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JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation

John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, inspired a generation that transformed Ame

Episodes

Total: 96

For more than 150 years, women have put their name forward to run in a presidential election. Of the

Presidential campaigns, from John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960 to today’s candidates, have s

From the 1960 campaign to today, black and latino voices have played important roles in presidential

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson told the nation he would not seek re-election as President. Thi

In John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign, there were many concerns over the high costs of running

For the first time in more than 40 years, a president was fired on and injured by an assassin’s bull

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the mother of a 20th century political dynasty. In this episode, we’ll e

This Earth Day, the JFK Library Foundation announced the Earthshot Innovation Challenge: Northeast U

In 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration was created to oversee the protection and

Hemingway's Letters

2024/4/11

The Hemingway Letters Project seeks to publish a comprehensive edition of the writer Ernest Hemingwa

Being the President

2024/3/21

What did President Kennedy think of the presidency himself? And what makes a president? In this epis

On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds convened

In February 1963, President Kennedy said, “A man may die, but an idea lives on.” In this episode, we

President Kennedy’s trip to Texas was meant to rally support for his programs and policies and lay g

Sixty years after President Kennedy’s administration, fewer than 1 in 5 people in the United States

In 1963, President Kennedy came home to Ireland, the land of his ancestors. During that visit, he ca

On the heels of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, JFK traveled northward to Ireland, where his grea

In the summer of 1963, JFK arrived in a divided Germany with the recent construction of the new Berl

In 1963, President Kennedy gave a speech at American University outlining “a strategy of peace” on h

Let Us Begin: A Moral Issue

2023/10/12

Black Americans, particularly in the South, were denied their right to vote, with poll taxes, voter