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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. It is located on Dorchester's Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, next to the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. It was designed by the architect I. M. Pei. The building is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration, as well as special bodies of published and unpublished materials, such as books and papers by and about Ernest Hemingway. The library and museum were dedicated in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and members of the Kennedy family.
[edit] Features
The library's first floor features a museum containing video monitors, family photographs, political memorabilia, and partial replicas of the Kennedy Oval Office and his brother Robert F. Kennedy's office at the Department of Justice Building, which has been named for him. Two cinemas show an orientation film, and a third shows a documentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Other galleries display changing temporary exhibits. Outside the library during the spring, summer and fall is Kennedy's sailboat, Victura.
[edit] 2008 Democratic Presidential candidates debate
On June 11, 2007, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced that Caroline Kennedy invited the leading Democratic Presidential candidates to participate in a nationally televised presidential debate at the Library on Monday, December 17, 2007.[1]
[edit] Artifacts
The library keeps the original coconut on which the rescue message was inscribed by Kennedy to rescue the crew of the PT-109 and delivered by natives of Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana of the Solomon Islands.
[edit] Location and transportation
Shortly before his death, Kennedy chose a site for his presidential library near Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This plan was abandoned in 1975 due to prolonged delays and community opposition.[2] A new site was chosen next to the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts, overlooking Dorchester Bay, with a view of Boston Harbor and the city skyline. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 93 or via shuttle bus from the JFK/UMass stop on the Boston subway's Red line.
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Coordinates: 42°18′57.21″N 71°2′2.71″W / 42.3158917, -71.0340861
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