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Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. The almost 25-minute speech is considered one of the most important in his political career.
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:
Kennedy's maternal grandfather and namesake, John F. Fitzgerald, was a U.S. congressman and two-term mayor of Boston. [6] All four of his grandparents were children of Irish immigrants. [ 1 ] Kennedy had an older brother, Joseph Jr. , and seven younger siblings: Rosemary , Kathleen , Eunice , Patricia , Robert , Jean , and Ted .
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, and would grow up to become one of the most popular U.S. presidents.
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. [119] [128] 1:35 p.m.: After killing Tippit, Oswald was seen traveling on foot toward the Texas Theatre on West Jefferson Boulevard. [129]
The love story between John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, was far from perfect and was tragically cut short in 1963 by a sniper’s bullet. The last thing JFK said to Jackie before he died Skip ...
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
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 ...