There are a lot of photos to describe what we saw at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. I ask that you read those and I will add notes as I go.
Choate Boarding School JFK sounds a lot like a normal high school student here.
Life on the water. He got his first sailboat at 15 y/o.
The Victura.
The Kennedy Family 1938
JFK Senior Thesis --- Harvard 1939 --- Later it was reworked and published as a book. I want to read it.
After the War
Jack's older Brother
JFK and Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
After the sinking of PT109. Kennedy carved a message in a coconut and gave it to a couple of islander in hopes it would lead to a rescue. It did. It read... NAURO ISL...COMMANDER...NATIVE KNOWS POSIT...HE CAN PILOT...11 ALIVE...NEED SMALL BOAT...KENNEDY
Jump to the Primaries 1960
The Election of 1960 Walter Cronkite
The closeness of the election
January 1963 Vietnam War
The Press Conferences
1961 The Space Program
The Peace Corps
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy's report to the American People
Khrushchev's reply
Castro's Response
A Strategy for Peace
Attorney General Robert F Kennedy
JFK Civil Rights Quote
The Oval Office
John F. Kennedy the Man
Rosemary's Legacy
Travel Abroad
Vietnam
Dallas TX. The President is Assassinated.
Remembered through Memorials around the world
If you didn't already know, you used to have to be 21 to vote. Kennedy proposed lowering the age to 18. I wore a button like this one. I was 15 in 1960.
Quotes from his Inaugural address January, 1961
The building was designed by I. M. Pei
View of Boston Harbor
Something to remember when you go to vote.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate.
I didn't know anything about this place. It's located next to the JFK Library and I'm glad we decided to explore it.
A full size replica of the US Senate where you become a senator for the day and can debate legislation that is being discussed in DC. We were a small group, but diverse, with about equal numbers of Dems and Reps.
This is the bill we voted on. Of course this is the abbreviated version. The facilitator did explain it further and then a person representing each side gave their take on the bill.
We passed the bill overwhelmingly. Since we were there, the Senate that should matter, failed to pass it. Decided it was not the federal governments job.
The senator's offices
We voted on a number of initiatives and answered questions.
The walkway has a marker for each state and the date it entered the union.
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