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 conducted as conversations rather than lectures. Check this website periodically to view our 2012 Forum line-up, and review our prior years' events.
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Celebrating the Centennial of Fenway Park
April 22, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Following a screening of Rooters: The Birth of the Red Sox Nation, Peter Nash, baseball historian and author of Boston's Royal Rooters; Richard Johnson, curator of Boston's Sports Museum; and Thomas Fitzgerald, grandson of Boston mayor "Honey Fitz," discuss the building of the park and its passionate fans, including then-mayor John Francis Fitzgerald. Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys closes with a rendition of "Tessie."
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A Conversation with Madeleine Albright
April 26, 2012 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Madeleine Albright discusses her memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
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Alan Brinkley on JFK
May 15, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, discusses his new biography in The American Presidents Series, John F. Kennedy: The 35th President, 1961-1963, with historian Ellen Fitzpatrick.
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LBJ: From Senate Majority Leader to President, 1958-1964
May 16, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Pulitzer Prize winning-author Robert Caro discusses the fourth volume in his biography of LBJ, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe writer Mark Feeney.
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A Conversation with Conan O'Brien
May 24, 2012 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Conan O’Brien discusses the art of comedy.
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Poverty in America
June 4, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Michael Harrington's The Other America, historian and Harrington biographer Maurice Isserman joins Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor, to discuss the politics and persistence of poverty in the US.
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David McCullough on Americans in Paris
June 7, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
David McCullough discusses his latest book, The Greater Journey, about prominent 19th-century Americans’ formative years in Paris.
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Remembering Sargent Shriver
June 16, 2012 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Mark Shriver discusses his new book, A Good Man, about his late father, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps.
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A New and Improved Constitution
July 10, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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 Constitution of the United States of America.
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The Golden Age of the US Senate
July 31, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Ira Shapiro, the author of The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis, and Tom Daschle, former US Senate Majority Leader, discuss the achievements and bi-partisanship of the US Senate during the 1960s and 1970s.
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