John F. Kennedy
History, Memory, Legacy:
An Interdisciplinary
Inquiry
Edited
by
John
Delane Williams and Robert
G. Waite
The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
www.und.edu/org/jfkconference
All chapters are Word documents, unless
otherwise indicated.
Introduction, Gregory Gordon
Part
I: The Presidency
1. Address at the
University of North Dakota, September 25, 1963, President
John F. Kennedy
2. Address by UND
President Robert Kelley
3. “I Was Chief of
Staff for Ideas.” A Conversation with Ted Sorensen and
Gregory Gordon
4. President
Kennedy: Profile of Power, Richard Reeves
Part
II: JFK, Literature and the 1960s
5. The Long Shadow of
the Confessional and Beat Poets, Heidi Czerwice
6. “A Revival of Poetry
and Song.” Allen Ginsburg, Rock and Roll and the
Return to the Bardic Tradition, Katie Stevenson
7. Living and Writing
on the Edge in Don DeLillo’s Libra, Lucia Cimpean
8. “I Feel Like a
Spring Lamb.” What Clay Shaw’s Literary Life
Reveals, Michael Snyder
Part
III: JFK and the World
9. Experiencing the
Peace Corps: A Discussion, Robin David, Michael Beard, Cory
Enger, Kathleen Gershman,
Joe Vacek
10. “There Are
Bigger Issues At Stake.” The Administration of John
F. Kennedy and United States - Republic of China
Relations, 1961-63, Charles Pelligrin
11. JFK, Berlin, and
the Berlin Crises, 1961-1963, Robert G. Waite
12. JFK and
Vietnam. An Unanswered Legacy in Film and History, Scott
A. Racek
13. JFK’s Legacy Regarding Consular Relations, Cindy G. Buys
14. “We Choose To Go
To The Moon.” JFK and the Race to the Moon,
1960-1963, Richard E. Collin
Part
IV: Civil Rights
15. The Kennedy
Justice Department’s Enforcement of Civil Rights: View
from the Trenches, Brian K. Landsberg
16. Civil Rights
Chronology, January 1961 – November 1963, Compiled
by Brian K. Landsberg
Part
V: JFK – Media, Image and Legacy
17. Kennedy’s Loyal
Opposition: National Review and
The Development of
A Conservative Alternative, January – August 1961, Laura Jane Gifford
18. “Primarily a
Political Problem.” Constructing the Image of the Kennedy Presidency,
1961 to the Present, Richard M. Fillipink, Jr.
19. JFK: The
Exceptional Ideal? James Boys
20. Rhetoric in the
Campaign Website of Barack Obama,
Mary Stromme
Part
VI: The Death of the President
21. That Day in
Dallas, Eleanor Williams
22. “I Looked Up and
I Looked Down.” JFK, Mrs. D and The Space of Citizenship,
Steve Andrews
23. The Day Kennedy
Was Assassinated, David F. Marshall
24. Three Gunshots at
Life? Gary Severson
25. Lee Harvey
Oswald: North Dakota and Beyond, John
Delane Williams and Gary Severson
26. The Workings of
the Assassinations Record Review Board,
John R. Tunnheim
27. Dealey Plaza Revisited: What Happened to JFK? James H.
Fetzer (PDF)
© 2009 by John Delane
Williams and Robert G. Waite
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