REUNION 64 INC

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2024 FORM 990 EZ PART III LINE 28 ACCOMPLISHMENTS PRODUCTION of A FILM and BOOK IN THIS ERA of POLITICAL TENSION, WHEN CIVIC CULTURE is FRACTURED and WHEN THE VALUE of THE LIBERAL ARTS is QUESTIONED, A MESSAGE FROM 1963 HAS PARTICULAR RESONANCE TODAY. TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS BEFORE HE WAS ASSASSINATED, PRESIDENT KENNEDY CAME to AMHERST COLLEGE to HONOR THE POET ROBERT FROST. HE SPOKE of THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POETRY and POWER and of A VIEW SHARED WITH FROST THAT POWER MUST BE EXERCISED, BUT WISELYTEMPERED BY A MORAL RESTRAINT INSPIRED BY THE ARTS and A LIBERAL EDUCATION. AND, HE SPOKE of THE OBLIGATION of THOSE GIVEN A RUNNING START IN LIFE to SERVE THE PUBLIC INTEREST. REUNION 64 BROUGHT THOSE MESSAGES FORWARD THROUGH PRODUCTION of A FILM, JFK: THE LAST SPEECH, A BOOK of THE SAME TITLE, A DRAFT TEACHERS GUIDE, and A WEBSITE, JFKTHELASTSPEECH.ORG, and IN 2023, THE COMMISSIONING of A NEW SYMPHONY, JFK: THE LAST SPEECH, BY COMPOSER ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK. THE FILM CONTINUES to BE SHOWN and ALSO