcast.org, a podcast and public radio interview program on authors, academics and intellectuals.
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  • Tom Brokaw discusses his chronicling of
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