The generous support of our underwriters of the Kennedy Library museum. The Lowell Institute in our media sponsors the boston globe and wbur. We look forward to robust questionandanswer period this evening. You will see full instructions on the screen for submitting your questions via email or in the comments on our youtube page during the program. We are so grateful to have this opportunity to explore president kennedys earlier years and depth with our distinguished speakers this evening. This is the first major work about president kennedy in many years. We have been anticipating this for some time. Much of professor legevalls research took place in the kennedy archive and we are please to look at this conference a new look at president kennedys formative years. Im now delighted to introduce tonight speakers. We are so glad to welcome Frederik Logevall back to the Kennedy Library virtually. He is lawrence the bill for professor of International Affairs and professor of history at har
Officials, and the spread throughout the u. S. And world with interactive maps. Track it. Whats on demand any time unfiltered . Org coronavirus. Host welcome, i am dorian. We are happy to be back here. Welcome to all of our regulars. If anybody is a first timer, this is an event series and we cover aller disciplines out of their labs and onto the public stages. Heres part of the cultural life of new york city people like unique income and be informed and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club, a regular hangout, in brooklyn but secret science club are back here tonight in manhattan as far as our fifth miniseries here. So we would really like to think all of the people, the staff, particular kathy, darren and rebecca, marion, james, and zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university here. [applause]. Give them a big hand. [applause]. Very big special thank you, to the bar to the back and left if yo
In california on a hot afternoon in pasadena for our monthly Public Lecture series. Im preston dikes. 50 years ago three human beings set out on a journey across a quarter million miles of space to the moon. Two of them set down in a fragile Landing Craft on the lunar surface, and one of them stepped into history uttering a phrase we all know by heart. For that one human being to make that one small step took the focussed efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a decade. An industry and universities and in government. For their part, jpl and cal tech didnt play the leading roles in the apollo effort, but for all who contributed to apollo, as for all of us who play even a small role in the Space Program today, the true reward lay not in the glory of the moment but in contributing to something greater. Something that mattered. Jpl ease primary role then and now is to help lead the Robotic Exploration of the solar system including technologies that contributed to apo