The special exhibition on Jacqueline Kennedy that opened to rave reviews this spring and took New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art by storm has come home to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum where it officially opened to the public on Saturday, September 15.
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Boston, MA – In celebration of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library today announced that it has launched a new Twitter feed based on Jacqueline Kennedy’s syndicated “Campaign Wife” columns. The feed – @JBK1960 – begins September 17, 2010, exactly 50 years after the first column was released. It serves as a companion feed to @Kennedy1960, the Kennedy Library’s Twitter project that follows the day-to-day workings of Senator John F. Kennedy’s campaign.
BOSTON—On November 13, 2003, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Library will open a special exhibit entitled "Gifts From the World to the White House: Caroline Kennedy’s Doll Collection (1961-63)." The exhibit will showcase some 75 dolls and puppets from 30 countries given to Caroline Kennedy between 1961 and 1963. Foreign dignitaries and first ladies, including Italy’s Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani, the Ivory Coast’s President Houphouet-Boigny, India’s Indira Gandhi, Monaco’s Princess Grace, and France’s Madame de Gaulle, presented dolls as state gifts. Other dolls in the collection were gifts from foreign citizens who did not hold official government positions. This marks the first time the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Library has put most of the collection on display. The exhibit will run through April 30, 2004.
Boston — The Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II this year with a special exhibit on John F. Kennedy’s military service in the U.S. Navy in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.
Boston — Will Schmidley, an 18-year-old senior at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Avram Sand, a 16-year-old junior at Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy in New York City, will be honored by Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy’s family during the May 24th Profile in Courage Award ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston for their prize-winning entries in the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students.
BOSTON–The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced today that it has declassified and made available for research presidential recordings of four meetings between President Kennedy and his highest level Vietnam advisors during the days after the highly controversial “Cable 243” was sent. The cable, which was dispatched on August 24, 1963 when President Kennedy and three of his top officials were away from Washington, set a course for the eventual coup in Vietnam on November 1, 1963, leading to the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his assassination the following day on November 2, 1963 – 46 years ago this week.
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum presents its 1998 lineup of new and special exhibitions including Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; the 1963 Civil Rights Movement; and the African Independence Movement. New cafe featuring spectacular view of Boston Harbor opens; children ages 12 and under admitted free effective January 1, 1998.
The John F. Kennedy Library, in cooperation with the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, is sponsoring a conference on July 30-31, 1998, “Calvin Coolidge: Examining the Evidence.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – To help mark the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Caroline Kennedy, President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, today unveiled the nation’s largest online digitized presidential archive, providing unprecedented global access to the most important papers, records, photographs and recordings of President John F. Kennedy’s thousand days in office. The announcement was made in the Archivist's Reception Room in the National Archives building in Washington, D.C.
BOSTON—Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy today presented former Governor Roy Barnes (D) of Georgia, former Governor David Beasley (R) of South Carolina, and former State Representative Dan Ponder, Jr. (R) of Georgia with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Washington, DC, January 20, 2011 - Caroline Kennedy, President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, was joined today by a host of prominent Americans who responded to President Kennedy’s uplifting challenge to public service as she announced the launch of a new groundbreaking multi-media campaign aimed at inspiring a new generation of Americans.
Nearly fifty years have passed since the publication of John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, the Pulitzer Prize-winning homage to American political greatness. In 1989, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation created the Profile in Courage Award to honor President Kennedy’s commitment and contribution to public service. The annual award, named after Profiles in Courage, recognizes elected officials who have withstood strong opposition from constituents, powerful interest groups or adversaries to follow what they believe is the right course of action.
Boston, MA – Caroline Kennedy today presented the second annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Kica Matos, Executive Director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, the oldest Latino community service organization in New Haven, Connecticut, at a public ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
BOSTON – Caroline Kennedy, President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and Tom Putnam, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, today officiated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completion and opening of the new 30,000 square foot wing of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The ceremony took place in the addition’s new classroom and was attended by a group of fourth and fifth grade students from the Winship School, a Boston Public School in Brighton. Earlier in the day, the students participated in a program on the history of the Civil Rights Movement, which was the first of the Kennedy Library educational offerings to be held in the new classroom. Dr. Carol R. Johnson, Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools, was also present for the announcement.
Cambridge, MA – Caroline Kennedy will present the eighth annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award on Nov. 21 to Luke Ravenstahl, Mayor of Pittsburgh, PA, and Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Unite for Sight.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation will welcome back former employee Shelley Sommer, author of John F. Kennedy: His Life and Legacy, a new book written specifically for middle school aged children on the life of President John F. Kennedy, at a book reading for 150 school children at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Monday, March 7, 2005 at 1:00 pm in the Stephen Smith Center.
On May 12, 2003, Caroline Kennedy will present former Governor Roy Barnes (D) of Georgia, former Governor David Beasley (R) of South Carolina, and former State Representative Dan Ponder, Jr. (R) of Georgia with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at a special ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
BOSTON — The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum announced today that its special exhibit "Gifts From the World to the White House: Caroline Kennedy’s Doll Collection (1961-63)” will be extended to November 5, 2004, due to popular demand.
Charles Price, Circuit Court Judge of Montgomery, Alabama, was announced the winner of the 1997 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award today by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
BOSTON, MA – Charles U. Daly, a prominent leader of the American Ireland Fund and former assistant to President John F. Kennedy, has been named Irishman of the Year by the Friends of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum .
On Wednesday, October 26th, from 4:00 until 5:00 p.m., the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will host Caroline Kennedy as she signs copies of her new children’s book, A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children.
Boston, MA- Laura Schapiro, a senior at Indian Hill High School in Cincinnati, will be honored by Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy’s family during the May 12, 2008 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—Boston public school teachers will gather this summer at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum for a five-day institute, The Civil Rights Struggle Through the Kennedy Years, to enhance their understanding of this crucial time in the nation’s past so they may better teach students about it in the classroom. Made possible by a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the program will run June 26, 27, and 30 and July 1 and 2, 2003.
Boston, MA—In the wake of recent questions regarding the role and responsibilities of corporate America, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer willjoin Starbucks President and CEO Orin Smith and Richard K. Donahue, former President of Nike, Inc. to discuss the issue of corporate responsibility at a Kennedy Library Forum on Tuesday, December 17, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston. Harvard Business School’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter will moderate the discussion.
Boston — A part-time county attorney who defied death threats and enforced the law against Montana’s fiercely anti-government “Freemen” was today named the winner of the annual John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award .