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We need beauty. We need it badly. On a day when we grappled with our grief over the enduring evil of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, on a day when we learned more from the media about the heinous attack on a young teacher, Colleen Ritzer of Danvers,…
Read More »I borrowed this title from Joe Donahue’s poem sequence about JFK in his 1989 book Before Creation. I imagine a drawer in an old bureau in the cellar or attic filled with collectibles from the Kennedy years. Campaign pins, scrapbooks, LIFE magazine issues. I still have in my office at…
Read More »Yesterday, I received an email message from the staff at WGBH-TV about their plans to broadcast anniversary tribute programs to mark 50 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. I was nine years old when President Kennedy was killed, and that date…
Read More »Brian Williams in 2006 reported on the back story of Robert Frost’s poem written for President Kennedy. See the clip of Frost reading and find out what happened. This is our Robert Frost of the Merrimack Valley, who grew up in Lawrence and graduated from Lawrence High School. Here’s the…
Read More »The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »NYTimes columist Bob Herbert today recalls the expansive and in its own way demanding vision of JFK, calling it his “gift” to the nation. Read the column here, and get the NYT if you appreciate the thinking.
Read More »The Kennedy Library Foundation is anticipating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th president of the United States on January 20, 2011. In the recent newsletter from the Foundation, here’s how Foundation CEO David McKean summed up JFK’s legacy: During the thousand days of his presidency, ……
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