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$250,000 Grant From AT&T Aids Kennedy Presidential Library Effort to Digitize Archives to Enable Public Access via the Internet

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2007

BOSTON -- Today, on what marks the 45th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, AT&T announced a $250,000 grant to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in support of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's groundbreaking initiative to digitize, index and archive millions of presidential documents, manuscripts, photographs and audio/visual recordings of President John F. Kennedy, eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's website, www.jfklibrary.org.

The grant from AT&T will enable the Kennedy Library Foundation to retain a Project Manager and three highly skilled archivists to support the National Archive's efforts to organize and catalogue the collection in a manner that will enable historians, academics and the general public to easily search and find specific information within the 48 million documents, images and recordings. The project to digitize the collection is expected to take more than 10 years and will begin with the official papers of President Kennedy. The initiative to digitize a presidential library collection is the first of its kind in the nation.

Among the documents being digitally preserved are many used by President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, including a map recently recovered from a private collection on behalf of the Kennedy Presidential Library by the National Archives and Records Administration. The map (see accompanying photos) was used by President Kennedy to visualize the location of Soviet Missile batteries located throughout Cuba.

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About the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library's research facilities are among the busiest of presidential libraries. Its archives currently include more than 8.4 million pages of the personal, congressional and presidential papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and more than 40 million pages of over 300 other individuals who were associated with the Kennedy Administration or mid-20th Century American history. In addition, the archives hold more than 400,000 still photographs; 9,000 hours of audio recordings; 7.5 million feet of motion picture film; and 1,200 hours of video recordings.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and supported, in part, by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a non-profit organization. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Kennedy Library Foundation seek to promote, through scholarship, educational and community programs, a greater appreciation and understanding of American politics, history, and culture, the process of governing and the importance of public service.

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