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JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, inspired a generation that transformed America. But not everyone knows the stories behind the man - his experiences as a young serviceman in World War II, how he wrote some of his most memorable speeches, what sparked him to set the country o...
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Staff Picks: Letters from Children on Civil Rights
Lessons from a letter? JFK Presidential Library Education Director Suzi Fonda shares some of her favorite letters from children who picked up their pe...
Staff Picks: Library Director Alan Price
In the first episode of our Staff Picks series, Library Director Alan Price highlights three artifacts that capture pivotal moments that shaped Presid...
Lessons on Democracy - A More Perfect Union
In this episode, we take a closer look at how President Kennedy viewed the social contract between the president and the American people with historia...
Lessons on Democracy: A Call to Public Service
In this episode, we explore how President Kennedy’s call to public service helped shape a generation of dedicated government leaders. His vision for a...
Lessons on Democracy: The Art of Diplomacy
In this episode, we look back at how President Kennedy understood the needs of his roles as a diplomat abroad and a strong negotiator at home. Histori...
Lessons on Democracy: Qualities of Leadership
Democracy requires leaders who understand the responsibility they hold as elected leaders. In this episode, we will return to the speech President Ken...
Election 2024: A Woman in the White House
For more than 150 years, women have put their name forward to run in a presidential election. Of them, only three have made it on the ticket for a maj...
Election 2024: Influencing the Election
Presidential campaigns, from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 to today’s candidates, have strategically sought endorsements from celebrities...
Election 2024: Winning the Vote - Black and Latino Voices
From the 1960 campaign to today, black and latino voices have played important roles in presidential campaigns. In this episode, we speak with Columbi...
Election 2024: Passing the Baton
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation he would not seek re-election as President. This year, President Joe Biden stepped down in the mi...
Election 2024: The High Costs of Presidential Campaigns
In John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign, there were many concerns over the high costs of running for president. Still, the money required to run in...
Election 2024: Political Violence and Presidential Campaigns
For the first time in more than 40 years, a president was fired on and injured by an assassin’s bullet. In this episode, we speak with presidential hi...
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - A Political Matriarch
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the mother of a 20th century political dynasty. In this episode, we’ll explore her history through the museum she helped c...
From Moonshot to Earthshot
This Earth Day, the JFK Library Foundation announced the Earthshot Innovation Challenge: Northeast U.S. Edition. The challenge is a $100,000 prize to...
A Conversation with U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan
In 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration was created to oversee the protection and dissemination of governmental and historic records...
Hemingway's Letters
The Hemingway Letters Project seeks to publish a comprehensive edition of the writer Ernest Hemingway’s letters. In this episode, we talk with two of...
Being the President
What did President Kennedy think of the presidency himself? And what makes a president? In this episode, we hear from JFK himself and talk to historia...
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds convened on the nation’s capital for the March on Washingto...
Let Us Begin: A Legacy Continued
In February 1963, President Kennedy said, “A man may die, but an idea lives on.” In this episode, we look at the legacy JFK left behind and how some a...
Let Us Begin: The Torch Has Been Passed
President Kennedy’s trip to Texas was meant to rally support for his programs and policies and lay groundwork for the 1964 election. But instead, some...
Let Us Begin: A New Generation of Leadership
Sixty years after President Kennedy’s administration, fewer than 1 in 5 people in the United States have a living memory of the President. But his leg...
Let Us Begin: The Peacemakers
In 1963, President Kennedy came home to Ireland, the land of his ancestors. During that visit, he called upon the Irish to take their place among the...
Let Us Begin: A Homecoming
On the heels of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, JFK traveled northward to Ireland, where his great-grandparents emigrated from in the 19th century....
Let Us Begin: The Hour of Maximum Danger
In the summer of 1963, JFK arrived in a divided Germany with the recent construction of the new Berlin Wall nearly two years earlier. President John F...
Let Us Begin: Peace for All Time
In 1963, President Kennedy gave a speech at American University outlining “a strategy of peace” on how the two superpowers, the U.S. and Soviet Union,...
Let Us Begin: A Moral Issue
Black Americans, particularly in the South, were denied their right to vote, with poll taxes, voter ID laws, literacy tests, intimidation, and mob vio...
Let Us Begin: President Kennedy's White House 60 Years Later
In 1963, President Kennedy would make decisions that would reflect on his lasting legacy. It would also be a year that he would never complete after b...
The City on a Hill
Since the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established, Boston has been described as a “city on a hill” or a city to be looked to as an example for others...
The Television Presidency
President John F. Kennedy was the first president to take live televised questions from the press on a regular basis and he would provide the model fo...
Protecting the Equal Pay Act of 1963
It has been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. In this episode, we’ll hear how far the United States has come...
Making the Equal Pay Act of 1963
Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that dealt with...
Archiving Through the Pandemic
The JFK Library plays an important role as a place where original documents, photographs, audio, film, and other artifacts from John F. Kennedy's pres...
Bringing History Alive
Presidents’ Day is a day to celebrate past presidents and American history. In this episode, we speak with two “living history interpreters” who have...
Silent Spring Revolution with Douglas Brinkley
President Kennedy faced several major environmental threats during his presidency from the widespread use of dangerous chemicals in farming to private...
Atomic Gambit: The Challenges Ahead
Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, today’s world leaders can apply lessons learned to potential future nuclear crises. Former Obama Administr...
Atomic Gambit: We Are All Mortal
After the United States and Soviet Union survived the Cuban Missile Crisis and its immediate aftermath, the next steps for the two superpowers would b...
Atomic Gambit: Uneasy Peace
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement about the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 28, but the crisis wouldn’t end there. Fidel Cast...
Atomic Gambit: Black Saturday
October 27, 1962, also known as “Black Saturday," was the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis as events began to spiral out of control. Wit...
Atomic Gambit: Duck and Cover
By October 22, 1962, after days of long discussions with his advisors, President John F. Kennedy was ready to go public about the Soviet missiles in C...
Atomic Gambit: A Pretty Bad Fix
In the first few days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy and his advisors faced an extremely difficult choice on whether to attack Cuba, a...