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Immediately after reciting the oath of office, President Kennedy turned to address the crowd gathered at the Capitol. His 1366-word [34] inaugural address, the first delivered to a televised audience in color, [14] is considered one of the best presidential inaugural speeches in American history. [35] [36] [37]
Kennedy closed his speech by noting that January 30 was the birthday of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he quoted from the conclusion to Roosevelt's 1945 State of the Union Address: In the words of a great President, whose birthday we honor today, closing his final State of the Union Message sixteen years ago, "We pray that we may ...
Description: A video of John F. Kennedy's inauguration address after being sworn in as the thirty-fifth president of the United States . Audio has been subject to noise reduction after being downloaded from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library website.
The 43rd president focused on unity in his first inaugural address, asking the nation to live up to the common calling of "civility." In the wake of a contentious 2000 election that went all the ...
This is most definitely a government work and PD, here lists the recording as PD, here shows an audio collection about JFK where the address is included and claims PD (search for "inaugural" and then "public domain), here claims PD (search for "Inaugural Address 1961"). This is a work by a government official (he was made the president before ...
February 20: John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 space capsule, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. February 12 – As Commander-in-chief, Kennedy commutes the military death sentence of seaman Jimmie Henderson to life imprisonment, marking the last time in the 20th century that an American president was faced with such a decision (As of 28 July 2008, the most recent such decision ...
President John F. Kennedy and others stand outside Grey Towers, the home of Gifford Pinchot, following the dedication of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Here, Eunice Shriver, Jacqueline Onassis, Kara Kennedy and her dad, Teddy (at the time a Democratic candidate for president), and Ethel Kennedy hanging out together. Bettmann - Getty Images 1980