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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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  • James Baker on Working in the White House

    Mon, May 5, 2003
    James Baker discusses his career, serving in the White House during under three different US presidents.
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  • Bill Clinton: Role of the US in the World

    Wed, May 28, 2003
    Senator Edward Kennedy introduces President Clinton, who engages in a wide-ranging conversation with presidential historian Michael Beschloss. President Clinton reflects upon his own legacy and the central themes related to President Kennedy including the role of the US in the world, domestic issues concerning the advancement of rights and opportunities for all Americans, and the importance of public service.
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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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    Justice Stephen Breyer: Judicial Issues Today

    Sun, Sep 28, 2003
    Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer engages in a discussion with NPR chief legal correspondent Nina Totenberg concerning the judicial issues facing the country today. Photo: By [Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States](http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_current/images_b/009.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1423056 ""), Steve Petteway
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  • Bush, Foreign Policy and Religion: European Perspective

    Mon, Jun 2, 2003
    Sylvia Poggioli, NPR's senior European correspondent, engages in a conversation with WBUR's Dick Gordon on how Europeans perceive President Bush, US foreign policy, and the crisis in the American Catholic Church.
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  • Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars

    Tue, Dec 9, 2003
    John Shattuck, former assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, and current CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, discusses his new book, Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response, with Pulitzer-prize winning author Samantha Power. As the chief human rights official of the Clinton administration, John Shattuck faced many challenges including genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia, murder and atrocities in Haiti, repression in China, brutal ethnic wars, and failed states in other parts of the world. Shattuck describes what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton administration's human rights policy from one of disengagement to one focused on saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response records Shattuck's frustrations and disappointments, as well as the successes achieved in moving human rights to the center of US foreign policy.
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  • American Values: Patriotism Today

    Wed, Oct 29, 2003
    Join Caroline Kennedy as she introduces a panel discussion moderated by Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University, that explores the ideals upon which our country was founded and how they can best be fulfilled at home and abroad in today's world.
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  • Integrating the University of Alabama

    Mon, Nov 17, 2003
    This discussion centers around the screening of a film by Robert Drew, founder of cinema verite. The time was June 1963, when two black students tried to gain admission to the University of Alabama. The film, entitled *Crisis*, looks at the White House's handling of the event and simultaneously traces the actions of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. The film was controversial when first released. Although now recognized as a major piece of work, at the time, *The New York Times* editorialized against it claiming, "Under the circumstances in which this film was taken, the use of cameras could only denigrate the Office of the President. To eavesdrop on executive decisions of serious government matters while they are in progress is highly inappropriate. The White House isn't Macy's window." Today, because of this film, we have a remarkable historical record of what led to the integration of the University of Alabama.
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  • Hillary Clinton: Ameliorating and Eliminating Poverty

    Sun, Mar 14, 2004
    National Public Radio Senior Correspondent Juan Williams moderates a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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  • Filming JFK

    Sun, Nov 16, 2003
    Thom Powers, documentary film professor at New York University, talks about the career of political documentarian Bob Drew. In the course of a long, distinguished career following his service in World War II as one of the first American jet fighter pilots, Bob Drew worked for *Life* magazine, and while working with *Life*, came up with the idea of doing documentaries. He produced a number of documentaries, including *Primary*, which follows JFK and Hubert Humphrey during the Wisconsin primary, about a week of campaigning leading up to the primary election night. **Thom Powers** teaches documentary filmmaking at New York University and is a freelance writer for *The Boston Globe* and other publications. He has been an editor for Fantagraphics books, as well as a researcher on a number of documentaries. He is currently writing a book about documentaries entitled, *Stranger than Fiction* that will be published by Farrar Strauss.
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