JFK Library and Museum

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States (1961–1963). It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, next to the University of Massachusetts, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum. Designed by the architect I. M. Pei, the building is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration, as well as special bodies of published and unpublished materials, such as books and papers by and about Ernest Hemingway.

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Replica of Michelangelo's Pietá

Presented to JFK by Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, 2 Jul 1963

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Parts of the Washington-Moscow Hotline

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and Krushchev agreed to develop this hotline.

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Dictaphone machine used by JFK at the White House.

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Coconut inscribed with Kennedy's message that led to his rescue.

NAURO ISL ...COMMANDER ... NATIVE KNOWS
POSIT ,,, HE CAN PILOR ... 11 ALIVE ... NEED
SMALL BOAT ... KENNEDY

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Coconut inscribed with Kennedy's message that led to his rescue.

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