not just for my country but for my family as well. President Kennedy inspired me when I was a struggling 9 year old who had zero interest in learning how to read or had any thought that one day I would be holding a Master’s degree in history because of him. Now here I was standin...
The Reading Room provides access to an extensive library of books, magazines, newspapers, media resources and websites. Upon request, researchers may also access the Museum’s photographs, film and video footage, documents and artifacts related to the assassination. For assistance in identifying relev...
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with a new app that helps users relive the 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission.
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on December 02, 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts. Samir Hussein/WireImage. The visit was an important one for both families because it was President John F. Kennedy’s “Moonshot” program to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s decade...
news network. The presidential library's website described the speech as being about "the necessity of freedom of information and complete truthfulness of the media." The full paragraph the quote came from discussed the values of the VOA network. It said: In 1946 the United Nations General ...
President John F. Kennedy. The author observes that, as is the case 50 years later, news reporters providing initial coverage of a big story often make mistakes, and eyewitnesses sometimes provide false accounts of events.PoniewozikJamesTime.com...
Materials in the Pentagon library, which housed 500,000 books, documents and historical materials and was supposedly hit by the nose of the plane that crashed into the building, were damaged but the bulk of them was restored. President Nixon’s Office being “bugged” ...
Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) “I am inspired by my family’s legacy of public service,” he toldVoguein July. “I take that very seriously, and I want to contribute in my own way. I have big dreams, but I also know that I’m trying to make a positive impact...
Peter Hanff, deputy director of UC-Berkeley's Bancroft Library that houses Pat Brown's archives, shared that sentiment. “I’m guessing that someone in Pat Brown’s administration probably just saved those pieces for autograph value,” Hanff said. He added a collector would have more use for...
(JFK Library Foundation Photo / Tom Fitzsimmons) Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy said he chose to have Americans go to the moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard. Today, billionaire Jeff Bezos said it’s still hard — and in some ways, it’s even harder ...