November 22, 1963 - Prime Minister of Canada, Lester B. Pearson following President Kennedy's death
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- Lester Pearsons announcement on November 22, 1963. President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, has been assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
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Fascinating speech from a time when real people ruled, not creations of public relations machines. His speech is redundant, his chair squeaks, there is no teleprompter; just an ordinary man expressing his confusion and sadness in a plain and understandable manner. Everything about this clip would be impossible today. RIP Lester & Jack.
I will honor him buy serving Canada in a few years until the day I die.
From another Mike Pearson for another who was by far one of the finest leaders of the country.
Unfortunately the CBC's production values have never been top notch.
It should be noted that Lester Pearson only became Prime Minister of Canada in April 1963, only a few months before Kennedy was assassinated
Precisley 7 months prior on April 22, 1963. Pearson was also favored by Kennedy as he really disliked Diefenbaker.
I wish to say thank you to all the Canadian who have posted their condolences on this page! My country has never been the same since Kennedy's untimely death!!! I have long admired your country and its citizens!! May God bless you, we could not possibly have better neighbors!!!!!
Jay Rosen America was and still is a great country ! Stay strong .
Rfk is dead
As a Canadian, I will always be proud to live in a country that shares the longest undefended border in the world with the USA, & wish we still had leaders like JFK.
@@jimdraven2432 We feel the same way Jim in the states . The Canadians are truly the salt of the earth !!!
I've been fortunate enough to have travelled extensively in Canada and to have made life-long friends. I echo your sentiment that the U.S. could not have better neighbors, something we ought never to take for granted.
The GREATEST of all of our Prime Ministers. Nice to see him again!
+Joseph Flannigan Typo. You must have meant WORST, surely.
This year, FYI, marks the 175th birthday of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He was born November 20th, 1841.
Yeah that damn healthcare he helped get in was such a bad thing, don't even get me started on his opposition to entering Vietnam and creating the CPP as well as approving Expo 67 which helped put Canada on the map not long after he introduced the Canadian Flag 2 years prior. What a terrible Prime Minister he was, unlike God Emperor Harper I'm sure.
Thanks for uploading this. What an interesting slice of history.
Here's another thing I admire about Canada... What they did for as many US embassy staff, in Tehran, as possible in November 1979... From one from the States, Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Pearson, and thank you Canadians.
This was when Canada was such a wonderful country, when it still understood its culture and lived it.
What has changed so dramatically?
Sadly Canada has become a nightmare under the tyranny of the two Trudeaus.....we are in a bad way and I am afraid we may have passed the point of no return....of course you can say this about all of the Western World....
@@Albertanator Trudeau was Pearson’s Protégé. He continued what he started. He is really at the root of it.
... a time in history when our countries had politicians who spoke and behaved more like statesmen ... it’s so different today ...
Kennedy and Pearson knew each other long before Pearson became PM, a fact that I'm sure annoyed Diefenbaker to no end, by the way, after becoming PM, Pearson actually sent Kennedy an autographed picture of himself, making no judgments here, you can check it out on the Kennedy Library web site.
Pearson and jfk were great friends
Thank you prime minister.
and no one would care
but when a celebrity does act modest and decent its a good model for kids in today's youth culture.
NO other time was the United States so well respected and esteemed around the world. Every nation was saddened it seemed. Even Russians were mourning this. Khrushchev himself is said to have shed tears on the news and wrote a heartfelt letter to Jacqueline Kennedy and sent messages through emissaries to her and the family.
Deifenbaker was not the only one to cry. My grandpa did and so did other Veterans...
JFK got along well with Pearson, just like Reagan got along with Mulroney and Clinton with Chretien. I doubt John Diefenbaker would have given this speech had he still been prime minister.
RIP JFK
Mulroney got along very well with George H.W. Bush, famously.
Very touching speech,from the heart.
Pearson is my Favorite Canadian Prime Minister. And I say that as an American
Not surprising as he was one of America’s appointed globalist stooges afterall. He was President of the UN before he was PM. JFK helped him win the 1963 election with the CIA against John Diefenbaker and he started the process of Americanizing Canada. True Canadians will always favour John Diefenbaker, the last PM to actually stand up to the US for Canada and its history.
YA Lester is a great person
+HASHTAG GAMEZ When is this video
@@richplayzyt9580 Ulysses S. Grant
Pearson needs his face on a dollar bill.
Who are these three people?
there is a difference between re-arranging stars or adding more stars (per state) and completely defacing your flag to the point where it looks nothing like it did before.
look at all the western democracies:
USA, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria = no major changes to flag
Italy, Portugal, Poland = slight modifications
hell even mexico and south american countries kept the relative same flags: Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, etc
CIIR The flag of the USA is one of the ugliest. most gaudy pieces of shit in artistic history. It looks as if it was designed by either a clown or a drag queen.
@@iVenge the US flag is one of the greatest flags in history. Lemme guess, if it was the Malaysian or Liberian flag, you wouldn't have said that because it's "evil" and "racist" WAHHH!
It's funny, because the UK flag is actually an amalgam of three distinct flags. Why should Canada have continued to tie its identity to a country not its own?
I liked your flag better Lester. Where are men like you today?
Did he do this speech in French too?
Pearson wasn't really good in french if I recall.
yeah he wanted to be the last uni lingual PM
Spare-me-your-sorrow right and it was not unusual both ways
oh how wrong you are...there are plenty of people in MY generation (20's) that support the monarchy and have no interest in a "Republican" Govt led by a puppet president. I much prefer our Westminster style govt. I have lived in the US (Michigan) for 8 years and let me tell you its a swell place but I would rather have British Govt style "Peace, Order and Good Govt" over "Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Hapiness". THAT system works for THEM. OUR system works for US. WHY are you trying to change that?
1963 ?????
What makes Stephen Harper the best thing that ever happened to Canada? He tried taking the land rights of native aboriginals away and i see many other canadians in fact hate him.. :/
i so agree with you I completley dislike Harper
A time when Canada wasn't official multicultural, a time when we knew who we were.
Pearson started our path to multiculturalism when he changed the immigration act in 1967. He started the process of destroying who we were, and his protege Trudeau followed his lead. It Didn’t start 10 years ago. Don’t be fooled.
not belongs to the British but British Heritage
what the hell is wrong with being proud of your roots?
and the union jack on my display makes me 100% Canadian regardless of what your liberal self hating mind thinks.
Fact is the Union Jack is STILL the Royal Flag in Canada and flown on Victoria Day. My province Ontario kept the UNION JACK and so did Manitoba.
If your such a bloody republican then go to USA or Ireland. They seem to share your hate for the Crown.
I just did! Honestly how are Republican Govts (USA/Ireland) different than UK, Japan, Spain that are Constitutional monarchies?!
heck one could make the argument that they are even more FREE than a Republican govt (USA). For example same sex marriages are legal in Spain a const. monarchy same with Canada. Has the British Crown passed any decree banning it?
and Give me a freaking break about "bad values". I would rather my daughter look up to Dutchess kate's simplicity&modesty than miley cyrus
Harper is the BEST thing to happen to Canada in a very loooong time
really I thought he would be kissing LBJ's arse since Pearson was soo Anti British.
stifled fits of laughter... repressed fits of stifled laughter
He's doing at because you complain about the inequality of the treaty. You can't have it ajusted like what you attempted to do. It's either destroyed or kept in state.
from what? stepping on us commoner's throats?
OMG ! 12 posts ! I hope you got that bug out of your AAA . Good Greif Charlie Brown !!!
@@michaelneel4828
😁THANK YOU!
well I hate to burst your bubble, but Canada's soverign is H.M Queen Elizabeth II. If you cant accept that, tough shite...
You are FREE to leave Canada and go to Ireland and join the IRA. I am sure they would love your attitude.
Thank goodness for Harper and the end of liberal tyranny in our country!
@@jetstream6389 Yes because Abu Trudeau is such a genius ....we went from the best leader in the Free World to the worse in the Free World.....a dumb spoiled child of privelage that has never had to work an honest day in his life.....Tells you how stupid Eastern Canadians are who voted in this dhimmi idiot and his father.
If there was an Illuminati, then you would not be writing your comment or mine.