Day, including the q1 missile crisis in vietnam. This is about one hour. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am Tommy Nottingham the director of the jfk library foundation. Tom putnam is the director of the president ial museum and i thank you all for coming here this evening. Let me begin by acknowledging generous underwriters of the kennedy form, bank of america, boston capital, global institute, the boston foundation, and the media partners. Tonights forum is a very special one for those who work at the john f. Kennedy library and the same. The publication of the listening in, which is now on sale in our museum store, was simply not possible if not for the incredible skills and talent and professionalism and dedication of our Library Staff and government employees. There is one person in particular, one person that tom putnam and i would like to acknowledge. And it isnt archivist that has been overseeing the classification of these recordings and who knows more about these 265 hou
Good evening. I am the executive director of the Library Foundation under the john f. Kennedy library and museum and all foundation colleagues i thank you for coming. Was a dollars a generous underwriters, bank of america, raytheon, boston capital, the boston foundation, and our Media Partners the boston globe and w. B. You are. Tonights forum is special for those who work at the president ial library and use the and it is a testimony to the hard work and dedication for those employs to work hard to preserve the nations history and of president kennedy. This secret recordings of jfk which is now on sale sale, would not have been impossible if not for the incredible skills, talent, professional ism, dedication of our Library Staff in the. Government employees. One person in particular rely to a knowledge its which is then archivist of these white house recording as the archivist who knows more about these taped conversations and any of the american. Please join us to acknowledge all of
Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tape of john f. Kennedy, but its a jingle. Lets listen to this. When we vote this november lets all remember lets vote for kennedy make him your selection in the Senate Election hell do more for you and me look at kennedys history youll see its no mystery hes your kind of man so do all that you can and vote for kennedy we added the pictures and
All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tape of john f. Kennedy, but its a jingle. Lets listen to this. When we vote this november lets all remember lets vote for kennedy make him your selection in the Senate Election hell do more for you and me look at kennedys history youll see its no mystery hes your kind of man so do all that you can and vote for kennedy we added the pictures and photographs ourselves. But thats a part of the c. D. s t
It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound very loud so. There were days i thought i cant get this done, its too hard. But over time i began to hater better. And then the telephone tapes were a big step forward. When i found those, i was very excited, because theyre high quality in every way. You talked about a dictabelt conversation he had with himself or with his secretary. Yes. This is from 1960, i assume well, i shouldnt assume anything, it was during the campaign . It was during a Long Dinner Party conversation talking about running