A Conversation with Senator John Kerry

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Monday, February 28, 2005, 2005.
Senator Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States will receive
the distinguished American Award from the Kennedy Library Foundation. He will
share his thoughts on U.S. policies both home and abroad with Pulitzer Prize winning
Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant.

Brokering Peace

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Thursday, March 3, 2005, 2005.
Ambassador Dennis Ross, Middle East envoy and chief negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, will discuss the issues which are at the heart of the struggle for peace. Kevin Cullen of The Boston Globe will moderate. UPDATE

: Senator George Mitchell regrets that he is unable to participate due to an injury.

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life and Times

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Sunday, April 17, 2005.
Richard Parker, author of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics and Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton join John Kenneth Galbraith for a look back at his career. James Carroll of The Boston Globe will moderate.

Bob Herbert: The Life of a Columnist at the New York Times

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Monday, May 9, 2005.
Bob Herbert, the award-winning New York Times op-ed columnist, will discuss his new book, Promises Betrayed, which probes the widening gap between American ideals and American realities. Dick Gordon, host of WBUR’s The Connection, will moderate.

JFK, MLK and RFK: 1960-1968

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Sunday, October 23, 2005, 2005.
Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel to President Kennedy; Harris Wofford, President Kennedy’s chairman for the Subcabinet Group on Civil Rights; Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pillar of Fire; and Robert Moses, pivotal organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and director of the Mississippi Project in the early 1960s look at the years 1960 to 1963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. engaged the President and the Attorney General in the battle to extend civil rights to all.

What’s Happened to the News Media?

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Monday, November 7, 2005.
John Seigenthaler, award-winning journalist and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors; Ellen Hume, director of the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston; and Garrett Graf, the first blogger admitted to a White House press briefing, will discuss the continuing controversies in print and broadcast journalism and how the internet is changing the face of the news media. Callie Crossley of WGBH’s Beat the Press, will moderate.

The Presidency of LBJ

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Sunday, November 20, 2005.
Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of President Johnson, will deliver the keynote address in the Kennedy Library’s ongoing examination of 20th century presidents. He will join JackValenti, who served as Special Assistant to President Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times writer Anthony Lewis and Boston University historian Bruce Schulman to discuss LBJ’s legacy. Harvard University historian Lizabeth Cohen will moderate.

The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner

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Monday, November 28, 2005.
On the publication of Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner, the award-winning playwright, author, and good friend of Hemingway will share stories about the man. The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s works. Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan will moderate.

A Tribute to Sargent Shriver

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Monday, December 12, 2005.
Mark Shields, Rev. Bryan Hehir, Lewis Butler, Harris Wofford, Sargent Shriver’s biographer Scott Stossel, and Tim Shriver will discuss the many contributions Sargent Shriver has made to our country. Former Peace Corps volunteer and host of MSNBC’s HARDBALL, Chris Matthews, will moderate.

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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Sunday, December 18, 2005.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin will explain how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation’s history. Scott Simon will moderate. Scott Simon, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, will moderate.

Recovering from 9/11

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Friday, September 10, 2004.
Senator Edward Kennedy will introduce Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, who will discuss efforts to compensate the victims’ families of the 2001 terrorist attacks with Jack Rosenthal, President of The New York Times Company Foundation and creator of the 9/11 Neediest Fund.

Welfare Reform: Did it Work?

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Monday, September 20, 2004. Jason DeParle, New York Times senior writer and author of American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare; David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; and Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, will examine our nation’s policies regarding poor people. William Julius Wilson of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will moderate.

A Conversation with I.M. Pei

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Sunday, September 26, 2004.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Kennedy Library, I.M. Pei will discuss the evolution and implementation of his design for the Library and Museum with Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic Robert Campbell.

Presidents at War

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Monday, October 4, 2004 p.m.
Former JFK advisor and historian Arthur Schlesinger, journalist Tom Wicker, and veteran political analyst Kevin Phillips will explore the varying legacies of our wartime presidents. David Gergen of the Kennedy School of Government will moderate.

A Conversation with Robert C. Byrd

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004.

The Economy in the 2004 Campaign

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Monday, October 18, 2004.
MacArthur Fellow and Senior Economic Advisor at the Brookings Institute, Alice Rivlin; former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University, Robert Reich; and Professor of Economics at Boston University, Glenn Loury, will discuss the state of the economy with Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize winning correspondent Tom Oliphant.

A Conversation with Maureen Dowd

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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Maureen Dowd will discuss her new book, “Bushworld,” and offer her observations on the Presidential race with Dick Gordon, host of WBUR’s The Connection.

Life with the Hemingways

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Monday, November 8, 2004
Valerie Hemingway, the confidante of Ernest, will share stories of her years living and traveling with Ernest and Mary Hemingway. Her new book is “Running with the Bulls.” The Kennedy Library is the major repository of Ernest Hemingway’s works.

What’s Happened to the News?

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Monday, December 6, 2004
Ben Bradlee, long-time Washington Post executive editor, and Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes and Executive Producer, CBS News, will talk about how print and broadcast news have changed over the last 40 years. Meredith White, Executive Producer of ABC News and former Senior Editor at Newsweek, will moderate.

The Crisis in Darfur

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Thursday, December 9, 2004.
Jennifer Leaning of Harvard School of Public Health, Eric Reeves of Smith College, Alex de Waal of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard, and William Schulz of Amnesty International will discuss the crisis in Darfur. Gail Harris, a NPR/PBS journalist, will moderate.