John F. Kennedy speeches

Title

John F. Kennedy speeches

Genre

Speech

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1974

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Duration

00:15:30

Description

Selection of President John F. Kennedy speeches: State of the Union, 30/01/61; Inaugural Address, 20/01/61; Radio and television report to the American people on the Berlin crisis, 25/07/61; Swearing in as President, 1961; Special message to Congress on urgent national needs before a joint session of Congress, 25/05/1961; Radio and television report to the American people on the Soviet arms build up in Cuba, 22/10/62; Radio and television report to the American people on returning from Europe, 06/06/61; Senator John F. Kennedy, on Nikita Khrushchev in a speech at the University of Rochester, 01/10/59; Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, New York City, 25/09/61; Remarks at the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 07/10/63; Speech at Berlin’s Rudolph Wilde Platz, 26/06/63 (containing the line: Ich bin ein Berliner); Commencement Address at American University, Washington, DC, 10/06/63.

Contributors

John F. Kennedy

Keywords

USA; Politics; Cuba; USSR; Nuclear weapons; Cold War; Arms race; Presidents; John F. Kennedy; Germany FR; East West relations; Berlin; Nonproliferation treaties; Nikita Khrushchev

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