Does anybody out there in the blogosphere know about the selections of Peace Corps journals that were read in the Capitol Rotunda in November of 1988, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death and honor his greatest legacy? About four hundred returned Peace Corps Volunteers read for two minutes each from their Peace Corps journals on November 21, 1988, and the following day the press, including USA Today, reported on the event in STATESLINE, “JFK Anniversary: Peace Corps recruits remember Kennedy." When my father asked about the event, I said, "Well, you know USA Today?"
"Yes!" he said. "It's a piece of trash!"
I said, "Well, I'm on their front page this morning," and he said, "Great!"
Quick recovery, Daddy.
So, yes, I was one of the 400 returned Peace Corps Volunteers who lined up to read, and I also thought it was great that the USA Today chose to give the event some attention. Also, what I heard while I was waiting impressed me. Since then I’ve tried to get copies of the other entries. So far, no one knows where they are or what happened to the video-tape that was made of the event.
If anyone has any information or any way of finding out whether they were preserved, I'd really like to know. I also think these journal entries would be of great interest to those celebrating The Peace Corps’ fiftieth anniversary is in September.
For now, I'll post mine--both the one the editor really liked and the one that was approved.
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