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  John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is a United States senator from the state of Massachusetts.
John Kerry's maternal grandfather, James Grant Forbes, was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes family of China and Boston accumulated a fortune in the opium and China trade, and became an international businessman and attorney living in France and England.
John Kerry's maternal grandmother, Margaret Tyndal Winthrop, came from a family with deep roots in Massachusetts history, and was raised in Boston.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_kerry.html   (6287 words)

  
 John Shattuck, CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic, a pivotal Central European country that is undergoing a challenging transition from communism to democracy.
Shattuck was at Harvard University, where he held the position of vice president for government, community and public affairs from 1984 to 1993 under Presidents Derek Bok and Neil Rudenstine.
Shattuck’s first wife, Petra, who died in 1988, was a graduate of Boston University Law School, a lecturer at the Harvard University Extension School, and an associate at the Boston law firm of Palmer and Dodge.
www.jfklibrary.org /biography_shattuck.html   (684 words)

  
 John Shattuck Named CEO of Kennedy Library Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck, a former Harvard Vice President and Assistant Secretary of State is currently serving as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum is the nation’s official memorial to President John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States.
John is uniquely equipped to draw attention to contemporary political problems and to enhance President Kennedy’s Library as a forum for their debate and proposed solutions.
www.jfklibrary.org /pr_shattuck.html   (876 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Former Harvard Vice President Named Head of Kennedy Foundation
John Shattuck, who served as the University's vice president for government, community and public affairs from 1984 to 1993, replaces Charles U. Daly--who held that same Harvard post in the 1970s.
"John provides us with an ability to really ramp up and reach a new frontier for the library both in the kinds of issues that we'll be addressing, the level of people involve, and the degree of visibility that they'll bring," Kirk said.
Shattuck, who was not available for comment, is also the first leader of the foundation that did not personally know the late president.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=101330   (744 words)

  
 State Department Archived Biographies -- JOHN SHATTUCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
John Shattuck was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on June 2, 1993.
Shattuck was Vice President of Harvard University, where he also taught human rights and civil liberties law at the Harvard Law School and served as Senior Associate in the Program on Science, Technology and Public Policy of the John F. Kennedy School Government.
Shattuck was a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Politics, Princeton University in 1972 and was a law clerk to a U.S. District Judge from 1970- 1971.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/biographies/shattuck.html   (295 words)

  
 Kennedy Library Forum with John Shattuck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
During President Clinton’s term in office, John was at the heart of the action, confronting Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, establishing the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, restoring a democratically-elect government to Haiti, and pressing for the release of political prisoners in Cuba.
John Shattuck’s career spans nearly three decades in government service and in service to the nonprofit sector.
John describes himself as the skunk sometimes in the bureaucracy who wanted to impact unpleasant messages to summon people to their moral principles, which some of them had left at the door in the morning.
www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/forum_shattuck.html   (9658 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: John Shattuck on Bosnian War Crimes
SHATTUCK: Well, I hope that there are not many but certainly the stories that we have from survivors of Srebrenica indicate that up to 7,000 people may have lost their lives in this stream of refugees coming out of this, some of them of course taken away in trucks from the town, itself.
SHATTUCK: This--the area that I'm describing is where the Muslims were fleeing from Srebrenica, behind the line of confrontation where no fighting was going on, and so clearly, the evidence that I saw indicates that these were executions.
SHATTUCK: What I saw so clearly corresponded to what I had heard from the people who fled from that town that I can't call it anything other than sheer murder of a large number of people; how many we still don't know, that remains to be found from the investigators.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/bosnia/war_crimes_1-25.html   (1182 words)

  
 The Wellesley News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck served as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and has also been the Executive Director for the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Vice-Chair of Amnesty International USA.
Shattuck clearly stated that the massacre was not the fault of the Hutus as a population.
Shattuck explained, “We live in a different world post 9/11.” He said that formerly all the “violence and suffering was overseas,” and thus failed to garner much attention.
www.wellesley.edu /Newspaper/images/archives/10145/articles/10145f3.html   (526 words)

  
 John Kerry - dKosopedia
John was raised as a Roman Catholic, and as a child served as an altar boy.
John Kerry voted for the Iraq War Resolution which authorized Bush to use force in Iraq, after receiving assurance from Bush that all possible diplomatic avenues would be exhausted before resorting to military force (a promise that was subsequently broken).
John Kerry was among the earliest supporters of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, which today is the largest discretionary federal investment in treatment and support services for individuals and families living with HIV or AIDS.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/John_Kerry   (4454 words)

  
 9824—Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor—6/16/98
JOHN SHATTUCK: The most important goal is the effort to put these issues right at the center of our foreign policy so there is no country where we don't take human rights and democracy and labor into account.
SHATTUCK: We are very deeply involved now in the effort to follow up the President's speech in Kigali, to develop programs of assistance for Rwanda in particular; to improve its justice system, to ensure that it can conduct trials of those who were engaged in the genocide and conduct them fairly.
SHATTUCK: Well, this bureau is responsible for all aspects of human rights and democracy, which is of course an even broader aspect of human rights, as they relate to US foreign policy.
www.commongroundradio.org /shows/98/9824.html   (3505 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Freedom on Fire : Human Rights Wars and America's Response: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck combines morality and pragmatism, arguing that even before September 11, the costs to the U.S. of not intervening quickly and decisively in developing human rights crises outweighed the advantages of remaining on the sidelines.
Shattuck correspondingly calls for a redefinition of international security, based on early warning of human rights crises followed by preventive measures, and, where necessary, direct intervention, including military force.
John Shattuck was the top human rights official at the State Department in the 1990s when genocides occurred in Rwanda and Bosnia and the U.S. did nothing to stop them.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674011627?v=glance   (1012 words)

  
 Election 2004 - Dems GOP spin pluses of debate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
John Shattuck, the current CEO for the JFK Library Foundation in Boston and a former U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2000, was the featured speaker Friday at Bangor's Davenport Park.
Shattuck said Kerry showed the American people he would be a world leader who would not flinch and was clearly up to the task of taking the reins of the world's most powerful democracy.
Shattuck said the defining moment in the 90-minute debate arrived when President Bush casually remarked that the United States had gone to war because the country had been attacked by deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
www.bangornews.com /news/templates/?a=7026&z=0   (637 words)

  
 U.S. Department of State 96/01/22 Daily Press Briefing
John subsequently met with Justice Goldstone himself and Justice Goldstone said he was very satisfied with the meetings he'd had with IFOR officials.
John Shattuck is meeting today with Carl Bildt, with the ICRC, and with the Bosnian Government to try to make crystal clear to all parties that all prisoners must be released.
John Shattuck is raising it with his colleagues in the Bosnian Government.
www.hri.org /news/usa/std/1996/96-01-22.std.html   (1607 words)

  
 Lamplighter: John Shattuck to Deliver Lowell Lecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck is well known to the Harvard community--he served as Vice President for Government, Community, and Public Affairs at Harvard University from 1984 until 1992, when he was called to Washington to assume his role in the State Department.
Shattuck earned an MA degree from Cambridge University in 1967 before returning to Yale for an LLB from the Law School in 1970.
Shattuck's interest in civil liberties and human rights is evident throughout his distinguished career.
www.dce.harvard.edu /pubs/lamplighter/1997/spring/shattuck.html   (289 words)

  
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I might say that we are absolutely delighted that John has taken on this job for the last four years and done it so extraordinarily well, and I look forward to working with him in the future.
Shattuck, your report notes that Cuba became more repressive during 1996, but 1996 was a year when the United States took a much more aggressive stance toward rights in Cuba and toward Cuba in general.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHATTUCK: It is documented, I think, in the report that there are particular parts of the German Government in which, and state governments -- I believe Bavaria, in one case -- where state employees have been systematically screened to determine whether or not they are members of the Church of Scientology.
www.terrorism.net /Pubs/dosfan-hr/Briefing.txt   (5815 words)

  
 Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America’s Response   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Shattuck writes that it was precisely these wars of the nineties that threatened to destroy the very essence of previous human rights advances.
Shattuck worked to end the war in Bosnia, to negotiate the Dayton Peace Accord, and to establish the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Shattuck was nominated by President Clinton, and confirmed by the Senate, to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic.
www.carnegiecouncil.org /viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/1078   (4998 words)

  
 Library Welcomes Secretary of State Albright   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Secretary Albright was warmly welcomed by John Shattuck, the Kennedy Library and Foundation's new Chief Executive Officer, who served under Albright as the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Shattuck then presented Secretary Albright with a bronze bust of President John E Kennedy in appreciation for her lifelong commitment to public service.
At John Shattuck's invitation, Secretary Albright returned to the Kennedy Library on June 7 where, at a public forum moderated by Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant, she reflected on her tenure as the nation's first female Secretary of State before a capacity audience in the Stephen Smith Center.
www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/newsletter_summer2001_04.html   (439 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: Freedom on Fire
Shattuck tells what was tried and what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice.
Shattuck was at the heart of the action.
John Shattuck served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 1993 to 1998, and as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2000.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/SHAFRE.html   (343 words)

  
 The Globalist | Biography of John Shattuck
John Shattuck assumed his current position of Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston, Mass.
Shattuck was appointed as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
Shattuck lectured on civil liberties at Harvard University Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.
www.theglobalist.com /DBweb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=447   (208 words)

  
 RLM :: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
JOHN SHATTUCK, CEO, JFK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: Well, this is a time of maximum leverage for the United States and for the international community over Charles Taylor.
SHATTUCK: Well, Liberia, of course, has been torn by war, really a lot of it caused by Taylor himself, since he seized power 10 years ago.
And that was John Shattuck, CEO of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
www.rlmpr.com /news/index.php?cid=83&id=39   (674 words)

  
 FindLaw's Writ - Mariner: Policy Wars
John Shattuck is a lawyer and human rights advocate who, during his tenure as a high-level official in the Clinton Administration, helped formulate the U.S. response to a series of humanitarian crises.
Shattuck, the new head of the State Department's human rights bureau, had to master an array of bureaucratic tactics and tricks just to get a cabinet-level hearing.
Shattuck notes pointedly that the latest U.S.-British war on Iraq did not meet the test he endorses for launching such a humanitarian war.
writ.news.findlaw.com /books/reviews/20040507_mariner.html   (934 words)

  
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A former American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) attorney, John Shattuck served from 1993 to 1998 as the Clinton administration’s Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
Shattuck received a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1965, a Masters degree from Cambridge in 1967, and a law degree from Yale in 1970.
From 1998 to 2000, Shattuck was the U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1799   (687 words)

  
 The Penfield Family - Van Buren Bay, Chapter 8
In 1885, John J. Wilson purchased the property south of Van Buren Bay that was to become the campus of the Silver Bay Association.
It may be that John Shattuck was the builder or at least worked on the construction of the house, just south of the present post office, which we know now as Scot's Bluff.
His oldest daughter Ethel Shattuck, Walter Watts' wife and Ethel Andrus' mother, was born in that house in the winter of 1889.
www.penfield.fm /vanburenbay/chapter8.html   (3310 words)

  
 USIA News Report
As he committed $3 million additional U.S. financial assistance for the Rwandan War Crimes Tribunal and $4 million towards re-establishing its judicial system, Shattuck stated justice was indispensable to securing peace and stability in Rwanda.
In Nairobi Shattuck told journalists at the USIS American center his meetings in Rwanda had focused on the urgency for concerted action in three specific areas: -- making the procedures and criteria for legal arrest clear and transparent, with arresting officials to be accountable to civilian prosecutors and the Justice Ministry.
Shattuck noted that the Rwandan government agreed to review these areas and to work to implement measures to improve the justice system.
www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/1995/32463330-32467741.htm   (400 words)

  
 Amnesty International USA: Make a difference!
Shattuck worked to end the war in Bosnia, negotiate the Dayton Peace Agreement and establish the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia.
Dear John, Knowing what you know now-how would you advise us if we wanted to do something of practical value to help those who were about to be killed.
Shattuck, While what happened in Srebrenica is a tragedy, it would be an even greater tragedy if we have learned no lessons that would help us prevent this from happening again.
www.amnestyusa.org /askamnesty/live/display.php?topic=40   (1901 words)

  
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In the Subsidy Rolls for 1597, John Shattuck was assessed for lands, and William SHATTOCKE and Joanna SHATTUCK of Burland were assessed for goods; Henry SHATTOCKE of Bishops for lands; Isota SHATTOCKE, widow of Elworthy, for lands; Thomas SHATTOCKE of Cumberland, for lands; Robert SHATTOCK of Norton, for goods; Henry SHATTOCKE of Westminster, for goods.
And in 1642, Philip SHATTUCK of Taunton, Thomas SHATTOCKE of Kingston, the widow SHATTOCKE of Staplegrove, and Henry SHATTOCKE of Norton, were assessed for the same purpose,.
John SHATTOCKE, whose name appears in the London Directory for 1824, and George SHATTUCK, in that of 1841, are the only instances of its occurrence in those years in that city.
www3.telus.net /robertkline/shatname.html   (2550 words)

  
 Baxter Compensation Authority Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
John Shattuck was hired by the BCA Board of Directors in April of 2002.
Before April John worked for the Department of Labor as an assistant to the Commissioner and as the Director for the Bureau of Rehabilitation Services.
John holds a Master's Degree in Deaf Rehabilitation from New York University, and began his career in Maine State government in 1979 as a Rehabilitation Counselor for the Deaf.
www.baxtercomp.org /staff.htm   (317 words)

  
 BBC News | Europe | Kosovo human rights in spotlight
John Shattuck, the US assistant secretary of state for human rights, arrived on Friday in the province where at least 500 people have been killed and at least 230,000 displaced since fighting began seven months ago.
During his visit Mr Shattuck is expected to meet officials of both the Serb government and of ethnic Albanians who constitute 90% of the population of the province, and who are calling for independence.
Mr Shattuck will be joined on Saturday by the former American senator, Bob Dole, who chairs the international commission on missing persons in the former Yugoslavia.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/165048.stm   (322 words)

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