The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
collects, preserves, and makes available primary-source materials, in all
formats, on the life and times of John F. Kennedy, the 35th
President of the United States. The Library's holdings include the papers of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy,
Joseph P. Kennedy, and Rose Kennedy, as well as close to 400 other collections: those of
Kennedy family members, Kennedy administration officials and associates, and
pertinent individuals, authors, and institutions. The John F. Kennedy Library
also houses the Ernest Hemingway
Collection and the John F.
Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collections.
Ernest Hemingway Collection
The Ernest Hemingway Collection pursuing study of Hemingway and his writing. The Hemingway Research Room's primary mission is to serve researchers, then educational groups and the public in general. The room isn't open for general interest or browsing, rather, for researchers who require the use of the Library's unique manuscript, audiovisual, and documentary holdings related to Ernest Hemingway.
While Ernest
Hemingway and President Kennedy never met, President Kennedy more than once
expressed his admiration for Hemingway and his work. In the opening sentence of
his own Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Profiles in Courage", Kennedy
cited Hemingway’s description of courage, writing that, “This is a book about
the most admirable of human virtues — courage. ‘Grace under pressure,’ Ernest
Hemingway defined it.”