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Ich bin ein Berliner" (German pronunciation: [ɪç ˈbɪn ʔaɪn bɛʁˈliːnɐ]; "I am a Berliner") is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti-communist speeches.
Kennedy's speech on the nation's space effort delivered at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962. The portion of the speech quoted on the left begins at 9:03. On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of about 40,000 people, at Rice University's Rice Stadium. Many individuals in the crowd ...
Khrushchev was deeply moved and impressed by Kennedy's speech, telling Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman that it was "the greatest speech by any American President since Roosevelt." [14] [15] After 12 days of negotiations and less than two months after the president's speech the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was completed. [3]
Pike-area residents recall President John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to Grey ... A looping video of Kennedy's arrival and speech can be seen as part of their visitor films in the Bait Box daily from ...
The Report to the American People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June 11, 1963, in which he proposed legislation that would later become the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1963: American University Speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy to construct a better relationship with the Soviet Union and to prevent another threat of nuclear war after the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. 1963: Report to the American People on Civil Rights by John F. Kennedy speaking from the Oval Office.
During the presidential campaign, exactly 10 days before the General Election held Nov. 8, 1960, Kennedy visited the Diamond City with a stop on Public Square where an estimated 10,000 people ...
It was Kennedy's second State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was newly elected House speaker John W. McCormack, accompanied by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. Kennedy began his speech with a tribute to former House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had recently died in office: