John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum series
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum series
Kennedy Library Forums are a series of public affairs programs offered by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to foster public discussion on a diverse range of historical, political and cultural topics reflecting the legacy of President and Mrs. Kennedy's White House years. They are...
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49 episodes
A Tribute to Seamus Heaney
On the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's dedication of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College, the Kennedy Library hosted a tribute to the...
A Conversation with Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot by the Taliban last October because of her advocacy for children’s education, discusses her book, I am Mal...
The Legacy of Joe Moakley
A discussion of the book, "Joe Moakley’s Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador" with author Mark Robert Schneider and Congressman Jim McGovern. Pu...
JFK's Last Hundred Days
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final months of JFK’s presidency, Thurston Clarke discusses his new book, JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Tran...
A Conversation with John Lewis
Congressman John Lewis commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with an in-depth discussion with veteran journalist Callie Crossle...
The Obama Presidency
Jonathan Alter will discuss his second book about the Obama presidency, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter...
JFK's Quest for Peace
Jeffrey Sachs will discuss his new book, To Move The World, about President Kennedy’s efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and achieve worl...
A Conversation with Justice John Paul Stevens
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens discusses his long career on the bench and his views of American jurisprudence with Harvard Law profes...
2013 PEN Hemingway Awards
Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s son, presents this year's PEN Hemingway Award to Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds. Colm Toibin, author of Brook...
A Conversation with Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy
Boston Globe journalists Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy discuss their book, Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brough...
A Conversation with John King
Award-winning CNN correspondent John King discusses his career, Dorchester roots, and the state of our national politics with Boston Globe Editor in C...
A Conversation with John Irving
John Irving discusses his latest novel, In One Person, with novelist Tom Perrotta.
Selected Letters of William Styron
Rose Styron, wife of the late William Styron, and their daughter, Alexandra, discuss the publication of his letters to leading artists of his day, inc...
Thomas Jefferson the Politician
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham discusses Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle.
The Life of Joseph P Kennedy
Biographer David Nasaw discussed his new book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, with veteran journalist an...
2012 New Frontier Awards
Caroline Kennedy presented the New Frontier Award to Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and social entrepreneur Ve...
Obama and the Supreme Court
New Yorker writer and legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, discussed his new book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court with Harvard Law pr...
A New and Improved Constitution
Kevin Bleyer, Emmy Award–winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will discuss his new book, ME THE PEOPLE: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the C...
Remembering Sargent Shriver
Mark Shriver discussed his new book, A Good Man, about his late father, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps with Richard Parker,...
David McCullough on Americans in Paris
David McCullough discussed his latest book, The Greater Journey, about prominent 19th-century Americans’ formative years in Paris.
Poverty in America
Maurice Isserman joined Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor, and Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild to discuss the politics and persistence o...
A Conversation with Conan O'Brien
Conan O’Brien discussed the art of comedy with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris.
LBJ: From Senate Majority Leader to President, 1958-1964
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro discussed the fourth volume in his biography of LBJ, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with...
Alan Brinkley on JFK
Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, discussed his new biography in The American Presidents Series, J...
A Conversation with Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright discussed her memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor...
Celebrating the Centennial of Fenway Park
Peter Nash, baseball historian; Richard Johnson, curator of Boston's Sports Museum; and Thomas Fitzgerald, grandson of mayor "Honey Fitz," discussed F...
A Conversation with Carole King
Carole King discussed her new memoir, A Natural Woman, with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle.
2012 PEN Hemingway Awards
Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's sole surviving son, introduced the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, which was given to Teju Cole for his fir...
An Evening with Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns
Renowned Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns presented a special performance and was joined by students from the University of Massachusetts Boston, who read s...
Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence
The 2012 Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence, presented to Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen. Special guests: Caroline Kennedy, Richard Hoffman,...
Civil Rights: Then and Now
Ray Suarez, Allida Black, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Roger Wilkins discuss how the lessons learned from the civil rights movement 50 years ago inform...
Kennedy, Johnson Civil Rights Forum
Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Roger Wilkins and Harris Wofford, who worked with and for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, discussed the struggle...
Truman, Eisenhower Civil Rights Forum
Ernest Green of the Little Rock Nine and historians David Nichols and Carol Anderson discussed Truman's decision to desegregate the Armed Forces and E...
Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Civil Rights Forum
Historian Allida Black examines how civil rights issues were handled in the Roosevelt administration and the Roosevelts' role in the watershed event t...
50th Anniversary of White House Tour
A screening and discussion with White House curator William Allman of Mrs. Kennedy’s famous televised tour where she describes her work on the restora...
A Conversation with Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer, former host of PBS Newshour, discussed his book, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain, with P...
Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Joe Armstrong, Betty Sue Flowers, Harriet Rubin and David Stenn shared their memories of working with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an...
Assessing Obama's Presidency
Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, and Hendrik Hertzberg, columnist for The New Yorker, analyzed the Obama presidency a...
Cissy Patterson: The Most Powerful Woman in 20th Century America
Amanda Smith, the daughter of Jean Kennedy Smith, discussed her recent biography, Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Pat...
Chris Matthews on JFK
Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, discussed his new biography, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, with former Boston Globe editor Marty Nolan.