By Maggie Shiels, BBC
The digitised archive will help to humanise views of JFK, says the library’s director. The presidential library commemorating the life of US President John F Kennedy is digitising every scrap of paper, video, audio and artefact it possesses. The project is the largest undertaken by one of the 13 presidential library. Materials already digitised include secret phone conversations about the Cuban missile crisis. There are also recordings of meetings discussing Vietnam, civil rights and the space race, school report cards and letters from JFK to his mother. “We are scanning every single piece of paper, movie and audio tape we have in our possession,” Tom Putnam, JFK library director told BBC News.
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