“It truly democratizes history,” Putnam said. “We’re really hopeful it can work both for a young person and for the most serious scholar.”
Also on Jan. 13, cable carrier Comcast announced it will offer free on-demand video of Kennedy’s speeches, debates, campaign commercials, documentaries, and films to mark the 50th anniversary of his inauguration.
That content, in partnership with the Kennedy Library, will be available beginning Jan. 14 through Feb. 25.
Only the George W. Bush and William J. Clinton presidential libraries have extensive records that were “born digital” in the computer age. The Kennedy Library’s archive will be the largest collection available online to the public.
David Ferriero, archivist of the United States, said it will serve as a prototype for other presidential libraries.
“In the past 50 years since President Kennedy took office, the scope and scale of presidential records has escalated, as have expectations of access to those records,” he said. “For students today, if it isn’t online, it doesn’t exist.”
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