BOSTON, MA – PEN New England today announced that Teju Cole has won the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Open City (Random House). Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Mr. Cole on Sunday, April 1, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
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Boston: The deposed king of Afghanistan who is emerging as a key player in the UN-sponsored talks underway in Koenigswinter, Germany to determine the future government of Afghanistan was once celebrated by the American people as a champion of Afghanistan independence, according to state documents and photographs found in the archives of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
Boston, MA- Maia Gottlieb, a sophomore at Baltimore City College High School, will be honored by Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy’s family during the May 21, 2007 Profile in Courage Award ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston for her prize-winning entry in the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students™ .
Boston MA –The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, along with the German Consulate of Boston, today announced that they will unveil a painted, life-size, fiberglass bear sculpture at Copley Place on September 24, 2013. Originally part of a public art project in Berlin called Buddy Bears, the sculpture was presented by then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 2008 to commemorate the solidarity his brother, John F. Kennedy, had offered the German people during his presidency. The sculpture is also presented as a symbol of solidarity between the people of the United States and Germany.
Boston MA – The four members of California’s legislative leadership who in 2009 led a bi-partisan effort to close the state’s devastating budget deficit were presented the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ today by Caroline Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Boston, MA- Larry Lucchino, CEO of the Boston Red Sox and son of Italian immigrants, addressed 103 new Americans today as they took the naturalization oath at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The Honorable Nancy Gertner, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Massachusetts, presided over the ceremony. The U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service sponsored the event.
The John F. Kennedy Library will sponsor a summer institute for teachers from the Boston Public Schools that will examine the struggle for civil rights and include presentations by such key civil-rights activists as Dorothy Cotton, a top advisor to Martin Luther King, and Vivian Malone-Jones, one of the students Governor George Wallace sought to bar from the University of Alabama in 1963. Thirty-five schoolteachers will benefit from first-hand accounts of such landmark 1960s initiatives as the Freedom Rides, the Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, voter-registration drives, and other civil-rights events and efforts. Teaching American History – The Civil Rights Struggle During the Kennedy Years will run June 26, 27, and 28 and July 1 and 2 at the Kennedy Library in Boston.
Boston MA – Two public officials who challenged the reliability of electronic voting systems in a bid to ensure the integrity of the vote in their states have been named this year’s recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™, it was announced today by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California, and Jennifer Brunner, Secretary of State of Ohio, will be presented the prestigious award for political courage by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Monday, May 12.
Boston: A California state senator who overcame the strong opposition of a former governor and the California business community to win environmental protections for minority communities has been named the winner of the 2000 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ®.
BOSTON, MA—The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation today announced that Jeffrey Seaman, a junior who is homeschooled in Short Hills, New Jersey, has won the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students. Seaman's winning essay profiles Harry T. Burn, a Republican State Representative in Tennessee who, in 1920, cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
BOSTON, MA: The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announces the opening of a special display highlighting the White House state dinner honoring Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, hosted by President and Mrs. Kennedy on May 22, 1962. The Ivory Coast was one of 15 African countries that became independent during the summer and fall of 1960. The exhibit opens to the public on Friday, April 27 and will run through April 2019.
NEW YORK, NY—Debut author Weike Wang won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award, honoring a distinguished first book of fiction, for her novel Chemistry (Knopf), PEN America announced today. Séan Hemingway, the grandson of Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Weike Wang on Sunday, April 8, at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
BOSTON, MA – The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation today announced that New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will receive the 2018 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ for his leadership in removing four Confederate monuments in New Orleans while offering candid, clear and compassionate reflections on the moment and its place in history. The prestigious award will be presented by President Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, at a ceremony on May 20, 2018 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
BOSTON - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced the opening of a new permanent exhibit, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Inspired, highlighting the life and career of author Ernest Hemingway.
David F. Powers, former Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy and former Museum Curator of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, died today at Symmes Medical Center in Arlington, MA. Powers, who often described himself “as just a newsboy who met a President,” was 85 years old.
BOSTON, MA - The Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation today announced that it has selected David McKean as Chief Executive Officer.
BOSTON – The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum caps off Boston’s week long celebration of American politics and history as host of the 2004 Democratic National Convention with the display of a rare original copy of the most patriotic of American documents—the Declaration of Independence—on July 30, July 31, and August 1.
Boston, MA – The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library today announced that it has declassified and made available for research a typewritten “diary” by President Kennedy’s National Security Advisor, McGeorge Bundy. The “diary” consists of individual documents often typed on a daily basis with the working title of “Memoranda for the Record”. Bundy’s “diary” descriptions offer an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the Kennedy White House and glimpses of the President from one of his closest advisors.
Boston, MA—The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that the pink silk dress worn by Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1962 White House Staff Christmas reception is now on display in the First Lady Exhibit in the Museum at the Kennedy Presidential Library.
Boston, MA—The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that the linen dress worn by Jacqueline Kennedy on Easter Sunday in 1963 is now on display in the First Lady Exhibit in the Museum at the Kennedy Presidential Library.
Boston, MA - On Friday, April 28, Síle de Valera, granddaughter of Eamon DeValera, former President of Ireland, and Ireland’s Minister at the Department of Education, visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for a special tour of the new exhibit, A Journey Home – John F. Kennedy and Ireland.
Boston MA – Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California, and Jennifer Brunner, Secretary of State of Ohio, were presented the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™ today by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy in recognition of their courageous leadership in challenging the reliability of their respective states’ electronic voting systems in a bid to ensure the integrity of every citizen’s vote.
Boston - Emily Ullman, a 17 year-old senior at the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology in Hackensack, New Jersey, and a resident of Palisades, New York, was honored today by Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy’s family during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum for her prize-winning entry in the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students.
Boston, MA – Today during a formal ceremony at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti and Jane Leu, Founder and Executive Director of Upwardly Global, a San Francisco-based non-profit that helps legal immigrants establish professional careers in the United States, were honored by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy with the 2006 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards .