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Boston, MA– The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that thirty letters written by Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich – the world renowned actress of early film and stage – will be made available to scholars for the first time on Monday, April 2, 2007. The letters were written between 1949 and 1959, and were donated to the Kennedy Presidential Library in 2003 by Marlene Dietrich’s daughter Maria Riva, under the condition that the letters remain closed until 2007.
Boston, MA- Ben Loffredo, a sophomore at the Fieldston School in New York City, will be honored by Caroline Kennedy and other members of President Kennedy’s family during the May 22, 2006 Profile in Courage Award ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston for his prize-winning entry in the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students.
Boston, MA—In celebration of the nation’s immigrant tradition, on Monday, March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day, and to mark the 40th anniversary of President Kennedy’s trip to Ireland, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum will open for the first-time to the press the Fitzgerald family bible. The bible contains a handwritten chronicle of generations of the Fitzgerald family from 1857, including the birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on May 29, 1917. John F. Kennedy took the oath of office as the 35th President of the United States on the bible on January 20, 1961.
Boston MA – In what marked the 50th anniversary celebration of the publication of John F. Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage , Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy today presented former U.S. Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora and U.S. Representative John P. Murtha (D-PA) with the 2006 Profile in Courage Award.
Boston: Just two days after leaving her post as U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright traveled to Boston today to meet with old friends and to pay a visit to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
On September 12, 2012, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will unveil a special new installation featuring Freedom 7, the iconic space capsule that U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr. piloted on the first American manned flight into space. Celebrating American ingenuity and determination, the installation opens on the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s speech at Rice University where he so eloquently championed America’s manned space efforts.
Boston, MA – The Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will bring in this year’s holiday season with a special exhibit of gifts presented to President John F. Kennedy during his presidency. Handmade and Heartfelt: Folk Art from the Collections of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will be on display beginning November 25th, 2005. The exhibit will be open to the public until the fall of 2006.
Boston: Harry Belafonte, the world renowned recording artist, Broadway, movie and television star, and globally respected human rights activist, will be honored with the Distinguished American Award by the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation at a Kennedy Library Public Forum "Seeking Common Ground: Civil Rights and Human Rights," on Friday, March 15 from 7:30 – 9:00 pm.
PEN New England and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum Announce The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winner Gabriel Brownstein for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W & The L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award Winner Adam Haslett for You Are Not A Stranger Here.
Boston, MA – Through a groundbreaking initiative with the Government of Cuba, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced today that it is making available to researchers archival replicas of 3,000 letters and documents written by and to Ernest Hemingway while he was living at the Finca Vigía, the Nobel-Prize winning author’s home outside of Havana.
Boston, MA - Through a groundbreaking initiative with the Government of Cuba, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston recently received 15 rolls of microfilm containing 3,000 images of letters and documents written by and to Ernest Hemingway while he was living at the Finca Vigía, the Nobel-Prize winning author’s home outside of Havana.
BOSTON—The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum announced today that Marlene Dietrich’s daughter, Maria Riva, has donated to the Kennedy Library 30 letters written by Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) to Marlene Dietrich between 1949 and 1959. The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is home to the majority of Ernest Hemingway’s papers, including 95 percent of the author's manuscripts and correspondence, donated to the Kennedy Library by Mary Hemingway, the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s wife. Several early drafts of Hemingway stories and poems are also included in the donation from Maria Riva. “The Marlene Dietrich collection of correspondence and early drafts of works is a rich addition to the Hemingway Archives,” said Deborah Leff, Director of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. “We are grateful to Mrs. Riva for providing us with these rare documents that will further assist Hemingway scholars and historians in interpreting the writer’s life and literature.” Under the terms of the deed, the papers will remain closed for four years and be made public in 2007.
Boston, MA– On the 114th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s birth, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that five scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the Nobel Prize-winning author have been made available to the public for the first time in their entirety as digital images. Created and annotated by Hemingway’s mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, the scrapbooks chronicle the first eighteen years of her son’s life and include many never-before-seen photographs, letters, drawings, homework assignments and other keepsakes from his childhood.
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 the Papers of Henry Kissinger from President Kennedy's National Security Files collection.
Boston MA – On what marks the 40th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s March 16, 1968 announcement to run for President of the United States, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will host a one-day conference on the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy.
Boston MA – Mayor Bill White of Houston, Texas, and Doris Voitier, Superintendent of Schools for St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, were presented the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award today by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy in recognition of their courageous and decisive leadership in addressing the human misery and ruin caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
April 13, 2010—Hyperion today announced plans to publish an historic new book based upon never-before-disclosed interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy. The book is scheduled for publication in September 2011.
Boston, MA – On September 14, 2011, the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will unveil a special new exhibit, In Her Voice: Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years. The exhibit presents excerpts from Mrs. Kennedy’s 1964 oral history in combination with iconic treasures from the Kennedy Library’s collection that chronicle the moments and events described by the former First Lady.
Introductory letter from Steven M. Rothstein following his appointment as Executive Director of the Kennedy Library Foundation.
Boston, MA- One of the highlights of this year’s New England Flower Show at the Bayside Expo Center is the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Wedding Bouquet Exhibit. The New England Flower Show and Winston Flowers of Boston have joined with the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum to mark the 50th wedding anniversary of President and Mrs. Kennedy with this special recreation of the white-and-pink spray-orchids and gardenias bouquet 24-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier carried on her wedding day, September 12, 1953.
Boston MA – On April 12, 2007 the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will unveil a new exhibit, Jacqueline Kennedy Entertains: The Art of the White House Dinner.
To mark the 40th anniversary of her emergence as America’s first lady, and explore her enduring global influence on style, Jacqueline Kennedy will be celebrated this September with an unprecedented special exhibition of the original costumes and accessories she wore at state events in America and abroad. Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years – Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum will be presented at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston from September 15, 2001 through February 28, 2002.
Boston: The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum today announced that it has selected The Field Museum in Chicago as the final venue for its popular exhibition, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years - Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum."
Boston: The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum today announced that it has selected the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, and The Field Museum in Chicago, as the final two venues for its popular exhibition, Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years – Selections from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
Boston —The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that it has opened and made available for research the first section of the Personal Papers of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. This portion of the collection features never-before-seen historic records from Mrs. Kennedy’s years as First Lady, including material relating to her efforts to restore the state rooms of the White House and her highly acclaimed televised tour of the First Family’s home, which aired on February 14, 1962 – fifty years ago tomorrow.