John F. Kennedy's 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights
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- In his June 11, 1963 speech, President Kennedy responds to the threats of violence and obstruction on the University of Alabama campus following desegregation attempts, explaining that the United States was founded on the principle that all men are created equal and thus, all American students are entitled to attend public educational institutions, regardless of race.
He also discusses how discrimination affects education, public safety, and international relations, noting that the country cannot preach freedom internationally while ignoring it domestically. The President asks Congress to enact legislation protecting all Americans' voting rights, legal standing, educational opportunities, and access to public facilities, but recognizes that legislation alone cannot solve the country's problems concerning race relations.
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Listening to this man makes you feel that's you are an American citizen even if you are not.
All here came here from somewhere else. All of us. Best wishes to you
it basically said he was urged by his party to make this speech its like fake
You're actually a cuck , kevin. Your cuck comment is unsourced and unsubstantiated
@@user-pl5pw5iy5s watch your tongue or swallow it.
Unfortunately America has marched more and more to right wing authoritarianism since JFK was assassinated. Wealthy Rich control the Congress and the Supreme Court. The Civil Rights Act of of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are now gutted by a radical Supreme Court paid for by billionaires.The GOP are supressing Voter Rights, Education Equality, and Health Rights of Women just as a start. Brown vs The Board of Education may be gutted soon as well.
Absolutely phenomenal leadership. This country has never seen such excellence since then.
"I'm not satisfied until EVERY American enjoys their full Constitutional rights. I don't want the talents of ANY American to go to waste."
"Law alone cannot make men see right"
JFK knew that laws don't change hearts, it's up to leaders to bring people along to be better than they thought they were.
@@davidrab3628 Wow .....What A REPRIEVE !!!!!.......
“You can’t legislate love” -Denzel Washington
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Buddhism.
They don’t make presidents like this anymore. Godspeed, Jack.
Thank you. 🇺🇸
🙏 🇺🇸
Trump is the Dumbest president of all. Shame on him. I hope Biden will win.
@@sgatwork7193 Yes AND the most dangerous
Only once in a century
His ability to communicate was just phenomenal...Respect from Canada...
Reagan was amazing too.
Please don't compare JFK in any to Regan. - Its just ridiculous.
@@noreenhappel8531 I know, it’s insulting for Reagan. It won’t happen again.
Kennedy had a great speechwriter in Teddy Sorensen. But it takes good delivery to make a great speech too, and he had that ability in spades.
@@hugolafhugolaf Reagan was a phony liar racist scumbag who was for himself and the establishment. Also he was no where near as articulate or cool as jfk.
Listening to President Kennedy’s speeches, it strikes me that one of the key differences from his speech and the speech of more recent presidents is the articulation of eternal truths. President Kennedy’s speech does not talk around these truths or avoid mentioning them in favor of more neutral language. His speeches really demonstrated political courage that you see less and less of nowadays.
correct
Bring this America back but nah yal shoot the real ones
Jeff Smith, well said. Thank you.
Exactly.
That’s why he was assassinated…
Country was never the same after he was killed. A great president has a command of the English language.It's not everything, but it is part of it.
John F Kennedy was Racist. As Senator, Kennedy fully supported the Racist Southern Democrats in opposing two Civil Rights Bills written by REPUBLICAN Civil Rights Leader Dwight D. Eisenhower, who also gave African American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian minorities in the Military their equal and civil rights in 1942, that would have given All African Americans Equal and Civil Rights in 1957 and again in 1959 - He also refused to let Sammy Davis Jr. perform in the white house and he constantly used N ~ in private. JFK was clearly Racist, just like TRUMP and BIDEN ~ vote #BradHartliep #President, the only candidate for President who will deliver Equality and Justice to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and America's Poor ..
@@bradhartliep879 That is such bullshit the civil rights bill that LBJ got passed was JFKS so it show you are a dumbass
@@bradhartliep879 - President Trump is the WORST racist EVER!
JHC, sheeple like you are brainwashed simpletons who have swallowed the lies of the actual racists (demonKKKRats).
No it wasn't
@@memphismemphis462 Very Good Ideas. Cant be hijacked.
Even in this year of 2022, every time I hear a speech from President Kennedy, I can’t help but feel inspired by his words, leadership and the courage he portrayed. I was born about 10 years after he was assassinated. Even so, there’s just something about him that resonates with me and makes me hope that someday another leader like him will come forward.
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This speech was a testament to JFK's courage and strength of character. Many don't realize that this speech, which was unprecedented by a U.S. president, posed a tremendous risk to his re-election to office. He knew that what he said would alienate a great many Southern delegates who helped him win his first election. But he was willing to assume this risk out of moral conscience. This is why as a Black man I think that JFK was the GOAT of U.S. presidents. I even revere him more than Obama.
What do you mean when you say he was the goat of us presidents?
@@darrenlomax1283 GOAT is an acronym for greatest of all time.
Thankyou. Im glad thats cleared up.
Johnson too......All of the southern Democrats told him that it would cost the Democrats the South for a long time.....it took a little longer than they expected, but except for a couple of elections (Carter and Clinton) the South has voted Republican in national elections ever since. This did, however, hand Johnson 96% of the black vote in 64, it has cost the Democrats many elections ever since. I believe, as you and many others probably believe, that it was worth it. To correct such an injustice, is worth a couple of elections. Johnson was able to pass a LOT of bills that helped African Americans (the poor as well). He was the last of the New Deal Democrats. Johnson said several times that FDR was his political hero.
@@cdr861532 The south has always been a terribly backwards area of this country. From slavery to Jim Crow to Donald Trump to Marjorie Taylor Greene. At times I honestly wish the southern states would have succeeded.
What a great speech from a true leader. Very far from what we experience in these days.
What a decline in the office of president we are left with since the days of this true statesman.
What an inmeasurable loss his death meant.
Unfortunately we get the presidents we deserve.
@@fabsmaster5309 60s America didn’t deserve Kennedy
@@fabsmaster5309 We get the government that money can buy. Money out of our elections. No more bribary.
Around 11:39, Kennedy goes off script. From that point he is speaking his own words in real time. He is just as clear and concise as he was reading the words he and speechwriter Ted Sorenson crafted, only with the benefit of full eye contact with his audience that relays conviction. Well done.
@Mrs T ;
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I heard that Bobby Kennedy wrote this speech and didn’t have time to finish
Did not know that...thank.you for letting us all know this. 🇱🇷
Source?
@@MichaelJ44 you paying attention to the video to see he’s not looking down at the paper and reading
Everything he is saying, couldn't be more true than today! I was living in Mobile, Alabama, as a child when this speech was made! I remember it very clearly! It was the beginning of my love for the Kennedys!! 🙏❤️🇺🇸
Looking Ahead let's see what RFK,Jr says following in the Kennedy legacy and thoughts As child from Brookline,Mass I am looking forward to seeing policies that work for All!!!✌️💗
THIS is what a real president looks like and people who really know their history are all missing him forever. He will NEVER be replaced or equaled and the entire world has always known this. God bless John Kennedy.
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He was the last REAL president.
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He murdered and maimed million in the Vietnam war, which wasn’t America’s business - you need to be certified and your dangerous to society
uel786 he was a war criminal and a mass murderer
@@tzarinavictoria3531 PLEASE SOMETIME READ YOUR AMERICAN HISTORY.....President .Eisenhower commited us to Vietnam in 1955. Kennedy was trying to get us out of Vietnam
At 11:40 Kennedy stops reading from a prepared speech and 'wings' the rest straight from the heart. The greatest of them all!❤
@@laroycejordan3454 Are you real, by any chance?
@@DSnake655I take it that YOU'RE not real.
Powerful
He is the anti Christ
@@PathoftitansrealismOkay racist 😂
I'm nearly 55. I wish I had been born a few years earlier just to hear President Kennedy speak in the moment. I've been a registered voter since I turned 18. We need leadership like Kennedy today. America, please vote!
@GraceandPeace - Agree, yes vote - but we don’t need used car salesman w/grandeur speeches and not doing anything. JFK actually didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
@@jag5798 He did not. www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75
@@jag5798 He brought hope for peace around the world. Therefore, he was murdered by the Military Industrial Complex, You don't have to be a genius to figure it out.
@@noreenhappel8531 terribly wrong on both counts - - - " hope and peace " in 1960 frank Sinatra introduced both Sam Giancana
and J Kennedy who was then a
presidential candidate. On separate occasions he introduced them to
one Judith Campbell at different times.
Judith Campbell
was mistressed to jack Kennedy and to Sam Giancana.
This bizarre circumstance
where this this woman who's got
ties to the mob is sleeping with the
president of the united states.
Informer Judith Campbell was in telephonic contact with
Evelyn Lincoln president Kennedy's secretary on several occasions Campbell was recently seen with johnny Rousselli who was on the list of 40 hoodlums designated to receive intensify investigation.
Campbell also admitted under
interrogation to our agents to have met Sam Giancana
in Miami Beach Florida. The Los Angeles
office is ordered to vigorously continue
the investigation of Campbell
to determine her relationship with
Roselli and Giancana
and J Edgar Hoover because of how well
connected he was and his informants were
knew about this at the time and made it
clear to Robert Kennedy
that he knew it president Kennedy's brother.
You can look at that in two different
ways and this is one of the episodes
that makes hoover so fascinating he is
telling Robert Kennedy that his brother
is hanging out with
a woman who is tied to the mob telling
also telling Robert Kennedy that frank Sinatra is tied to the mob you can look at that one of two ways either he's trying to
protect his job. Hoover's trying to
protect his job by telling the
president's brother " i've got dirt
on your brother " or he's doing a public
service by saying look your brother
is a powerful figure he's hanging out
with the with mobsters you might want to get him to back off in
the end Robert Kennedy who was then
attorney general Hoover's boss did get his brother
to back away from frank Sinatra you could
say it was Hoover's finest hour argue
arguably because at no point in American
history did the underworld come so close to
gaining influence at the highest level
of the American government
There were some awful things happening in the 1960's in America -
However, this is something extraordinary and I'm grateful today and tomorrow and always ♡♡♡
I believe that there will never be a greater period in America’s life as this moment in history under President Kennedy!
Thank you for your great intelligence. We should never ever forget this great man.
Hopefully there will never be the pain experienced on the day he was killed again. Saddest day in our country ever. It's never been the same.
@@lyndatrones1787 And we won't forget him. But unfortunately, the subject of the Kennedy assassination tends to attract a lot of nuts.
@@themaskedman221l
@@alwayslernin4400 You know why he was killed…we’re still in that time just think on it
I know who the major people were involved in this man’s death they knew they’re plans were going to be destroyed had Kennedy lived 💯💯🙏🏽
*I’m not asking for this to be your truth but I recommend if you believe this man’s ideals search for the people that were responsible for his death then you’ll know just how far this country will go to commit treason*
This speech led to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Too bad he was taken away from us before his time and didn't get to see it happen. He was truly an amazing man, he stood for what he believed in and what was right. The greatest.
The Civil Rights Act would not have passed without all republicans voting for it
Amazing speech!!!Great loss..unbelieveable how we need this
WHERE WOULD WE BE TODAY IF EVIL DID NOT SET THIS MAN UP!
@@shareonrivas1458 God only knows we dropped the torch and went down the wrong path
@@shareonrivas1458 in 2020, not 1930 - 1990 all over again
now and send that piece of shit trump back in time
James Brown Trump is the best President since Reagan. Democrats created the kkk, fought for slavery and are racist bigots
President Kennedy is absolutely phenomenal. He to me is truly an uplifting almost spiritual leader that the world needs. You truly are the greatest president ever, sir.
Yes. He stands with Franklin Roosevelt tho as the 2 very best tho I would argue. Thank you.
@@Dom_510 there was not a rule on that just most presidents didn't go a third term
@@Dom_510 yes but not because he was an awful president that the law was made but it was because they didn't want a bad president to serve that many terms
@Reid Pattis - He didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. Not sure you realized that. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president.
The greatest President of the world with charisma, wisdom,and handsomeness. President Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khruschev of the USSR who love peace and have been saving the world and mankind from holocaust or Nuclear Apocalypse. Some US Presidents are(were) war mongers or war hawks or war criminals as seen after the Great President assassination. R.I.P. The world Greatest President, JFK.The World will never forget you.
4:23 This might be President Kennedy's greatest speech.
Holy crap!! You're right!! This IS a phenomenal speech by John F. Kennedy :)
4:23 was the answer. The true issue.
I think it is.
Got gunned down. It's a significant sign that the industry that runs our country does not want this. It's surprising, he and his brother were very ideological and "flimsy" if I had to toss some hardball term at them. And that made "The Industry" bold to destroy them both :( Very sad. Very detrimental to us all.
John Kennedy was becoming an unusually effective president at the time of his murder. His loss is all the more tragic as time goes on. Notice that he is calling for people to change their outlook not so much as to pile up heaps of legislation. I had not seen the CBS report that followed. It was unusually insightful. Thank you very much for posting!
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Just like Ronald Reagan was head and shoulders above all Republican Presidents and Vice Presidents. Just look at what occurred in the 10 year period after his tenure. Same with JFK. Country became unrecognizable after the early promises of the Sixties by 1973.
I was 13 years old when JFK was murdered. I've known for decades that his death, and his brother Bobby Kennedy's murder in 1968, ended any hope for a decent America. Overt Racism is worse now as it has been. The Middle Class has been destroyed, and America has lost much of it's equality and it's decency.
And that is exactly why the powers that be took him out. The US military complex killed numerous leaders around the time that JKF was assassinated. All of them labelled communist, which really translated to "anything that threatens US imperialist and economic control of the globe." Money. That's all it ever is.
I was only 5 years old, when JFK was. Shot. I remember walking down my street after we were let out early. My parents were crying and I was too young to understand . I know a JFK democrat is now in 2020 called a “ socialist “
The JFK Democracy should still be here
Absolutely.
@Gail Caplan;
COMPLETELY Disagree; Gail. Truth and Fact of the matter is that the Party of Hubert Humphrey; Harry S. Truman; and John Kennedy no longer exits; and hasn't in Decades. If you were to bring back these Pols; and have them view what has happened to the Democrats Party; they would NOT Recognize it. If you could bring back John Kennedy today; as he was; he would be vilified and marginalized by his own Party for being Moderate; and not " Progressive " enough. John Kennedy also believed in the United States Constitution; Gun Rights; Lower Taxes and a Strong National Defense. The people that call themselves Democrats in 2020 America are in Reality Marxist/Globalists. That's a FACT. Please don't let Emotion cloud your Judgment.
@Danni Chesney no one asked.
A "JFK Democrat" now gets called far right. Dave Rubin is a JFK type liberal.
The democrats of them are now the conservatives of today.....Dems today are nuts!
PEACE, LOVE & EQUALITY.
Presidents, like all of us, are tested in the moments of challenge. With this speech, unprecedented at the time despite the words and promise of our Constitution and its amendments, President Kennedy stood up and met the moment.
Iam from S.Sudan and am proud of him,he was the best among other best leaders who entered White House.what a legacy?
I am from India. My interest in America and American politics started the day I read about his assassination in the news paper ( we were not having radio/transistor ). I was thirteen. The day is etched in my memory and he is my favorite President.
I have an essay on him in like 2 hours wish me luck
I read that people in India were very aggrieved at his assassination because he had demonstrated willingness to help India in the war against China in 1962, although he could not do much in view of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It is impossible to imagine a Democrat president standing up to China today.
@@alexballstoyou6335 How did you do on the essay?
@@heymrdan I think I did amazing. But the other side of my course I did really bad on which gave me a really bad grade. It was about the stuarts smh
@@alexballstoyou6335 one
You were a wonderful leader JFK. Continue to rest in Peace
Yes a great leader and a great man...the world still mourns him
I'm still here my child
@@johnf.kennedy bruh cringe
@@Junior-xo6mq Name ain’t any better 🤗
@@johnf.kennedy lol
Even though he was gone 16 years and 1 week beforeI was born, I love this man. He is still my favorite president.
You will born on 5 June 1979😎
He was one of my favorite for sure! A man way ahead of his time.
His son continues his legacy so well 🥺🇺🇸
@@songbird377 TOO F’n BAD OUR OWN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE ALLOWED TO MURDER GREAT AND RARE MEN IN THIS WORLD FOR FINANCIAL AND PERSONAL GAIN FOR THE DARK SIDE!🤢🖕🤬
I was born 11 years less one day after he got taken out by the swamp bushmen... I’ve always loved him without really understanding why until recently🙏
Absolutely an amazing speech , a much needed speech, still even needed in today's world 60 years later. The USA has gone to the dumpster since Kennedy was assassinated and strong men like him, Martin Luther King, and his brother Robert Kennedy are sadly looked down on by half of our United States population. There's so much division out there now from people who would rob us of freedom and democracy and equal rights for all racial groups in this land. What we need are more heroes like the Kennedys and Martin Luther King who will be courageous and stand up and speak the truth. Sadly, some of these courageous men get killed for speaking the truth. But anarchy will prevail if good men stay silent and don't speak up.
The assassination of President Kennedy, well known by whom but not very many want to say, marked the beginning of the end of the USA.
RIP Jack.
One of the few that we can really call President.
Well this division is from both sides. Left and right. The left wants censorship , labeling people who disagree with them nazis , conspiracy theorists . Right wingers, deplatomrming as iconic American politician AOC States .theses can not help sometimes you need to look into the mirror before you point the finger. With that said trump also was divisive . As to your point of jfk , rfk and milk I can tell you they are looked upon as favorablelay by the right . Those threee would be considered not Democrats theses day. Kennedy. Did tax cuts , was fiscally extremely tight with national budget no wars , no printing trillions of dollars past three years . I’m other words those three were real. Progressives socially not like the fake democrats. Today. They would not say all white people are evil . And they would probably acknowledge racism goes both ways .
I have seen him talking about the deep state in one of his speeches on video trump haters are saying there is no deep state
This man makes me proud to be an American. My mother is absolutely obsessed with the Kennedys. I attended John F. Kennedy High School in New York. Modern politicians should step back and analyze this man once in a while. Might do the country good… 🫡
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt gave his "nothing to fear but fear itself" speech.
When attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, he gave his "this day will live in infamy speech.
When the Russians/Soviets placed missiles 90s miles away from our shores in Cuba, JFK stood up and united America and defeated the USSR.
And then we have this speech on race ...
Those addresses are called primary examples of leadership, and those two presidents were some of the greatest in American history.
Today, I yearn for that kind of leadership.
@Uni BlackSister Yeah, went to war against some real peaceniks for no reason, only 100 million dead in WW2, wow. Which cult do you have a membership in ?
So much agree and my schoolboy thoughts that surly the President must have to be the wisest most intelligent and Honest Person available ! I still feel this way .... just havnt seen it ring true in over 55 years
Kennedy knew the truth about Hitler too 🥴🥴🥴
Michael Charron Roosevelt was a socialist and locked up Japanese and Italian Americans in camps. He was a jackass
@@annahale1187 trumptard
@JFK Library Thank you so much for including the entire special broadcast, it gives perspective on President Kennedy’s address and specifically insight into the morality of recent events
He was such a great president, no tragic his son died allso he would have made a door president allso.
John Kennedy's words are so eloquent and inspiring.
You could change this to say 2020 not 1963 and you would not even know the difference. That’s how in touch this man was , I’m only 26 and I wish he was my president.
Thank you wise 26 year old. Keep studying up on John Kennedy. He truly stands alone in history. There is so much to learn about him starting with just how gravely ill he was...that was kept secret. 🇺🇸
I feel the same way. Wasn't born for this be you can use this speech from President Kennedy today. Joe Biden is a good and decent man. Maybe he can bring us together and heal our nation. 2020 is a toxic mess!
@Michael Phillis - as great as we were told in school that JFK was, he really didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
@@jag5798 There are so many inaccuracies in your comment. You seriously need to re-examine your facts.
JFK 100% voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1957. However he did so begrudgingly because it was a Republican dismantled/poorly crafted version of a better bill that he advocated for and it was his belief if that dismantled bill passed, progress would stalemate.
www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75 (check out Massachusetts)
As for why he didn't have any civil rights "legislature" in office (legislation*), is A) He did, you can start with the Civil Rights Act of 1960, B) He was dealing with the USSR at the same time, and C) He had already helped draft CRA of 1964 and was talking about the importance of civil rights at campaign rallies before he was assassinated.
MLK marched to Washington because it was the nation's capital and he knew it would get national attention, which is what was needed for congress to act. He called actions like this "Causing a crisis" and said it was the only thing that would lead to change.
Much of what you said is known conservative fake news that was spread online. Coming from Cold War America, JFK would be terrified of the world we live in today.
@@jag5798 You really like spreading false info huh?
Rip jfk, didn't deserve to depart like that
I'm still here my child
@@johnf.kennedy phew, thank goodness. Had me worried there for a second
@@johnf.kennedy REAL?!
@@johnf.kennedy Dude... Can we get ice cream like you're my dad?
He basically signed his death certificate after this speech a true hero no president would do this today
in truth, you speak of his June, 1963 American University commencement address, in which he reaches out to the USSR in a GENUINE spirit of peace & scolds the wretched US military~industrial complex>>tragically, therein lies his true "death warrant"
Screwing a mobsters wife also signed his death warrant.
@@michaelfabian3036 I think that when he introduced Executive Order 11110 , which would have taken away the power of printing money away from the private banks , that was the death nil.
@@michaelfabian3036 Right you are, Michael. As you probably know, that "peace speech" was given only 24 hours previous to the one above, that served to overshadow it.
My President gone too soon...An American Tragedy!
It has been a spell. I'm not saying you're wrong; you are absolutely not wrong; but this is not the time for our tears.
Agreed, Instead we need to come together and finish the work he and his brother started peacefully
@@aeigdiusflaviusquintus1337 PEACEFULLY yes please brother
@@danieljaime5862 Nice, somebody agrees with Me!
jfk is truly an american legend
I know that a lot of white southerners shot at their T.V.s that night
@@michaelwoodward9894 why mention race?🤨
This is one of the greatest presidents of United states great forever wow
YES... JOHN KENNEDY WAS FAR AND WIDE OUR VERY BEST LEADER!!
@Jean St Martin - but, he didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
He didn't pass have any legislation on Civil Rights passed during his term because he was assassinated you ass. That was his legislation passed under LBJ. That said JFK may not have been able to persuade the Congress to pass it as LBJ did. We'll never know. But I agree JFK was slow to do something on race. But he got there.
Great president indeed.
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@@RyanSmith-wo2pi what nigga?
His name is not been repeated lightly he was a great leader a great man and a truly example of great president.
The anti-Trump
@@Mommyandtux there are clear differences but there are similarities as well. Anti Trump is a bit harsh. In some respects, President Trump is more similar to President Kennedy than President Obama.
One of the greatest presidents
The greatest speech by a president concerning Civil rights in the twentieth century,and how many presidents have this country in the twentieth century,so that tells you how sad Ang racist it is
Here We See Kennedy In His Finest Hour , In A Speech That Not Only Eternally Endeared Him To African Americans, But Also to All Men of Goodwill !!!...This Is An Immortal And Timeless Speech That Resounds Throughout The Ages , And Is Ironically More Relevant Today , In 2020 , Than it Was 57 Years Ago !!!....P.S......THIS IS WHAT GREATNESS SOUNDS LIKE !!!!!.....
Dennis Pearson, I agree 💯. And he knew that speaking out for Black people would cost him lots of votes in the South, but he did it anyway.
I will always admire him for that. And you are correct about his words being more relevant today than in 1963.
@@justmyopinion9883 Thank You For Your Very Kind Comment !!! ......Setting the "Moral Tone " For A Nation is Something that Always Flies In The Face of So Called " Political Correctness " And Is " The Road Less Traveled " by Truly Great Men Like J.F.K. !!! Our Nation is A Greater Nation to This Day, Because of the Courageous and Progressive Stance of Our Great 35th President , and His Enventual Successor , ( Lyndon Baines Johnson ,) Who Not Only Championed The Policies Put Forth by His Illustrious Predecessor , But through Diplomatic Brilliance among Senators and Congressmen Alike ( Many of whom were From the South !!) Persuaded to Pass the Sweeping Civil Rights Legislation that became a Monumental turning Point in our Nations History !!!...
@@dennispearson9287 What month was this speech given to the Nation?
@@uwanttono4012 This Epic Speech Was Given To The Nation on June 11th , 1963 .
@@dennispearson9287 Thank You for this information!
Every JFK's speech I've heard left me speechless.
I've heard many of them and now I am speech-full.
The Civil Rights Act was drawn up by Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 but only after violence and civil unrest in the south compelled Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to do something and address it. Dwight Eisenhower did more on civil rights than any other president.
What the world needs now, is love sweet love! What happened to John, Martin and Bobby?
Your talking about Bobby/Robert f kennedy?
U Know What Happened...
And Malcolm and Medgar and.....
And Malcolm and Medgar and,...,.
@@arthurzillocaldwell1644 Martin.
J.F.K.You are always bright in our memory,
How we could do with a President like Kennedy today. A high calibre man with real integrity in tackling the issues facing the nation. Instead, we have an individual occupying the White House today who is wholly unfit, both morally and intellectually.
Guess what live with it
It's interesting all these years later that his speeches are actually more pertinent than ever. I literally could listen to his speeches and think to myself this is how I will also choose to live today.
@@robertevans2829 I will, until November.
@@shareonrivas1458 America needs the right leaders more than ever to heal the social ills that plague our nation. If Trump is re-elected then expect increased social chaos.
I would strap down Pelosi, Schumer and Biden down and make them watch this as well.
The past is speaking again this day.
It never stopped speaking
It still inspires me at the deepest level and brings the tears of loss and of deep admiration and hope and compassion to my eyes that we once had such a brave and deeply compassionate and intelligent president who was deeply troubled by the suffering of people who he was not afraid to meaningfully defend whatever the political price. John called it as he saw it and understood it. In his short tenure I have no doubt whatsoever that he was the President of the highest moral order, of the most pure and righteously oriented courage this country has ever had. The great privilege of his profound dedication to humanity was available to all of the country and world to witness for but a short time. God bless you and your brothers my dear President Kennedy. You did your best at all times to bring out the best in all of us. I am proud to know you were once President. Watching this now encourages me that great men have existed and held high office and someday perhaps will do so again. But none greater than President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. We shall never see the likes of you again. But many of us have been inspired to be better human beings, even those of us who were born after your tragic demise. May your memory be blessing and may you never be forgotten as long human beings live in this world. By the grace of God.
The peacemaker spirit of Jack & Bobby lives
Call for peace and unity vote for Kennedy Jr
This man was God's gift to us taken to soon fighting the wicked that is trying to suppress us.
And that is why his life was tooken away so suddenly... Sad
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@@pablogabiria9742 taken*
The wicked is/was the seductive and destructive ideologies to which human nature are drawn. No major leaders seem to fully articulate and identify this evil today like he did.
An American President with the vision and courage to propose an end to war at the United Nations in 1961 ! The war in Ukraine, the pandemic, it seems evil truly rules the Earth. 😢
One of the Greatest President that Ever Live...thank you for everything you done for this country.
@Crowmy Alexandre - but, he didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
@@jag5798 really...thanks for those facts definitely an eye opener.
@@jag5798 JFK was not in the legislature, at his time. He was President, but he tried. I love JFK, for all he did for us, In his admin, Executive power was not yet used, as it is today. Respectfully, his executive branch DID respect the different branches of govt, as congress, and the senate, to make change. Now, our presidents Bully through whatever they want, via executive action! Biden did almost 100 in 70 days! Sad but true. Obama Had more executive actions than any president in history! (even though I like him) Thankfully 45 made fair trade, globally, an issue, and minimal unemployment a priority. We are all the same. XOXO
What a magnificent Man someone to be very proud of in our world 2022 he is a treasure of history
I love JFK! He was a brilliant man and was taken from us way too short.
JFK won our hearts when he told America "What the country needs and what I am going to give it is a good ten cent cigar.".
I once showed this to my predominatly Black students, and many were in shock and some were in tears. One said, "I never heard a White man talk like that." Deep.
One of a kind he was! JFK!🙏🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
First Class..................Someone should resite this speech. !!
Jack, I haven't had time to personally thank you enough for your dedication to justice and civil liberty, de-armament and human rights. You're a wonderful president and perfect for the early 60's. Hopefully you win re election in 64. good luck.
If he was president I’d be prouder to be American
he was murdered because of his views on these issues an d his attempt to bring change
@Loualter Gary - not true... I don’t know why he was taken from us... but it wasn’t because of Civil Rights, as he didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
The most real US president to have ever lived, always tackled root causes of problems of the society. Will always be remembered ❤
@Gytis Atmanavicius - but, he never tackled anything - he didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
Yeah. I think you're right on that one.
@@gytisatmanavicius689 No he isn't www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75
Even if he believed this or not. His death caused it to come true . Passing the civil rights bill. So although his beliefs can be questioned, the outcome most certainly can not. RIH Mr.President. You live on in the hearts of every American. Thank you .
He believed what he said. He was killed for that.
We will never see his like again. RIP, JFK.
Are you sure? Is there a remote chance that another JFK will arise?
He was brave enough to share these facts with the nation and use the power of his office to stand up against racism. That is why he was killed - who by is a matter of dispute still today. But it was due to this.
He died for the executive order 11110 to overturn the Federal Reserve Bank system .The first act as President Johnson reversed this order the day JFK died!
false. John F Kennedy was Racist. As Senator, Kennedy fully supported the Racist Southern Democrats in opposing two Civil Rights Bills written by REPUBLICAN Civil Rights Leader Dwight D. Eisenhower, who also gave African American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian minorities in the Military their equal and civil rights in 1942, that would have given All African Americans Equal and Civil Rights in 1957 and again in 1959 - He also refused to let Sammy Davis Jr. perform in the white house and he constantly used N ~ in private. JFK was clearly Racist, just like TRUMP and BIDEN ~ vote #BradHartliep #President, the only candidate for President who will deliver Equality and Justice to Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans and America's Poor ..
@@bradhartliep879 you had me in the first half, not gonna lie😋 I was gonna ask "cool, sources?", and then you used your own name as a hashtag. #TriedIt #NotTodaySatan
@@bradhartliep879 you are terribly missing misinformed. Please read Kennedy and King , it is a fairly recent book with newly discovered information about both men and their complicated relationship. JFK was not a racist and get your stuff straight before putting stupid shit out there.
By the way, in addition to some of JFK 's accomplishments include: outlawing discrimination in Federal hiring/contracts, integrating the Coast Guard, the Secret Service- he was the first president to have an African American assigned to a presidential detail (Bolden), he also hand selected an African American to be an astronaut in the NASA space program. Established Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights- original bill that LBJ signed was JFK's bill with a few extras. As for Sammy Davis, he was invited to the White House, but could not be photographed with his wife Mai Britt. Sammy understood it. So don't try to make more of this. JFK needed support for his programs no matter how repulsive he found the Southern Senators beliefs. The programs benefitted everyone, including African Americans. For more info, see: www.jfklibrary.org. By the way, with all your misinformation, the country doesn't need another president like that, but good luck to you anyway. The great thing about our country is that anyone can run as long as you meet the Constitutional requirements.
OMG! The heinous loss of such a righteous leader sickens me🤢i am devastated at the confirmation that our government is capable of the sick Evil that it is..and operates in..🥺🤨😳😡
Love President Kennedy! What a good man!!
John F. Kennedy spoke so well and his speech in many ways is still relevant today. Than you President Kennedy!
JFK fits the exact definition of a leader.
He was truly a great Pres. and I miss him and we need more leaders like him.
A Great President Of The U.SA .
How little has changed. It did take courage for a sitting President to speak forthrightly about what good will and legal protection are due every citizen, regardless of race or color.
If people only know how d world have changed as a young Chicano boy from Laredo TX it but me right on d heart ❤️ believe me I know what suffering is.
And remember the Native Americans of which I am where taken from our homes and farmed out. Then raised by Nazi in America to beaten, starved, and sexually abused. We have both suffered and many of the Native Tribes exterminated from history. So is America formed in blood that will never be erased today or in the future.
This should be broadcast on tv tonight.
Why? That was a different era.
@John Coppola - but then they’d have to bring up the fact that he didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
@@jag5798 Nope www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75
@@boredhero Thanks for correcting that idiot. Looking at the vote you can see that not only did JFK vote yea, but the democrats that voted against it were all Dixiecrats who quickly became the modern day Bible Belt republicans.
@@gertrudemcfuzz74 it's amazing to me how people just make up fake facts. Like is your agenda really worth so much to you that nothing else matters?
Wow this president is great
Yes...study this man. He was the very best American
John Kennedy was the hallmark of a great American president.wish he had lived longer ! we still miss him.Love from India .
Thank you for this. Yes JFK was America's very best.
The man who stands his principle, fighting for his rights to uphold the freedom of all mankind, he possess an excellent thinking for liberty and just society, President KENNEDY for me was a HERO with no doubts, may he rest in peace!
"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
Roger Mudd. Greatly missed as are ALL of his colleagues at CBS NEWS from that era.
He was one of the few Non racists in the 1960s I agree with him we should be treated How one would wish to be treated regardless of skin colour
Thank you for the Upload of a President i admire. He had his Faults like All Politicians do. Some of his Speeches far outshine some who just don't deserve a 2nd Term At All.
talking to u pootango 45
for Eternity
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How did you find this video
I watched his speech earlier this year during the Floyd protests, but this is really impressive that you were able to upload a *broadcast* version of it.
That's what you call wisdom, and foresight!!! Respect Mr. John F. Kennedy.
What a great man!
YES . THIS. IS WHEN A PRESIDENT KNOWS WHAT IS HIS ROLE. MR TRUMP NEEDS TO LISTEN HIM.
TRUMP IS FINISHING OFF WHAT JFK STARTED, THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
@@22cudaman 😐
Look up what everything Trump has done for black people, MSM is not reporting everything that he has signed into law. Another reason why the man is being threatened by the deep state.
@sickla homes - I dont think we want Trump to listen to JFK otherwise we wouldn’t have had all the great legislature that Trump has done for minorities. I mean, JFK didn’t do any legislature for blacks while in office, its why Martin Luther King marched against him in Aug 1963. JFK voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act by Eisenhower and Republicans passed it alone. I think we were taught to like him because he spoke well and his life was taken, but I think if he lived, he would not have been referred as a great president. Source this @ JFK online library.
Hello, My Friends, I would very much like to reassure you, that i am safe in heaven, and im watching over all of you. Always. May God bless you, And God bless America.
Hope springs eternal
this made me tear up, thanks :,)
@@absolutesquash i wish this really was from him but thank you 🇺🇸
@@absolutesquash Then you should check in with your therapist
nigel65deck maybe i should,, its been a few months
It should be noted that President Kennedy's speech after 11:40 was extemporaneous, demonstrating his full understanding and compassion for this struggle. Now the President that now reads cue cards without the full understanding of what he is talking about.
The Kennedy kids were beautifully educated. Years later, Bobby Kennedy, on his way to give a campaign speech to a mostly black crowd, was surprised with the shocking news that MLK had just been killed, and that the crowd did not yet know about it.
His police escort urged him to cancel, flatly refused to go to the event and peeled off from his motorcade! Imagine that? They were so afraid of a black crowd that they abandoned the candidate for president.
Bobby rapidly scribbled down the framework of an extemporaneous speech in which he gave them his all, and did his utmost to console them, quoting the Greek poet Aeschylus, and identifying his own experience of his brother's assassination with their grief and anger and loss.
Treating the crowd like human beings with bright minds and broken hearts, who deserved the very best he could give them, probably contributed to the fact that it was one of the few cities in the country that did not see riots that night.
President Kennedy’s inspiring speeches amazing!
John F. Kennedy did more to make America great nation in his 1,037days than Joe Biden has done in his almost fifty years in Congress,and look at his record
In this speech JFK honors the protesters and says "repressive police" are not the solution.
It makes me so sad to see this level of composure and professionalism from an assassinated president whos words would be just as impactful in 2021 as they were in 1962. I wish he was still here with us.
God Bless you sir, John F Kennedy. Any child or relation of this man, must be so proud. Thank you John F Kennedy for your service, sir.
I remember watching this speech. My mom, my grandma, my two sisters and I. All glued to the small black-and-white TV. I was around 13 at the time, but I felt like an adult watching history being made because JFK spoke with such conviction and clarity and I was able to comprehend what he was telling us, that all Americans must be free and equal citizens and that is isn't enough to pass laws but that we must change our hearts and minds.
I understand Kennedy's brother the attorney general was in the room when he made this speech.
He probably was? John and Bobby were discussing it between themselves before the speech. There is a videotape of that on here. They even discussed how they should handle the situation in Alabama. John had no ill intent toward Wallace, he actually told Bobby to make sure the Governor was handled with respect but he also told Bobby if you have to arrest him then do it but the students will be admitted. They put one of the Governor's friends in the Alabama Guard in charge and there was no problems. He respectfully asked the Governor to step aside and allow the students to enter and he did after a brief pause. He was later shot and paralyzed while running for President, 4 years after Bobby and Martin. He had changed his views on Segregation by then.
@@ronclifford3336 Yes, I'll go t that video and see it.
I was born in 79 and he is my Fav. What a tremendous loss to the 🌎!
Sadly true. You could make this speech today. We need someone like JFK today
I thought Joseph kennedy III will run for president but he decided not to
Turn off CNN.
@@mdwilliams79 get off TH-cam.. this ain't CNN 🤡
Remember the warren commission? Me neither. Shame this great guy died, though the reason for it we'll never know!
Oh we all know.
It's fair to assume that those who orchestrated the cover-up were also complicit in the murder. Lots of credible books about all this which pull the Warren Commission to bits. You can be king of the jungle and defeat the number one contender to your throne but, what you can't do is defeat all of the male lions if they get together and attack you at once. I think when JFK got into the job, he really had no idea how corrupt things were and how certain parties would undermine the presidency. The wall street backed steel crisis was designed to humiliate the president but, he fought and won that. The bay of pigs was a setup, they expected JFK to attempt to cover up mistakes and go for an all-out invasion of Cuba but, again he surprised them by taking the blame himself. He fired Allen Dulles, head of the CIA and others as a result for the way they had lied and deceived him. The Cuban missile crisis resulted in just the president, his brother and I think McNamara being against a first-strike nuclear policy that could have ended the world and a room full of military generals all trying to start the nuclear war were angered by JFK's detente. History has shown he made the right choice as the Soviet missiles in Cuba would have wiped out the south of the USA and god knows what else. The military which intersected with the CIA (ie some generals were CIA like Ed Lansdale and some just Army etc) were furious and saw JFK as weak. You had JFK wanting to cut the oil depletion allowance which benefitted Texas oil men. You had JFK cutting the CIA budget. LBJ was under investigation for corruption and an expose was waiting in the wings. FBI chief Hoover, didn't like JFK or Bobby (understatement) and would routinely turn up with blackmail material showing affairs etc and telling them not to worry, in his way of making a veiled threat. When you start to look at the big picture, plenty had motive and benefitted, though certain government agencies needed to be on board to make it happen (CIA, Military, FBI) and facilitate a cover up.
If you wanted names, Allen Dulles, James Angleton, J Edgar Hoover, David Atlee Phillips, Bill Harvey and a bunch of the Bay of Pigs CIA conscripts are about as good as it gets (what you have to understand is that Mafia guys were on the CIA payroll as they were useful because they still had contacts in Cuba from the pre-revolution casino days, so they could help get at Castro and provide intel). If LBJ didn't know it was going down, he certainly had to help cover it up. Other names that may have been involved are Cord Meyer, Ed Lansdale, Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Rosselli, Frank Sturgis, David Morales, E. Howard Hunt. It's probably there were Corsicans involved, sourced from Marseille too as triggermen.
Anyone can sit and say its conjecture or conspiracy theory but, the HSCA in the 70's ruled it was highly probable that there was a conspiracy and a second gunman as there were more shots than Oswald could have fired on the audio from the day. I don't think Oswald fired anything and certainly not on that antique rifle. Also, the magic bullet theory is the biggest piece of fantasy, the bullet was found in the hospital in some clothes, barely looks fired and there is more metal in governor Connelly than there is lost from the bullet, its such a lie. The more you get into it, the more absurd the Warren Commission becomes.
Anyway, a great guy and the world wishes he lived and had a second term. I think he knew he could go at any time, whether because of his poor health or from an assassin's bullet, he lived each day as if it was his last.
@@atlanticdriftfishing6451 I AGREE THANK YOU COPY AND SHARING TO MY FACE BOOK PAGE RAMONA SILVESTRI WITH HIS PHOTO
Atlantic Drift Fishing ....I AGREE!!! I sense that knowing he could leave was shared by JACKIE. The wearing of pink on that fateful day subconsciously gave her a sense of protection. The wearing of pink had some special advantages. The car was easily picked out from the res of the caravan
Atlantic Drift Fishing ....rest of the caravan. It offered her protection from an assassin's bullet in a way the target could be identified more easily. Lastly pink is a color that can calm the pschyce of
He's my hero forever. He could have done so much good for the world if he would have had the time.
True legends. Back in time.
I personally thank
the Kennedy Family and President library share the 1,000 days as president of the United States. I say to my self, what could of turn the united States if President Kennedy had served 2turnes in office in the WHITE HOUSE.I WONDER WHAT WOULD TAKEN PLACE...
Not the mess were in today, that's for sure