"Peace for All Time": JFK's Historic 1963 Call for Peace Helped Lead to Nuke Treaty with Moscow
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- President John F. Kennedy's "peace speech" at American University 60 years ago was a searing critique of Cold War politics and laid out a hopeful vision for a world built on cooperation and empathy, even among rival countries. Kennedy called for "not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time." We feature an extended excerpt of Kennedy's remarks and speak with The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel about how the speech remains relevant today. The Biden administration "could certainly take a page" from Kennedy's policies, she says, urging the U.S. to avoid needless escalation during this time of renewed hostility between the United States and Russia over the war in Ukraine.
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I'm a conservative and JFK's speech gives me chills. Love it.
By today's standards, JFK would be considered a conservative
Many of us conservatives are former Democrats. The party of Joe Biden is something I have never seen before in my life. Lord help us.
Call yourself an intelligent person if this speech makes an impact on you.
Don't straitjacket yourself into narrow definitions like Liberal or Conservative.
@@robertpolityka8464 I tend to agree.
Ur brainwashed following these decviers
This is what a president should sound like.
Yes, but then the CIA or some pro-war element in the government will have them killed.
Absolutely. 💙💙
🤗😍🤩😇 HEAVENS YES BUT NOT IN REIGN OF 👹 G.O.P.- GEN. POMP; MONSANTO, SOROS, putin, cheney, trump rumpfeld, armitage & such
and now his nephew is running for president.
And today, we are doing exactly what Kennedy warned us not to do
his bosses killed him took back the nation
Because America will have no economy without wars.
Not "we" per se. The Western imperialist billionaire class is doing this Ukraine Russian war, the Neo-cons like Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland and the folks at the "Second CIA" the National Endowment for Democracy which is anything but democratic. The modern Democratic Party is the current home of the neo-conservative war mongers, the ones who issued their white paper in year 2000 from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) calling for a Pax Americana enforced upon the world with our superior military. They're the ones who some suspect were involved in the World Trade Center attacks, when they revealed their plans for this Pax Americana would not happen quickly without some "new Pearl Harbor" event to accelerate militarism.
and now his nephew is running for president.
Stephen Small fridge
It's not "we", nor is this President Biden's fault - but rather that of the unrelenting _aggressors_ , specifically Putin and his followers.
John F. Kennedy was the BEST PRESIDENT! I never get tired of listening to Kennedy. He was so Peaceful! 💪🏽
and now his nephew is running for president
@@elliemaeclampett2810 And that nephew, RFK Jr, is nothing like his father, nor like JFK!
Junior's ideas are Wrongwing, and inimical to America and to democracy.
Kruschev mopped the floor with him in Vienna
Greatest speech by US president.
Oh come on all Biden’s speeches are top notch 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And don’t forget the genius of Kamala 🎉🎉🎉
and now his nephew is running for president.
Too bad it's just words.
@@vipermad358bot or troll
He made this speech when the world still admired America. How far we have fallen and decayed.
The best speech given by a president in the last 75 years... it was so good, it was reprinted word for word in Pravda, the Soviet Union State newspaper...
But what if we judge John F. Kennedy by the lengthy record of his actual political career, in historical perspective? What if this hero of liberals was, in fact, the opposite of a liberal?
As Ira Stoll convincingly argues, by the standards of both his time and our own, John F. Kennedy was a conservative. His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth. His tax cuts, which spurred one of the greatest economic booms in our history, were fiercely opposed by his more liberal advisers. He fought against unions. He pushed for free trade and a strong dollar. And above all, he pushed for a military buildup and an aggressive anticommunism around the world. Indeed, JFK had more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ.
Not every Republican is a true heir to Kennedy, but hardly any Democrats deserve that mantle. JFK, Conservative is sure to appeal to conservative readers - and will force liberals to reconsider one of their icons"......from the book, JFK conservative by Ira Stoll
John F. Kennedy had more in common with Ronald Reagan than the modern Democrat Party.
Now, JFK would like the opportunity to destroy your assertion in his own words.
"I’d be very happy to tell them I’m not a liberal at all…I’m not comfortable with those people." Saturday Evening Post, June 1953
"This administration intends to cut taxes in order to build the fundamental strength of our economy, to remove a serious barrier to long-term growth, to increase incentives by routing out inequities and complexities and to prevent the even greater budget deficit that a lagging economy would otherwise surely produce. The worst deficit comes from a recession, and if we can take the proper action in the proper time, this can be the most important step we could take to prevent another recession. That is the right kind of tax cut both for your family budget and the national budget…Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy." Radio and Television Report to the American People on the State of the National Economy, August 13, 1962
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” -John F. Kennedy
"It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."
"A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget."
"The American character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual." Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946
"Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution." Each man is free. Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950
"If it is in the public interest to maintain an industry, it is clearly not in the public interest by the impact of regulatory authority to destroy its otherwise viable way of life."
Democrats are using nostop immigration year after year, high taxes, and over regulation to drive down wages at the bottom and increase housing prices at the same time. To the point tens of millions of people don't have any money left over at the end of the month. Which gives all the power to employers. And its the lack of power in the hands of employees that allows the excesses at the top, causing the wealth gap.
Compare that with the conservative model of using low taxes, less immigration, and less regulation to tighten up the labor market. Which raises wages, allows mobility, allows for advancement, allows people with lousy work records or low skills to get decent jobs, and gives people dignity. If people are capable of empathy and compassion and care about the little guy, they are Kennedy/Reagan conservatives.
"You can’t be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”.......Ronald Reagan
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950.....John F.Kennedy
JFK sounds like Elmer Fudd at times !
@@practicaliching2311 your writing is beautiful. In 1963 I ❤’d Kennedy. But - - the long haul shows how wrong I was 😔 . We the people, are still in deep 💩 !
I was 12 years old when he made this speech. The US needs another president like him, not Trump nor DeSantis. I shook his hand when he was a candidate before his first term. I was with my father. A time I will never forget.
Sadly he was kinda an imperialist
Awesome experience to shake any President's hand, especially JFK.
@@kx7500 If you are a MAGAhead, you might say that since he infringed on the rights of bigots to expressed their god given right fro hell to discriminate, harass others, abuse the God given rights of others, and to be violent towards them. If it had been me, I would have exercised the rights on the bigots that they want to be able to have. Not worried about any coming civil war because I know the weaknesses of these bigots from the Vietnam War. They will lose...again. During Kennedy's time most of the people in the country loved him and a few uncivilized ridge runners didn't like him. They could get factory jobs but no important positions without a background of education unlike today. Hence, they are CEOs, senators, congressmen, and corporate people running business into the ground playing redneck justice games they learned from local small time politicians. I want to be in charge without working to get there because I'm entitled is their moto. And the rise of the statement, It's not what you know, but who you know. That's why if allowed to happen, this country will not rank in the 4th or 5th in terms of being one of the largest powers. Big guns don't make big power in the future because that can be taken away without firing a shot. It will take brains, smarts, dedication, and pride which is already beginning to dwindle. People will be leaving this country in order to migrate to Europe, Mexico, and Canada... just to work. This country's resources will be used up and none of our enemies will want it.
@@kx7500 then why did he oppose invading Cuba and Vietnam with the Army?
@@DialogDontArgue he literally approved the bay of pigs invasion.
John may not have written that speech but there's no mistaking he delivered it. His loss is still felt today.
Ted Sorensen?
This man, had he lived longer, the Cold War would have ended sooner.
@@avlasting3507 Yes! He was behind most of if not all speeches for John F. Kennedy, but I guess they both agreed to what was going to be said; it is said that Ted was good at words and how to express things...it might be a good thing to collaborate on things to get a good balance of what is said.
And Americans fell for the words he said? Even the devil can deceive Americans easily if he comes in now. Wake up America. Only GOD is good.
@@janedvinsson Parts of the speeches were actually JFK's own. For the rest, it was a collaboration. Sorenson wrote them according to JFKs basic direction, and then JFK likely modified some nuances.
Please Give RFK Jr some press on his presidential run!!!
i'm with you on that.
Why would she? Amy's totally happen with Biden.
May All be given the wisdom to choose Peace. When One is healed All is healed!!
Wow - How deeply I wish I could hear a speech like that coming from the US today. Thank you for posting.
This speech should be played on his anniversary in perpetuity, everything in this speech is relevant today
ALL of what JFK is saying is still relevant today.
"... if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
JFK was a President who spoke to the best in us, as individuals, and as a people, who helped us to believe in ourselves, encouraged the growth of the arts and science in American society, and inspired us --- and by extension, all people throughout the world --- to be and do better for ourselves and society at large. One of the things truly remarkable about this man was that, at the time of his assassination, he was growing profoundly as President.
Yall always fall for anything in America.
@@borngreat-4-life930 we have an excuse .
Its called fluoridated drinking water .
It wouldn’t surprise me if a far right lunatic was the murder. Lol jfk was super progressive and sweet and didn’t deserve death, he was a good man and even advocated for Medicare for all. But also conservatives/ grublins from dawn of the dragon don’t want Medicare and want everyone to suffer with over blown medical bills.
He was our best president, hands down
That man JFK was certainly desirable; it's so disheartening/distressing that the good die really young/too soon!!! 15:59
*JFK, was one of the best president of United States of America*
In your mind.
Nothing against JFK who was murdered by his VP and the Deep State, and who today would be a Republican as the radical Dems would not have him, but to say he was one of our best Presidents is quite a stretch. What did he really accomplish? His intentions may have been noble but he really accomplished very little. A myth grew around him from the youth at the time who believed the myth. Had no problem with his old man being in with the mob or being mega wealthy. Or fixing elections. Or with JFK literally sleeping with communist spies and being blackmailed by J. Edgar Hoover. Glad nothing like that happens today. Oh, wait a minute......
Biden the worst ever
Thanks for your tireless committment for real freedom and democracy, dear Amy!
I call bullshit. Why are they blocking RFK jr? Why don't they mention the most popular presidential candidate in america. The Last poll has him above trump and biden.
This channel is controlled opposition
I cry when I hear JFK speak and consider how we lost him. No other president since him, other than President Carter, desired peace more. Where are our statesmen and leaders to bring us together. We have truely lost our way during this information age which I've always thought would bring us down instead of forward. Peace is cheap, war is costly - when will our leaders learn? False and misinformation for political and financial gain are destroying us.
he was literally an imperialist
JFK oversaw the vietnam war and CIA assassinations. He was not pro-peace
We will get it back when Americans see through their tribal hate-filled mainstream media, stop all war mongering rhetorics and provocations to raise fears and tensions and stop diverting huge funds into the weapons industry.
Another President like JFK is much needed. Alas, none is in sight and most Americans are captured by the hysteria of going to war.
@@kx7500 • do you even know what an Imperialist is? He was
against the Colonial powers, that still controlled colonies in Africa and Asia. He had issues with England, Belgium, Portugal, and Spain.
@@tonymazi6783 I actually agree that I used the word imperialist wrong here. I don’t think he was on that level, however he was more hawkish than you’d think. Nah of pigs happened under him after all
It’s almost unbelievable that once we heard such words from an American president. I wish we would have a reasonable voice like him leading - somewhere. We need to bring these kind of mindset back to presence.
Robert f Kennedy is running for president.🎉
NOW ALL SUCH VOICES ARE CLOSETED; HOMOS RAPIST devils are * Out of closet* pushing childrape in schools & abortion!!
bobby kennedy jr is running for president.
Biden could not read that speech from a teleprompter in a controlled studio getting taped to be delivered as though live.
yes thats why CIA killed him.
Great Speech!
Sadly In November 1963, He Got His Brains Blown Out On Live TV In Dallas,TX!
That’s How Much The U.S. Government Cared About Peace!
👏🙏🏾 JFK !
The secret govt at work. AKA the CIA
But he was killed and the military industrial complex won. 😢
Guess that means you've given up.
Convict # 9653 For President
was when the MIC won.
This speech is as relevant today as it was then.
I am sure this speech gave the 3 letter agencies an excuse.
Nonsense. He wasn't threatening the world order. The CIA had no reason to kill him. A jealous husband, however...
Most likely, you just can’t attack their power and the means upon how they gather and steal their income and massive Wealth. He spoke of real peace which like today is considered “Putin propaganda” and subversive talk.
"That's the last straw." -George HW Bush (when first hearing this speech)
@@donHooligan hmm HW wasn’t a contemporary of JFK. Perhaps his father. But yeah that speech did not get him killed.
Their LAST STRAW & PUSH TO * DETOUR JFK; AMBUSH RFK; DO FALSE FLAGS *COMMIES/CUBA MOVE* SHUT SLUT MARYLYN MONROE UP QUICK & PAY JACKIE FOR BEST ACTRESS EVER TO WED INTO 2 THRONES!!
I fully respect Mr Kennedy. How come 60 years ago , there was an extraordinary person as everyone can not imagine it had exited on this planet.
Nowadays, all the US Presidents can not be compared.
Mr Kennedy was a true leader.
Former president was involved with the mafia.
Former president Kennedy had multiple extramarital affairs.
It was not nice things , it was correct things base on conscience and morality.
You weren't born that time. Even now, you already were born but still dont really understand what has the man said in 60 years meaning about. That is a big problem come down to human morality and behavior . When they dont have it , they dont understand.
@@xunqianbaidu6917 • When you have the respect of most of the World's leaders, then you have done something, he did more in 3 years than most presidents do in
8 years, please go study the history of his
Presidency.
Kennedy was a war criminal and imperialist
@@xunqianbaidu6917 Just had to be THAT person, huh?
John Kerry is the LAST person that should be talking to anyone on America's behalf
Who is John Kerry ?
@@robertsnyder3114 skull@bones
His service in combat gives him the right to speak on "America's behalf." He went head to head with the Zionists over Palestine.
You have show this speech Many times and Many times!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He was murdered by evil, he tried to make the world better but was cut short.
Thanks, Democracy Now, and to Katrina van den Heuvel. When Jack Kennedy gave his Peace Speech, I was in sixth grade, a recently naturalized immigrant child from the ruins of Postwar Germany. General Ike had warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex, Khrushchev had pounded the UN-podium with his shoe, the Cuba Missile Crisis, and the Bay of Pigs Debacle were fresh memories. I remember how much that speech lifted the hearts of our parents, so deeply worried at the height of the Cold War and Nuclear Arms Race.
YES PEO. OF PEACE! * GEN. IKE & NIKITA, gone now & THE NORTH & BLK SEA MAY BE BLOODY- CONTAMINATED WAR ZONE THIS SUMMER "23 & LANDS NEARBY DEVASTATED/RAPED!! ( WAR DEFENCE KILL STOCKS GO THRU THE ROOF!!!! )
May 1961: President John F. Kennedy sends helicopters and 400 Green Berets to South Vietnam and authorizes secret operations against the Viet Cong.
@@Just-Human not true.
@@elliemaeclampett2810 I pulled that from the official jfk library website. You're lying.
@@Just-Human with respect, you need to listen to RFK Jr talk about that. A lot to learn.
I was profoundly saddened when he was slaughtered in front of all of us who were around back then
Well said
Phenomenal Speech! JFK was certainly unique!!! True greatness! History in the perhaps last 30 yrs is not being taught properly, it’s not given the priority
It should, so as to avoid the same mistakes…thanks for this reminder! Great vid! Greetings and blessings to you all from the Caribbean 🌞🌴🌺🐬🍍🛸😇🍹😽
LV
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Former president Kennedy was involved with the mafia.
Former president had multiple extramarital affairs.
❤
I wonder if DeSantis banned his books😮
Truly great speech and very much resonates with present time too.
I was a boy in grade three when we heard of the assassination. But even though I am Canadian, but I live right on the border, and when you are so close to the United States you are capable of getting their television channels and interplay with the people.
But your President Kennedy struck a part of my heart and soul, I loved him, and was in tears watching this video.
I think that it should be shown to President Putin, because there isn't even one point of it that you could say is out of place and true.
President Putin was forced to engage in this war by the efforts of the American and Zionist neo-conservatives, the folks at the "Second CIA" the National Endowment for Democracy, folks like Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland. The misnamed agency goes around the world overthrowing governments the billionaire class dislikes. (It was founded by Allen Weinstein under authorization from Reagan. The founder boasted that the NED does openly what the CIA did clandestinely!) 30 years ago the Russians told William Colby of the CIA that Ukraine was their "red line". If we tried to take Ukraine and put NATO in it, they would go to war to stop that. It is an existential military threat to Russia. They and Putin are simply doing what they said they would do if western imperialists moved into Ukraine. JFK was antithetically opposed to the future Neo-conservatives.
I too am a Canadian an was in grade 2 in school on that awful day. My teacher left the class and came back 15 minutes later. She told us what happened and the whole school was dismissed. I cried then and again hearing this amazing and courageous speech.
A speech worthy of humanity, and sanity. A speech that every Republican, conservative needs to be tied down and force fed until it is deeply understood.
A forever empty hope I fear.
Conservatives understand John F. Kennedy way more than liberals do. John F. Kennedy had way more in common with Ronald Reagan than with the modern Democrat Party.
"I’d be very happy to tell them I’m not a liberal at all…I’m not comfortable with those people." John F Kennedy Saturday Evening Post, June 1953
"This administration intends to cut taxes in order to build the fundamental strength of our economy, to remove a serious barrier to long-term growth, to increase incentives by routing out inequities and complexities and to prevent the even greater budget deficit that a lagging economy would otherwise surely produce. The worst deficit comes from a recession, and if we can take the proper action in the proper time, this can be the most important step we could take to prevent another recession. That is the right kind of tax cut both for your family budget and the national budget…Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy." Radio and Television Report to the American People on the State of the National Economy, August 13, 1962
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” -John F. Kennedy
"It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."
"A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget."
"The American character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual." Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946
"Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution." Each man is free. Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946
"The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the great patriot, Henry Grattan that: “Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.” Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, January 29, 1950
"If it is in the public interest to maintain an industry, it is clearly not in the public interest by the impact of regulatory authority to destroy its otherwise viable way of life."
You're right all conservatives needs to hear this speech.
They were very different times.
And every democrat neocon
Conservatives need to hear this speech? I consider myself to be a Kennedy Democrat. At this moment, it's Biden and the Democrats that need to hear this speech! Trump and the Republicans, however insincere, are more nearly aligned with Kennedy than the Democratic Party with one notable, much maligned exception - RFK Jr.
The loss of this man has changed the course of history. And not for the good.
well stated let’s prey for peace and the end of this war .🤲
hmmm, truly peace is the prey
all wars are banker wars they will destroy the world
all the money addicted apes prey on peace.
bobby kennedy jr is running for presisent
Shout out to Amy Goodman, and Thank you for all your years reporting the truth, from your mouth to our ears!
I was in High School at this time and remember this clearly.....2 years later, still in high school, i wrote a paper questioning the wisdom of the US in dealing with Castro Cuba......he gave me courage and also insight into seeking wisdom.....good to be influenced by a man of critical reasoning....now lost to our leaders....so sad...
and now his nephew is running for president.
I'd just completed 3rd grade, always felt safe with him as president, even through the CMC. Saw him on campaign trail in first grade, can recall joke he said.
Today it is not easy to find this greatness within our political actors, Amazing discourse, and the fantastic attitude of J. Kennedy in a complex situation. The situation that we have today internationally is not more manageable in any sense compared with Kennedy's time. And we miss actors like Kennedy...
his nephew is running for president.
I was ten when JFK gave that speech. Our 4th grade teacher often talked about current events and especially about JFK. She told us with high hopes that maybe sometime soon us kids would not need to do the bomb
shelter drills anymore. Of course we did for several years. Our teacher openly wept when telling us the breaking news that JFK was shot to death.
and now his nephew is running for president
So frightening, I am concerned because as much as President Biden is doing to help Americans, he remains a war politician. I feel the push and seeing formerly peacekeeping countries jump on board NATO makes me very concerned.
Biden's just a skinny, white Trump.
fewer rapes cuz women fight back.
skinny = defensible
vote for bobby kennedy jr
How about all of them invested in military stocks
@@elliemaeclampett2810
West 2024
Listening to this speech of president Kennedy it becomes much easier to realize why he was assassinated, as well as the incredible assassination of Lee Oswald and all the strange things that happened later with the Warren Commission.
Katrin vanden Heuvel is the real deal when it comes to great journalists. Very smart, very scholarly, very intellectual and speaks from her heart.
RFK Jr. quoted this speech in his recent Joe Rogan interview. He took it to heart and understands its true meaning. RFK in 24.
This is where EVERYTHING changed! Is it any wonder that people-including me-have never believed that one crazy little man alone was responsible for the assassination of JFK? I’m only sorry that I will not live long enough for the whole truth to come out, but it will come out and I have to be satisfied with that.
Oswald was a lifelong communist and KGB agent recruited in Japan and trained in Russia and given a KGB wife, then transferred to DGI control and paid $5000 in Mexico City to kill Kennedy... LBJ ordered this fact covered up by the CIA and fbi in order to avoid ww III
"Kennedy tried to get Castro but Castro got him first" -lbj
Now you know ☝️
We need to bring this spirit back...
RFK 2024
Just the fact that America was a UNITED NATION at the time of his death, and today it's a DIVIDED NATION, was an achievement in itself, let's not forget the Peace Corps that he himself started. So much in that speech applies to today's World. Yes we have taken one step forward and 1 and half steps backwards.
Very refreshing for everyone the speach of a great man and president of USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy, God and your spirit protects your nephew Robert Kennedy who is a candidate for the president who is pursuing peace and prosperity for his beloved country USA and the world.
yes, bobby kennedy has his ancestors behind him.
Obama cool, hip, glib destructive as history will reveal over time.
We miss President Kennedy. We miss Robert Kennedy. We wish they were here, along with Martin Luther King 💕🇺🇸💙 We love them still
bobby kennedy jr is running for president.
Iam 60 yrs old growing up Kennedy was my mom's hero hearing this president speech is so beautiful to me it is something we need to guide us win our. Peace back with🙏💕 Thanks
bobby kennedy jr is running for president.
❤ Peace'For All Times ❤
Refreshing to hear such wisdom for all humanity.
Most don't care, money is all that matters to most, that their family and those in their inner circle are o.k, people think locally and in the short term, not as a global community of human beings.
JFK was such a great man. He was the last president I truly loved and respected. What a joy it was watching him speak. He was extremely intelligent and eloquent in his life and everything he did. I remember him distinctly and when he was shot our entire country mourned. Everyone you saw was weeping. JFK was smart and honest.
Thank you 💛 for sharing this beautiful clip of his speech.
Finally a sensible speaking guest from the Washington Post
God Bless you
Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Let the current President of the US listen the this marvellous speech and NOT only think about about starting useless and unnecessary wars. The world needs PEACE NOW.
This shows us why Kennedy was a threat to them. God bless his soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
The last time an American president spoke about peace and actually wanted to save lives… too bad what happened to him 😳
You can thank conservatives for that. They don’t want peace and want to kill all innocent minorities and lgbtq people. Not a joke. JFK was sweet and very wokeand progressive and awesome and as advocated for Medicare for all.
A dear, great leader, killed by a domestic cabal. RIP JFK and all world leaders that seek peace. ~ Blessings ~ 🙏
This speech was on the 10th of June 1963; JFK was assassinated 6 months later (22 Nov 1963). Only ten or so days before he was killed JFK approved plans for the ongoing covert military assault of Cuba in Project Mongoose.
On the 8th of March and the 7th of October 1963 JFK also made plans for the overthrow of the democratic government of the President of Brazil, Joao Goulart. * LBJ followed through with JFK plans. This resulted in a military dictatorship in Brazil that lasted until 1980s.
Because JFK sent special forces to Vietnam, already by the end of 1962 fifty Americans had died in Vietnam.
Like Obama, presidents can make wonderful speeches, but it hardly defines who they are.
* The National Security Archives "Brazil Marks the 50th Anniversary of Military Coup" 2 April 2014
Great speech. The ideas, vision and commitment contained in this Kennedy's speech is urgently relevant today given the Domicles sword hanging over the humanity's head.
his nephew is running for president.
Greatest speech of our time by President John F. Kennedy.
Thank you for playing this speech.
Let's not forget that Biden nor any President have no say in what goes on in America. The people behind the scenes decides what to be done.
bidn's their puppet. he always been a war-monger.
We all wish for peace.. We also wish that you would provide the links (re youtube) To your Interviewees articles as you promise. Unfortunately you never seem to do this but it's really important as i'm sure many would agree.
An absolute amazing person. RIP brother JFK. 🙏🙏🙏🇮🇳🇬🇧
A Peace for all time is what we seek.
Thank you 🌎 ✊️ 🗽 🌹
Jfk wasn't perfect but at least he felt pain for others.❤
He definitely wasn’t conservative. He’s a sweet woke guy. He would be disgusted at the Conservative party and their anti trans and science bs. JFK definitely would be pro trans. He’s against genocide and lying about marginalized minorities like trans people who are INNOCENT.
I was 13 when rhis speach was made and I remember it like it was yesterday. This is enduring nonument to reasonable wayof thinking, honesty, truth and humanity.
J.F.K. forever!!!
his nephew is running for president
How profoundly important is this speech today.. in those sixty years that passed we only moved close to the end of the mankind..
JFK's worst enemies operated in his own government. No mention of the Dulles brothers and in particular Allen Dulles. 😢
I loved that speech and the dialogue, I certainly hope we keep moving forward to a more united future....
P.S. I love your room Juan, it's nice to see the human side of the news
All well done
Much better, DN!
Esas palabras le costaron su vida 😢❤
That's a very fitting reminder, 60 years later and the inability of the US to find a common ground with Russia is continuing to threaten the stability of the world. I am also reminded of the short period between that speech and the execution of that same man, and it could be said they may have been the words that sealed his fate in the eyes of the warmongers who plotted his end. My opinion would be that if you consider the timeline of Putin as leader of Russia you will see that he offered openness and friendship to "the west" as late as 2012 but was neither fully accepted nor treated with the equality and respect he expected for his country. What has happened since 2014, and the continued conflict in Ukraine as well as Russia becoming involved with conflicts such as in Syria and Chad are because they have been pushed to it by the ignorance and imperialist nature of the US and it's allies.
bobby kennedy jr is running for president.
There is however common ground between Republicans and Putin in their authoritarian persecution of LGBTQ humans.
Awesome 👍
Listening to him speak, I mourn our loss. I was 17 when he was murdered. The same shock and pain I felt then washes over me now.
@WhoElec... Live a long life and you may yet see another Kennedy in the White House.
why do people always want to say how old they were, nobody is interested!
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Because people can't believe how much time has passed, and how right Kennedy was then, and how right he still is now ! Hopefully someday you'll understand.
@@tonymazi6783 I do it was a coup and you ended up with a moron for President today
Communism was "repugnant" to Kennedy-like capitalists, as capitalism was to most Russians, back then.
The Soviet regime still has its followers in the later generations of Russians, which shows that it may have done many things right, after all!
Greates President JFK we shall remember in our life time
We were so sad when we heard of the assassination of JFK in Texas in1963
I was a student in Sri Lanka
I was later in USA California State Los Angeles many years
SARATH DASSANAIKE
One of the younger president of United States.....
wow amazing we neeed thisspeech again broadcasred all over the world!
Love the Speech JFK gives me the chills Love it ❤
"We must have peace with the Soviet Union........Now lets drop trillions of bombs on Vietnam and tighten sanctions on Cuba!!!! Cuz like peace and all that jazz!"
JFK, Peace Activist
Presidents don’t make those decisions. You should know that by now.
Gr , your years ahead of our time. All those military actions are blasphemy 👿! 😣🤪😔😡😡
At the time of President Kennedy's assassination, he had a representative - the French journalist Jean Daniel -- in Cuba, meeting directly with Fidel Castro. This was done through back channels, as a way of re-establishing diplomatic relations between Havana and Washington. Sadly, once Castro learned of Kennedy's death, this back channel was ended by President Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson. Furthermore, President Kennedy was beginning to withdraw U.S. military advisors from South Vietnam during the latter part of 1963.
Advisors. He dropped advisors on Vietnam. By the tens of thousands.
Wow! The Kennedy Karens are mad because I never joined the Camelot Circle Jerk.
I guess I never believed in inherited power and privilege like President Brain Stain himself.
That is one of the best speeches ever!prudent practical prophetic!wisdom at its best!who do Americans elect these days?America has become barren of peace ad delusional self exaltation.that really was a great quy!!incomparable
obby kennedy jr is running for president
Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I've salute u Sir Former US Pres, John F, Kennedy❤❤🙏🙏🙏
All we have built,
All we have work for,
Would be destroyed
In the first 24 hours
...we all breath the same air,
we all cherish our childrens futures,
And we are all mortal!
-JFK
and now his nephew is running for president. so why has democracy now NOT invited bobby kennedy jr on for an interview?
I STAND for peace and Peaceful Co-existence in The World.
Love, thank you!
I really miss this President. We simply do not have a person of his stature on politics today or they've yet to appear. Pres. Obama was as close as we've had.
Except Obama truly was a conservative. The ACA was actually the privatization of Medicaid not any "government takeover of healthcare". He never held Bush et al accountable for any warcrimes, he actually backstabbed the Occupy Movement while publicly claiming to be on their side. He never closed Guantanamo. He never passed EFCA even though that was one of his central campaign promises, etc. etc. Life in black ghettoes actually worsened under Obama's tenure. He talked a good talk but the walk wasn't there. Obama was a Neo-conservative wet dream.
bobby kennedy jr is running for president.
This speech brings tears to my eyes. Kennedy had to be a truly good and great man.
and now his nephew is running for president
Sadly great personal flaws
This man was part of a worldwide move of the Spirit of GOD to cover the earth with PEACE and LIBERTY that got thwarted by His enemies. We're in the middle of a spiritual conflict for the control of REALITY!
Lol no. JFK was just a good man. U don’t need to add fairy tail nonsense and religious delusional nonsense lol! Listen granny or grandpa u need to take your meds again your nonprofit you when your a religtard
I recall an interview with JFK's speechwriter Ted Sorenson. Sorenson was a learned and principled man by all accounts. His wordsmithing was sublime. And Kennedy was an effective speaker. There's something very rare and beautiful about a Kennedy speech. Much credit to Sorenson, and Kennedy, who I'm sure added his own touches...
Pretty words don't make up for his actions. Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, etc.
I suggest you do some research.
@@cindylacy Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky and Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones.
Are you going to interview RFK Jr. ?
Yes looking inward for answers
Thank You.
Nice to see DN finally talk about peace instead of pushing war. About a year too late but good nonetheless.
It's been very sad to see DemocracyNow supporting the USA's proxy war with Russia. The biggest propaganda campaign ever - much like the one that pushed the good German people to get behind Hitler & his madness. The MSM bombed us with BS before we recovered from the shock of Covid. Naomi Klein made some very good, relevant points in "The Shock Doctrine".
they know whats coming albert pike 3 world wars too bad it was fun
How has DN! pushed for war?!
DN has been against the ukraine war and calling out those who want to maintain it...
@@synupps877 during the last year, it has mostly (with a couple of brief exceptions) invited war mongering propagandists, and not covered the most significant aspects of this war. The Pentagon talking points were hit repeatedly and almost daily, while people with dissenting voices, who used to be DN darlings, were suddenly personas non grata.
If JFK had lived to our present day, things would be so different. I believe we would now be more progressive and more enlightened. Big business, big war never wanted him. That is why he was shot. At least that is how I see it.
and now his nephew is running for president.