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The American University speech, titled "A Strategy of Peace", was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday, June 10, 1963. [1]
June 10, 1963: President Kennedy delivering his commencement address. U.S. President Kennedy announced the suspension of nuclear testing during his commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C., along with the administration's plan to work towards a nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union and other atomic powers. [43]
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.
Sixty years after his assassination on November 22, 1963, Americans should reflect on John F. Kennedy’s unfinished yet transformational legacy on civil rights, writes historian Peniel E. Joseph.
June 26: President Kennedy delivers his now-famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech. June 10 – President Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University in Washington, D.C. This was the beginning of a series of speeches JFK made to promote peace with the Soviet Union.
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On June 10, 1963, Kennedy, at the high point of his rhetorical powers, [290] delivered the commencement address at American University. Also known as "A Strategy of Peace", not only did Kennedy outline a plan to curb nuclear arms, but he also "laid out a hopeful, yet realistic route for world peace at a time when the U.S. and Soviet Union faced ...
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis greet supporters at Dallas Love Field in Dallas, Texas in this photo taken on November 22, 1963; the day of his assassination.