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Day, including the q1 missile crisis in vietnam. This is about one hour. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am Tommy Nottingham the director of the jfk library foundation. Tom putnam is the director of the president ial museum and i thank you all for coming here this evening. Let me begin by acknowledging generous underwriters of the kennedy form, bank of america, boston capital, global institute, the boston foundation, and the media partners. Tonights forum is a very special one for those wh...

Good evening. I am the executive director of the Library Foundation under the john f. Kennedy library and museum and all foundation colleagues i thank you for coming. Was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our Media Partners the boston globe and w. B. You are. Tonights forum is special for those who work at the president ial library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work har...

Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add histo...

All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats...

It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound ...

Author Christina Gabbitas joined police officers on a visit to Barlby High School, near Selby, to warn pupils about the dangers of getting involved…

Now, just by the headline, some of you might be thinking of back in the Depression-era or maybe the 1950s. Granted, many female photographers earned the sobriquet “best living.”

writer for the liberal publication. tell us what you think about what the caller said about what he thinks the democratic party represents. the farmers, people themselves not just big business. >> well, look, i think i would make two points. the first is regarding the book itself. i dont make any claims to be writing without with a point of view. anyone who claims to be objective with a capital o is trying to sell you something. i dont make claims like that. the point of the book is no...

final question for all three of you. allida, what would eleanor roosevelt say to us today as we are leaving this conference? >> she would say the last sentence she ever wrote -- staying aloof is not a solution. it is a cowardly evasion and that we cannot leave our problems to the government. we are the government. >> and from allidas book, she has a lovely quote in her book from eleanor roosevelt. you are going to live in a dangerous world but its going to be an interesting and adventu...

later, as president, we got the americans with disabilities act passed, to make sure that tens of millions with disabilities had fuller access to the american dream. of course, these two instances are only part of a broader struggle for civil rights here at this forum and at other programs, you can learn how and why so many americans across this great land came together for a noble cause, basic human dignity, equal opportunity under the law, recognizing our diversity as a strength and ...