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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 ...
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.
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]
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.
English: Video of the National Aeronautic Space Administration's coverage of President John F. Kennedy's address at Rice University, Houston, Texas, concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. In his speech the President discusses the necessity for the United States to become an international leader in space exploration and famously ...
Robert F. Kennedy's Speech After The Death Of Martin Luther King Jr. This week videos have emerged of two black men being shot and killed by police officers. Alton Sterling was killed on July 5 in ...
From the Kennedy Library website : This text is the version published in the Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963. Both this text and the audio version of this speech ommit the words of the German translator. This audio file was edited by the White House Signal Agency shortly after the speech was recorded.
The speech was crafted by Kennedy and his speech writer Ted Sorensen. Kennedy had Sorensen study President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as well as other inaugural speeches. [39] [40] Kennedy began collecting thoughts and ideas for his inauguration speech in late November 1960. He took suggestions from various friends, aides and ...