Short answers, pulled from the story.
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The site overlooks Boston, Dorchester Bay, and the ocean, and was formerly a garbage dump.
I. M. Pei designed the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. He was chosen unanimously by a subcommittee and announced as the architect on the 13th of December 1964. Jacqueline Kennedy selected him based on her personal connection with him and her admiration for the variety of ideas he had applied to earlier projects.
The library was dedicated on the 20th of October 1979, by President Jimmy Carter and members of the Kennedy family. Construction had cost $20.8 million in total, with more than 225 construction workers completing the building by the end of 1979.
Cambridge residents fiercely opposed building the library near Harvard Square, fearing over a million annual tourists would bring traffic, fast-food franchises, and souvenir shops to the neighborhood. A neighborhood group also sued in federal court. In February 1975, the original Cambridge site was abandoned in favor of the Columbia Point location.
The Ernest Hemingway Collection at the Kennedy Library holds ninety percent of existing Hemingway manuscript materials, including handwritten drafts of The Sun Also Rises and dozens of alternate endings to A Farewell to Arms. The collection was established following a 1968 exchange of letters between Mary Hemingway and Jacqueline Kennedy, and a dedicated room was opened on the 18th of July 1980, by Patrick Hemingway and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
The Kennedy Library oral-history project was begun in 1964 on the initiative of Attorney General Robert Kennedy and was originally projected to include 150 participants. It now contains over 1,100 interviews and continues to this day. The project was modelled after the Columbia University Oral History Research Office program, the world's oldest such program, which began in 1948.