LECTURES

JFK Election Victory 1960: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary

Presented by John F. Kennedy Presidental Library at John F. Kennedy Presidental Library and Museum

October 29, 2010 - Ongoing

Tour the Museum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and relive the powerful story of the Kennedy years. In our three theaters, period settings, and 25 dramatic multimedia exhibits, you will enter the recreated world of the Kennedy Presidency for a “first-hand” experience of John F. Kennedy’s life, legacy, and...

Freedom 7 Mercury Space Capsule

Presented by John F. Kennedy Presidental Library at John F. Kennedy Presidental Library and Museum

September 12, 2012-December 31, 2015

Freedom 7 splashes down at the JFK Presidential Library.

The Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule that launched the first American, Alan Shepard, into space has landed at the Kennedy Presidential Library. On view in the Museum starting September 12th.

Visit www.JFKLibrary.org for more information.
 

To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Presented by The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum at John F. Kennedy Presidental Library and Museum

April 12-December 1, 2013

It was a close call—maybe the closest call in human history. For two weeks in October 1962, the world teetered on the edge of thermonuclear war and the end of civilization as we know it. Earlier that fall, the Soviet Union, under orders from Premier Nikita Khrushchev, began to secretly deploy a nuclear strike force in Cuba, just 90 miles...