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WINTER/SPRING JOHN F. K ENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION 2005 NEWSLETTER

New U.S. Citizens Help Mark Library’s 25th Anniversary

he John F. Kennedy and Museum marked the T 25th anniversary of its October 20, 1979 dedication by host- ing a celebration of the naturalization of new citizens of the . The ceremony was presided over by United States District Court Judge and was followed by a reception for the new citizens and their families, including a birthday cake for the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. TOM FITZSIMMONS In an editorial marking the Kennedy Library’s 25th anniversary, The Globe observed that, “It is difficult to imagine a better New Americans take the oath of U.S. citizenship in Library Pavilion. place to begin the American experience than in this living urban museum, humming with the energy to the great-grandson of Irish immi- citizen,” Shattuck said. “And he spoke honor public service and inspire grants and that no other ceremony often about it, especially after he was new generations.” could be more fitting to celebrate his elected to the highest office in our land. If there is one phrase that captures It is difficult to imagine a better place to begin the the essence of his presidency and American experience than in this living urban museum… the meaning of citizenship as he saw it, it is that powerful phrase in his In welcoming the new citizens, library than to welcome new citizens Inaugural Address, ‘And so my fellow John Shattuck, CEO of the Kennedy from around the world. Americans, ask not what your country Library Foundation, noted that “John Kennedy thought deeply can do for you – ask what you can do President Kennedy was himself about what it means to be an American for your country.’ With that famous line, continued on page 3

I.M. Pei Visits May Dinner Sets Kennedy Library His Masterpiece Honors Profile in New Record Awards Honor Forums Courage Awardees Young Public Draw National 4 6 13 18 Servants 20 Audience T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

Keeping Faith with Our Mission A Message to Friends and Supporters

he John F. Kennedy scholars to celebrate the contributions when discrimination and intolerance Presidential Library of Ernest Hemingway; organizing are fueling mass killing and terror all T and Museum marked forums and round-table discussions over the world, it is more important a milestone this October on such topics as , civil and than ever, in President Kennedy’s as it celebrated the 25th anniversary human rights, public service, and stirring words, to “forge a grand and of its dedication. political participation; or hosting global alliance… against the common Since the day of its opening, the political debates, international confer- enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, Kennedy Library has welcomed more ences and community discussions, disease, and war itself.” than six million visitors – including the Kennedy Library has served Boston In short, there is a clear connection 500,000 schoolchildren – from through- and the nation well by promoting open between the challenges of the Kennedy out the country and around the world. discourse on critical issues of our time. era and those of our own. This is Over the last quarter century, it has As we look to our agenda for what inspires the work of the John F. become a major center for the study the years ahead, we should start by Kennedy Library Foundation. of mid-20th century American history, observing that not since President At the October 20, 1979 dedication as well as one of Boston’s leading cultural Kennedy’s time has his legacy been ceremony, Senator Edward M. and educational institutions. more relevant than it is today. Kennedy observed that: Throughout its 25 years, the At a time when increasingly large “This library will be more than just Kennedy Library and Kennedy Library segments of the public feel alienated a collection of photographs and objects Foundation have sought to keep faith from politics, the Kennedy call to under glass. It will be a living memorial with President Kennedy’s ideals and public service is more compelling than at many levels. Here in Boston, it will his belief that one person can make ever. When education, the economy take up the causes of the community, a difference and that every person and civil rights are once again the helping to revitalize this section of should try. subjects of deep division in our our city. Across the country, it will reach out to visitors and scholars, There is a clear connection between the challenges summoning young men and women to careers in public life. For the great of the Kennedy era and those of our own. This is what and humble in other lands, it will be inspires the work of the Kennedy Library Foundation. a beacon signaling the message of this nation, a lighthouse bearing witness Whether it has been honoring domestic politics, debates about these to Jack’s truth that America at its the leadership of the legendary civil issues in the 1960s once again seem best can truly light the world.” rights hero ; celebrating relevant. When Americans feel less Thanks to an energetic and vision- the political courage of individuals secure than at any time since the fall ary Board of Directors, a dedicated such as President , of 1962, presidential leadership is staff, and a legion of supporters who U.N. Secretary General , or as vital to their security as it was hold the ideals of John F. Kennedy as the peacemakers of ; during the . When their own, the John F. Kennedy Library recognizing the heroism of the Public the world is once again threatened Foundation is keeping faith with that Servants of 9/11; welcoming the by weapons of mass destruction, a far-reaching mission. recently freed from comprehensive strategy for preventing ; providing Nobel Laureate their proliferation and use is as urgent John Shattuck Oscar Arias with a public forum to today as it was when the first Test Chief Executive Officer call for ; hosting literary Ban Treaty was signed. And at a time John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

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New U.S. Citizens Help Mark Kennedy Library’s 25th Anniversary Continued from page 1 K ENNEDY L IBRARY S TAFF H ONORED BY P EERS

taff members at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum S have been recognized

TOM FITZSIMMONS with two Archivist’s Awards, the top recognition offered by the National Archives and Records Administration. The awards were

Judge Gertner joins in the Pledge of Allegiance led by the son of a new American citizen. presented by Archivist John Carlin at a ceremony at the National President Kennedy inspired generations our culture, our religion, and our Archives in December. of Americans to work harder to traditions. And we have enriched this The Special Events staff of make their country and the world country, just as all of you will.” the Public Programs Division was recognized for the extraordinary a better place.” Members of the crew of the USS job they did in serving the public In a moving address to the new Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) served during the week of the Democratic citizens, Judge Gertner, herself the as the color guard to mark the special National Convention, when a record granddaughter of immigrants, spoke occasion. Soloist Wannetta Jackson number of events were scheduled, of the obligation of American citizenship. sang the National and America elevating the national profile of “Today you enter into a contract with the Beautiful, and led everyone in a the Library. The awardees were your country,” Judge Gertner said. “It round of Happy Birthday to the John F. Heather Joines, Meaghan McCue, provides you with a protection, hopefully Kennedy Presidential Library. The 138 Sally Murray, Victoria Tise, and freedom from discrimination, and a new citizens took the oath of American Ryan Woods. place in which to pursue your happiness citizenship under the great 24’ x 36’ Nina Tisch of the Kennedy and the happiness of your children and American flag that graces the Kennedy Library’s education staff was your children’s children. In exchange, you Presidential Library and Museum’s also recognized for Outstanding agree to the obligations of citizenship magnificent glass Pavilion designed Achievement in Promoting Diversity of this democracy. You agree to vote, to by architect I.M. Pei. for her efforts in developing a broad participate in juries, to encourage your The John F. Kennedy Presidential range of civic education programs children to do so. Even to dissent, to Library and Museum annually hosts six that enabled students disagree with your government. naturalization ceremonies sponsored by of diverse backgrounds to discuss “We are not a perfect country, but the U.S. Department of Justice, and the contemporary political issues. with your help and participation we Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Only a handful of Archivist’s will change,” Judge Gertner continued. Services in the Department of Homeland Awards were given to Presidential “We will eradicate discrimination Security. Approximately 200 citizens Libraries, and the John F. Kennedy because we so desperately need the representing over 100 countries partici- Presidential Library and Museum participation of all of our numbers, pate at each ceremony. A generous grant was the only presidential library of all of you. This country is a country from Citizens Bank Foundation in 2004 to receive more than one. of immigrants. My grandparents, you, allowed for a welcoming reception for even the Founding Fathers. We came new citizens and their families following from elsewhere with our language, each ceremony. 3 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

Architect I.M. Pei Returns to His Masterpiece

o help mark its 25th anniversary, the John F. T Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum hosted a Kennedy Library Forum with architect I. M. Pei on Sunday, September 26. Despite the fact that the Red Sox were playing the Yankees that day at Fenway Park, and Boston’s weather was a spectacular fall day, more than 700 crowded into the Stephen Smith Hall to hear Pei

discuss the evolution and implementa- TOM FITZSIMMONS tion of his architectural design for the Kennedy Library with ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Robert Campbell.

Jacqueline Kennedy played a major Kennedy Library Architect I.M. Pei and Boston Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell. role in the selection of I.M. Pei to be the architect of the Kennedy Library. nevertheless selected him from a list building for a site adjacent to Harvard At an early meeting in 1964, Mr. Pei of candidates that included some of University in Cambridge. Delays in explained to Mrs. Kennedy, somewhat America’s best-known architects. freeing the site for construction and apologetically, that as a young architect The Kennedy Library Corporation local concerns about possible urban he had not yet worked on monumental [now the John F. Kennedy Library congestion resulted in a decision in projects. Though Pei was relatively Foundation] originally commissioned 1976 to build the library adjacent to unknown at the time, Mrs. Kennedy Pei in December 1964 to design a the Harbor Campus of the University of Boston on Columbia Point in Dorchester on a site that was donated to the Library Corporation by the University and approved by the state legislature. During his exchange with Robert Campbell, Pei described the siting of the library and the meaning and importance of some architectural elements. “When we were offered Columbia Point at that time, next to UMass, we looked at it, and at that time you have no idea what this place was; it was a

TOM FITZSIMMONS dump,” Pei said. “When we excavated, we found old sinks and old refrigerators and things of that kind. There was actually methane gas of I.M. Pei views Boston Harbor framed by his geometric design of the glass Pavilion. the soil. You could light a match on 4 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

it and then it’d burn. It was that bad, I’m not exaggerating, it’s true. So when I looked at it, I said, my gosh, from Harvard Yard to this site? It was quite a comedown. But we didn’t give up.” When asked by Campbell how his design process worked, Pei responded, “I had to think about the President, what would he like it to be. I think that’s number one. And I had at that time Jackie with me to think about that, to work with. She actually participated in talking about what she would like to

see. And she didn’t say what it should be, TOM FITZSIMMONS but she did tell me, ‘Please don’t put Jack in the form of a statue or a bust, because I don’t want that, I don’t think he would like that.’ So, therefore, that’s why this pavilion here that you see is empty; there’s no statue, no bust, nothing. Just Asked why he incorporated a officially dedicated on October 20, 1979 space. But more important than space, glass pavilion in his design, Pei said, at a ceremony attended by President the space is very simple space. It frames “Because I love light, I just like light. who accepted the the view of Boston…. When you come I think light makes me feel alive, privately built library on behalf of into the Pavilion, you should see nothing. and I think everybody else as well.” the American people. It should be empty with just a flag to say Ground breaking for the Kennedy In describing his architectural he was President of the United States. Library building took place on concept for the 1979 Dedication And that’s all we did. And Jackie Kennedy June 12, 1977 and construction was Program, I.M. Pei wrote: said, ‘That’s exactly what I want.’” completed in 1979. The Library was “Its openness is the essence. After witnessing the film, after leaving the concentrated exhibition area with its many photographs and memorabilia, people will conclude their visit to the Kennedy Library in a restful place where they can linger, look at the view, and reflect on what they have seen. In the silence of that high, light-drenched space, the visitors will be alone with their thoughts. And in the reflective mood that the architecture seeks to engender, they may find themselves thinking of John F. Kennedy in a different way. In the skyline of his city, in the distant horizons toward TOM FITZSIMMONS which he led us, in the canopy of space into which he launched us, visitors may experience revived hope and promise for the future.” 5 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

Kennedy Family Presents Profile in Courage Awards

aroline Kennedy and courage in standing up to the powerful “Our goal is to honor political courage Senator Edward M. hog industry in their respective states in contemporary elected officials at C Kennedy presented Afghan in order to protect the environment and whatever level of government they serve,” physician and human the health of their constituents. said Senator Edward M. Kennedy. rights activist Dr. Sima Samar, former “Today, we honor three individuals “We hope that this award will continue State Representative who have acted courageously to better to encourage the American people to Cindy Watson (R), and former Oklahoma State Senator Paul Muegge They have all shown us how one individual’s public courage (D) with the John F. Kennedy Profile in can bring comfort and support to thousands of people. Courage Award at a May 24 ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential the neighborhoods and the lives of their value political courage more highly Library and Museum. fellow citizens,” said . in their elected representatives.” Dr. Sima Samar was honored for the “While they have served in different ways, The John F. Kennedy Profile in courage she displayed in ignoring death the three people we recognize today have Courage Award is presented annually threats and defying the Taliban for a great deal in common. They have all to public servants who have withstood 12 years to ensure that Afghan girls accepted the risks of standing up to strong opposition to follow what they and women had access to health care powerful interests when their principles believe is the right course of action. The and education. demanded that they act. And they have award is named for President Kennedy’s Former North Carolina State all shown us how one individual’s public 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles Representative Cindy Watson and courage can bring comfort and support in Courage, which recounts the stories former Oklahoma State Senator to thousands of people. They are role of eight U.S. senators who risked their Paul Muegge were honored for their models for us all.” careers to fight for what they believed in. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation created the in 1989 to honor President Kennedy’s commitment and contribution to public service. The Award is presented in May in celebration of President Kennedy’s May 29th birthday. The Profile in Courage Award is represented by a sterling-silver lantern symbolizing a beacon of hope, designed by and crafted by Tiffany & Co. Dr. Sima Samar has become an inter- national symbol of the steadfast courage required to demand basic human rights for girls and women in Afghanistan. Through the Shuhada Organization, a non-govern- TOM FITZSIMMONS mental, nonprofit organization she estab- lished in 1989, Dr. Samar has opened four hospitals, ten health clinics, and numerous schools that serve girls and women in 2004 Profile in Courage Award recipients Dr. Sima Simar, Cindy Watson, and Paul Muegge with Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy. Afghanistan. She worked undercover in

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defiance of the brutally repressive Taliban, the country’s ruling military and political force from 1994 to 2001, to operate schools for girls and health clinics for women. Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Dr. Samar was the first woman appointed to a cabinet position in the interim Afghan government when she was named to the newly created position of Minister of Women’s Affairs. She now serves as Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. North Carolina Representative Cindy Watson was the first Republican elected from Duplin County in more than a century. As a freshman legislator in 1995, she became informed about the health risks of waste and stench TOM FITZSIMMONS from local hog farms that caused asthma in children, made walking outside unbearable, and contaminated water wells with E. coli bacteria. Dr. Sima Simar accepts the Profile in Courage Award’s Silver Lantern from Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In 1997, Watson co-sponsored legislation to require farmers Committee was key to getting the Hernandez, president and chief executive to better handle hog-waste. When legislation passed in 1998. After a officer of the Community Watson’s legislation passed in 1998, brutal campaign, Senator Muegge Foundation; , executive she was targeted for defeat by the was reelected to a third term in 1998 editor of ; U.S. state’s largest corporate hog farmers. by a mere 67 votes. Representative Nancy Johnson In the 1998 primary, despite her Sima Samar, Paul Muegge, and Cindy (R-); Elaine Jones, director- incumbent status, Watson lost Watson were chosen as recipients of the counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense her party’s nomination to Johnny John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s and Education Fund; Caroline Kennedy, Manning, a hog farmer. prestigious award for political courage president of the John F. Kennedy Library Oklahoma Senator Paul Muegge also by a distinguished bipartisan committee Foundation; U.S. Senator Edward M. put his political career on the line when of national, political, and community Kennedy (D-Massachusetts); Paul G. he authored that placed tough new leaders. , founder of the Kirk, Jr., chairman of the board of regulations on the corporate swine and First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt directors of the John F. Kennedy poultry industries in Oklahoma. Citing University, chairs the fourteen-member Library Foundation; U.S. Senator the need for clean air, clean water, and Profile in Courage Award Committee. (R-); and The a protected environment to maintain Committee members are Michael Honorable Patricia M. Wald, former the high quality of life Oklahomans Beschloss, author and presidential judge of the International Criminal enjoy, Muegge sponsored legislation historian; David Burke, former president Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. that would regulate and impose restric- of CBS News; U.S. Senator Thad To submit nominations for the tions on hog production. His strong Cochran (R-Mississippi); Marian 2005 Profile in Courage Award, email position in the Senate as Chair of the Wright Edelman, president of the your nomination to ProfileInCourage@ Agriculture and Rural Development Children’s Defense Fund; Antonia JFKLFoundation.org

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Tape Reveals JFK’s Frustration with Civil Rights

s the nation reflected on the life of civil rights A leader Dr. Martin Luther King on January 17, the Kennedy Library Archives declassified a tape recording of a 30-minute meeting that took place BILL HUDSON/AP WIDE WORLD PHOTOS on May 4, 1963 during which President Kennedy commented on the nation’s civil rights struggle. The President’s frustration is revealed in his remarks about an photograph by Bill Hudson which was published in that morning’s papers showing a black citizen of Birmingham, Birmingham, police use police dogs to attack civil rights demonstrators Alabama being attacked by a police during May 3, 1963 . dog. President Kennedy describes Later in the meeting the President the inside” to which President Kennedy the civil rights situation as “intolerable” mentions the membership controversy sardonically responded saying “well, during a meeting he was holding with surrounding the Metropolitan Club in your one contribution is that now they 20 members of the political organization, Washington, DC. The Metropolitan Club won’t let white ambassadors in. Most Americans for Democratic Action, on had had a policy of granting honorary of your novelists that you read every the administration’s legislative agenda. membership to all ambassadors posted to day… they’re all over there at the The President comments on the Washington. But in the early 1960’s when Metropolitan Club.” The President shock of the photograph at several new African nations had been formed and summarizes his point of view on points during the meeting and states were beginning to send their own ambas- civil rights commenting, “I think it with aggravation, “I mean what sadors to Washington, the Metropolitan is a national crisis.” can you pass to do anything about Club had discontinued the honorary The following month President police power in the community of membership policy. Several members of Kennedy delivered a nationally televised Birmingham? There is nothing we the Kennedy Administration had resigned address on Civil Rights where he refers can do… The fact of the matter is that their memberships in protest. to civil rights as a “moral issue.” President Birmingham is in worse shape than The President fervently recounts a Kennedy’s June 11th address to the nation any other city in the United States, recent meeting with a newspaperman as well as portions of the May 4, 1963 and it’s been that way for a year and in which the reporter commented, White House meeting may be heard by a half… I think it’s terrible the picture “Isn’t it outrageous in Birmingham?” visiting the John F. Kennedy Library’s in the paper. The fact of the matter to which the President replied, “Why web page at www.jfklibrary.org that’s just what (Police Commissioner are you over there eating at the Approximately 90 hours of meeting of Birmingham) (Bull) Connor wants. Metropolitan Club every day? You tapes remain to be reviewed for declas- And, as I say, Birmingham is the worst talk about Birmingham and you’re sification prior to release. Processing city in the south. They have done up there at the Metropolitan Club. of the presidential recordings will nothing for the Negroes in that commu- …They wouldn’t even let Negro ambas- continue to be conducted in the chrono- nity, so it is an intolerable situation, sadors in.” (The reporter) responded logical order of the tapes. Additional that there is no argument about.” by saying, “well, we want to work from tapes will be opened in the near future.

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A Citizen-Patriot Who Made a Difference

he Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library T Foundation mourned the loss of its friend and colleague T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. who died on January 5, 2005 at the age of 72. “Jeff Coolidge was a good man, an outstanding athlete, and a stalwart for the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation,” said Paul G. Kirk, Jr.,

Board Chair of the Kennedy Library JOEY LIBBY Foundation. “Civic responsibility and public service were in his blood. Jeff was a guiding force in the early days Board member Jeff Coolidge (left) joins Board member Tom Hynes and Foundation CEO John Shattuck in welcoming CNN Correspondent prior of the Library’s education mission, and to her appearance at a Kennedy Library Forum. he continued to be as generous with his time and wise counsel as he was 800 young men and women from diverse Jeff Coolidge was born in Boston with his resources. economic and racial backgrounds who Massachusetts in 1932, graduated from “In an article he authored in the collectively contributed thousands of Harvard, AB 1954, and served in the New England Journal of Public Policy on hours of service to their community. United States Marine Corps from the impact of ‘spirit’ on our institutional With his wife Gloria, Coolidge 1954 to 1956. He was a member of the and national life, Jeff wrote eloquently, remained a generous benefactor, Board of Overseers of ‘An institution with vision but lacking supporting a range of Kennedy Library from 1978 to 1984. a mission has lost its direction; an insti- programs, from free school buses, Coolidge was the chairman and tution with a mission but no vision has to the first-ever Presidential Tapes chief executive officer of the Coolidge lost its soul.’ Jeff Coolidge, the epitome Conference, to a special tribute exhibit Investment Corporation (CIC), formerly of the citizen-patriot, brought spirit, on the first anniversary of 9/11. Back Bay-Orient Enterprises, which direction and soul to his every endeavor,” In 1987, Coolidge started the was engaged in venture capital in Kirk said. “His ancestor, Thomas Forum, a nonprofit Korea and Southeast Asia until 1977. Jefferson, would have been proud.” entity, to support community service Subsequently CIC was involved in venture startups in food processing Jeff Coolidge, the epitome of the citizen-patriot, brought spirit, and technology. direction and soul to his every endeavor. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the John F. Coolidge was an original member of in high schools. When it was acquired Kennedy Library Foundation, the Board of Directors who founded the by in 1991, the Forum Coolidge served as a Trustee for the Kennedy Library Foundation in 1984. In had programs at 42 high schools in Harvard Yenching Institute, and 1985 he championed the creation of the Massachusetts. He was the first chair and Training Inc. National. He was also JFK Library Corps, one of the first volun- a founder of the Massachusetts Youth a Senior Fellow at Tufts University’s teer youth programs in Massachusetts. In Service Alliance, now the Massachusetts Lincoln Filene Center and a volunteer the ensuing years, the JFK Library Corps, Service Alliance, which administers the at the Lynn District Court’s Visitor modeled after President Kennedy’s Peace AmeriCorps program and other service Information Program and Reinventing Corps, went on to recruit more than programs in Massachusetts. Justice Committee.

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Kennedy Library Hosts Convention Delegates and Visitors

he John F. Kennedy Presidential Library T and Museum played a prominent role in the events surrounding, and leading up to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Boston last July. and national organizations hosted from around the country came to experi- The Kennedy Library’s special election receptions, dinners and other special ence the inspiring exhibits about President year exhibit Campaign! proved to be a functions at the national memorial to Kennedy and to learn about the Library’s major attraction for delegates and visitors President Kennedy. The Kennedy Library contemporary programming. The event attending the Democratic National also served as both a backdrop and was hosted by Caroline Kennedy and Convention, just as it was for thousands featured attraction for national and Board Chairman Paul G. Kirk, Jr., and of local residents and visitors to Boston international news organizations generously underwritten by AT&T and the throughout the summer and year. broadcasting during the convention. International Brotherhood of Electrical The beautiful facilities and grounds On July 28, the John F. Kennedy Workers (IBEW). of the Kennedy Presidential Library and Library Foundation hosted a private Later that day, the Kennedy Library Museum were in also in particularly breakfast and gallery tour for over 80 lead- Foundation and Senator Edward M. high demand during the week of the ing Americans who were in Boston for the Kennedy hosted Senate Minority convention as many state delegations Democratic National Convention. Guests Leader ’s luncheon for Democratic Senators and their spouses. The Senators and their guests arrived by boat at the Kennedy Library Pier and were welcomed personally by Caroline Kennedy who was joined by Senator Kennedy. The special guests were later welcomed in the Museum Theater by Caroline Kennedy and Paul G. Kirk, Jr. after which they toured the Museum. A luncheon was held in the Smith Hall where historian made brief remarks on the Presidency of John F. Kennedy. Throughout the summer, colorful images of President Kennedy graced the tops of taxicabs, the sides of trolleys, airport and shopping mall dioramas, and

TOM FITZSIMMONS national and hotel room magazines as the Museum at the JFK Library targeted a receptive audience of convention delegates and summer visitors to

Rob Reiner, Vince Wolfington, Gail Kirk, and Larry David at breakfast hosted visit the special Campaign! exhibit by Caroline Kennedy. sponsored by AT&T and WCVB-TV 5.

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Caroline Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy welcome Senator (D-MI). Trolley ads found receptive audience with DNC delegates this summer.

The Martin Agency of Richmond, and colorful campaign promoting President Kennedy’s legacy of providing Virginia once again donated the remark- the Museum. inspiration and hope to the nation’s able award-winning talent of its top In one version of the trolley and cab citizens with the city’s passion for the creative team to design another inspiring top ads, the Kennedy Library compared . The ad – which ran prior to the Red Sox’ world series victory in the fall – read, “Full of More Optimism Than Even a Red Sox Fan.” A camera shot of a trolley bearing the ad was broadcast nationally during a Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees game played in Fenway Park during the convention. In addition to Boston’s media market, the Martin Agency was able secure placement of the advertising campaign in TIME Magazine, the Advocate, Business Week, and Monthly as public service announcements. WCVB-TV 5, the

TOM FITZSIMMONS official Television Media Partner of the Museum at the Kennedy Presidential Library, created free television spots using vintage 1960 television ads from

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-ND) with former U.S. Senator Max Cleland the JFK presidential campaign that (D-GA) at luncheon sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. have run throughout the year.

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Archives Opens President Kennedy’s “Doodles”

n November 23, the Archives of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library made O available a collection of newly declassified material consisting of approximately 50 “doodles” – handwritten notes, reminders and jottings – primarily in President Kennedy’s handwriting, made between February 1961 and October 1963. The handwritten material, most of which is in pencil, was collected and President Kennedy’s doodles of his sailboat, Victura. dated by President Kennedy’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, who was a compulsive JFK chronicler. When he phrase “Guerilla war = 10,000”, “Vietnam ‘John Connolly,’ then the . left a meeting, President Kennedy would - what about ” and “2 front war.” Fierce infighting among Texas Democrats normally leave his papers behind and In an internationally syndicated would spur the president to visit that Lincoln would collect them, labeling story about the newly opened docu- state two months later. He was shot in them “KS” during his senate years and ments, Associated Press reporter on Nov. 22 during that trip.” “KP” when he was president. Theo Emery refers to another doodle The doodles and notes also provide The subject matter of the newly found in the collection: researchers and members of the public released material varies enormously. “On Sept. 25, 1963, as President with a look into the personal side of Many are handwritten notes that read Kennedy hopscotched across the West President Kennedy, as indicated by more like statements or drafts. Other aboard Air Force One before landing the several sketches of the president’s doodles outline key words or phrases in Jackson Hole, Wyo., he took a fresh sailboat Victura. from a meeting. For example, during a piece of stationery and scribbled a note Maura Porter, lead archivist of the November 15, 1961 just below the presidential seal. It read, Kennedy Library Declassification Unit, Council meeting on Vietnam, the ‘Report action in Texas’ or ‘Request said the doodles show a side of President President noted and underlined the action in Texas.’ Below that, he wrote Kennedy that won’t be seen in the polished presidential documents or official archives of the Kennedy White House. “I don’t think people are going to gain knowledge from these doodles that they didn’t have before, but it just adds to this whole picture of John F. Kennedy as a man and as a president,” Porter said. “When you see the President’s doodle of his sailboat Victura, you realize how very much he loved sailing,”’ she said. “He wouldn’t doodle some- thing like that unless it was something that was obviously on his mind when Note made by President Kennedy on September 25, 1963. sitting in that meeting.”

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May Dinner Sets New Record

he Sixteenth Annual May Dinner celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the John F. T Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and proved to be the most successful May Dinner to date. Co-Chaired by board members Gerard Doherty and Anne Finucane, the 2004 dinner welcomed over 500 guests and raised a record-break-

ing $950,000 from the Kennedy Library TOM FITZSIMMONS Foundation’s generous and dedicated friends. The memorable evening included a private viewing of the Museum exhibit Campaign!, featuring photographs, Caroline Kennedy talks with Gary Ginsberg of . film footage, political items, and documents from the 1960 Convention and their families. Legacy Champions by an impromptu sing along with and John F. Kennedy’s exuberant Ken Feinberg of The Feinberg Group Senator Kennedy. presidential campaign. and Gary Ginsberg of News Corporation The annual black-tie May Dinner is Caroline Kennedy, Edwin joined the Profile in Courage recipients the Kennedy Library Foundation’s single Schlossberg, Senator Edward Kennedy for a private greeting with Senator largest fundraising event. The evening and hosted Kennedy and Board Chairman celebrates President Kennedy’s May 29th the 2004 John F. Kennedy Profile Paul G. Kirk, Jr. prior to the evening’s birthday and honors the Profile in Courage in Courage award recipients: Afghan event. At the close of the dinner, Award recipients. Funds raised advance the women’s rights advocate Dr. Sima soprano Melissa Ericco, star of Kennedy Library’s mission of preserving Samar, former North Carolina State Broadway musical Dracula, and and perpetuating the legacy of John F. Representative Cindy Watson, former accompanist Clifford Carter, provided Kennedy and educating future generations Oklahoma State Senator Paul Muegge, a dazzling performance, capped off about the ideals of public service. TOM FITZSIMMONS TOM FITZSIMMONS

Richard and Philip Donahue with 2004 May Dinner 2004 May Dinner Co-Chair Anne Finucane Co-Chair Gerard Doherty. with Caroline Kennedy.

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy with Raytheon Richard and Sally Phelps. CEO William H. Swanson.

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CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM WITH APPRECIATION TO OUR 2004 DONORS

LEGACY CHAMPIONS Boston Scientific NSTAR David and Trixie Burke The Feinberg Group, LLP Citizens Energy Corporation Richard and Sally Phelps Brian P. Burns News Corporation Communications Workers Piper Rudnick LLP/ T. Edward Bynum, M.D. of America The Honorable Matthew H. Caires PRESIDENTIAL PARTNERS James J. Blanchard John and Diddy Cullinane Jay Cashman, Inc. Camrose & Kross, LLC Vin Ryan and Carla Meyer Marilyn and Gerard Doherty Sheila L. Cassidy Richard K. and Serono, Inc. Nancy L. Donahue EMC Corporation Nanci G. Celata Sony Corporation General Dynamics FleetBoston Financial of America Walton M. Chalmers, II Corporation Gourmet Caterers Ambassador Jean Mr. and Mrs. William J. William and Robie Harris Ted Hoff and Kennedy Smith Cleary, Jr. Kathleen O’Connell The Hartford Financial Weber Shandwick Jill K. Conway Services Group, Inc. Financial Ellen and Peter Zane Gloria and Jeff Coolidge Arnold and Anne Hiatt Services/Wayne A. Budd Anonymous and National Amusements Hill Holiday Advertising Peter G. Peterson TICKET BUYERS and Viacom Barbara and Amos Hostetter Ranny Cooper AFL-CIO Raytheon Company Nicole and Thomas J. Hynes E. Corcoran/ Alan and Susan Lewis The Joyce Foundation William H. Anderson Corcoran Jennison Solomont and Michael Caroline Kennedy and Jeri Asher Companies and Elizabeth Perik Edwin Schlossberg Michael Athanas Robert and Joyce Corrigan Kenneth and Marisa Starr The Honorable and Aventis Pharmaceuticals John and Diddy Cullinane ANNIVERSARY PATRONS Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy Fatemeh Azinfar Mary Jane Checchi Best Buy Co., Inc. Gail and Paul G. Kirk, Jr. Banknorth N.A. Annette Dahlman Ph.D/Dahlman Institute BlueCross BlueShield Lau Technologies/Joanna Lau Carrie Minot Bell and of Massachusetts George Bell George E. Dalton Sr. Citizens Financial Group Liberty Mutual Group Tim Best Nader Darehshori Connell Limited Partnership Lombard Family Foundation The Honorable Tina and Philip DeNormandie Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch Joseph E. Brennan and The Dillon Fund TABLE SPONSORS Ms. Connie L. Brennan Kevin and Polly Maroni Sharon Dorsey Boston Capital/ William L. and Jack Manning Mellon New England Helen P. Brown Phoebe and Don Dowd Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Robert Dunfey

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Kenneth Feinberg with Stephanie Markiewicz of AT&T Chairman Paul G. Kirk, Jr. and CEO John Shattuck with and Harron Ellenson. Dr. Sima Simar.

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Jack and Lisa Dunfey The O’Sullivan FIFTEEN YEAR FIVE YEAR TABLE SPONSORS TABLE SPONSORS Gerry Dunfey Children Foundation Connell Limited Partnership Cassidy and Associates John J. Flynn, President Frank H. and Geryl T. Pearl of the International Sherry H. Penney and John and Diddy Cullinane Elma and Milton Gilbert Union of Bricklayers Jim Livingston Marilyn and Gerard Doherty Hachette Filipacchi and Allied Craftsworkers Rayonier Foundation Richard K. and Magazines, Inc. Edward Fish Red Sox Foundation Nancy L. Donahue The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. Carol R. and Dr. Margaret A. Reed William and Robie Harris Avram J. Goldberg Arnold and Anne Hiatt / The Joyce Foundation Chancellor Jo Ann M. Gora Pittsburgh Steelers Caroline Kennedy and Ted Hoff and Kathleen O’Connell Craig Hatkoff Ropes & Gray LLP Edwin Schlossberg Nicole and Patrick and Carol Hemingway Roger and Kitty Salinas The Honorable and Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy Thomas J. Hynes Douglas Henderson Bob and Stacy Schmetterer Viacom/Sumner Redstone ITT Corporation Catherine Henn Jackie Jenkins-Scott John Hancock Financial Herald Media Inc. and Jim Scott TEN YEAR Services/Wayne A. Budd Hunt Alternatives Fund TABLE SPONSORS Eli and Phyllis Segal Lau Technologies/ Boston Capital/ Hyperion Books Robert E. Shea Joanna Lau Jack Manning Harry A. Jacobs, Jr. Shields Health Care Group Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Citizens Energy Corporation Ray and Jayne James, State Street Corporation Bernard and Audre The Feinberg Group, LLP Creative Media Michael and Carol Steed Rapoport Foundation FleetBoston Financial Ambassador Henry L. Erica and Donald K. Stern Serono, Inc. General Dynamics Kimelman Alan and Susan Stonehill College/ Corporation Scott and Gig Lang Rev. Mark T. Cregan Lewis Solomont Gail and Paul G. Kirk, Jr. J. Kevin Leary Sotheby’s Kenneth and Marisa Starr Patricia Kennedy Lawford Soo Hung Li Tiffany & Co. Verizon Liberty Mutual Group Sydney Lawford McKelvy The Boston Globe Wasserman Foundation Bill and Anne McNally Lombard Family Foundation Bert and Sandra Wasserman Yawkey Foundation II/ Joseph McNay Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch John Harrington Robert and Patricia Mellon New England Jeanne M. and Evans White Arthur H. Meehan NSTAR/Thomas J. May President and Rachel L. Mellon Mrs. Jack M. Wilson Raytheon Company Sean M. Morrissey Dr. J. Stanley Yake Mrs. Mary Rose O’Connell Jay S. Zimmerman and Therese and Jack O’Connor Margaret H. Child Tom and Rosemary O’Keeffe Roy J. Zuckerberg

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Presents for a President and

he Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library unwrapped a special T new exhibit on November 26, just in time for the traditional gift-giving holiday season. “Presents for a President and First Lady,” a display of 65 state gifts presented to President and Mrs. Kennedy by foreign ABBIE ROWE, NATIONAL PARK LIBRARY SERVICE/JFK leaders from around the globe, features a large selection of never-before-seen treas- ures from the Kennedy White House. “The exchange of gifts among heads of state is a centuries-old tradition, and remains an important part of modern-day international relations,” said Museum Curator Frank Rigg. “President and Mrs. Kennedy delighted in the gifts presented to them by Louis Ingacioa Pinto, Ambassador of the Republic of Dahomey, presents a state representatives of countries around gift to President Kennedy at the White House on April 17, 1961. the globe, particularly items which dramatic pedestal base were presented President Kennedy during their showcased the fine work of a foreign to President Kennedy by Norodam first meeting on June 4, 1961, in country’s craftsmen. In both the Oval Sihanouk, King of Cambodia, Vienna, Austria. Office and the White House residence, on September 25, 1961. • An Afghan head of Buddha, dating the president and first lady would • A mother-of-pearl nativity scene to the 2nd century, presented to display such gifts for visitors and framed in a brilliant, over-sized, President Kennedy by Afghan family members to enjoy.” pearl-inlay star, given to Caroline King Mohammad Zahir at the White Highlights of the new exhibit include: Kennedy for her birthday by King House on September 5, 1963.

1 • An eye-catching 18"-tall silver ampho- Hussein bin Talal, the King of Jordan. • A 10th century ceramic bowl, 8 ⁄2" ra vase with caraytid handles, • A tribal mask created by the Kuba in diameter, in off-white glaze detailed with dragon-heads in people depicting “Ngaady a Mwaash,” decorated with bird and scroll repousse and finely chased lines, a royal female ancestor of the 17th design, presented to the President and a 19”-tall silver tureen with century Bushoong Kuba dynasty, by the Shah of Iran, Mohammed detailed design on a presented to President Kennedy by Reza Pahlavi, on April 11, 1962. Fwamba Mukengele, the Deputy • Silver slippers with red-velvet lining to the National Assembly of the adorned with brass crescent and Republic of Congo, on star presented by Hasan al-Rida August 2. al Sanusi, Crown Prince of the JOEL BENJAMIN • A stately silver United Kingdom of Libya, during humidor (sans his state visit to the White House cigars), a gift on October 16, 1962. from Soviet Premier • An ivory model of an ancient Khrushchev to Egyptian barge with a serpent

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C ELEBRATING THE JOEL BENJAMIN R ED S OX V ICTORY

When the Boston Red Sox cinched Presidential Library placed on the American League Pennant on special, temporary display baseball October 20, Red Sox owners chose memorabilia from the Kennedy motif and a Damascened vase with the John F. Kennedy Presidential administration, including the bands of Arabic inscriptions, medallions, Library and Museum to host a autographed baseball that and ornamental work done in repousse victory party the next evening President Kennedy threw out for with fine chasing given to President for National and American League the April 8, 1962 opening game Kennedy by Gamal Abdel-Nasser, owners and fans in Boston for between the Washington Senators President of Egypt. the beginning of the World and the Detroit Tigers and the three Series playoff. annual passes given to the President “Presents for a President and First To help celebrate the occasion, by the American League Professional Lady,” is sponsored by WCVB-TV 5. It the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Baseball Clubs. is just one of the many exciting and inspiring exhibits visitors can 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 ABBIE ROWE, NATIONAL PARK / JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY SERVICE 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. ’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 on the Civil Rights crisis. “Presents for a President and First Lady,” is being presented in the Museum’s White House corridor and ceremonial room, and runs through President Kennedy attends American League Opening Day, 1962. Washington, D.C. November 13, 2005.

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John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards Honor Two Young Americans for Exceptional Public Service

he John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and ’s Institute of T Politics (IOP) announced the first recipients of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards at a presentation ceremony at Harvard University on November 15, 2004. Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy made the presentation of the newly inaugurated awards to Karen Carter, 35, a Louisiana State Representative from New Orleans, and Wendy Kopp, 37, Founder of TOM FITZSIMMONS Teach for America, a national non-profit organization based in . The ceremony in the Kennedy School of Government’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Senator Edward Kennedy presents New Frontier Award to Representative Karen Carter. Forum was followed by a discussion on public service with the two recipients, Karen Carter, State Representative, New Frontier Award for demonstrating Louisiana moderated by veteran broadcast journalist the impact of elective public service In 1999, at the age of 30, Karen Carter and IOP Fellow Kathleen Matthews. through her work to improve New beat out a diverse field of candidates to The Kennedy Library Foundation Orleans’ public schools, and for and the Institute of Politics created the fill the legislative seat of Louisiana civil serving as a role model to young New Frontier Award to honor young rights legend Rev. Avery C. Alexander. Americans everywhere. Her legislative district encompasses the Americans under the age of 40 who Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, are changing their communities – and heart of New Orleans and during her Teach for America the country – with their commitment first year as a legislator, her colleagues While still an undergraduate at to public service. selected Representative Carter as Princeton University, Wendy Kopp out- The two awards will be presented “Rookie of the Year.” She made her lined her idea for Teach for America annually in the fall to exceptional mark as a rising star in 2004 when in her college thesis. Frustrated by the young Americans whose contributions she authored and boldly won passage poor quality of America’s public school in elective office, and community serv- of a new law to reform the manage- system, Ms. Kopp decided to create ice demonstrate the impact and the ment of the failing New Orleans school a national corps of energetic young value of public service in the spirit system. Her efforts to pass the school teachers by using funds from corporate of President John F. Kennedy. reform bill spanned more than two sponsors to recruit top college graduates Building on an award presented for years. While her bill was controversial, to teach in the nations’ most desperate a number of years by the Kennedy Ms. Carter won widespread acclaim school districts. Since 1990, more than Library Foundation in honor of the for her dogged efforts to take on and 12,000 exceptional individuals have Library’s first director, Dan Fenn, the win a battle for reform of one of joined Teach For America, committing award for younger elected officials the nation’s struggling public school two years to teach in low-income rural will be known as The New Frontier systems. Representative Carter was and urban communities. Teach For “Dan Fenn” Award. honored with the John F. Kennedy America now has 22 regional sites

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across the country. Wendy Kopp contin- compass in a wooden box bearing the A distinguished bipartisan commit- ues to serve as CEO of the organization inscription: “We stand today on the tee of political and community leaders she founded in college, and she continues edge of a New Frontier… I believe the selected Carter and Kopp based on to fight for a more effective education times demand new invention, innovation, their contributions to the public and system in the United States. Wendy Kopp was honored with the John F. Kennedy President Kennedy issued a call to all of us to do something New Frontier Award for elevating the debate about public education in the for our country, but he especially encouraged young men United States, and for showing young and women to meet his challenge. Americans how they can change lives through their own public service. “I am thrilled to be part of this imagination, decision. I am asking each their embodiment of the forward- Award ceremony which honors two of you to be pioneers on that New looking public idealism to which women I so admire,” said Caroline Frontier. – John F. Kennedy.” President Kennedy hoped young Kennedy, President of the John F. “President Kennedy issued a call Americans would aspire. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a to all of us to do something for our Kennedy New Frontier Award member of the Senior Advisory country, but he especially encouraged Committee for 2004 was co-chaired Committee at Harvard’s Institute of young men and women to meet his by John Shattuck, CEO, John F. Politics, who made the presentation challenge,” said Senator Kennedy. Kennedy Library Foundation, via satellite. “The New Frontier Award “Whether it was running for office, and Phil Sharp, Acting Director, would have special meaning for my serving in the or helping Institute of Politics. Committee father. It brings together two institutions in one’s own community, he often said members were: Jennifer Armini, that bear his name and celebrates public that ‘one person can make a difference former Communications Director, service – the way of life he found most and everyone should try.’ Today we MassINC; Melanie Campbell, Executive rewarding and the noblest undertaking honor two outstanding young women Director and Chief Executive Officer, he could imagine.” who not only tried, but also succeeded National Coalition on Black Civic Senator Kennedy presented Carter in bettering the quality of education Participation; Dan Fenn, former and Kopp each with a ship’s navigational for their fellow citizens.” Director of the John F. Kennedy Library; Trey Grayson, Secretary of State, Kentucky; Jackie Jenkins- Scott, President, Wheelock College; Elaine C. Kamarck, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government; Rachel Kaprielian, State Representative (MA), 1999 Recipient, Dan Fenn Award; Larry Kessler, Founding Director, AIDS Action Committee; Vivien Li, Executive Director, Boston Harbor Foundation; Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief, USA Today; and Eli Segal,

TOM FITZSIMMONS Founding CEO, AmeriCorps. To submit nominations for the 2005 New Frontier Award, email your nomination to Senator Edward Kennedy presents New Frontier Award to Wendy Kopp. [email protected]

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Kennedy Library Forums Draw Growing National Audience

he Kennedy Library Forums series continued to attract national attention this T summer and fall with lively and timely public discussions, often broadcast on radio and television, with leading politicians, historians, journalists, civic leaders and community activists from across the country. Washington Post columnist David Broder, former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers, and national

political commentator Mark Shields TOM FITZSIMMONS discussed the role of political advertising in presidential campaigns at a May 3 forum moderated by former presidential advisor . New York Times columnist . On May 16, former Kennedy Library historian Sheldon M. Stern discussed a conversation with Boston Globe Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine, his book, Averting the Final Failure, columnist Brian McGrory. Yale professor Drew Days and Harvard a narrative account of the secret On May 17, the 50th Anniversary Professor Gary Orfield discussed Brown’s ExComm meetings among President of the landmark Brown v. Board of legacy with Georgetown Law Professor Kennedy and his most trusted advisors Education ruling rejecting “separate but Sheryll Cashin. during the Cuban Missile Crisis in equal” education for the races, Ernest On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, the Kennedy Library and the National Democratic Institute cosponsored a standing-room only forum on “Foreign Policy and the 2004 Campaign” with former Secretary of State and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Member (D-DE). The July 25 forum was attended by officials and representatives of many foreign governments who were in Boston to observe the Democratic Convention. Later that week, television and

TOM FITZSIMMONS film producer (All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude) engaged in a discussion moderated by U.S. Representative Barney Frank Senator (D-WV) and Dick Gordon, host of WBUR’s The Connection. (D-MA) on how Lear has used the 20 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

medium of television to bring issues of free speech, civil rights, and civic involvement into American homes over the last three decades. On September 20, Jason DeParle, New York Times senior writer and author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End , joined David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy

School of Government and co-author JFK LIBRARY of Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reality, Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and William Ernest Green, Drew Days, Gary Orfield and Sheryll Cashin discuss Julius Wilson of Harvard’s Kennedy Brown v. Board of Education. School of Government to discuss authorization to attack , discussed Constitution, and Dan Wasserman American policies regarding the his recent book about the presidency of the Boston Globe presented an poor in the Kennedy Library Forum, and America since 9/11 entitled engaging and entertaining show-and- “Welfare Reform: Did it Work?” Losing America: Confronting a Reckless tell about their craft at an October 24 Former JFK advisor and historian and Arrogant Presidency. forum on “The Art of Political Cartoons” Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., veteran political On October 18, Alice Rivlin, moderated by Scott Simon, host of analyst Kevin Phillips, and journalist a MacArthur Fellow and Senior NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. Tom Wicker discussed the legacies Economic Advisor at the Brookings Another capacity crowd attended of our wartime presidents in a lively Institute; Robert Reich, former the Kennedy Library Forum on forum with former presidential adviser Secretary of Labor under President October 26 at which Pulitzer Prize David Gergen of Harvard’s Kennedy Clinton and Professor of Social winning New York Times columnist School of Government on October 4. and Economic Policy at Brandeis Maureen Dowd discussed her book, The following week, the John F. University; and Glenn Loury, Professor Bushworld, and shared her observations Kennedy Presidential Library and of Economics at , on the presidential race. Museum welcomed Senator Robert discussed the state of the economy On November 8, Valerie Hemingway, Byrd of West Virginia on October 12 with Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize the confidante of Nobel Prize winning for a public discussion moderated by winning correspondent Tom Oliphant author Ernest Hemingway, and author Dick Gordon, host of WBUR’s nationally in a forum on “The Economy in the of Running with the Bulls, discussed her syndicated The Connection. Senator Byrd, 2004 Campaign.” years traveling with Ernest and Mary one of 21 Senate Democrats who voted Political cartoonists Mike Peters Hemingway at a Kennedy Library against the October 2002 resolution of the Dayton Daily News, Mike Forum on “Life with the Hemingways.” that gave President Bush congressional Luckovitch of the Journal The Kennedy Presidential Library is the continued on page 22

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Kennedy Library Forums Draw Growing National Audience Continued from page 21

major repository of Ernest as the exclusive radio sponsor of the Hemingway’s papers and artifacts. Kennedy Library Forums. In addition The Kennedy Library hosted a to providing promotional on-air public forum on “What’s Happened announcements for each upcoming to the News?” on December 6. Ben forum, WBUR rebroadcasts each Bradlee, long-time Washington Post Kennedy Library Forum on Sundays at executive editor, and friend and 8 pm. Audio recordings of the forums

neighbor of John F. Kennedy, and TOM FITZSIMMONS are also available by visiting the web- Don Hewitt, creator of , site of WBUR 90.9. at www.wbur.org. Executive Producer, CBS News, and To hear past forums, double click JFK producer of the nation’s first televised Forums under Quick Links on the debates between Vice President Richard Washington Post Executive Editor WBUR Home Page. The Kennedy Ben Bradlee. Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John Library Forums also participates in the F. Kennedy, discussed how print and of thousands of people and displaced WGBH Forum Network which offers broadcast news have changed over the an estimated 1.65 million people. video streams of the Kennedy Library last 40 years. Meredith White, former NPR/PBS journalist Gail Harris Forums at www.wgbh.org/forum. Executive Producer at ABC News and moderated the Kennedy Library Forum. Additionally, many forums are broadcast former Senior Editor at , The Kennedy Library Forums nationally by C-SPAN television. moderated the forum. are sponsored by , “The Crisis in Darfur” was the subject Boston Capital, the Lowell Institute, D ISTINGUISHED of a Kennedy Library Forum on and our newest sponsor, Corcoran December 9 when Rev. Gloria Hammond Jennison Companies, and by media V ISITOR of Bethel AME Church, Dr. Jennifer sponsors WBUR 90.9, The Boston P ROGRAM Leaning of Physicians for Human Globe and Boston.com. Bank of Rights, Alex de Waal of Harvard’s America continues the lead support he Kennedy Global Equity Initiative, Eric Reeves of its predecessor, FleetBoston. Library Foundation’s of Smith College, and William Schulz, Transcripts of the Kennedy Library Distinguished Visitor Executive Director of Amnesty Forums are available on the Kennedy T program hosts influential International, discussed the ongoing Library website at www.jfklibrary.org. speakers at the Kennedy Library crisis in the western region of Sudan WBUR 90.9 FM, a National Public who have played significant roles where fighting has claimed the lives Radio (NPR) affiliate in Boston, serves in American public affairs, as well as heads of state and other leaders who have fostered international understanding. In May, Raytheon Corporation renewed its sponsorship of the Kennedy Library Forums’ Distinguished Visitor Program. Raytheon joins Boston Capital, Corcoran Jennison, and Nixon Peabody, LLP in supporting this program, which enriches civic

JFK LIBRARY discourse on issues at the heart of contemporary democracy. See related story on page 25. Television and film producer Norman Lear. 22 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

Students Hold Presidential Debates

very election year, the school districts discussed and debated to the remarks of their Democratic John F. Kennedy Presidential the issues that were of concern to them or Republican counterpart. E Library and Museum hosts and their communities. In the curricu- Among party leaders participating a non-partisan program to lum materials the Kennedy Library in this year’s presidential debates were engage approximately 1,000 high school Education Department developed to Senator Jo Ann Sprague (R) v. Senator students in the current presidential or help teachers prepare their students Steven Tolman (D); Senator Jarrett gubernatorial election and to educate for the debate, attention was given to Barrios (D) v. Avi Nelson (R); George them about the positions of the two major highlighting the differences between Bachrach (D) v. Peter Torkildsen (R); parties on important current issues. The the Republicans and the Democrats Peter Forman (R) v. Philip Johnston (D); full morning program culminates in a at the national level. and former Governor Jane Swift (R) v. debate between representatives of the Students met first in small groups Warren Tolman (D). Republican and Democratic Parties. to discuss issues with their peers Later in the month, the Kennedy “Teachers whose students have from other communities around New Library served as the state election participated in the past have given us England and develop a list of questions headquarters for the 2004 National very positive feedback about how the to ask of the morning’s two debaters, Student/Parent Mock Presidential program engaged their students,” said representing the Republican and Election. Massachusetts students Nina Tisch, Education Specialist. Democratic parties. The entire group voted at each of their respective Twenty-seven schools participated in then reconvened for the main debate. schools and reported their results the five debate sessions in the first Students asked questions of both to the Kennedy Presidential Library weeks of October. On each of these debaters who answered by giving and Museum on October 28. The days, approximately 200 students, from a basic explanation of their party’s Kennedy Library volunteered to a mixture of urban, suburban, and rural position on that issue and responding serve as the Massachusetts state headquarters as part of a national campaign to help combat voter apathy among the country’s youngest citizens and to introduce students to the importance of voting. The National Student/Parent Mock Election makes students and parents aware of the power of their ballot by actively involving them in a full-fledged campaign and national election. The voting results for 70,756 elementary, middle and secondary students throughout Massachusetts were reported to the Kennedy Library by the 290 participating groups between October 28 and November 1, 2004.

JFK LIBRARY In addition to voting for presidential candidates, students also voted for Congressional candidates and issues Students discover the importance of political participation. that were most significant to them.

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John F. Kennedy in WWII Exhibit N EW opens May 21 M EMBERSHIP R ATES he Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential With appreciation for the generosity Library will mark the of our members – and in recogni- T 60th anniversary of the tion of the 25th Anniversary of end of World War II this year with the John F. Kennedy Presidential a special exhibit on John F. Kennedy’s Library and Museum – the Kennedy military service in the U.S. Navy in the Library Foundation will be increas- Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. ing our membership rates to sustain The new exhibit opens May 21. and expand the Library’s vital work “Many young Americans of all and programs in the coming years. backgrounds volunteered for military Effective April 1, 2005, the new service in 1941, including young membership rates will be as follows: John F. Kennedy,” said Museum Individual – $40 Curator Frank Rigg. “To honor their Family – $60 service, and to commemorate their Contributor – $100 sacrifices in the 60th anniversary year Benefactor – $250 of the end of World War II, we are Leadership Circle – $500 presenting this special exhibit as a First Lieutenant John F. Kennedy. President’s Circle – $1000 tribute to all the enlisted men, women Thank you for your commitment. and junior officers who, like Kennedy, that Kennedy displayed in his Senate To become a member or renew your went in harm’s way to serve their nation.” office, and many other personal docu- membership, please contact (617) Commanding the motor torpedo boat ments and artifacts. The exhibit will 514-1659 or e-mail the Foundation PT 109, JFK along with his crew partici- take visitors into this formative period at [email protected] pated in the early campaigns in the of JFK’s life, an experience he shared Allies’ long struggle to roll back the with so many other young men of his Japanese from their conquests through- generation, and an experience that out the island chains of the Pacific shaped their characters and the char- P RESIDENTIAL Ocean. The role of the small but fast PT acter of our nation for much of the S UITE boats was to attack the Japanese ship- remainder of the 20th century. ping known as the “ Express” that The Kennedy Presidential Library Boston’s Fairmont Copley Plaza supplied Japanese troops in the islands, and Museum will offer veterans of Hotel has named eight of its suites and to support U.S. Army and Marine all branches of the military free after prestigious Boston cultural Corps attacking the Japanese on shore. admission from opening day on institutions, including the John F. Among the items featured in the Armed Forces Day, May 21 through Kennedy Library and Museum exhibit will be Kennedy’s own scrapbook July 4. Admission is free to Veteran’s (Suite Number 641). In a recent of snapshots showing him and his young of all branches of the military review, the called comrades in arms, the actual logbook on Veteran’s Day, November 11. the suite, “the epitome of romance of the PT 109, Kennedy’s Navy Servicemen and women in uniform Boston-style.” The suite features uniform, the coconut shell on which are always admitted free to the framed images of JFK and his family, he scratched a message that brought Museum at the John F. Kennedy a bust of President Kennedy, and rescue for his crew after PT 109 was Presidential Library and Museum. even a Harvard Football in the closet. rammed by a Japanese destroyer, WCVB-TV 5 is the Media Sponsor framed photographs from the war of “JFK in World War II.” 24 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

9/11 Fund Head Honored as a Distinguished American

n the eve of the third anniver- sary of September 11th, Senator Edward Kennedy O presented Kenneth Feinberg with the Kennedy Library Foundation’s Distinguished American Award for his outstanding service to the nation and to September 11th victims and their families as head of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Mr. Feinberg participated in a Kennedy Library Forum, “Recovering from 9/11” moderated by Jack Rosenthal, president of

Company Foundation and founder JFK LIBRARY of the 9/11 Neediest Fund. The Kennedy Library Forum was re-aired nationwide on CSPAN Radio and on NPR affiliate Ken Feinberg accepts the Distinguished American Award. WBUR 90.9. In describing the contribution of Feinberg said on receiving the W. Bush and , James Feinberg, Foundation Board Chair Paul Distinguished American Award from Farmer, Betty Friedan, John Kenneth G. Kirk, Jr. spoke of the “unimaginable Senator Kennedy. “This institution is Galbraith, , Marian responsibility of one individual as Special a very, very special place. It is far Wright Edelman, Arthur Schlesinger, Master of the Compensation Victim’s from just bricks and mortar. There are Jr., , McGeorge Bundy, Fund — with a finite amount of money, thousands of libraries in this country. Mary McGrory, Archibald Cox, to have to wrestle and decide the ques- To get a public service award from Helen Thomas, and Congressman tions, the moral questions, the ethical the beacon, the spirit of public service John Lewis. questions, the legal questions, the in this country, this Library, I can’t Kenneth R. Feinberg established economic questions that relate to the begin to tell you what it means. I hope the Feinberg Group, LLP, in 1993, value of a lost human life and be able that by accepting this award, I fulfill a law firm which specializes in media- to explain that decision to the survivors in some small way the mandate of this tion, arbitration and negotiation. — an unimaginable responsibility.” institution, and that I’ve tried to be guid- Earlier, he served as Chief-of-Staff In presenting the Distinguished ed by this institution and what it stands to Senator Edward M. Kennedy and American Award, Senator Edward M. for beyond just walls and hallways.” Assistant United States Attorney Kennedy said, “At a time when so many The Distinguished American Award in New York City. are asking what the country can do was launched in the fall of 1991 to Feinberg has mediated and arbitrated for them, it’s hard to think of a more mark the thirtieth anniversary of over 1,000 cases during the past perfect example of someone who asked the Kennedy administration. The 15 years, including some of the nation’s what he can do for our country. When Distinguished American Series invites most visible public disputes, including the 9/11 Fund was created, you said, men and women who have played the September 11 Victims Compensation ‘I can do that,’ and you did. And the significant roles in American public Fund, Agent Orange, the closing of the whole country is very grateful for what affairs to share their insights and expe- Shoreham Nuclear Plant on Long this son of Brockton accomplished.” riences with the public. Past recipients Island, and the arbitration involving “It’s hard to articulate what it means of the Distinguished American Award the valuation of the Zapruder/Kennedy to get an award from this institution,” include former Presidents George H. assassination film. 25 T HE J OHN F. K ENNEDY L IBRARY F OUNDATION N EWSLETTER

Students Share Top Honors in National Essay Contest

ill Schmidley of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Avram Sand of Teaneck, W , were honored on May 24 by Caroline Kennedy and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation for their prize-winning entries in the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest for High School Students. The annual Profile in Courage Essay Contest invites students from across the nation to write an essay

about a political issue at the local, TOM FITZSIMMONS state or national level and an elected official in the United States who has acted courageously to address that issue. The contest is a companion program of Essay contest winner Avram Sand is congratulated by John Siegenthaler, the Profile in Courage Award. The essay Chairman of the Profile in Courage Award Committee, and Victoria Reggie Kennedy. contest is sponsored by the John F. students today can identify and under- death-penalty moratorium and altering Kennedy Library Foundation and stand acts of political courage and their his personal belief about capital punish- generously supported by Fidelity importance in our democratic society.” ment once he became aware of flaws Investments. The two winners each “Fidelity’s commitment to civic in the Illinois justice system. received a $3,000 first prize. responsibility is a long, proud tradition,” In his winning essay, “Bernard Confer: A total of 2,208 essays were said Doug Reed, senior vice president Courage Within His Community,” Avram submitted by high-school students of Regional Management and Public Sand described the political courage of from across the nation. Affairs for Fidelity Investments. “We the president of the board of education in Teaneck, New Jersey, who in the early The essay contest fittingly honors President Kennedy who 1960s sought to rectify racial imbalance in the town’s schools by creating believed deeply in the power of the individual and the promise an integrated central sixth-grade. of our nation’s young people. Will Schmidley, an 18-year-old senior at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas at the time of the “Congratulations to Will Schmidley are pleased to support this contest award ceremony, is now a freshman and Avram Sand on their award-winning to encourage student leadership and at Dartmouth College. He is the son essays and to the thousands of young civic engagement. This contest is in of Eugenia and James Schmidley of people who submitted essays,” said John line with our commitment to educa- Little Rock, Arkansas. Avram Sand, Shattuck, CEO of the Kennedy Library tion, literacy and civic involvement.” a 16-year-old junior at Marsha Stern Foundation. “The essay contest fittingly Will Schmidley’s essay described the Talmudical Academy in New York City honors President Kennedy who believed political courage of George Ryan who at the time of the award presentation, deeply in the power of the individual served as governor of Illinois from 1999 is the son of Arlene and Michael Sand and the promise of our nation’s young to 2003. Schmidley cited Governor Ryan’s of Teaneck, New Jersey. Schmidley and people. It is gratifying to see how readily courage in imposing the nation’s first Sand were the guests of the Kennedy

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family and the Kennedy Library support to promote the essay contest Foundation at the May 24th Profile in as well as technical assistance for the N EW G RANTS Courage Award ceremony. They shared development and management of the TO Y OUTH the stage with the 2004 Profile in contest website at www.jfkcontest.org. Courage Award recipients and later Students and teachers who O UTREACH AND joined them for a private luncheon participate in the Profile in Courage C OMMUNITY with members of the Kennedy family. Essay Contest also benefit from two The winning students’ nominating other generous in-kind donations. P ROGRAMS teachers were Bill Topich of Pulaski HarperCollins Publishers has donated Academy and Geoffrey Cahn of Marsh copies of , President new grant from the Stern Talmudical Academy. They each Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe Foundation received a John F. Kennedy Public book, and Hyperion Books has will deepen the impact Service Grant in the amount of donated copies of Caroline Kennedy’s A of the Kennedy Library’s $500 to be used for school projects Profiles in Courage for Our Time, a Joseph Moakley Public Speaking that encourage student leadership book of 13 essays honoring the recipients Institute for low-income and first and civic engagement. of the Profile in Courage Award since generation high school students. Fidelity Investments has renewed its establishment in 1989. Copies of The Gillette Company renewed its its generous support for the essay the two books have been distributed underwriting for “Setting National contest in 2005. Fidelity first began to teachers and schools to enrich Priorities: The Federal Budget,” a its sponsorship of the national essay classroom teaching and curriculum workshop program that introduces contest in 2001, and has helped to projects, as well as to encourage high school students to economic extend the vision and impact of the students to enter the Profile in priority-setting. The Boston Red Sox program by providing in-kind staff Courage Essay Contest. Foundation made a generous award to help underwrite the Kennedy Library Foundation’s youth outreach and education initiatives. Connell Limited Partnership, The Coolidge Family Fund, Filene’s, and The Presidents’ Heritage Foundation are generously supporting free transportation to classes in the Boston Public Schools and schools on the North Shore attending education programs at the Kennedy Library. The Kennedy Library’s civic engagement efforts have received vital funding from The Walter H. and Phyllis J. Shorenstein Foundation and the Hunt Alternatives Fund. The Boston Foundation provided

TOM FITZSIMMONS a third year of generous support to expand Kennedy Library programs serving the communities and schools of Boston. Essay contest winner Will Schmidley is congratulated by John Siegenthaler, Chairman of the Profile in Courage Award Committee.

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Burton Berinsky Photos Capture JFK on the Campaign Trail

he Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has put on display a collection T of Burton Berinsky photographs of John F. Kennedy campaigning for the presidency in 1960. “These stunning black and white images capture the enthusiasm of the young candidate and the crowds of Americans who cheered him on,” said Deborah Leff, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. “We are delighted that Mr. Berinsky’s family allowed us to display these remarkable photographs that so beautifully capture the youth and vitality of John F. Kennedy as

he crisscrossed America.” BERINSKY BURTON Burton Berinsky, a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, traveled with Kennedy during his tours of the northeast- ern United States. Berinsky was a staff 1960 Democratic Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail. photographer for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. David Dubinsky, was able to uniquely capture the documents, photographs, and memorabilia president of the union, was an early and enthusiasm and excitement generated from Massachusetts Senator John F. staunch supporter of JFK and assigned by the Kennedy campaign. Kennedy’s campaign for the presidency Berinsky to cover the campaign in the The photographs are part of in 1960. Campaign!, which runs through northeast for posterity. Because of his Campaign!, a special exhibit featuring May 15, 2005, is sponsored by AT&T special and constant access, Berinsky new film footage, photos, archival and WCVB-TV 5.

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