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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Robert C. Byrd: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency

    Tue, Oct 12, 2004
    West Virginia Senator Robert C. Byrd discusses his new book *Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency* with Dick Gordon, host of WBUR's The Connection.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Crisis in Darfur

    Thu, Dec 9, 2004
    Jennifer Leaning of the Harvard School of Public Health, Eric Reeves of Smith College, Alex de Waal of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard, and William Schulz of Amnesty International discuss the crisis in Darfur. Gail Harris, a journalist for both NPR and PBS, moderates their discussion.
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  • John Edwards: US Foreign Policy Issues

    Wed, May 14, 2003
    Senator John Edwards, presidential candidate in 2004, discusses his positions on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues facing the nation.
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