JOHN F. KENNEDY at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

[JohnnyMac2237]

I love Kennedy but he was wrong on this and that is not entirely his fault. It seems simple to take from those with against their will and give to those without but govt intervention as we see inflated medical costs and education costs and negates the positive intent. Even now as he is discussing Social Security it was not anywhere near bankrupt or reliant upon inflation which destroys the value of the dollar seniors receive. Math and facts do not lie. The answer is smaller got and no income tax

[crazyromanian1]

Adressing the issues, has anything changed?

[Acard89]

hail to the last and ONLY chief there ever was. : )

[bmyrab]

Wow, this video is swarming with anti-Kennedy propagandists. Even today the government is terrified of the the man they murdered.

[GenralRaam1]

the how shot J.F.K is a cold blooded asshole

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

John F. Kennedy was a good man who cared about the people.

Who cares about his private life.

Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Both had great economic growth and people were working.

If either ran for president today, he would win in a landslide.

George Vreeland Hill

[thisisj330]

when did he give this speech?

[rigoberto565]

that why this country has ended up like it has jfk is a manipulator of words not a man of vision this country is broke because of the jfk/johnson administrations.

[time2act1001]

.....There is always one "oddball"... Merry Christmas and the Best of the New Year for You and Yours,

Sincerely Yours,

Danny Carroll

[snoops71]

This is the way a president should carry himself. He was so handsome, charming, and articulate. Amazing.

[squirevet]

This man's death was one of the most terrible, most tragic moments in the history of this country. He was an umitigated genius with the spoken word. His death destroyed this country.

[Nkrumahist]

I wouldn't consider this man a liberal, it seems that he was moved to decisions by rationale, by reason, by the most logical-in-fact steps to good government. Its a disservice to call President Kennedy a liberal.

[norr4636]

@Nkrumahist I totally agree with you..Jack Kennedy was more of a pragmatic President.

[jazzgtrplayer]

@Nkrumahist Kennedy called himself a liberal and used the term proudly.

[norr4636]

@jazzgtrplayer Liberal back then is not the same liberalism of today....Kennedy is the father of the 'supply side economic' that Reagan and Bush adopted.

[jazzgtrplayer]

@norr4636 Kennedy was also for adopting a larger social safety net (as evidenced by this clip), funding the arts, using obscene amounts of taxpayer money on NASA, expanding civil liberties, etc.. Taking political views out of context does no good. The modern democratic party follows the same ideals Kennedy set out. The world is a much different place today than then.

[norr4636]

@jazzgtrplayer Sorry there is no evidence of your claims. Eunice Kennedy Shriver said her brother was not in the same form of the Democratic party of today. John Kennedy was pro-life, Cold War democrat(neo-con in today's standards) and never did her advocated for a lager form of GOvernment. The Kennedy tax cut is not of context.

[jazzgtrplayer]

@norr4636 Yeah, you're right, Kennedy didn't start the mission to the moon, wasn't part of the civil rights movement, didn't support a social safety net (certainly no evidence of this in the clip here), and didn't support the arts. Did he support tax cuts at the cost of cutting social security, as conservatives now want to do? Kennedy didn't want a big government for it's own sake, but he was certainly not against using government for what he felt was right.

[norr4636]

@jazzgtrplayer I do admire John Kennedy but if he was really for Civil Rights...Why did he vote against the 1957 Civil Rights Act in which Eisenhower propose? That bill would have done everything for African Americans. Sure he wanted the mission to the moon, and medicare for the AGE(NOT for everyone), Civil Rights was force upon him, IF you are honest and have read about his stance...JFK was not in favor of proposing a bill, until he was force to by civil rights activist.

[Pepotamo1985]

@norr4636

Completely correct.

Kennedy was a decent enough president but this notion of him as massively moral and massively liberal is a fallacy.

[TruthSeeker24]

@norr4636

JFK supported an expansion of health insurance for seniors. That is a larger form of Government. The Public Welfare Amendments of 1962 provided for greater Federal sharing in the cost of rehabilitative services to applicants, recipients, and persons likely to become applicants for public assistance. Also, JFK wasn't some neo-con as JFK opposed the concept of a Pax Americana by 1963, he opposed another invasion of Cuba, and he wanted future peace negoitations with the Soviets by '63.

[bmyrab]

@TruthSeeker24 Corporate sock puppet.

[TruthSeeker24]

@bmyrab

What do you mean by that? I'm not that and I oppose corporate corruption and I've exposed how JFK wasn't a neo con since neo cons are real corporate puppets indeed.

[lakotausa]

It is highly ironic that the well meaning intentions of leaders like Kennedy to see people protected against sickness will be one of the leading causes of economic catastrophe for the United States. The explosive costs of Medicaid and Medicare entitlement programs (created after Kennedy) will now cause either the monetization of debt leading to a Dollar collapse and/or the bankruptcy of a great Nation. Deeply Sad.

[megarational]

@lakotausa There are stock traders & hedge fund managers, who add nothing to the economy, just gamble, that make billions of dollars annually.

The top 1% of the rich own more of the nations total wealth than the bottom 95%.

Yet timid fools like you get all weak-kneeded at the thought of something so "radical" as ensuring that everyone has access to health care.

Oh, wait, it can't be radical. Virtually every other advanced nation already accomplished it.

[norr4636]

@megarational Yeah, it's radical when 1/6 of the economy is going into giving ppl free stuff. Protecting the elderly is fine...but not protecting ppl who are young and able to provide for their own healthcare. Sorry, Jack Kennedy was only talking about the Seniors of our great nation...Not 19-45 years old.

[CrankTheParty]

Awhh. <3

[5inthehole]

"Will take the extraordinary step of not mearly reading the journals and the publications of the AMA (American Medical Association) because I do not recognize the bill when I hear those descriptions." -JFK Sounds alittle like what the republicans have been doing to the current health care bill. I wonder how many could tell you if they really read it or are just going along with their party or ripping it for the money they grab from lobbiest! Wake up Americans!

[dammichsmith]

But ignorance = bliss... it said so on the TV! ;)

[0907oliv]

Revisiting this speech again. This is the coolest speech, informal, off the cuff, wondeful delivery. From beginning to end (go to Part 2), it takes one back to the time when we had this outstanding and brilliant man as our President. He was amazing. A speed reader, he could read a book in a couple of hours, and 5 newspapers front to back in less than an hour, and absorb it all. And to top it all off, he said "no" to the generals. What a terrible loss.

[5inthehole]

We from Massachucetts are very proud of our "Liberal" Mr. Kennedy. His greatest power was that he wasn't afraid to admit a mistake when he had made it and found it as a way to make progress by changing policy that was in error. He took responsibility for his administration and it's errors-Can you see George Bush Jr. doing this? Kennedy brought people to the table, Bush, only those who could afford to pay a seat at the table!

[0907oliv]

And you have much to be proud of. Despite all of his flaws, he was extraordinary.

[mrboffo1]

You don't have to put the word "liberal" in quotes. JFK was a liberal any way you cut it and that's a good thing.

[5inthehole]

I was being facisious when I put the quotes around liberal. I believe most liberal people try to be honest as possible and open minded. It's the conservatives who say one thing, then do another. Only the highest bidder gets represented under a conservative represented america.

[xitongzou]

You people from MA voted in a republican to take JFK's old senate seat! I wonder how JFK would feel about that? Teddy is rolling in his grave...

[5inthehole]

@xitongzou

It was Teddt seat not JFK's- Teddy got it from his brother. It's one of the biggest mistakes my Massachucetts has made in some time (we were the only state to vote against Nixon in 1972). The republicans scare tatics concerning health care reform threw off some more independently minded votes from the state. We can no longer afford the old health care system-10 years ago I paid $ 75mo. for health card now $365mo. Soon middle class will not be able to afford it.

[norr4636]

@5inthehole So because you can't afford your healthcare...it's everyone responsiblity to pick up your slack? Just asking.....We do need reform but not federal overhaul that FORCE americans to take it or get fine by the govt.

[jazzgtrplayer]

@norr4636 I assume you are also against insurance in principle as well? Because you described the entire concept of insurance. Everyone pays in and everyone gets it if they need it. The larger and more diverse the risk pool, the less everyone has to pay. That's all insurance is. You call that picking up my slack? If you understand the concept of insurance, you should understand why your argument against it does not add up.

[norr4636]

@jazzgtrplayer I'm not agianst insurance for people if you pay for it yourself. Older Americans should have a safety net, but not 18-45 age range...Sorry, but tax payers should not be paying for young folks who barely goes to the doctor or get sick.....Personal responsibility is in order....

[jazzgtrplayer]

@norr4636 Many people are denied the possibility of buying health insurance, even for conditions they were born with. Very few people would say they aren't willing to pay in, given the possibility. And the the young folks who are health should be the ones paying in to pay for the older folks who aren't... and when they're old and sick, the young folks will pay for them. No one can escape medical problems indefinitely and those who think they can are not realistic.

[norr4636]

@jazzgtrplayer Well, you part right. we as young people is already paying for old folks(medicare, social security), but you fail to see that once we're old, I don't care if the young people are working...our social security will NOT be there for us. Government broke the system for those program, WHAT makes you think the government can sustain HEALTHCARE?

[jazzgtrplayer]

@norr4636 One, social security will only not be around if nothing is done. It is 29 years until payouts have to be lowered. Do you believe there is nothing that can be done in that time to fix the system? Two, do you believe the profit-driven insurance industry is working? I don't think the government should control healthcare. I do, however, think it should ensure we have access to it. Should kids really be born considered uninsurable? Should adults die for lack of money? Is that right?

[5inthehole]

@norr4636 First of all I never said I can't afford it.Unlike you, I feel sorry for poor and working poor who cannot aford health insurance because corrupt republican have allowed good paying manufacturing jobs leave the country.The only reform republican's come up with is "investment accounts" that people can put money in for when they get ill. Unfortunatly that isn't helpful for the 10% out of work or the 50% just making it. We should help the needy in a more since way!

[norr4636]

@5inthehole Excuse me...Since I lead my local NAACP and I help feed the poor....you don't have a right to claim someone who doesn't care about the poor....Plus it was democrats who helped sign NAFTA....CLinton and the democrats allowed jobs to be shipped overseas....OH....GE(NBC) shipped jobs overseas with the blessings of Obama....yes Obama...and paid no taxes....

[5inthehole]

@norr4636

 Your right about the Democrats and Clinton allowing NAFTA through...I was hoping you didn't know! But it was still a Republican led bill and something they wanted. I notice you don't mention G Bush and the puppet master Channey!

[norr4636]

@5inthehole I teach Political Science for a living..lol. Yes, the Bush Administration did some wrongs on free trade.....

[5inthehole]

@norr4636 Good to see you have a good sense of humor. I double majored in college, one being in philosophy. The only classes I had no interest in is in polotics because of its corrupting nature of those who engage in it. It 's sad to know most elected official go to office knowing they can cash in by lobbiest willing to buy their votes. Not a good way to run a country? I don't blame them though-I'd probably do the same thing.

[time2act1001]

@0907oliv ... anyone that takes the time to watch this WILL know that they are living in the Twlight Zone.

I am 57 yr's old and when I was10 I remember EXACTLY where I was (5th  grade, Regent Av Elementary)

at 1:10 to 1:15PM EST!!! when we were dismised because his MURDER!

My father was a police lieutenent (Providence RI) and on Saturday morning when Ruby killed Oswald

my mother, I and my brother and sister thought my father was going to lose his mind... IMPOSSIBLE!!! He said.

[0907oliv]

@time2act1001 Thanks for your story. I was in the 8th grade in Catholic School in Los Angeles. I was in line with other students returning to class after morning recess. One of the only Republicans in my class (ultra conservative John Bircher type) said to a group of us: "Hey, Kennedy's been shot." I thought he was joking. He acted happy. The whole school went over to the Church to pray after we heard the final news that he had died. It was a sad time. It is still hard to believe.

[1stTrillionaire]

Hot!

[marinduren69]

this is it

[marinduren69]

the best president of the 20th century

each and every speech each and every deed

[procommenter]

A president advising people to read a bill? Impossible!

[GermanShepardd]

Where's Marilyn?

[Pinksnotgoth]

Waiting backstage with her knee pads.

[marcostar57]

And nobody knows what would have happened in a second-term... Republicans & conservatives opposed him on most issues. JFK would be NO conservative by today's standard..either . You must be a conservative yourself & trying to mold him to your ideology.

[norr4636]

You don't have to be arrogant or rude....I've also studied the Presidency since I was a child. Why liberals like to insult thier political opponent? Just want to have an honest debate....Liberals back in the day were much stronger on Foriegn Policy. I'm a conservative democrat much like the cold warriors: Scoop Jackson, George Smathers, and Yes Jack Kennedy. Liberals of today is soooo weak on international affairs....that Scoop Jackson Deomocrats are Republicans.

[marcostar57]

I'm not trying to be arrogant but your saying you're at Harvard seemed a bit haughty to me. -- Anyhow it's too bad that foreign policy is now such a partisan issue -- as everything IS! They used to say politics ended at the ocean's shore. Too me (neo)conservatives are weak -- 9/11/01 on their watch.. disastrous war of aggression/choice.. in bed w/ the corporate "..industrial complex.. outsourcing the military, etc.. Jackson, Smathers, JFK, Ike would all be appalled! Best of luck at Harvard.

[norr4636]

I agree...Mistakes were made but once there...you have to agree...we must win no matter what the cost. Terrorist atacked us....we didn't attack them. Bush did many things wrong.....But his efforts were noble. Glad to have a new friend.! Good luck! thank you!

[marcostar57]

What a great speech, and doesn't JFK's thoughtful arguement in favor of medicare sounds strangely familiar. JFK's plan -- as is Obama's today -- was fiercely attacked by those who were deliberately misinformed. The statesquo fights hard to preserve it's power -- today as in the1960's. Sadly, Kennedy didn't live to see his bill become law; and would probably be shocked to know that the goal of universal health care has still not been achieved some 40+ years later.

[norr4636]

With all due respect....JFK wasn't for Universal Heathcare.......He was only for helping the Age. He wasn't that liberal.....very much a pragmatist of his day. I love and miss him so much.

[marcostar57]

Guess you didn't get my post -- true, JFK wasn't pushing for universal care -- hell, he wasn't even able to get his "progressive legislation" passed -- BUT as I said he'd be shocked that 40 years+ the fight for universal care is still going on -- and being fiercely opposed. JFK had liberal inclinations and I believe became more so as time went by -- but was a realist & pragmatic and moved slowly on issues. He certainly wasn't a conservative -- the John Birchers HATED him!

[norr4636]

Please...John Birchers were no main stream conservative group and you know it....they were a nutty group. Jack Kennedy was a pragmatic and he didn't trust liberals...Read any book on him. He very much didn't want to be classified as a left winger. JFK would have govern more moderate to conservative in a second term. Even some of his aides have stated that...I'm currently at Harvard Kennedy School studying for a Public Policy degree. IJack Kennedy was no liberal in todays standard.

[marcostar57]

It's great you're studying at Harvard... I'm just a commoner who majored in poly sci at a state U .. & have studied the presidency most of my life. I SAID he governed as a pragmatist... do you need better reading comprehension skills? But he had a liberal vision at least in domestic social policies.

[0907oliv]

JFK did not want to be labeled: "liberal", "conservative," etc. He was an independent & pragmatic thinker. On some issues, he was ahead of his time.

Not everything written about JFK is true or a fair assessment. The full story is not in on his Presidency yet. Historians now rate him as the 6th greatest President. Having flaws doesn't mean that you don't also have virtues. Here we are listening to one of the greatest speakers to ever hold the office of the Presidency!

[opencurtin]

What a guy the ultimate politician, its terrible to read all the shit written about him after he was murdered

[djmultimusic]

President Kennedy really had guts.. The 1963 speech he gave pleading for the nation to open their hearts and see civil rights as a moral issue took some major guts. There really no issue today to compare it to.. (please don't say gay marriage) I wish our politicians today had guts and stood up for what they believe in. What happened?

[djmultimusic]

why are people trying to compare President Obama to President Kennedy? That's an insult to JFK. Perhaps on pace to be the most progressive President this nation has ever known. Let President Obama write his own progressive legacy (if he does) HE IS NO JFK

[0907oliv]

A favorite JFK presentation. Beginning with the ABC intro and ending with God Bless America, it gives me a you are there feeling. I feel transported back to the time when JFK was our President.. I love this speech! It displays his wonderful speaking style, his passionate and rhythmic delivery. No one can hold a candle to him. If you enjoy Part 1, go on to Part 2. It is equally wonderful with a classic JFK ending. God bless President Kennedy.

[jandy16]

this guy rules... a genuine hero.

[JosephThomasOBrien57]

JFK liked to quote Tennyson: "that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will; to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

There's nothing heroic about those who stand in the doorways and block up the halls to democratic change and the wonderful diversity that progressives rightly see enrich us all.

[pt109girl]

yes.... he did enjoy quoting Tennyson. when power leads men towards arrogance....

[JosephThomasOBrien57]

Right wingers hounded Jack Kennedy. The John Birch Society kept up a drum beat about JFK being an automoton of the Pope. Many believed. Today the children & grandchildren of those Birchers fill the internet with the same caliber of claim about Barack Obama. The Birchers and their fellows accept Catholics now -- as long as they will help smearing this newest break-through president. As Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Tom O'Brien

[SunCelticSea]

I love him!

[BelleEaso]

me too :)

[norr4636]

15:20 classic JFK

[altecdoska]

Great man.

[kidkappa04]

puts Obama to shame

[norr4636]

Amen brother! Put obama to shame.....never used notes or the plastic glass that is called a tele-promter.

[mrboffo1]

Enough with the teleprompter already. All presidents since Lyndon Johnson have used it.

I agree that JFK is possibly the greatest orator of the TV age, but not because he worked without a teleprompter.

[norr4636]

Can't get mad at the truth. Sorry but Obama is a flake.....As a african american I can't stand the way he act as an elite ASSHOLE. I am a Democrat.....But a democrat in the JFK era not this none sense we have with the MSNBC Crowd

[mrboffo1]

I don't believe that you are a Democrat. The term "elitist" is a is well- worn epithet that cons have directed toward liberal Dems for awhile now. Your use of it is a giveaway that you get your news from Fox or Rush or the like...or you may be a disgruntled Hillary supporter.

My suggestion: go get gruntled.

But for the sake of argument, in what sense are Barack's policy positions elitist?

[norr4636]

You are right....I did Support Clinton. The reason why I don't Support Obama is because he hurts the people who gives jobs to the poor people. Raising taxes on people who make $250,000 is crazy. You must get your news from MSNBC. Unlike JFK who cut taxes for every body instead of the Bottom where 43% of the bottom doesn't pay taxes. His policy on healthcare......in order to pay for it you must cut Medicare or other popular liberal programs (CBO) Taken 1/6 of the economy is very risky.

[mrboffo1]

First of all, it is the Republican plan that proposes to tax the employer benefits of those who are already insured. The liberals are against that. If you are referring to income taxes, when Bush's tax cuts expire next year, the rates will return to what they were when Bill Clinton was president. So you are complaining about the Clinton era tax rates which were a huge success until he signed the capital gains tax cut in 1998 that created the tech bubble that would later burst.

[norr4636]

Robert Kennedy's son Douglas Kennedy works for Fox News.....Can't be all bad.

[norr4636]

Ok.....President Clinton didn't have $4 trillion defecit. He didn't spend more in 8 years than 8 months of President Obama. President Clinton cut the capital gains and President Obama is trying to raise the capital gains.

[mrboffo1]

Look...I'm not attacking Bill Clinton. I think that he was a fine president. I'm attacking the conservative position on taxes that you are promoting. Clinton raised taxes on those same people whom you are worried about - the $250k+ crowd. That was good tax policy! Let's go back to the Clinton era tax rates now! That's what Barack wants to do. Obama's '09 budget had a $700 billion deficit waiting for him before he was sworn in as well as the worst economy since the Republican Great Depression.

[norr4636]

I guess you would vote against JFK tax cut also....Like Reagan and Bush he cut the taxes and capital gains tax. What is so conservative about giving business people more money to be able to create more jobs. Jack Kennedy said "that business is the engine to our economy." He was right then and it's true now.

[mrboffo1]

While Kennedy's tax cut lowered the top marginal rate from 91% to 74%, the new law also closed tax loopholes which allowed the richest to avoid much of their taxes.The new law ended up increasing ammount the wealthy paid because they ended up paying more $ after many of those loopholes were closed. He knew this because he was himself a millionaire. The result was the largest % increase in GDP in history (BEA). Yours is an even better idea: let's return to the Kennedy-Johnson era tax rates now.

[norr4636]

You know I'm not talking about that.....What I meant was he cut taxes for everybody. I want the Capital gains eliminated for two years and make the bush tax cut permanant. Why liberals think that taxing the hell out off business will help the poor? It will only drive business to cut employees salary or laayoff people because thier taxes are too high. But liberals don't think about that, only hurting the so called rich who provides jobs to the poor.

[mrboffo1]

Because the US was in the midst of a sluggish economy, JFK's proposal for a tax cut at that point in time was utterly consistent with Keynesian theory (i.e. Liberal tax policy). Cutting taxes was a useful tool for managing the economy out of what was a mildly recession-like period. But my point that the top rate was still 71% after this tax cut seems to slip by without the mention. This fact utterly obliterates the conservative meme that high taxes on the rich are bad for the economy.

[norr4636]

.......to pay the healthcare of my workers in my small business. Why would he force me to give helathcare to workers who I pay very well for them to buy thier own healthcare. Thats not What Thomas Jefferson invision the Party to turn out to be a business killing party. My workers know it to......Hope and change my foot. He will cause more business to lay off workers but his speech tonight will be important. He will drop the Public Option....BET ON IT.. THANK GOD FOR BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS.

[mrboffo1]

A real public option will bring down healthcare costs for everyone.The reason that healthcare is 16% of our economy is because there's no public option competing with the healthcare cartel to keep costs down. In France healthcare is 10% of the economy & that's Europe's most expensive. You should listen to what JFK says in this video. It 's a brilliant argument in for the public option known as Medicare. I like Barack, but he is nowhere near as liberal as the Great John F. Kennedy, not yet anyway

[norr4636]

Look if you ever read anything on JFK you would know he didn't trust liberals. And every honest liberal will tell you that Jack Kennedy wasn't a liberal. He attack liberals and was attacked by liberals for his non vote on Joseph McCarthy censure. So yes he had Liberal goals but wasn't a committed liberal he was Centrist all the way. Remeber the liberals tried to stop his campaign for the Democratic Nomination ie....Truman, Mrs. Roosevelt.

[snoops71]

I still enjoy to hear him speak, and to see him walk. He had a very masculine, presidential stride about himself:)

[shillabarquet]

hey is this where marilyn sings?

[copper2150]

So long ago but still within our hearts and minds. A man of courage, conviction, and committment of which we shall never see again. What a terrible shame....

[DEEP177]

Watch both parts of this speech. I did't see JFK even look down at notes! Did he have any or was this all off the cuff? You couldn't rehearse this. Truly amazing, and the mark of a true statesman. The moron living on Pennsylvania Avenue today couldn't accomplish this with a three minute speech on his best day.

[oliverburke]

Kennedy is an excellent speaker. He hardly Ever falters. I dig Barack Obama, and it seems JFK can still speak better. Yeah, I say he didn't look much at his notes, cuz u cd tell this was very heartfelt. What a guy.

[cathytreks]

Yes, truer words were never spoken, Kennedy was the Best President of your America and and the best leader of our free world!

Amy - Auckland N.Z.

[marinduren69]

evil will not, must not triumph !!! we are, the good people, we are the one who must bear the burden of this twilight struggle now and today nothing is more important than this ....being this not a call to bear arms no arms we need not a call to battle not embattled but a call to dissent a call to dispute and refute this current administration yet a powerful dissent voiced in civil manner and under the rule of laws but a determined dissent to the highest institution of this greatrepublic

[mrboffo1]

Hey look! A real president!

[GenralRaam1]

@mrboffo1 

[tomitstube]

@mrboffo1 ~ a real democrat.

[rodni7777]

Hail to the Chief!

[labourmidwest]

The bill to provide health insurance for the aged would fail in the Senate by 52 to 48, despite the public rallies and campaign. Dallek, in his biography of JFK, notes that 'Kennedy's passion . . . was insufficient to indentify a formula that would disarm conservative opponents and satisfy a majority of liberal advocates' (Dallek, 2003: 496).

[DCUPtoejuice]

Kennedy dispproves his own point. He says doctors would never refuse to treat a patient. Well, there you have it, if you don't have money, the doctor will still do their best to help you.

[copper2150]

No notes, no tele-prompt-ter and he speaks to you not at you. We lost so much when we lost this man. A true statesman and leader of the free world. "And we shall not see his like in our life time".

[Moviebro]

We can hope, but you are probably right.

[soulierinvestments]

Notice how President Kennedy speaks in paragraphs --- not in soundbites. He is willing to build an idea through multiple sentences, let the rhetoric build to a logical conclusion and then take the applause. Today, most public speeches seem to be built to get applause first, ideas second.

[hahl940]

Notice how President Kennedy respects and engages the audience.He doesn't talk at you. Just like Barack Obama he tells the people that the President of the United States isn't supposed to be just another politician but someone who displays leadership and the desire to make a difference in peoples' everyday lives. To me, President Kennedy is really speaking about the beginnings of a basic,universal health care plan.

[captainfun63]

I'm with you all the way. What happened to "leadership"? What happened to America?

[nikkieluver00]

it's funny on 2:22 when he says the one hour of intertament...that ended 3 hours ago lol

[aussiebeachut]

Marvellous stuff.. ditto the relevancy today absolutely .. it's currently a very hot topic since the change of Government down under here in Australia.

When did this take place ?

Jack seems very popular.. I am guessing 1963 ??

[wmbrown6]

I reckon this was at the latest, mid-1962. The old ABC logos were in use then; Paul Rand's design didn't take effect until the outset of the 1962-63 season, with G. Dean Smith's 'circle 7' logo spreading to its O&O's a few months later.

[wmbrown6]

P.S. This speech took place on May 20, 1962.

[aussiebeachut]

Thanks for the info :-)

[WhiteCamry]

The tragic thing is, it's still relevant today.

[WhiteCamry]

Note the lack of teleprompter screens on the podium.

[robcat2075]

I love the cat-eye glasses on the women in the audience.

[anthony1962]

Health care for the elderly is the topic of his speech.

[anlu2]

what is the legislation that he wants to pass? im only from norway