American Experience

Further Reading — Web Sites

The John F. Kennedy Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/
The web site of the Kennedy presidential library presents some of the vast numbers of photographs, texts, and audio files from their collection. Especially noteworthy are the transcribed and recorded speeches and press conferences of three Kennedy brothers — John, Robert, and Ted.

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
http://rfkcenter.org/lifeandvision
The Web site of the Robert F. Kennedy Center, a non-profit organization that works to further humanitarian goals, includes a biography, speeches and selected quotes from Robert Kennedy’s life.

Senate Office of Edward M. Kennedy
http://www.senate.gov/~kennedy/
Ted Kennedy’s Senate Office Web site includes information and photos of the late senator, focusing on his legislative work.

Cuban Missile Crisis (40th Anniversary): The National Security Archives
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
A conference held on the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis provided an occasion for publishing declassified documents from U.S., Soviet and Cuban archives, chronologies, historical analysis and even audio files of ExComm meetings on this George Washington University Web site.

American Experience: The Presidents: John F. Kennedy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/index.html
Another American Experience Web site presents a biography of America’s thirty-fifth president, including speeches, interview excerpts, and an online poll.

The State Department Archives: Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, 1961-1963
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/volume_vi/volumevi.html
The State Department Archives presents the Kennedy-Khrushchev exchanges as well as a preface, an introduction, and sources to the documents. The documents expose the tensions and conflicts between the United States and the Soviet Union during Kennedy’s term in office.

NASA: Transcript of John F. Kennedy’s Decision to go to the Moon
http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html
The NASA Web site includes President Kennedy’s speech to Congress on May 25, 1961, links to print and audio versions of the speech, as well as links to other informational sites about the Apollo mission.