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You today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome, everyone. Im tom putnam, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum. Medical examiner of our foundations board of directors and all my foundation colleagues, i thank you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library forms, lead sponsor the Boston Foundation and our Media Partners wbur and the boston globe. We considered having this Forum Last Night on th...

Storyteller john flashal who leads walking tours at the site where the statues are located. So you are now currently on the property of mr. Howard hankins, a Business Owner of Hamilton Road materials. Its an Industrial Recycling area. Mr. Hankins owned as much as 600 acres here and partitioned off a couple Hundred Acres to the nearby golf course. And this is a small sliver of whats remaining of the 400 acres. The significance of that he was involved, partially involved in the creation of the ori...

Last night on the 50th anniversary of the tour but did not want to make of you have to choose between sharing valentines day with loved ones or with your friends here at the kennedy library. So were so pleased to have so many of you with us this evening. 50 years ago Jacqueline Kennedy introduced herself to the nation. In a way they knew her through the role as the president s wife and mother of two children and charmed world leaders. But on february 14th, 1962, it was a more substantive Jacquel...

Tour, but only a brief clip is shown in the first few minutes of this program. Good evening and welcome, everyone. I am tom putnam, director of the john f. Kennedy president ial library and museum, and on behalf of the executive director of the Kennedy Library foundation, the board of directors, and all of our colleagues, i think you for joining us this evening. Let me first acknowledge the generous underwriters of the forum, boston capital, the local institute, raytheon, the boston foundation, ...

In afternoon, i am tom putnam director of the library and museum, on behalf of heather, ceo of the Kennedy Library foundation and all of my library and Library Foundation collects, i think you for coming. Welcome those watching on cspan and acknowledge the generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library the lead sponsor bank of america, the vole institute, the Boston Foundation and art media sponsors, the boston globe, infinity and w dr. In reading the new book, rosemary, the hidden kennedy daughte...

And then it obviously to the pentagon and white house a very short order. It really works for the secretary of defense and the president. And the difference between what j sock does compared to what the cias special activities or paramilitary division does, what is the real difference . Guest there is certainly an overlap between those two organizations now, and you will often find the members of each organization on the same battlefield, as battlefield, as it were, or in the same embassy doing ...

We now kick off the weekend with cecilia who explores the political themes of jack lon londons writing. [inaudible conversations] hello, thank you for coming to the southern festival. We hope that you will make a donation either on the website, at the app because this festival is a nonprofit event and we want to continue to keep it free event and open to everyone and we rely on your donations for that. Im delighted to introduce you cecelia tichi, she specializes in 19th and 20th century american...

Library and museum. On behalf of the Kennedy Library foundation and all my library and foundation qualities i thank you for coming, welcome our viewers on cspan and acknowledge generous underwriters of the Kennedy Library forum. These funds make america, the Boston Foundation and our immediate sponsors, the boston globe and wb 0 r. Of many memorable moments in my 16 years working at the library none compare to the two days when senator edward kennedys body lay in repose in this very hall to allo...

Uch as we saw in congressman richmond. In my district, africanamericans triple. Generations are being left behind without a fair shot of success. The Economic Prosperity and the economic dream are on hold for the africanamerican communities. Instead of working to address bearing ublicans are assault by trying to defund planned parenthood. Democrats are working on bold ctions that will help an Immediate Impact on the challenges facing africanamericans. I have tried to do my part here in congress....

[inaudible conversations] we will have to get another realignment. Please initial this to show that we are in agreement at this point. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] next, we were able to complete that relatively quickly. We will be able to complete the next one even more quickly. At this point we are committed. They are both unviable. That means that you either need to attract people to your group or realigned to another group that is viable. So if i give you five minutes. ...