John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum series

About John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum series

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.

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 May 2011

Latest episode

26 Oct 2013

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 26 Oct 2013

   A Tribute to Seamus Heaney

   On the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's dedication of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College, the Kennedy Library hosted a tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who passed away on August 30. Speakers included his good friend and fellow poet Rose Styron, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. This program was a collaboration with PEN New England.

2. 12 Oct 2013

   A Conversation with Malala Yousafzai

   Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot by the Taliban last October because of her advocacy for children’s education, discusses her book, I am Malala, and her determination to continue her fight for universal education with WBUR’s Here & Now host, Robin Young.

3. 24 Sept 2013

   The Legacy of Joe Moakley

   A discussion of the book, "Joe Moakley’s Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador" with author Mark Robert Schneider and Congressman Jim McGovern. Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Kevin Cullen moderates.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

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