STEVE ROTHSTEIN: Welcome! Welcome, welcome. My name is Steve Rothstein. I am the Executive Director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. And on behalf of my colleagues at the Foundation and the
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In responding to terrorism on its own shores, how can the US protect security and civil liberties? NPR chief legal correspondent Nina Totenberg moderated a panel including John Shattuck, former
Defining Style: Jacqueline Kennedy's White House Years - November 18, 2001
Hamish Bowles, Euopean Editor-at-Large of Vogue and guest curator of Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, discussed how Mrs. Kennedy helped to revolutionize the taste of the nation and became a
A Conversation with Madeleine Albright - 2012
Madeleine Albright discussed her memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of
Bipartisanship and American Unity
Join a special conversation on the state of our national politics with former members of congress and presidential advisors including, among others, Olympia Snowe and Vicki Kennedy. This forum is
Searching for a Better World in the Face of Terrorism - December 9, 2001
Prior to the terrorist attack in New York, CARE, one of the world's pre-eminent humanitarian relief and development organizations, was leading the fight against hunger and for healthier living
Assessing the Military's Options - December 12, 2001
As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Wesley K. Clark oversaw NATO's military intervention in the former Yugoslavia. Based on his new book Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S MASTERPIECE THE SUN ALSO RISES HILARY JUSTICE: Good evening. I'm Dr. Hilary Justice, the Ernest Hemingway Program Specialist here at the John F. Kennedy
Alan Brinkley on JFK
Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, discussed his new biography in The American Presidents Series, John F. Kennedy: The 35th President, 1961-1963
JFK, RFK, and Japan
In 1962, to prepare for a diplomatic trip he planned to take in 1964, President Kennedy asked his brother, Robert Kennedy, to travel to Japan. RFK's oldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, discussed
LBJ: From Senate Majority Leader to President, 1958-1964
Pulitzer Prize winning-author Robert Caro discussed the fourth volume in his biography of LBJ, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe writer Mark
Letters and telegrams from key figures help tell the story of the civil rights movement during the Kennedy years. Documents included are from James Farmer, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young Jr.
A Conversation with Conan O'Brien
Conan O’Brien discussed the art of comedy with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris.
LIZ MURPHY: Good evening, I'm Liz Murphy, Forum Producer here at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. On behalf of all of my Library and Foundation colleagues, thank you for coming
Poverty in America
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michael Harrington’s The Other America, historian and Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman joined Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor, and Harvard
Protecting Human Rights - January 6, 2002
As United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has traveled the globe in an effort to advance freedom, promote peace, and protect human rights. In this forum, she commented on the
David McCullough on Americans in Paris
David McCullough discussed his latest book, The Greater Journey, about prominent 19th-century Americans’ formative years in Paris.
Reassessing the Johnson Presidency - January 30, 2002
In Reaching for Glory: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1964 - 1965, Michael Beschloss interprets the secretly-recorded conversations of LBJ's presidency during the crucial years in which Johnson
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years - February 3, 2002
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, Kennedy biographer Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, and Tiffany executive John Loring remembered Jacqueline Kennedy and her enduring
STEVE ROTHSTEIN: First, I want to thank our sponsors: our lead sponsor Bank of America, the Lowell Institute; and our media sponsors, the Boston Globe, Xfinity, and WBUR. You also I think all know
Cissy Patterson: The Most Powerful Woman in 20th Century America
Amanda Smith, the daughter of Jean Kennedy Smith, discussed her recent biography, Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, with WBUR's political news reporter Fred
Brokering Peace in War-Torn Lands - March 4, 2002
Former Senator George Mitchell discussds his experience as a negotiator in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, mediating among centuries-old antagonists.
Remembering Sargent Shriver
Mark Shriver discussed his new book, A Good Man, about his late father, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps with Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow at
Theodore Roosevelt: The White House Years - March 5, 2002
As part of the Kennedy Library Presidential Historian series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris discussed his new, best-selling book, Theodore Rex, the second of a proposed three volume
A Reporter's View from the Frontlines - March 13, 2002
CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour - who has covered the US response to terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia - shared first-hand accounts from her most recent