Boston – Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, who presided over the country’s recovery from what he called "our long national nightmare" and who made a controversial decision of conscience to pardon former President Richard M. Nixon, was today honored as the recipient of the 2001 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum on Columbia Point in Boston.
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Boston: Former U.S. President Gerald Ford, who presided over the country’s recovery from what he called "our long national nightmare" and who made a controversial decision of conscience to pardon former President Richard M. Nixon, has been named the recipient of the 2001 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award .
Boston, MA—Senator Edward M. Kennedy will present President Bill Clinton with a framed version of President Kennedy’s July 24, 1963, remarks to Boys Nation to commemorate when President Kennedy and Bill Clinton met nearly forty years ago and to recognize the enormous contributions of President Clinton to the betterment of the nation.
BOSTON — On Friday, November 26, 2004, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will unwrap a special exhibit, "Presents for a President and First Lady," a display of 65 state gifts presented to President and Mrs. Kennedy by foreign leaders from around the globe. The exhibit, which features a large selection of never-before-seen treasures from the Kennedy White House, opens for the traditional gift-giving season in the Museum’s White House corridor and ceremonial room, and runs through November 13, 2005.
Boston, MA - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will mark the inauguration of President Barack Obama by unveiling a new exhibit of original documents from President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address. Widely viewed as one of the most enduring in U.S. history, the speech was meticulously crafted – then worked and reworked – by then President-elect Kennedy and his close advisor, Theodore Sorensen. This exhibit in the Museum’s Document Room, Poetry and Power: The Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy, will open to the public on January 8, with the original documents being displayed through June of 2009.
Poetry and Power: The Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy is just one of the many exciting and inspiring exhibits visitors will find in the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. The Museum’s 25 multimedia exhibits and period settings from the White House offer an exciting “you are there” experience, and create a stirring account of President Kennedy’s thousand days in office. Beginning with a 17-minute film narrated by President Kennedy, visitors step back into the recreated world of the early 1960s and witness the first televised presidential debate; accompany first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on her televised tour of the White House; sit in on press conferences with the President; relive the thrill of Col. John Glenn’s first orbital mission; stroll through White House corridors; witness Cabinet meetings during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and observe the president’s televised address from the Oval Office on the Civil Rights crisis.
Boston, MA - Caroline Kennedy today presented the sixth annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, the first veteran of the Iraq War to serve in Congress, and Rebecca Onie, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project HEALTH, a national organization that mobilizes college students to provide assistance to low-income patients at urban hospitals and health centers. The awards were presented during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
BOSTON, MA – PEN New England announced that Ben Fountain has won the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Brief Encounters with Che Guevara (HarperCollins). Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the award on Sunday, April 1, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Edward P. Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, will serve as the ceremony’s keynote speaker.
PEN New England today announced that Joshua Ferris has won the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown and Company). Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Ferris on Sunday, March 30, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman will serve as the ceremony’s keynote speaker.
PEN New England today announced that Joshua Ferris has won the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown and Company). Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Ferris on Sunday, March 30, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. New York Times best-selling author Alice Hoffman will serve as the ceremony’s keynote speaker.
Boston, MA – Researchers, libraries, members of the press, and members of the public are notified that the Papers of McGeorge Bundy, covering the period from 1940 to the time of his death, including his years of service as National Security Adviser to President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1966, have been donated to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library by Mary L. Bundy and her family.
The Museum at the John F. Kennedy Library has secured a rare public display of Jamie Wyeth's oil painting "Man From Boston." The painting will be on display beginning Thursday, May 20th, in the Museum.
It’s 1960 and Senator John F. Kennedy Has His Eye on the White House With the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston this summer, the Museum at the Kennedy Library takes you inside the American political process with a new exhibit, Campaign!.
Boston MA – Elizabeth Redenbaugh, a New Hanover County, North Carolina School Board member who stood up against what she perceived as racial segregation in school redistricting plans, and Wael Ghonim and the people of Egypt, whose courageous demand for democratic reform inspired similar movements across the Middle East, have been named this year’s recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award™.
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.
Boston, MA – The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that it has declassified and made available for research a tape recording of a National Security Council Meeting from May 9, 1963. The focus of the meeting was how to defend India against a possible attack by China.
Boston, MA – In the week that marks the 44th anniversary of the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that it has declassified a tape recording of a White House meeting at which President Kennedy discusses the opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the treaty and the upcoming debate in Congress. The pact was signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963 by the United States, the United Kingdom and the USSR. The recording will be made available to researchers for the first time on Monday, August 6, 2007.
Boston, MA – More than six million visitors have personally visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum since it opened in Boston a quarter century ago. But with today’s launch of the Kennedy Presidential Library’s new website – www.jfklibrary.org – it is the Kennedy Library’s hope and expectation that tens of millions more worldwide will now have the opportunity to virtually experience the inspiring legacy of President John F. Kennedy via the web.
Boston: The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library today made public 240 minutes of newly declassified tape recordings of White House meetings and conversations that took place in the Cabinet Room on November 21, 27 and 29, and December 5, 1962.
AUSTIN, Texas—A Web-based Presidential Timeline (www.presidentialtimeline.org ) filled with digitized artifacts and historical archives from all of the U.S. presidential libraries has been created through the joint efforts of the twelve presidential libraries of the National Archives and Records Administration, the Learning Technology Center of The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education, and the UT Library system.
BOSTON – The U.S. Postal Service honored our 12 Presidential Libraries with a commemorative postage stamp to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Presidential Libraries Act of 1955. The dedication ceremonies took place today at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston and at all of the nation’s Presidential Libraries and Museums under the direction of the National Archives.
Boston, MA - Caroline Kennedy today will present the seventh annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to Hector Balderas, New Mexico State Auditor, and Lateefah Simon, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. The awards will be presented this evening during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Boston, MA — Fifty years after Jacqueline Kennedy publicly expressed her gratitude for the outpouring of support following the death of President John F. Kennedy, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has opened a new series of condolence mail from the First Lady’s personal papers. The series contains condolence that was forwarded to and managed by Mrs. Kennedy’s personal secretaries. Of note, a letter from Maxine McNair, mother of Denise McNair, one of the four girls who were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in September 1963, was discovered among the documents in this series.
Boston: Due to their popularity, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum’s two new exhibits, "Jacqueline Kennedy Travels Abroad" and "John F. Kennedy -- Man of the Sea" have been held over through April 30, 2001. Both were originally scheduled to close November 1, 2000.
On Wednesday, August 30, at 12:45 pm in the Pavilion of John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Hasbro Toy Company and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation will unveil the newest GI Joe Action Figure, "John F. Kennedy: PT 109 Boat Commander."