Touring Camelot, Without Having to Leave Home (JFK docs free online)

Source: The New York Times

BOSTON — The John F. Kennedy Library here has long offered visitors the opportunity to see the bar tab from Robert F. Kennedy’s bachelor party and to decipher John F. Kennedy’s Oval Office doodles. Now, those artifacts and a trove of others will be on display to anyone in the world.

Nearly 50 years after Kennedy pledged to make presidential documents “commonly available” through “scientific means of reproduction, microfilms and all the rest,” nearly 250,000 documents and 200 hours of audio and video from the library’s archives are to be made available online Thursday, free of charge. It is the first release in a $10 million effort to digitize his presidency.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/politics/13kennedy.html

(Direct link to the archives site...)

http://www.jfklibrary.org/

I can't wait to explore them.

Thanks



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the city, not to mention the state where America was born. (Plimoth Plantation, the shot heard round the world, etc.)

I don't think the Saudis paid for this Presidential library, either. Could be wrong about that, though.

We'll keep a light on for ya. Maybe two (if you'll be arriving by sea).