Boston, MA – On September 27, 2007 the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library unveiled Shaping Up America: JFK, Sports and the Call to Physical Fitness, a special display of archival material and Museum objects from the Library’s collection that focuses on President Kennedy’s love of sports and athletics as well as his challenge to the nation to become more active and physically fit. This temporary exhibit in the Museum’s Theater Lobby will remain open until the fall of 2008.
Not finding the information you're looking for? Please contact the Archives research staff.
Boston – U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), who will receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service at a dinner ceremony held at the Bush Library Center on the Texas A&M campus tonight, has expressed his wishes that the $20,000 honorarium accompanying the award be donated to the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
BOSTON: On Monday, July 21, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy will address 96 new Americans at a naturalization ceremony hosted by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. The ceremony will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
In 1945, Captain Samuel Beer worked for the United States military government in Germany immediately after the collapse of the Third Reich. Beer, who is fluent in German, conducted a series of interviews with German officials and citizens about their experiences during the Nazi era. He also wrote analyses of German history and public opinion in post-Nazi Germany. These notes and reports, as well as sixteen interviews are included in the Beer papers at the Kennedy Library. These materials are open and available for research. Another set of these materials is also available in the archives of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Boston—Michael Sloyer, a 17-year-old junior at Roslyn High School in Roslyn Heights, New York, has written the winning essay in the 2003 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students. On May 12, Caroline Kennedy will honor Michael Sloyer at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s Profile in Courage Award Ceremony at the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston. Robert Becker, the Roslyn High School teacher who nominated Michael Sloyer for the prize, will also be recognized.
Boston, MA – Today the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that it has placed on display in the Museum the original copy of the poem written by Robert Frost for the January 20, 1961 Inauguration for President John F. Kennedy.
Boston, MA – Today the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that it has acquired Robert Frost's handwritten version of the poem he wrote for the January 20, 1961 Inauguration for President John F. Kennedy. This handwritten version was the one he wrote out for the President and gave to him.
Boston, MA – The Friends of the John F. Kennedy Library has named Richard K. Donahue as its 2004 Irishman of the Year. Donahue, a resident of Lowell, MA, will be honored for his outstanding contribution to the community at a reception and dinner at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum on Monday, March 15, 2004. Donahue is an attorney, business leader, and former assistant to President John F. Kennedy.
Boston, MA– In honor of the 60th anniversary of the September 12, 1953 wedding of Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will feature an artist’s unique paper replica of the ivory silk taffeta gown worn by the bride in a special display opening September 12 and running through November 3.
Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, heads of government, foreign ministers, ambassadors, your excellencies, distinguished guests:
Thank you very much, Senator, Vicki, Caroline and Ed, other members of the Kennedy family, Paul Kirk. And I say a special word of thanks to all of you who have made this evening possible. I thank Senator Jeffords and Senator Thurmond and Senator Hatch for being here tonight to restrain the partisan impulses that might otherwise overtake Senator Kennedy and me. I thank Yo-Yo Ma and Jill and all the other musicians who have come here. Secretary General, thank you for the wonderful job you do here at the OAS.
Boston, MA – Today the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that the red dress worn by Jacqueline Kennedy as she gave her Emmy Award-winning televised tour of the White House has returned home to the JFK Library and Museum after being featured in New York City, Paris, Washington D.C. and Chicago as part of the exhibition, Jacqueline Kennedy – The White House Years.
Boston MA – In the year marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Profiles in Courage, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation today announced that U.S. Representative John P. Murtha (D-PA), and former U.S. Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora have been selected as the recipients of the 2006 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award . Murtha and Mora 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 22.
BOSTON — Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Former Texas State Senator Bill Ratliff have been named the recipients of the 2005 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, it was announced today by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
BOSTON -- Sima Samar, an Afghan medical doctor who ignored death threats and defied the Taliban for twelve years to provide Afghan girls and women with access to health care and education and who, after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, became the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet position in the interim Afghan government, will be honored with the 2004 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in a May 24th ceremony hosted by Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
Boston, MA—In celebration of Independence Day, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today announced that a rare 1823 print of the Declaration of Independence is on display for the first time in the White House Corridor exhibit of the Museum. One of 200 made in 1823, the print on display was given to President Kennedy as a gift in 1961. Fewer than three dozen from the 1823 printing are known to exist.
Due to the need to update its archival storage areas, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library will provide restricted access to its textual archival collections starting in late summer. During that time period, currently estimated to last at least through January 2012, only a select number of collections will be physically available to researchers and to Archives staff members.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is providing notice of the final Environmental Assessment (EA), and Finding Of No Significant Impact (FONSI) regarding the proposed construct of a two story 28,000 square foot addition to the existing John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum building at Columbia Point, Boston MA.
Profiles in Courage for Our Time , the new best seller edited and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, pays tribute to 13 heroes, each a recipient of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s prestigious award for political courage. In addition, Caroline has written three short essays honoring the 2002 recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, which includes America’s public servants – the heroes of September 11, former Palos Heights, IL Mayor Dean Koldenhoven, and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. A generation was formed by reading John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, and this new book proves that the timeless values of courage, commitment, and community consciousness are still burning bright in America.
Boston MA – On Friday, April 18, 2008, the Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, delivered a major address on foreign policy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The speech, before an invitation only audience, was the first given by Prime Minister Brown in the United States since taking office in June of 2007, and was the only speech given during the Prime Minister’s April 2008 visit to the United States.
Boston MA – During a major address at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library today in which he marked the 10th Anniversary of the April 10, 1998 Good Friday Peace Accord in Northern Ireland by declaring that “Ireland is at peace,” An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland, announced an historic gift of $2 million from the people of Ireland to the Kennedy Library Foundation to benefit the nation’s official memorial to President John F. Kennedy, America’s first Irish-Catholic President.
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and the Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse will host a candid discussion about race issues as part of “One America in the Twenty-First Century: The President’s Initiative on Race, “ on Monday, June 8, from 9:00 am to 11:30 am in the Stephen Smith Center at the Kennedy Library on Columbia Point, Boston.
On February 16 and 17, 2003, Presidents’ Day weekend, top presidential historians, former advisors to Presidents Nixon, Kennedy, and Johnson, first-family members, archivists, and journalists will convene at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston to discuss the historical importance of secretly recorded White House tapes of Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Discussions will also center on what the tapes reveal about the leadership style, character, and legacy of each man.
Presidential Libraries and National Archives to Host Conference on the Presidency in the Nuclear Age
BOSTON – On October 12, 2009, the National Archives and its 13 presidential libraries will host a day-long conference analyzing how nuclear weapons have challenged and reshaped the modern American presidency. The conference, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Boston MA – Her Excellency Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum today as part of her five-day presidential visit to Massachusetts.