Resource Alert: Thousands Of Kennedy (JFK) Documents Go Online... Plus Videos And Podcasts !!!

Thousands of Kennedy documents go online
By Lauren Keiper - Reuters
BOSTON | Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:24pm EST

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Jan 13 (Reuters Life!) - Thousands of documents, photos and even recorded phone conversations of President John F. Kennedy are going online and available to a whole new generation of high-tech armchair historians.

The online digital archive of the 35th U.S. president was unveiled on Thursday by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.

Now, instead of having to travel to Boston, historians and the general public alike will have online access to 200,000 document pages, 1,200 individual telephone conversations, speeches and meetings and 1,500 photos.

"For young people today, if it isn't on the Internet, it doesn't really exist," said library director Tom Putnam. "I hope this brings him alive to a new generation of Americans. (It offers) a fuller sense of the man."

It took four years to digitize the artifacts, photos and videos, and the process is ongoing, said Putnam. He called the collection "the largest and most sophisticated digital presidential archive in the nation."

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Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1112350920110114

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JFK videos and podcasts
Doug Most - Culture Desk - Boston Globe
January 15, 2011

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It only took four years, $10 million, and the brains of some of the biggest tech and data companies, but this week the JFK Library and Museum unveiled a new archive that lets the world inside the presidency of John F. Kennedy like never before.

Type in “Jackie Kennedy’’ and hear a video podcast of how she went about entertaining at the White House and hosting dinners. Type in “John F. Kennedy Jr.’’ and see some strikingly candid photographs of the family. Just searching for “video’’ brings you a collection of videos, including Kennedy’s 1963 televised speech to the nation about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In this age of YouTube, and incredibly vivid graphics, the uncluttered black and white images are refreshing in their simplicity.

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Link: http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/01/15/jfk_videos_and_podcasts_reznors_new_gig/

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JFK Library Website: http://www.jfklibrary.org/

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so our DU researchers have a chance to see it.

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Thanks for posting.

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Then everyone will see it.

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Recommended.

President John F. Kennedy
State Department Auditorium
Washington, D.C.
December 12, 1962
4:00 PM EDT (Wednesday)
332 In Attendance

QUESTION: Mr. President, your speaking of historians induces me to ask you this: Most former Presidents have put their official papers in libraries in their home states where they are not readily available to scholars and historians who come here to work with the Library of Congress and other agencies here. Have you decided where to put yours and would you consider putting it in Washington?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I am going to put it in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Let me say I know that we have a library now in Independence, Hyde Park, Mr. Hoover's library at Stanford, and Mr. Eisenhower's library at Abilene. There are advantages and disadvantages. In some ways it helps stimulate scholarship in those areas, and in addition, through scientific means of reproduction, microfilms and all the rest, it is possible to make documents available generally here in Washington, and through the Archives, the Library of Congress, and at the libraries. The number of scholars who deal with these subjects in detail, it seems to me, will find it possible in a central place to get the kind of documents that they need. So that while there is a problem, as you suggest, Miss Craig, I think that we can, and this will certainly be increased as time goes on, we will find it possible to reproduce the key documents so that they will be commonly available, I would hope in Washington. There are a great many other advantages to a library, if you have gone to Franklin Roosevelt’s library, and Harry Truman's library. It offers a good deal of stimulus to the study of American history, besides being a place where you can keep for a long time documents. There are many other things of interest which I think are rather advantageous to have spread around the country, particularly as it stimulates the study of the Presidency.

Link (Video Available): http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/JJivQwVkiUqu-oWGEzFrIg.aspx

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