tuart Kennedy has been director of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Program
since its inception in 1985. A career officer in the US Foreign
Service from 1955 to 1985, he retired with the rank of Minister Counselor.
Mr. Kennedy was consul general in Naples, Italy (1979-81), Seoul, South
Korea (1976-79), Athens, Greece (1970-74) and Saigon, South Vietnam (1969-70).
He also served in Washington D.C., Germany, Saudi Arabia and Yugoslavia.
He was educated at Williams College (BA) and Boston University (MA), and
served four years (1950-54) in the United States Air Force, including
duty in South Korea, Japan and West Germany. He is the author of
The American Consul: A History of the United States Consular
Service 1776-1914, and co-author of The U.S. Consul at Work and
American Ambassadors in a Troubled World. He was awarded
the Foreign Service Cup from the Director General of the foreign service
in 1997 for his work as an oral historian.
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