Washington ( CNN ) -- To help mark the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy 's inauguration , the United States ' largest online digitized presidential archives were unveiled Thursday . At the beginning of the event at the National Archives in Washington , reporters were shown a portion of one of Kennedy 's press conferences from the early 1960s in which he addressed the question of where and how his historical documents would be kept . `` We will find it possible to reproduce the key documents , that they will be commonly available , I would hope , in Washington , '' Kennedy responded . Many original records , however , ended up being kept at the Kennedy Library in Boston , making them not accessible to historians who were unable to travel . Now , with advances in critical hardware and software , the most important papers , records , photographs and recordings from Kennedy 's time in office will be available online . `` As of today , anyone in the world with access to the internet can now view , download and analyze the original records of the Kennedy administration at the click of a mouse . '' said David S. Ferriero , archivist of the United States . Caroline Kennedy , who attended Thursday 's unveiling , believes that the digitization of her father 's records will be useful to today 's youth , in particular . `` In our increasingly fragmented society , young people are often disconnected and disillusioned with politics . President Kennedy 's example -- his words , his spirit -- are more relevant than ever , '' she said , `` Using today 's technology , we will be able to give today 's generation access to the historical record and challenge them to answer my father 's call to service , to solve the problems of our own time . '' Four corporations -- AT & T , EMC , Iron Mountain and Raytheon -- worked together to create the hardware and software needed to make the digitization possible . `` This new Kennedy Library digital archives includes more than 200,000 digitized documents , the drafts of every speech delivered by the president , thousands of official white House photographs , and audio of all of President Kennedy 's speeches and video of press conferences during his years in office , '' Ferriero said . The JFK archives can be viewed at jfklibrary.org .
Kennedy had hoped that the `` key documents '' from his administration would be available . Now , more than 200,000 digitized documents , photos and audio from his days are online . It is the largest online digitized presidential archives in the nation .