I would like to ask Errol Morris to join us in a moment to give us an introduction to the film.
The co-president of Sony Picture Classics, Tom Bernard, is here with us today, and it is a real pleasure to welcome him. I would like to thank Sony Pictures Classics for allowing us to screen the film here at the Kennedy Library and Museum prior to its opening in New York and Los Angeles next week. In a film that critic Roger Ebert describes as “splendid, a masterpiece,” filmmaker Errol Morris enables us to experience a cinematic dialogue with the conscience of Robert McNamara. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. No one ever wants to see America so divided again.”Īnd as we will see momentarily, Vietnam was a wrenching experience for one man who is kind enough to join us today, Robert S. The toll in suffering, sorrow and rancorous national turmoil can never be tabulated. As historian David McCullough has written, “The Vietnam war was the longest and most unpopular war in which Americans ever fought, and there is no reckoning the cost. Vietnam was a wrenching experience for America. I’d like to recognize the sponsors of our Kennedy Library Forum Series: Fleet Boston, WBUR, the Lowell Institute, Boston Capital, The Boston Globe, and.
Kennedy Library and Museum, and on behalf of the Library and of John Shattuck, who is here today, the CEO of the Kennedy Library Foundation, I want to welcome you to what I know will be an extraordinary afternoon.
Kennedy Presidential Library and MuseumĭEBORRA LEFF: Good afternoon.
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