From Armed Forces Day, May 18, through Labor Day, September 2, the JFK Library is one of many museums to offer free admission to active duty military personnel and their families this summer as part of #BlueStarMuseums .

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Do you know of work being done in the Northeast to combat climate change? The Earthshot Innovation Challenge: Northeast U.S. Edition offers up to $100,000 to innovative solutions to repair our planet.

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Wishing a happy birthday to Stevie Wonder, who was born #otd on May 13, 1950! In 1990, Wonder visited the JFK Library with Nelson Mandela during the South African leader’s trip to Boston.

62 years ago on May 11, 1962, the Kennedys held a dinner in honor of French Minister of Culture, André Malraux. During their visit to France in 1961, Mrs. Kennedy and Malraux had met, and she called him “the most fascinating man I’ve ever talked to.”

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From Senator John F. Kennedy's message to new voters, October 5, 1960:

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On May 10, 1960, Democratic voters in West Virginia went to the polls in their state’s primary. The state was predominantly Protestant, and Kennedy’s Catholicism would be faced head-on. Part of the campaign’s strategy included this ad, where he discussed his religion.

The JFK Library Foundation is seeking to invigorate the search for new ideas to help repair the planet with its  Earthshot Innovation Challenge: U.S. Northeast Edition.

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Members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists met JFK in the Rose Garden, #otd on May 9,1963.

In his remarks to the group, JFK told the cartoonists that his hair in reality is 'much less than you have it.'

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Correction: Harry S. Truman was born on May 8. Sorry Truman Library!

Two years after the Earthshot Awards Ceremony in Boston, the JFK Library Foundation is harnessing the energy from that event and President Kennedy’s spirit of innovation to catalyze U.S.-based, game-changing solutions to repair the planet.

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The 33rd president, Harry S. Truman was born on May 7, 1884. In 1961, JFK called HST to wish him a happy 77th, though the former president said 'I've always hoped that after I was 70, they'd forget about these birthdays.' Truman Library

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Two years after the Earthshot Awards Ceremony in Boston, the JFK Library Foundation is harnessing the energy from that event and President Kennedy’s spirit of innovation to catalyze U.S.-based, game-changing solutions to repair the planet.

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'I want the United States to have the best educated citizens in the world. That's the way we maintain democracy; that's the way we keep our freedom... schools, colleges, well-trained teachers who are decently paid.' #NationalTeachersDay

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President Kennedy’s admonition to put country before self rings true now more than ever. I’m honored to accept this award on behalf of election officials and poll workers across America who, inspired by his call, sacrifice to keep the American experiment in self-government alive.

The day the cosmonaut and astronaut came to the White House: this week in 1962, Gherman Titov and John Glenn met with JFK in the White House. Titov was the second person to orbit the earth and the first to spend an entire day in space.

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