100 Years of JFK

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Annual project at Devotion honors Kennedy Roberts said.

Roberts said that the students’ essays focus on a variety of aspects of Kenne

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Brookline residents will become doctors, teachers and more, maybe even the President of the United States.

The Edward Devotion School cel ebrates John F. Kennedy’s time at the

to stand up to bullies to his childhood illnesses. Pentland said she wrote about

best player on the team, why be on the Kennedy relatable to students.

sports, and how he was a role model in sports,” Pentland said.

Albertini said that Kennedy’s poor record as a student resonates with the

land, who completed the project when

dent.

“You can always say, ‘Oh yeah, JFK went to my school,’ and you tell your friends from other schools, and they’re

“The areas that he did well in were the ones he paid attention to, and if it wasn’t his interest, then he would just

to have that,” Pentland said.

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Third graders sing Forever Young by Bob Dylan at the culminating ceremony of the annual “What John F. Kennedy Means to Me” Essay and Poetry Program in 2015.

Kennedy Presidential Library and Mu seum and to Kennedy’s house on Beals

Albertini said that the classes swap essays, and the students vote on a win about Kennedy’s personal life than his

they conduct research for an essay on Kennedy, and the project culminates in a ceremony outside the house on Beals Street, where the poems and essays are read aloud.

your heart or make really personal con

that Kennedy was not a stellar student helps the students relate to him more.

“They love to know that he wasn’t

any kid today. smart, he just didn’t always ace his work,” president, he was just a kid like them, liv

derstand that he was human before he was also a president.”

ISSUE: JFK’S CHILDHOOD, p. 3

JACKIE KENNEDY, p. 9

FAMILY TREE, p. 8

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A LOOK INTO JFK’S CHILDHOOD Just outside of Coolidge Corner is a blue house located at 83 Beals Street that President Brookline: three living on Beals Street and seven on Abbotsford Road a few blocks away beboth while he lived in the house and after.

By Staff Writers Natalie Jew, Jamie Martinez and Yuen Ting Chow

Childhood House HISTORY OF THE HOUSE According to Public Affairs Lead for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site Mark ential.

“It’s a surprisingly modest-looking house on a small piece of land when one thinks about the later history of the Kennedy family,” Swartz said.

After Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Kennedy’s mother Rose F. Kennedy bought their old home on Beals Street back. The house became a historic site that opened in 1969. She was able to display about 19 percent of the original items, and the rest were reproduced and made to look like the originals.

According to Supervisory Park Ranger James Roberts, Rose F. Kennedy’s love of history and desire to contribute to the historic legacy of the country pushed her to create a National Historic Site.

“She took it on willingly because she loved taking her children to historical sites,” Roberts said. “She took every opportunity to teach her children about history and she probably relished the opportunity to create a historic site.”

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Due to Rose Kennedy’s vital role in the establishment of the Beals Street house as a historic site, she narrates the audio tour of the home.

VISITATION According to Jason Atsales, the Lead Park Ranger at the John F. Kenopened, dropped for a number of years and has been increasing for the past seven years. About 20 to 30 percent of the visitors are international. mentioned in one of their chapel books. And then we have a lot of German visitors, given [Kennedy’s] speech in 1963 regarding the Berlin

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Rose F. Kennedy used the house to represent the entirety of John F. Kennedy’s youth; there is a photo downstairs that was actually taken in the Kennedy’s second house on Abbotsford Road.

Swartz said that Kennedy’s story resonates with each generation.

“For people of the baby boom and earlier generations, many can take away a reconnection with the period when JFK was president and when the Kennedys dominated public life in this country,” Swartz said.

“For people who are later baby boomers, Gen-X, millennial and beyond, they can get insights into the formative years of a future president and insights into the legacy of this particular president.”

Health and Illnesses CHILDHOOD ILLNESS AND INJURY John F. Kennedy was not a healthy child. Kennedy’s mother collected health records for her children, which she added to after every doctor’s visit. These records show that Kennedy once had whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and chickenpox as a child.

According to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Kennedy’s family used to joke that if a mosquito bit him, it would die from the toxicity of his blood.

Kennedy was always prone to injury. During the hot New England summers, the Kennedys would vacation at their house in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, according to the JFK Library. One summer, Kennedy and Joe Kennedy, his older brother by two years, collided on their bikes. Joe Kennedy walked away without a scratch, while the future president had to get 28 stitches.

OTHER INJURIES AND DISEASES In 1936, while playing football at Harvard, Kennedy ruptured a disk in his spine. His back never Jeffrey A. Kelman explained that Kennedy needed ‘’seven to eight injections of procaine in his back in the same sitting.”

Kennedy developed colitis and osteoporosis at a young age.

For these reasons, many believed that Kennedy had Addison’s disease, despite never being tested for it. Addison’s disease occurs when the adrenal glands do not produce enough cortisol. He directly about whether he had Addison’s disease by historian and aide Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Kennedy replied, “No one who has the real Addison’s disease should run for the presidency, but I do not have it.’’

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BROOKLINE: THEN AND NOW In 1917, the year of John F. Kennedy’s birth, the town of Brookline looked much different than it does now. According to park ranger Jim Roberts, Brookline was a “streetcar suburb” of Boston. The streetcars traveled on Beacon Street, as the C line of the MBTA does today, and most of the town’s commercial buildings were situated on or near Beacon Street. The Kennedy family lived on Beals Street, which had very few houses on it at

the time, but its proximity to the streetcars combined with the abundance of open space made it appealing to the family, Roberts said. The Kennedy children were also able to attend Devotion School, located just a few blocks away from Beals Street, which John did until the third grade.

By Writing Editor Evan Marohn

Country Club -1920

The Country Club was established in 1882 and is listed as one of the oldest clubs in the United States. In its long history, it has hosted three U.S. Opens.

Harvard St. and Beals St. - 1910

Harvard Street was quickly developing when the Kennedy family moved to Brookline. However, Beals Street, where the family lived, had only a few houses.

Map of Brookline - 1916

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Brookline Village - 1915

Brookline Village was one of the most developed areas in Brookline in the early 20th Century. The newly invented personal automobile helped urbanize the area.

Coolidge Corner - 1917

The streetcar line on Beacon Street, which later became the MBTA’s C Line, helped make Coolidge Corner a commercial hub by the late 19th Century.

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Kennedy established heroism on PT-109 Gabe Lee

Staff Writer At approximately 2 a.m. on future president of the U.S. was nearly killed when the Japanese

the former U.S. Ambassador to

across open water to a new is land, where he eventually met up with an island spotter. He

medals for his actions. that his boat was rammed by

conut was transferred to Allied so incredibly he was able to save

John F. Kennedy, a new na val lieutenant who had yet to see

the destroyer was there. But then after that, he heroically, PHOTO FROM PUBLIC DOMAIN

When the PT-109 was struck by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy saved his crew, gaining him a place in history as a military hero.

Ocean to save the lives of his crew members.

The events of the day show

A little boat like that could sink a destroyer or transport ship.

Kennedy’s story has been in American lore.

the lives of his crew eventually helped him succeed in politics.

piece of the boat for a while and then they swam for an island.

Then Kennedy went back into the water and swam more miles

itor and historian Lou How land said after the war, when Kennedy’s ambitions turned to politics, the event played a

nedy’s previous experience in military school and his child and nautical history, the PT boat Kennedy served on was a part of

tivities helped him when the time came for him to be tested in the waters.

the House of Representatives

“The boats were made of

perience, and he knew how to sail and had experience in lead

dy’s time aboard the PT boats

they would take anybody.” Len

people a chance to see who he really was.

we needed to create a defensive they would put you in a ship and send you out there very, very

Special Assistant David Powers

months and months to decide

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have been a President John F. Kennedy.”

Thom and Kennedy later received Navy and Marine Corps Medals.

Kennedy battled religious bias in election campaign Becky Perelman Staff Writer

very concerned that he would be behold en to the Pope and not be his own man,” Tisch said.

Presidential Library and Museum, Ken nedy lost Ohio, Kentucky, Florida and

speech in Houston, Texas called the Ad of color and those with intellectual dis abilities and he contributed to a partial ban on nuclear weapons tests.

Association.

tholicism. He talked about how he be lieved in an America where there was a separation of church and state,” Tisch said. ton Ministerial Association, Kennedy sirable trait in a president as the nation had never elected

president. He be lieved that despite

before. there were still other important issues at hand, which was where

cation Specialist at the John F. Ken nedy Presidential Library and Mu seum, there was a

ment should lie.

“So it is appar ently necessary for me to state once

movement because people believed

Kennedy departed from Our Lady of the Forest Church in Forest Row, England with Father Charles P. Dolman and Secret Service agents after mass in 1963.

President would be the Vatican, which would result in a the ocracy: no separation between church and state.

Tisch said that there was a lot of

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where all men and all churches are treat Kennedy said.

Kennedy believed

that

people church of his choice; where there is no

is pointed, in other years it has been, and

should win or lose the election based on er or a Unitarian or a Baptist,” Kennedy were controlled from elsewhere.

icism. any kind,” Kennedy said.

morrow it may be you.”

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Kennedy’s writing displays a pro-immigrant viewpoint

MLK AND AND JFK MLK JFK maDeline naGleR Writing Editor

Jake Brodsky Managing Editor

law, families, isolationism vs. interven tionism, jobs and freedom of worship. future lies in the lessons of the past. reached America it has been faced with problems, not only the problems that

OCTOBER

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Due to Martin Luther King’s involvement with the freedom riders, he was arrested in Georgia. John F. Kennedy called King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, to express his sympathy about King’s imprisonment. Robert Kennedy, Kennedy’s campaign manager, called Judge J. Oscar Mitchell, who was behind King’s sentence, to get King out of jail on bail.

The following day, King was released and noted that “Kennedy was a great force in making my release possible.”

jobs, but, more important, the problems on television, in newspapers across the

stead from a book written by the most famous man who ever lived in Brookline, Massachusetts.

nation,” Kennedy wrote.

Kennedy wrote the book to push for

A Nation of Immigrants

of the books published by current politi cians. A Nation of Immigrants was a disser

F. Kennedy, to publish it posthumously,

values, not necessarily a reaction to a cer tain crisis or debate at the time. A Nation of Immigrants was intended to stand the test of time.

Kennedy wrote several political books besides A Nation of Immigrants

Kennedy Library and Museum. Kenne A Nation of Immigrants

of his senior thesis from Harvard, which he addressed the ADL and famously Europe, titled Why England Slept.

drew examples from American and world

el, the same year he arrived in the U.S. Senate. However, ac other publications, his contributions

more than racism.”

cestors, who faced discrimination from

he wrote most of the novel himself. So rensen also helped Kennedy with some of his most famous addresses, but Ken nedy was a known writer and someone who knew, and captured, the power of the written word.

A Nation of Immigrants displayed the importance of Kennedy’s educational

NOVEMBER

Kennedy won the presidency over Republican candidate Richard Nixon, becoming the 35th president of the United States.

MAY

The freedom riders, organized by King, were bused into several southern cities from Washington, D.C. to prove that desegregation laws were not being enforced.

DECEMBER

King met with Kennedy and urged him to mandate a second Emancipation Proclamation to help end racism.

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Kennedy federalized Mississippi troops to enforce a federal court ruling allowing James Meredith, a student at the all-Black Jackson State College, to enroll at the allwhite University of Mississippi.

Kennedy introduced Civil Rights legislation in a a stand to defend civil rights. He also banned all public discrimination and met with Civil Rights leaders, including King, to discuss planning for the March on Washington.

history, as well as his youthful, unabashed Puerto Ricans and Mexicans that were been small in comparison to his expan Jews: ‘They’ll never adjust; they can’t sorbed,’” Kennedy wrote in A Nation of Immigrants.

cannot be understated. sides of the aisle and corrodes every de

NOVEMBER

Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.

JANUARY

Time magazine named King “Man of the Year” in their January Issue. King was the

APRIL

King was fatally shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, catapulting the nation into a year of turmoil that included the murder of Robert Kennedy.

1963

nedy covered an array of historical trends and topics involved in the discussion of American values is truly missed.

1964

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Kennedy wrote A Nation of Immigrants in 1964 and voiced his support of immigrants.

1976

Due to skepticism surrounding the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate Kennedy’s death, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations [HSCA] was established to investigate the assassinations of both Kennedy and King. The HSCA determined that there was likelihood of conspiracy in both of the assassinations.

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JFK and the Peace Corps: Building Connections

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Kennedy spoke at an event recognizing older members Kennedy made a speech to a group of Peace Corps of the Peace Corps at the White House in August 1962. to Ghana and Tanganyika, Kennedy met with volunteers. trainees near the Washington Monument in 1962.

SPOTLIGHT: BEN BERMAN to develop important relationships.

You sort of have these theories and you

Kennedy signed HR 7500, which established the Peace Corps, on Sept. 22, 1961.

and recovered by the police, but whose families did not accept them back.

Berman went to Zimbabwe as

stories you hear in the news,” Berman remind you of how complex people are,

Leon Yang

Managing Editor

a

formative

experience

for

him. lic service and the importance of cultur

countries. These volunteers work in de

“So many people have a chance to travel abroad and immerse them

do not receive a salary. As Kennedy noted at times, so it was really important to volunteers “will live at the same level as

to be there as sort of a model of what race relations can look like; it doesn’t always have to be tense, but it wasn’t

SPOTLIGHT: ED WISER committed to the concept which moti

“Our Social Justice Leadership work museum for where he was stationed. So tions there, and a lot of people in the er Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, talked about the value of public service. fect of he meets a lot of people who are over the top wealthy, these people who have done all they could to turn a busi

ence for President Kennedy, and they would always ask me about President Kennedy.” there are many other domestic oppor

‘They are not nearly as happy as the peo And it really struck a chord with a lot of the connections he made with the peo currently stays in touch with some of the

had many connections to Kennedy be where there is nobody there like you, it

PROVIDED BY ED WISER

Ed Wiser served in the Peace Corps in the Solomon Islands from 1991 to 1993. He said that he is still in touch with many of the people he met there.

washed up on. All the waters that he pa

people in the world live.”

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Notable Kennedys

By Staff Writer Sabrina Zhou

THE FIRST GENERATION

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Businessman 1888–1969

THE SECOND GENERATION

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. Pilot 1915–1944

Rosemary Kennedy 1918–2005

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th U.S. President 1917–1963

Patricia Kennedy Socialite 1924–2006

Robert Francis Kennedy U.S. Senator 1925–1968

Philanthropist 1890–1995

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Marchioness of Hartington 1920–1948

Jean Ann Kennedy U.S. Ambassador to Ireland 1928–

Eunice Mary Kennedy Special Olympics Founder 1921–2009

Edward (Ted) Moore Kennedy U.S. Senator 1932–2009

NOTABLE SPOUSES

Ethel Skakel Human Rights Campaigner 1928– (Married Robert F. Kennedy)

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier First Lady 1929–1994 (Married John F. Kennedy)

Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. Politician 1915–2011 (Married Eunice M. Kennedy)

Victoria Reggie Kennedy Lawyer 1954– (Married Edward M. Kennedy)

NOTABLE KENNEDYS TODAY

Joseph Patrick Kennedy III U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District 1980 – (Grandson of Robert F. Kennedy)

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Attorney 1957 – (Daughter of John F. Kennedy)

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JACKIE

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said, “Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from

fashionista, but she set the style of the

when women wore hats. She did set a style; she was a very fashion able lady. She was rather conservative

nicknames “Jackie O,” or simply “Jackie,” lived her life to express herself, which nia Trump’s sophisticated powder blue dress and jacket that she wore to the literature, music and the arts.

Bouvier Kennedy, was one of the ladies that the U.S. has ever seen. Even

tion.

Another Brookline resident with clear memories of Bouvier Kennedy,

and creative voice came from a troubled childhood. Her parents did not embrace

on her appearances. Anthony said her fa

every word and deed; like many parents, they were motivated by a desire to help her ‘improve’ to become their own idea blunt assessments and analysis of her

always pick out her.”

Because Bouvi er Kennedy made the decision to be a more “traditional” woman, ac ARTWORK BY SUSIE STEINFIELD

“She did not have the same kind on abortion. She showed her support by model,” Mittel said. “She was a very in issues but otherwise became a symbol of feminism in the last period of her life

a writer and used her craft as an escape from outside pressures. said. “Also her diction; she spoke very softly and very precise, carefully think ination and that the characters of nov

woman.” she set the style for women at the time.”

would always hold her hands down in became a separate entity from her hus friendship with in her mind,” Anthony

be told what to do. But she was very lovely when she talked to people. She would ask about their health and their families. She was a real asset to her hus band.”

it was avoided as a social taboo, it was stories that Jackie Bouvier transferred much of her emotional pain.”

line resident Shaari Mittel, who has vivid memories of the

seemed to lack interest in the women’s

for future women and served as a source of American pride.

“You could not bend her. She had a standard of life, and she lived by those standards, and you could tell that. She you knew that you could not push her

views became prevalent.

“Her resentment at

whole world seemed impressed by her

professional and took her job seriously.

the nature and even the mood of the event or incident, even if it was a mun dane task,” Anthony said.

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sarcastic observations,” Anthony said. “She

but this absolute monarchical kind made me feel so proud to be an Amer ican.”

and

the

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MARILYN MONROE One of Kennedy’s most infamous scandals and not-so concealed family secrets, is his alleged affair with actress and model, Marilyn Monroe. According to “People Magazine” from the year 1961 when nedy, potentially knew about her husband’s interactions with Monroe.

For uncertain reasons, The First Lady chose to look the other way. The

By Staff Writer Elene Chamberlin

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Monroe performed Happy Birthday for the president on May 19, 1962 at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser. The relationship between the

AFFAIRS

Kennedy was accused of having affairs with many other women during his presidency, one of them being Judith Exner, who claimed to have been Kennedy’s mistress. According to “People Magazine,” Exner claimed she had an abortion after she became pregnant with the President’s child. The alleged mistress told “People” in a 1988 interview that Kennedy was very concerned about her feelings and was kind and considerate. Gossip columnist Liz Smith, known as the “Grand Dame of Dish,” often wrote about the alleged affair and revealed in her 1977 memoir that First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was unsurprised yet interested in what she wrote. The alleged affair between Kennedy been reached.

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speculate that the two were more than acquaintances.

KENNEDY’S FATHER

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A highly discussed rumor regarding the Kennedy family revolves around Kennedy’s father, Joe Kennedy, for being involved with a notorious Sicilian-American mobster Sam Giancana. According to National Geographic, Joe Kennedy and Giancana were involved in the bootlegging business during prohibition in the 1920s. Also, Giancana allegedly was a donor to the 1960s presidential campaign, and he may of Giancana in 1975.

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JFK Presidential Library preserves legacy was selected to be the Demo cratic nominee for President in

supporters conveys that excite ment.”

Visitors can walk down a replica of Main Street, which shows spectators what Boston

Kennedy they all come here.”

The Pavilion has a view of the Boston Harbor and Kenne dy’s sailboat can be seen in the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is on the coast of

that the country and his family The John F. Kennedy Pres idential Library and Museum for Kennedy’s centennial birth

is important since JFK loved “People and nations can presidential debate.

“The newspaper

the ideas behind the museum’s stands

intent there is to introduce peo ple to the notion that they are moment when JFK was a candi

Small screens in a dark Kennedy’s death. Executive Di rector of the John F. Kennedy

bear we owe it to ourselves and our nation to have the same op timistic outlook that President you see some of the decisions

NATALIE JEW / SAGAMORE STAFF

The museum highlights Kennedy’s personal life and presidency.

Natalie Jew Staff Writer

People from all around the world come to Dorchester, Mas

for library visitors to watch. A photo of his crowd is displayed

Steven Rothstein said the tele vision screens follow the time of Kennedy’s death to his funeral.

very best president we’ve ever had.”

ened.” into the museum, they are en

is broadcasted to imitate the en

was in the race for the pres John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The li history of Kennedy to honor his

at the John F. Kennedy Presi dential Library and Museum, volunteer docent James E. Ad

Kennedy went to bed without in red, white and blue dresses with “Kennedy” written on the waistband stand at his rally. Ac Presidential Library and Mu seum brochure, they are at the

ident.”

Research Room of the library

Kennedy became the party’s choice for president.

the memory of the former pres ident.

Presidential Library and Muse

and has a collection of informa tion related to Kennedy.

architecture conveys a sense of

had for the future president.

politics, history and life. He was a scholar in the very best sense,”

all the archives. This is where

ment and enthusiasm when JFK

life of President Kennedy,” Ad NATALIE JEW / SAGAMORE STAFF

The JFK Library is located in Dorchester next to the University of Massachusetts Boston campus. It was dedicated in October 1979.

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two terms.

Obama received the award for “Serv

Managing Editor

poration, where she assumed a promi

town, MA. The award ceremony took place in the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Kennedy himself wanted the library to be close to the Harvard

As part of the centennial celebration

former President Barack H. Obama by

example they can emulate in their own website.

House dormitories where he had spent his upperclassman

the founder and chairman those Kennedy described in his book,

nedy cited in lines of his under sure,”

uals who have risked their ca reers or lives by

pres was

many ways by Obama.

conscience in opposition to popular opin ion or pressure from others.

The win ners are select ed by a commit tee chosen by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and is made up of Kenne dy family members and other prominent people. dy Library and Museum Foundation,

of

tion, as well as chairman of The Elders, an international borhood too much of a tour ist location, so the library Representative John Lewis was present ed with the lifetime achievement award from the Founda

Point, Dorchester.

increas same year former

must have in order to

Ford was awarded for his controversial pardon of former President Richard

tually doesn’t take a

cynicism,

political lead ers has never been more

into a life of public service and for af more than just a collection of Red and Blue states.

Former recipients include Sheila

those who are already powerful, already com fortable, already in

election.

The winners are presented with a ster is patterned after a lantern LIC

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to champion the vul and the sick and

IN DOMA nerable

Kennedy advocated for the appreciation of art Chloe Barber

“She actually said that she put them about to inspire the chil dren.”

Staff Writer

a lot,” Stewart said. “He went to

museums. He was obviously in Look

nedy’s parents valued education

scribed “the life of the arts” as

to learn about many topics so

a distraction, in the life of a na tion,” as it “is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose and

ed.

had a decent appreciation for Aside from constant pa

Kennedy had a deep under the arts as it relates to a nation’s culture and society. His views on the value of art were mir

“They really wanted them to be cultured,” Atsales said.

“They talked a lot about a va riety of subjects, certainly art, appreciation for the arts, poet

reinforce their importance.

Atsales said that one of

up very much in an atmosphere where children were expected

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The National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan performed as a part of Bouvier Kennedy’s Musical Programs for Youth by Youth.

rather than the president.” ican artists and their ambitions.

his presidential administration.

Jason Atsales, the Lead

said that Kennedy’s artistic and his appreciation for the arts. birthplace home has a lot of art

“There has been an enor since that time, and they are

preserve the arts called Musi tion with various art forms and that he mostly was attached to literature and did write several books of his own later on.”

John Stewart, former Di rector of Oral History and Ed ucation of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Muse um in Boston, said that Ken

from overseas, reproductions of

administration. He did lay the foundation of what would be

we were,” Faxon said. perform music in a formal fash

Kennedy was already a popu because of his youth and new

for the Arts, so that is a way of school’s orchestra, remembers various projects that deal with various forms of art to keep them alive,” Atsales said.

er Boston Symphony Orchestra,

his administration added to his admirable reputation.

“All of the activity relat

the opportunity to play at the

enthusiasm that the Kenne

the arts later on in life. tration, Bouvier Kennedy took “JFK came out and spoke from the raised area we were on. terms of the arts,” Stewart said.

“There was a commission of the arts and there were a lot of

was very cool,” Faxon said.

The work that Mrs. Kennedy

ence, Faxon believes that Ken the arts led to a rise in the popu larity of musicians, especially at

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Ballet dancers perform on the White House’s South Lawn during Bouvier Kennedy’s Musical Programs for Youth by Youth.

pect, came from Mrs. Kennedy

was always an announcement about some new initiative to, for example, save the historic

dy’s interest in the arts, or the administration’s interest in the arts, was one of a lot of new

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Remembering Kennedy: Residents’ Stories Brookline community members were incredibly forthcoming with their memories of John F. Kennedy, who many idolize greatly. When recalling some experiences during Kennedy’s presidency, town members glowed with reminiscence and admiration.

Iman Khan

Assassination

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Personality

For former Brookline resident Mildred Flashman, Kennedy was memorable, not only because of his presidency, but also because the people in Brookline felt a unique connection with him.

“He was a very good-looking man, and he came from around here, so we had a special interest in him because we had watched him develop his political career,” Flashman said. “He started out as a congressman, then was a senator and then he ran for president. I even remember his campaigns he had before he ran for the presidency.”

According to Flashman, Kennedy had a very likable personality.

“I remember he was very popular abroad. I remember watching his speech on TV in Berlin. The Russians had put up a wall and East Berlin and West Berlin were separated,” Flashman said. “He went to Germany and spoke. I don’t think he had

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Policy

Kennedy established a series of policies the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’ and people that resonated with students at the time, injust roared in applause for that. It means ‘I cluding current local business owner John am a Berliner.’”

Ashbaugh.

“I remember that he was the one who really pushed through the Medicare Social Security. That was not an easy thing to do, but it was very important for this country,” Ashbaugh said.

According to Flashman, the New Frontier and Peace Corps programs were specused on the unemployed, minorities and underrepresented groups rebuilding society.

“He tried hard to move the country

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something [about] making women’s wages equal to men. I don’t remember how far he got in that, but it was something that interested me,” Flashman said.

The Cuban Missile Crisis reminds Brookline resident Margaret Richlin of apple strudel. When anxiously awaiting a news conference about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Richlin said her family gathered to wait for Kennedy’s televised speech. Despite the tense atmosphere, Richlin explains how her mother prepared their favorite dessert, apple strudel.

“I found out, many years later, that [my mother] had prior knowledge that this was going to happen; she had known from a close friend that the Cuban Missile Crisis was occurring and that Kennedy was going to be making the speech,” Richlin said. “So, the way that she dealt with this and tried to comfort the family was to prepare the apple strudel. It sort of gave me insight into how she came up with that. What a coincidence it was!”

Nov. 22, 1963 was a day that remains not only a marked place in our history books, but also in the memories of so many Americans. For many Brookline residents, this was a day of utter devastation. According to Flashman, when Kennedy was assassinated, the nation faced a feeling of absolute shock.

“It was just something one couldn’t believe. I remember the news people on the TV; you could see the tears coming out of their eyes when they talked about him,” Flashman said. “It was complete disbelief and sorrow. We talked about nothing else.”

Richlin said her interest in politics and her major in government stemmed from what she considered to be Kennedy’s incredibly educational and charismatic campaign. She said she has vivid memories of Kennedy’s assassination, when she was a sophomore at Radcliffe College.

“I remember exactly where I was standing in Harvard Yard. The church bells started to chime in the courtyard. It was sort of like, ‘What’s this about?’ and everybody was looking around. People had found out and started talking about it,” Richlin said. “It was utter horror and disbelief. Kennedy was such an idol for so many of us.”

Despite his unfortunately short presidency, America fell in love with the deceased president’s will to unite the nation and provide a sense of hope. Whether it was seeing Kennedy pass by in a motorcade or working at an ice cream shop near the Kennedys’ Cape Cod relatives, Brookline residents remember the president, who remains in the hearts of many.

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STATE REPRESENTATIVE FRANK I. SMIZIK

Proudly representing Brookline, the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, whose legacy inspires each and every one of us to make a difference in our community and beyond.

Commemorating President John Fitzgerald Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

-John F. Kennedy

“Things don’t happen, they are made to happen.” —John F. Kennedy Thank you, JFK, for inspiring us to be the people who make things happen.

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The Headlines of the Kennedy Years

By Managing Editor Leon Yang

Dec. 1, 1960

created has been “used to its full capacity for destruction.” The writer outlines the necessity and plausibility of nuclear disarma

The article, written by Betty Troderman, expresses the sentiment that the military, economic and social policies of Kennedy will

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The writer of the story describes the March on Washington as “the most impressive thing that I have ever seen.” Rev. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” resonated with the reporter, who says in the final lines, “I know that my journey to the ‘Freedom Land’ will be a long, hard battle; but if God remains on our side, we will overcome some day and my children will not have to live in a sick society where people must discriminate against their brothers.”

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Oct. 24, 1963

An editorial by Jeffrey Borenstein begins with the poignant introduction, “The handsome face is gone. A ‘Profile in Courage’ has passed on. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is no more.”

Borenstein says it is important for the country to close its partisan divides in support of the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson. The rest of the issue also reports on the services at Kennedy’s Birthplace on Beals Street and a march of 2000 mourners, which led one spectator to note, “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is indeed a wonderful tribute to such a great man.”

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