John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Forum series

On the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's dedication of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College, the Kennedy Library hosted a tribute to the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who passed away on August 30. Speakers included his good friend and fellow poet Rose Styron, former poet laureate Robert Pinsky and Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. This program was a collaboration with PEN New England.

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot by the Taliban last October because of her advocacy for children’s education, discusses her book, I am Malala, and her determination to continue her fight for universal education with WBUR’s Here & Now host, Robin Young.

A discussion of the book, "Joe Moakley’s Journey: From South Boston to El Salvador" with author Mark Robert Schneider and Congressman Jim McGovern. Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Kevin Cullen moderates.

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the final months of JFK’s presidency, Thurston Clarke discusses his new book, JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President, with historian Ted Widmer

Congressman John Lewis commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington with an in-depth discussion with veteran journalist Callie Crossley.

Jonathan Alter will discuss his second book about the Obama presidency, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Tom Oliphant.

Jeffrey Sachs will discuss his new book, To Move The World, about President Kennedy’s efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and achieve world peace, with Boston radio host Christopher Lydon.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens discusses his long career on the bench and his views of American jurisprudence with Harvard Law professor (and former law clerk) David Barron.

Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s son, presents this year's PEN Hemingway Award to Kevin Powers for The Yellow Birds. Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn and The Testament of Mary, delivers the keynote address.

Boston Globe journalists Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy discuss their book, Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice. WBUR reporter David Boeri moderates.

Award-winning CNN correspondent John King discusses his career, Dorchester roots, and the state of our national politics with Boston Globe Editor in Chief Brian McGrory.

John Irving discusses his latest novel, In One Person, with novelist Tom Perrotta.

Rose Styron, wife of the late William Styron, and their daughter, Alexandra, discuss the publication of his letters to leading artists of his day, including several describing time spent with President and Mrs. Kennedy.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham discusses Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle.

Biographer David Nasaw discussed his new book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, with veteran journalist and radio host, Christopher Lydon.

Caroline Kennedy presented the New Frontier Award to Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and social entrepreneur Veronika Scott, founder of an innovative humanitarian project in Detroit.

New Yorker writer and legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, discussed his new book, The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court with Harvard Law professor David Barron.

Kevin Bleyer, Emmy Award–winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart will discuss his new book, ME THE PEOPLE: One Man's Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America, with Meghna Chakrabarti, host of WBUR's Radio Boston.

Mark Shriver discussed his new book, A Good Man, about his late father, R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps with Richard Parker, Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

David McCullough discussed his latest book, The Greater Journey, about prominent 19th-century Americans’ formative years in Paris.

Maurice Isserman joined Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor, and Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild to discuss the politics and persistence of poverty in the US.

Conan O’Brien discussed the art of comedy with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro discussed the fourth volume in his biography of LBJ, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, with Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe writer Mark Feeney.

Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University, discussed his new biography in The American Presidents Series, John F. Kennedy: The 35th President, 1961-1963, with historian Ellen Fitzpatrick.

Madeleine Albright discussed her memoir, Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948, with Ambassador Nicholas Burns, professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Peter Nash, baseball historian; Richard Johnson, curator of Boston's Sports Museum; and Thomas Fitzgerald, grandson of mayor "Honey Fitz," discussed Fenway and its passionate fans. Ken Casey of the Dropkick Murphys closed with a rendition of "Tessie."

Carole King discussed her new memoir, A Natural Woman, with veteran journalist Mike Barnicle.

Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's sole surviving son, introduced the 2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, which was given to Teju Cole for his first novel Open City.

Renowned Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns presented a special performance and was joined by students from the University of Massachusetts Boston, who read selections from Irish literature.

The 2012 Awards for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence, presented to Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen. Special guests: Caroline Kennedy, Richard Hoffman, Tom Perrotta, Bill Flanagan, Salman Rushdie, Shawn Colvin, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, & Keith Richards.

Ray Suarez, Allida Black, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Roger Wilkins discuss how the lessons learned from the civil rights movement 50 years ago inform the struggle for equal rights today.

Journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Roger Wilkins and Harris Wofford, who worked with and for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, discussed the struggle for civil rights in the early 1960's with Harvard historian Kenneth Mack.

Ernest Green of the Little Rock Nine and historians David Nichols and Carol Anderson discussed Truman's decision to desegregate the Armed Forces and Eisenhower's handling of the crisis at Little Rock High School with moderator Callie Crossley.

Historian Allida Black examines how civil rights issues were handled in the Roosevelt administration and the Roosevelts' role in the watershed event that featured Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial.

A screening and discussion with White House curator William Allman of Mrs. Kennedy’s famous televised tour where she describes her work on the restoration of the White House.

Jim Lehrer, former host of PBS Newshour, discussed his book, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain, with PBS Newshour senior correspondent Ray Suarez.

Joe Armstrong, Betty Sue Flowers, Harriet Rubin and David Stenn shared their memories of working with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis during her time as an editor in New York City. Greg Lawrence, author of Jackie as Editor, moderated.

Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, and Hendrik Hertzberg, columnist for The New Yorker, analyzed the Obama presidency as the 2012 presidential race began with former Boston Globe Editorial Page Editor Renee Loth.

Amanda Smith, the daughter of Jean Kennedy Smith, discussed her recent biography, Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson, with WBUR's political news reporter Fred Thys.

Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, discussed his new biography, Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, with former Boston Globe editor Marty Nolan.

Annie Leibovitz discussed her new book, Pilgrimage, which explores the places where the people who have inspired her have worked. The book includes the homes of Henry David Thoreau, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Abraham Lincoln, among others.

Stephen King read from his new novel 11/22/63 and discussed his long literary career with novelist Tom Perrotta.

Retired Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Margaret Marshall shared memories of her childhood in South Africa, her immigration to the United States and her most memorable court cases with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse.

Former senior CIA intelligence officer Gene Poteat and historians Timothy Naftali, Fred Kaplan and John Prados discussed the moment the US had surpassed the USSR in missiles. Mary Elise Sarotte, Professor of International Relations at USC, moderated.

Clinton Hill, Jacqueline Kennedy’s Secret Service detail, shared memories of the Kennedy White House and his service protecting the first family with Tom Putnam, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Goodman, Walter Robinson, Charlie Savage and Sebastian Smee reflected on how winning the award changed their careers. Former Boston Globe columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Oliphant moderated.

Judge Nancy Gertner discussed her new book, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate, with Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory.

The public was invited to join Caroline Kennedy and The Honorable Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy, for a very special celebration of President John F. Kennedy's birthday Sunday, May 29.

President Jimmy Carter discussed his new book, White House Diary, with PBS Newshour senior correspondent Ray Suarez.

Barbara Perry discusses her biography of Rose Kennedy, The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch with Pulitzer Prize-winning former Boston Globe columnist Eileen McNamara.