Latest Johnfkennedy Podcast Episodes
A Conversation with U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - April 18, 2024 12:21 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 1934, the National Archives and Records Administration was created to oversee the protection and dissemination of governmental and historic records of the United States. In this episode, we speak with the Dr. Colleen Shogan, the 11th Archivist of the United States.
Hemingway's Letters
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - April 11, 2024 08:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe Hemingway Letters Project seeks to publish a comprehensive edition of the writer Ernest Hemingway’s letters. In this episode, we talk with two of the project's editors, Verna Kale and Sandra Spanier, in advance of the publication of volume 6 of the series. We talk about the detective work th...
Being the President
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - March 21, 2024 08:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWhat did President Kennedy think of the presidency himself? And what makes a president? In this episode, we hear from JFK himself and talk to historian Alexis Coe about her project at New America on the presidency, as well as her work as an historian.
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - February 29, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn August 28, 1963, 250,000 people of different races, religions, and economic backgrounds convened on the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The man behind organizing the event – Bayard Rustin – is profiled in a new Oscar-nominated film “Rustin.” In this episode,...
Let Us Begin: A Legacy Continued
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 30, 2023 09:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn February 1963, President Kennedy said, “A man may die, but an idea lives on.” In this episode, we look at the legacy JFK left behind and how some are continuing the spirit of his work. We speak with NASA astronaut Victor Glover who represents the new generation of space explorers and is set t...
Let Us Begin: The Torch Has Been Passed
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 21, 2023 09:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPresident Kennedy’s trip to Texas was meant to rally support for his programs and policies and lay groundwork for the 1964 election. But instead, something happened that changed the course of history: the president was assassinated. The world seemed to stop as John F. Kennedy’s state funeral was...
Let Us Begin: A New Generation of Leadership
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 16, 2023 09:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSixty years after President Kennedy’s administration, fewer than 1 in 5 people in the United States have a living memory of the President. But his legacy continues to live on in those generations that have come after him. In this episode, we speak with the next generation of leaders who will hel...
Let Us Begin: The Peacemakers
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 09, 2023 09:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 1963, President Kennedy came home to Ireland, the land of his ancestors. During that visit, he called upon the Irish to take their place among the world’s peacemakers. In the decades that followed, Ireland would experience first hand the difficulty of peacemaking. Sixty years after Kennedy’s ...
Let Us Begin: A Homecoming
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 02, 2023 08:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn the heels of his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, JFK traveled northward to Ireland, where his great-grandparents emigrated from in the 19th century. The first Irish Catholic president, JFK’s visit was both meaningful for him personally and a rousing and significant event for the people of Irel...
Let Us Begin: The Hour of Maximum Danger
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 26, 2023 08:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn the summer of 1963, JFK arrived in a divided Germany with the recent construction of the new Berlin Wall nearly two years earlier. President John F. Kennedy spent his entire administration in a “twilight struggle” with the Soviet Union including averting possible total war during the Cuban Mi...
Let Us Begin: Peace for All Time
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 19, 2023 08:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 1963, President Kennedy gave a speech at American University outlining “a strategy of peace” on how the two superpowers, the U.S. and Soviet Union, could back off the precipice of total nuclear annihilation. In this episode, we look back at the speech with historian Fredrik Logevall and peopl...
Let Us Begin: A Moral Issue
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 12, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBlack Americans, particularly in the South, were denied their right to vote, with poll taxes, voter ID laws, literacy tests, intimidation, and mob violence. By 1963, the Kennedy administration was prepared to act to expand the access to the vote, though Kennedy himself would not live to see the ...
Let Us Begin: President Kennedy's White House 60 Years Later
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 06, 2023 08:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn 1963, President Kennedy would make decisions that would reflect on his lasting legacy. It would also be a year that he would never complete after becoming the fourth sitting U.S. President to be assassinated on November 22, 1963. In this special series, we will look at some of the President’s...
The City on a Hill
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - May 18, 2023 08:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSince the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established, Boston has been described as a “city on a hill” or a city to be looked to as an example for others. President Kennedy drew from the same material when he left for Washington D.C. In this episode, we look back at some of Boston's notable mayors ...
The Television Presidency
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - April 20, 2023 08:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPresident John F. Kennedy was the first president to take live televised questions from the press on a regular basis and he would provide the model for what would become the modern television presidency. In this episode, we’ll take a look at Kennedy's relationship with the media at news conferen...
Protecting the Equal Pay Act of 1963
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - March 31, 2023 08:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIt has been 60 years since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. In this episode, we’ll hear how far the United States has come since Kennedy signed the landmark legislation, and just how far it still has to go in guaranteeing equal pay for equal work.
Making the Equal Pay Act of 1963
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - March 30, 2023 08:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that dealt with wage discrimination on the basis of sex. While Kennedy was the man who signed the bill into law, it was only because of a women-led movement that ...
Archiving Through the Pandemic
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - March 09, 2023 09:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsThe JFK Library plays an important role as a place where original documents, photographs, audio, film, and other artifacts from John F. Kennedy's presidency are preserved. While the pandemic interrupted some of the Library's normal activities, archivists used the time to reduce a large digital b...
Bringing History Alive
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - February 23, 2023 09:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPresidents’ Day is a day to celebrate past presidents and American history. In this episode, we speak with two “living history interpreters” who have spent years portraying historical figures to the public. Audrey Stuck-Girard portrays Abigail Adams and other 18th century figures and Bill Barker...
Silent Spring Revolution with Douglas Brinkley
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - February 09, 2023 09:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsPresident Kennedy faced several major environmental threats during his presidency from the widespread use of dangerous chemicals in farming to private developers buying up pristine natural habitats. Award-winning author Douglas Brinkley discusses his new book, Silent Spring Revolution, about the...
Atomic Gambit: The Challenges Ahead
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 03, 2022 08:15 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsSixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, today’s world leaders can apply lessons learned to potential future nuclear crises. Former Obama Administration Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Executive Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University A...
Atomic Gambit: We Are All Mortal
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - November 01, 2022 08:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsAfter the United States and Soviet Union survived the Cuban Missile Crisis and its immediate aftermath, the next steps for the two superpowers would be critical. This episode looks at Kennedy’s "strategy of peace" speech at American University and the limited test ban treaty negotiated between K...
Atomic Gambit: Uneasy Peace
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 27, 2022 08:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsJohn F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev reached an agreement about the Cuban Missile Crisis on October 28, but the crisis wouldn’t end there. Fidel Castro, angered by Nikita Khrushchev’s decision, threatened a serious setback in the negotiations to remove all offensive weapons - including tactical...
Atomic Gambit: Black Saturday
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 25, 2022 08:15 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOctober 27, 1962, also known as “Black Saturday," was the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis as events began to spiral out of control. With two contrasting messages from Chairman Khrushchev, President Kennedy had to find a way to resolve the crisis or risk a nuclear war. Outside of t...
Atomic Gambit: Duck and Cover
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 20, 2022 08:30 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsBy October 22, 1962, after days of long discussions with his advisors, President John F. Kennedy was ready to go public about the Soviet missiles in Cuba. His address to the American people laid out his plan to initiate a naval quarantine to prevent more Soviet ships and weapons from reaching Cu...
Atomic Gambit: A Pretty Bad Fix
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 18, 2022 08:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn the first few days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy and his advisors faced an extremely difficult choice on whether to attack Cuba, and how to do it without engulfing the world in a nuclear war. In this episode, you’ll hear some of the conversations from the top secret meetings ...
Atomic Gambit: A Very Dangerous Road
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - October 13, 2022 08:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsFrom the moment President Kennedy took office, he warned the country about the dangers of nuclear weapons that could result in the deaths of millions. It would be his decisions and actions that would keep the country from the brink of total nuclear war. In the years leading up to the Cuban Missi...
Atomic Gambit: The Cuban Missile Crisis 60 Years Later
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - September 01, 2022 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOn October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was told the Soviet Union was assembling nuclear warheads on the island of Cuba, just 90 miles from the Florida coastline. Over the course of the next 13 days and beyond, President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would make decisions in...
Undelivered Speeches that Could Have Rewritten History
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - June 09, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsWe know much about the speeches President Kennedy gave during his time in office, but what about the ones he never gave. Speechwriter and author Jeff Nussbaum joins us to discuss his new book about how some undelivered speeches in the 1960s, including two by President Kennedy, could have changed...
Telling America's Stories to the World
JFK35 - A podcast by the JFK Library Foundation - May 12, 2022 17:02 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsIn the Kennedy Administration, Edward R. Murrow and a team of journalists and filmmakers produced stories about the United States’ activities and ideals for international audiences. Hollywood producer George Stevens, Jr. led the Motion Picture Service which produced more than 300 mostly short-fo...
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