The Smithsonian American Art Museum allowed me to be i guess what you would call a guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. See i was a photographer myself starting in the 50s and i photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon. Governor brown in california. And then of course john f. Kennedy. Many of the events he was present at and tragically i was in dallas when he was assassinated. Why this exhere in the American Art Museum at this time . Well, its centennial of his birth. 100 years ago, on may 29th, he was born. How do you put an exhibit like this together . Where do you start . Well, first you start with a few researchers. And we collected, actually, 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. It took about six months. And it became the basis of a very important book that we published with harper collins. And from those 34,000 pictures and the 400 some odd pictures in the book, we were able to select 77 photographs that we felt told the story of jfk and his life and
Done, humanity will destroy itself. Jooirk early on in the 60s, you have this backdrop of tension. You have capitalism versus communism and it was palpable fear. In the United States and in the soviet union that the two sides were going to get into a nuclear war. Temper of the world is crisis. Architect of the crisis, kruschev. As they headed the soviet union, he was ideological. He believed that the future belonged to communism. He said, America Needs to be contained and the only way to do it is to create crises all around the american empire. Kruschev came to the u. N. In 1960s and said were grinding up missiles like sausages. Well bury you. Americans took it seriously. The toughness of the kruschev did as some propaganda fuels of the fire thats raging between moscow and washington. To see if the soviets were Building Nuclear weapons, more importantly, missiles to launch them at the United States. We were flying a spy plane over the soviet union called a u2. Im bill fox. United press
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