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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

  • John Kerry: Foreign and Domestic Affairs

    Sun, Feb 9, 2003
    Senator John Kerry, democratic presidential nominee in 2004, discusses his positions on issues, including foreign affairs, environmental protection, domestic security, civil rights and liberties, and the economy.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
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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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  • 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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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Celebrating America's National Pastime: Baseball

    Tue, Mar 30, 2004
    ABC *Good Morning America's* Charles Gibson moderates this discussion about baseball's enduring hold on our national imagination with Boston Red Sox CEO and President Larry Lucchino, *New Yorker* writer Roger Angell, Dan Shaughnessy from The Boston Globe, and NECN Red Sox announcer, Jerry Remy.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Evolution of Political Advertising

    Mon, May 3, 2004
    Washington Post columnist David Broder and others discuss the role of political advertising in presidential campaigns and review some of the most effective and notorious ads in recent times.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • 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.
    Civil Rights Movement Series
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    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."
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    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.
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    John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

  • Writers on War

    Sun, Mar 21, 2004
    Sean Hemingway, who has just edited a collection of his grandfather's writings titled *Hemingway on War*, shares his insights with Paul Fussell, author of *The Great War and Modern Memory*, and James Webb, author of the acclaimed Vietnam novel, *Fields of Fire*. Harvard Professor Susan Suleiman, who has recently written about World War II and memory, moderates the discussion. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway's works.
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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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