How President Kennedy Wrote his Inaugural Address

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3 жыл бұрын

Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address to nearly a million people in person and more than 60 million across America on television. President Kennedy believed that democracy thrives only when citizens contribute their talents to the common good, and that it is up to leaders to inspire citizens to acts of sacrifice.
Watch the video below to see how President Kennedy developed one of the most memorable inaugural addresses in American history.

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@rosshoover6986 3 жыл бұрын

I have the highest respect and admiration for this courageous statesman; forgiving him for his human faults.

@elisatorres5326 3 жыл бұрын

popp

@handsomestranger8211 3 жыл бұрын

Ross Hoover There is no proof of anything bad he done, he was and his the greatest leader the world has known. Research, research you'll see he was good through and through

@maureen669 3 жыл бұрын

@@handsomestranger8211 Agree completely. I don't believe any trash that came out about JFK post-assasination. It's easy to lie when someone is gone, and the Kennedys have too much dignity and respect for privacy to lower themselves to any accusations.

@ShadowGaming26548 3 жыл бұрын

@@maureen669 amen

@charleyfolkes 3 жыл бұрын

A looming gift to freedom, cut short ..

@Vasilioo7 3 жыл бұрын

A positive mind leads to a positive outcome, JFK lite the flame, it's up to the rest of the world to keep it burning.

@michaelwright3351 3 жыл бұрын

The light about which John Fitzgerald Kennedy spoke of still burns in all of us. That light will light the way to freedom and brotherhood for untold generations!

@Oceangirl_505 3 жыл бұрын

"Ask not what your Country can do for you, ask what you can do for your Country!" If only he had lived,...

@Vasilioo7 3 жыл бұрын

God's top soldiers don't stay on earth long, fo they must go back and prepare for another time in the future.

@josephlambe2796 3 жыл бұрын

This guy was the real deal….I maybe not American but Scottish…He appealed to me with his honesty his course on what to believe..Shame he was killed by the unknown in Dallas that day…A short life but a lifetime of values

@juniorgaynor3150 3 жыл бұрын

Mr, president

@community1949 3 жыл бұрын

No one in a million years would anyone think of John F. Kennedy as a windbag - what a prince of a man.

@reneeshannon358 3 жыл бұрын

Simply beautiful!! God bless America!

@berniestarzewski5482 3 жыл бұрын

And never let it be forgot, there was a place called Camelot!

@maureen669 3 жыл бұрын

🎶🎶 Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for happy ever-aftering here...in...Camelot🎶🎶🎶☘️☘️💙✨

@kathykelley16 3 жыл бұрын

Jackie said they played the soundtrack of Camelot on many evenings, and she and Jack liked the Camelot reprise, and the final verse, in the finale: "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot". It was Jackie who wanted her husband's time in the White House to be thought of as Camelot.

@billyredd3006 3 жыл бұрын

6-21-21. Love Jack!!❤️❤️❤️ So Creative and Smart and Clever!! Great Speaker and Great Leader!!❤️❤️❤️ Billy Alexander Sioux City Iowa Farm. 626-720-9707

@maureen669 3 жыл бұрын

I'm proud to have known Mr. Sorensen through my Mom's legal secretarial job at Paul, Weiss in NYC. She worked for the most senior partner, a lawyer famous in his own right, Arthur Liman. Mr. Sorensen loved when younger people wanted to know about JFK. His office was a shrine to him. We sat and talked and he idolized JFK so much that his hair was cut the same, he'd wear the same light grey suits that JFK wore. Underneath a piece of glass covering his desk were some of JFK'S famous doodles on yellow legal pad paper. I actually saw "Kruschev" in JFK'S handwriting. He autographed and gave me a copy of his biography "Kennedy". He came to my Mom's retirement party at the 21 Club and wrote a cute poem for her, signed and framed. He was a lovely, gentle, soft-spoken man; now they're all gone -- JFK, Mr. Sorensen, Mom, Mr. Liman -- and it was a remarkable part of my life the 25 years Mom worked there. Requiescat in Pace 🙏 all of them. 💙☘️✨

@jedrzejstefanoksza-paczkow7106 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE JFK & JACKIE

@rose_bluevv7097 3 жыл бұрын

no wonder they hated him, how could anyone do that, his voice so calm and Sooting, & his heart so big for his country, i only have admiration x him 🇺🇸.

@RobertDixon-sw3dz 4 ай бұрын

JFK did such a brilliant job delivering these speeches with eloquence and energy.

@SarahOstrin1 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@patriciadiggs3390 2 жыл бұрын

I was 5 when he gave this speech and my parents left a hostile racist Mississippi for the safety of me and my brother and sister. His speech / determined voice ushered in the next 10 years shifting America to more of a just and inclusive nation. Let freedom stand!

@coffeehubby 2 жыл бұрын

My father had to leave a hostile southern state too for the similar reasons, based on income instead of race. The hate was intolerable

@mrthorbjrnolsendk6561 3 ай бұрын

Denmark and America in some how united in one speech - Ted Sørensen

@koserluhtoo1935 Жыл бұрын

I love this. Can you please tell me the music of this video? I love the piano sound. Thanks

@LuisaRodriguez0212 3 жыл бұрын

I respect President Kennedy for his strong efforts to be a warrior for peace. I will never forget this aspect of his public service.

@graceandpeace4414 3 жыл бұрын

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

@DebbiePeet 3 жыл бұрын

God Bless ALL The Kennedy Families God FOREVER AMEN🙏 PROTECTION FOR THEM ALL AND ALL THEIR FAMILIES GOD FOREVER AMEN🙏 I PRAY THIS GOD IN THE NAME AND BLOOD OF YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST FOREVER AMEN🙏

@paulgibson8846 3 жыл бұрын

Remember the Ammo? Two armor piercing one standard factory load the blood volume comparison was to that of a toad! No human anatomy reaction to the ballistics, but something else I mean really, really, really something else!

@letstalkhistory2627 3 жыл бұрын

Yup, that’s me.

@alexhutchins6161 3 жыл бұрын

I thumbs down everyvideo that doesnt allow comments. Wanted to let you know. I liked the jfk furtniture video.... but well no comments so thumbs down....

@MichaelIrish 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could change the world. But alas, I am a loser.

@mrttripz3236 3 жыл бұрын

How is your channel verified

@MichaelIrish 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrttripz3236 I am the man.

@mrttripz3236 3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelIrish drop the unicode for that tick.

@melissasaint3283 3 жыл бұрын

What makes you a loser?

@MichaelIrish 3 жыл бұрын

saint no provable actions for the betterment of mankind.

@dpeatebc7265 3 жыл бұрын

Sorenson wrote nearly all of Kennedy's words in his speeches and his books. Kennedy may have added a touch here and there, but Sorenson, a great writer, was the author. Which is not to diminish Kennedy's oratorical gifts. He was a great speaker. Unfortunately, he was a weak and sefl-indulgent man.

@maureen669 3 жыл бұрын

DPE - yes, on Sorensen; BS on your comment re JFK. I'll say no more in respect for the Library. Do the same.

@vicbertfartingclack4559 2 жыл бұрын

Maureen … here here! Plus every president in the modern age uses speech writers; a fact which the Kennedy Library and every scholar of presidential history knows. What’s your point DPE with the irrelevant low blow at the end of your commentary?

@dpeatebc7265 2 жыл бұрын

@@vicbertfartingclack4559 My point is that Kennedy was a very flawed man and politician. I was a supporter of his brother Robert in 1968 as a sophomore in college. I was greatly saddened when he was killed. But his brother was less than a mediocre president and the Kennedy mystique was a lie, largely created by liberals after he died. JFK was a a rapacious sex addict like Clinton. Not an admirable man at all. Also, it's not "here, here!" It's "Hear, Hear!"