Boston, MA – Researchers, libraries, members of the press, and members of the public are advised that the John F. Kennedy Library has processed and made available the Carl Kaysen manuscript series of the National Security Files.
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Boston, MA – Researchers, libraries, members of the press, and members of the public are advised that the John F. Kennedy Library has processed and made available for research three additional collections of personal papers of individuals associated with the administration of President John F. Kennedy. A fourth collection of personal papers will be available by summer’s end. The Library’s holdings currently include 246 collections of personal papers.
Boston, MA – The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced today that it has processed and made available for research the personal papers of John F. Kraft , public opinion analyst and political consultant. The papers, a collection of approximately 81.5 cubic feet, contain files on political campaigns and candidates, market research surveys, and general business and personal matters. The bulk of the collection covers the 1960s and early 1970s.
Boston: Researchers, libraries, members of the press, and members of the public are advised that the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has processed and made available for research four additional series of the Personal Papers of Arthur M. Schlesinger.
Boston -- Approximately 4,500 pages of previously classified materials were opened today by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The newly opened materials are from the working file of President Kennedy's National Security Council Advisor McGeorge Bundy and the NSC staff and will be filed in the Kennedy Library archives' National Security Files (NSF) collection.
In response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation are presenting a series of special programs to foster public discussion and debate concerning the nation’s response to terrorism. The public forums will address such topics as religious tolerance, presidential decision-making, military options, the role of the media, security and civil liberties, international criminal justice, and humanitarian relief.
BOSTON—The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum released today a 1957 recoding of Senator John F. Kennedy reading the Declaration of Independence in full, which was made exclusively for New York radio station WQXR’s 1957 July 4th observance. The Kennedy Library received the recording in January 1964 from WQXR, which is owned by the New York Times Company.
Boston, MA — The John F. Kennedy Library today announced that it has made available for research approximately 24 hours of tape recordings of meetings and conversations that took place in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room at the White House from August through October 1963. The conversations between President John F. Kennedy and his advisors concern U.S. policy toward Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Portuguese Africa, Berlin, China and the USSR.
Boston, MA: The John F. Kennedy Library today announced that it has made available for research two additional tapes of presidential recordings of meetings and conversations that took place in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room at the White House on November 16 and November 19, 1962.
Boston, MA – As part of its activities commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis , the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum today released a new study prepared by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago to help provide a better understanding of how the American people experienced the Cuban Missile Crisis, how public opinion changed because of the events, and how the American public views the Cuban Missile Crisis in retrospect.
Boston: The Kennedy Library released another presidential recording tape today. Tape 62 consists of a White House meeting of November 19, 1962:
Boston, MA – It need not be St. Patrick’s Day to take pride in one’s Irish ancestry. A stop at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston will remind any visitor of the important role Irish Americans have played in the history of the country.
BOSTON-Ten large panels of the United in Memory: 9-11 Victims Memorial Quilt will be on exhibit at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum on September 11, 2002, as part of the Library's day-long effort to mark this solemn anniversary.
Boston – Radoslav Kvapil, considered by many international critics to be the foremost contemporary Czech pianist, will introduce and play selections written by four composers who were victims of the Holocaust and interned at the Terezin concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the John F. Kennedy Library on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm.
BOSTON: The John F. Kennedy Library will host a special forum , James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss, on September 30th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the registration of James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi, a landmark event in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. On October 1, 1962, James H. Meredith was officially registered as a student at the University of Mississippi, marking the school's integration, following a night of rioting that claimed the lives of two students and injured 160 federal marshals.
On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will mark the inauguration of President Barack Obama, by offering free viewing of inaugural events (from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.), including President Obama’s inaugural address, in the Museum’s theater. In addition, all guests will receive a free commemorative copy of President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address.
Boston MA - In honor of America’s independence, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will feature a historic recording of Senator John F. Kennedy reading the Declaration of Independence. The 10-minute recording was made in 1957 for New York radio station WQXR’s July 4th observance. The recording was donated to the John F. Kennedy Library in January 1964. For forty years it remained unheralded in the Library's audio visual collection of 10,000 hours of sound recordings, eight million feet of film and videotape, and 400,000 still photographs. This special recording was re-discovered by Library staff just last year. Those wishing to hear this extraordinary recording will be able to do so by visiting the museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library between July 2nd and July 4th, 2005.
Boston, MA – Twenty-nine years after participating in the formal groundbreaking of the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Columbia Point, Senator Edward M. Kennedy today announced a major and unprecedented effort by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to build a new library – a digital one consisting of the entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of President John F. Kennedy, eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s website.
Boston, MA – Today at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, discussed the challenges facing international justice today. Ms. Arbour gave the keynote address during a special Kennedy Library Forum commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
Boston, MA – Deborah Leff, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum since 2001, announced today that she will be leaving the Kennedy Library in September to become President of the Public Welfare Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Boston – Over ninety middle school students from across Massachusetts will be honored with the Make a Difference award on Wednesday, March 24th at 4:00 pm at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in recognition of the volunteer work the students have performed in their communities.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum invites members of the public to join Caroline Kennedy as she signs copies of her new book, A Family Christmas, on Wednesday, November 7, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Museum’s Pavilion. Copies of A Family Christmas will be available for sale in the Museum Store prior to the book signing.
Boston, MA – Today the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum kicked off a week-long educational conference for public school teachers featuring nationally prominent speakers such as presidential advisory Theodore Sorensen and journalist Seymour Topping, the first western correspondent stationed in Vietnam. The conference will give 35-40 teachers an account of the Cold War through the Kennedy Years from those who witnessed this tumultuous period of American and World history first hand. The week-long program is being made possible by a Teaching American History grant from the US Department of Education in conjunction with the Boston Public Schools.
Boston, MA – The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced today that it has processed and made available for research the personal papers of William H. Tucker, former Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The papers, a collection of approximately 64.5 cubic feet, primarily contain case files from Tucker’s service on the United States Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). The collection also contains manuscript material from his autobiographical book Parachute Soldier. The collection spans from 1958 to 1994.
Boston, MA– Today, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced it has processed and made available for research the personal papers of John Saltonstall and Al Webb. John Saltonstall was the Director of the Committee of Arts, Letters, & Sciences for PresidentKennedy (1959-1960). Al Webb was a PT boat serviceman and a friend of John F. Kennedy, as well as the Vice President of Sales for Hat Corporation of America (Cavanagh Hats). The Library’s holdings currently include 246 collections of personal papers.