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JFK50: KENNEDY NOW
JFK50: KENNEDY NOW
What is the legacy of JFK? Beyond controversy and nostalgia, what does the Kennedy Presidency mean today?
Issues concerning global conflict resolution, world peace, nuclear arms, political leadership.
A presentation in film and discussion
with Featured Comments by John Shattuck (Rector and President, Central European University; former Chief Executive Officer, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation; former Ambassador to the Czech Republic; former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor).
Screenings from:
"13 Days" (New Line Films)
"Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had Lived" (Koji Masutani)
"Be... Kennedy... Be Khruschev..." (The Armageddon Letters")
Discussants:
Sandra Ristovska, Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University; documentary filmmaker and a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores the role of video in public discourse and policy deliberations with a particular focus on human rights video advocacy.
Peter Almond, Producer, "13 Days," Virtual JFK...", Consulting Producer, "The Armageddon Letters".
4:15 Screening
6:15 - 7:00 Discussion
Seating is limited.