$250,000 Grant From AT&T Aids Kennedy Presidential Library Effort to Digitize Archives to Enable Public Access via the Internet.BOSTON -- Today, on what marks the 45th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962, major cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro's Cuban regime, and in the summer of 1962, Nikita Khrushchev secretly decided to , AT&T announced a $250,000 grant to the John F. Kennedy Library The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy. It is located on Dorchester's Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and was designed by the architect I.M. Pei. Foundation in support of the John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in Presidential Library and Museum's groundbreaking initiative to digitize To convert an image or signal into digital code by scanning, tracing on a graphics tablet or using an analog to digital conversion device. 3D objects can be digitized by a device with a mechanical arm that is moved onto all the corners. , index and archive millions of presidential documents, manuscripts, photographs and audio/visual recordings of President John F. Kennedy, eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's website, www.jfklibrary.org. The grant from AT&T will enable the Kennedy Library Foundation to retain a Project Manager and three highly skilled archivists to support the National Archive's efforts to organize and catalogue the collection in a manner that will enable historians, academics and the general public to easily search and find specific information within the 48 million documents, images and recordings. The project to digitize the collection is expected to take more than 10 years and will begin with the official papers of President Kennedy. The initiative to digitize a presidential library collection is the first of its kind in the nation. Among the documents being digitally preserved are many used by President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, including a map recently recovered from a private collection on behalf of the Kennedy Presidential Library by the National Archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued and Records Administration. The map (see accompanying photos) was used by President Kennedy to visualize the location of Soviet Missile batteries located throughout Cuba. About AT&T AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T) is a premier communications holding company. 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As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. . About the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library's research facilities are among the busiest of presidential libraries. Its archives currently include more than 8.4 million pages of the personal, congressional and presidential papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and more than 40 million pages of over 300 other individuals who were associated with the Kennedy Administration or mid-20th Century American history. In addition, the archives hold more than 400,000 still photographs; 9,000 hours of audio recordings; 7.5 million feet of motion picture film; and 1,200 hours of video recordings. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and supported, in part, by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. . The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Kennedy Library Foundation seek to promote, through scholarship, educational and community programs, a greater appreciation and understanding of American politics, history, and culture, the process of governing and the importance of public service. 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