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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex would be built not at Harvard - Kennedy's alma mater and his own choice for the library site - but instead, on the bleak new Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts...
Once a Dump. The decision was a major disappointment for Harvard, which had planned to combine the library, museum and archives with the existing John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government and its Institute of Politics on a site a few blocks from Harvard Square. John Kennedy had visited the site a month before he was assassinated and pronounced it "ideal." But many Cambridge residents were vehemently opposed to the memorial, fearing that it would attract hordes of tourists into the already bursting Harvard Square area. Indeed, in announcing the decision, Ted Kennedy referred to a "small and vociferous group that...
...future of the MBTA subway yard site that the Kennedy Library Corporation rejected as a home for the archives ten days ago is still unclear...
Harvard will proceed with its plans to build the Kennedy School of Government and Kennedy Institute of Politics on the 2.18 acres of the 12-acre yard site now owned by the Kennedy Library Corporation, President Bok reaffirmed yesterday...
...shards and tools but also human and animal remains. After identifying and cataloguing the pieces from each location, the scientists ran their data through a series of computer programs designed by Physicist turned Archaeologist George Cowgill of Brandeis University. These enable them to determine, for example, if a particular site was the home of a priest, the quarters of an artisan, or the shop of a merchant, and to figure out how the city evolved...