Audio recording of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign visits to East Carolina College and North Carolina State University


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Speaker 1 0:04
And the United States Senate and who will bear true faith and allegiance to all Americans, of all creeds and all races in the office of President of the United States, the Honorable John F. Kennedy.

Speaker 1 0:29
President Kennedy, excuse me nominee, Democratic nominee, Kennedy is now getting ready to speak. The crowds are, are piling in and out through the platform. And just a moment we'll have the speach of Senator Kennedy,

John F. Kennedy 0:45
My friend and colleague, Senator Durbin. Governor Hodges, Senator Jordan, Congressman Bonner, my fellow members of the Congressional delegation, your next governor of North Carolina, I hope Terry Sanford, distinguished guests. Ladies and gentlemen, I come here today from a section of the United States, which claims to be the oldest section of the United States, to North Carolina, which is the oldest section of the United States. And I'm very grateful to be the guest of Eastern Carolina College.

John F. Kennedy 1:34
I understand that they've had a most rapid growth, and now wish to play in the Southern Conference, I'm finding. I am scheduled in the Southern Conference to and find it with some difficulty. And I hope that you have success and that I do also. I come here today as the nominee of the Democratic Party. And therefore I stand in succession, to a number of distinguished Americans who have borne the banner of the Democratic Party in good times and bad, but they are born at high for the benefit of the United States of America, North Carolina, helped create the Democratic Party, the state of Virginia founded it, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and our party was given its modern form, as the party of the people, by a great citizen of this state, Andrew Jackson, I therefore come here today, to ask your support in a difficult and trying time in the life of our country. I do not run for the office of the president, saying that if I'm elected life will be easy. I think to be an American citizen in the 1960s will be a difficult and hazardous occupation. I believe that this is a great country. But I do believe it can be a greater country. This is a powerful country. But I think it can be a more powerful country. My chief disagreement with the Republicans in this campaign, is that they have had too little faith in the development of this country, I think we can do better. Their campaign motto. Their campaign motto has been you've never had it so good. Well, I think as a citizen of the United States, as well as a Democrat, that it is our obligation to do better, to build the economy of the state of North Carolina, to build the economy of the United States. And in so doing, build the strength of the United States as a great and free country. I think what Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman recognized was that this country cannot be strong and powerful in its world position. Unless it is strong and powerful here in the United States. I think that there is a direct relationship between the deterioration of our relative standing in the world in the last few years. And the fact that we haven't moved ahead here at home fast enough. Last year, the United States had the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world. And when we grow at home here slowly our prestige and power and influence around the world begins to diminish. Here we are the richest country on Earth. And yet in a hungry world, we find ourselves unable to use in an imaginative and affirmative way. The great surpluses that the Lord gave us here today in the richest and most productive tobacco country in the United States. I come as the Democratic standard bearer, affirming the confidence and faith of the Democratic Party in a strong agricultural program, I do not mind.

John F. Kennedy 5:11
It is a source of satisfaction to me that for two months, every four years, the Republican candidate for the presidency, whoever he may be, comes out strongly for an affirmative agricultural program. But day by day, month by month, year by year in the Congress, the burden has been carried by Congressman Coley, the Democratic senators from this state, democratic congressmen and senators from the south and the midwest. We believe as Franklin Roosevelt believed in his day, in an agricultural program that lifts the farmer up, that does not liquidate him, that does not catch him in a cost price squeezed, that liquidates his profits, and drives them into the urban centers of the United States. I stand in direct succession in a great tradition, which I think has meant a good deal to North Carolina, and to my own state of Massachusetts, and to the United States. I asked your support in this election, not merely as the Democratic standard bearer, but who is one who has the greatest possible confidence and faith in the future of this country. Thomas Paine, during the American Revolution said, the cause of America is the cause of all mankind, I think in 1960, and in the next decade, the cause of all mankind is the cause of America. Our responsibility is to be the chief defender of freedom. At a time when freedom is under attack all over the globe, the future will not be easy. But I do think that if we meet our responsibilities here, here in the state of North Carolina, here in the United States, if we build a better life for our citizens here, whether they live in the cities of the north or the south, or whether they live on the farms of this country, upon which our economy has traditionally depended, I think as we grow strong here, we hold out an inspiration to all those who wish to follow our example. The reason that Franklin Roosevelt was a good neighbor to Latin America, was because he was a good neighbor, to the people of this country.

John F. Kennedy 7:37
Today, we celebrate Constitution Day, which is the day at the end of the Constitutional Convention, when George Washington set the constitution to be ratified by the states. I stand today as a supporter of the American Constitution, as the best and most happy way for the organization of our life. And I think our great ambition is to see the blessings of freedom spread, not only in our own country, but all around the world. A strong America, believing in freedom for all our citizens, I think offers the best hope of freedom to all those who look to us with confidence and hope. I ask your help in this campaign.

John F. Kennedy 8:28
I ask your help. And I can assure you that if we are successful, it will be my daily task, to care for the needs and the hopes of our citizens, and also to defend the United States in a time of great danger. During the Constitutional Convention, there was behind the desk of General Washington, a painting of a sun low on the horizon. And many of the delegates wandered during the debate, whether it was a rising or setting sun. And at the conclusion, Benjamin Franklin stood up. He said, because what we have done here, we now know that it is a rising sun and the beginning of a great new day, I think in 1960, it can be for the United States, a rising sun and the beginning of a great new day. Thank you.

Speaker 1 9:30
The senator is now getting a standing ovation. You can hear the crowd in the background they are all flooding and we now hear the band everyone is standing here at the College Stadium in Greenville. Everyone is shaking his hand now on the platform party. And here's Dixie our national anthem, the South national anthem.

Speaker 2 9:57
Senator John F. Kennedy is leaving the stand now as the band plays Dixie and everyone is standing in honor to our Democratic nominee for President of the United States, Senator John F. Kennedy. You have heard this during speech he made at the rally in East Carolina College Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina. The crowd responded to everything he said and certainly showed his appreciation. He's coming here the first time presidential nominee has come to Eastern North Carolina. Governor Hodges is now leaving the Presidential Platform. Senator Kennedy is shaking hands with well wishers and youngsters are coming around to get their pictures, to get their snapshots of Senator Kennedy and the people on this glorious day for Eastern Carolina. There are those who feel that they must shake the hand of the man who is representing so many people. The man who in San Francisco just a short time ago, was elected, nominated to be the Democratic nominee for president. State troopers are now trying to clear away for Senator Kennedy so that he can get in the car, which he is doing with our nominee for governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford. The car will move on. Senator Kennedy has a busy schedule to follow now from Greenville. He will fly to Greensboro where he is due to arrive shortly after 11am. It is now 10:26, he will make a speech at the Greensboro High Point Airport and his plane will take off for Asheville where it is scheduled to arrive around 1 o'clock. You'll have lunch there before he goes to McCormick Field for a speech about 2:15pm. Then he'll fly to Charlotte, where he'll make me go from the airport to Charlotte Coliseum for a speech about 4 o'clock. The final stop on his busy schedule is in Raleigh, where he will arrive around 6:30pm after dinner at the Executive Mansion. Senator Kennedy will go to Reynolds Coliseum where he is scheduled to speak around 8:30pm for those of you want to see that or hear that we suggest you listen on radio to WPF under the stations in your area, most of whom will be carrying the speech. We also suggest if you would like to see it and you tune into channel nine in Greenville. They will carry it on television and then we'll also show films of this morning's rally. As you hear the band is playing Dixie as Senator Kennedy's car drives away is followed by members of his official party, all of whom will go back to the airport following the car. The crowd has been requested to stay in the stands until the motorcade has left the field. This is the crowd is now winding narrow pathway through which the motorcade will pass. The cars have gotten into gear and are now going off. News photographers are still trying to get last minute pictures. There have been representatives here from all over the country, not only from our North Carolina station, from Los Angeles, from New York Times, from Saturday Evening Post, from Washington Post those who are traveling with Senator Kennedy on his complete campaign tour. So we have representatives for example of The New York Daily News, The Los Angeles Times, The Detroit News, as well as across representatives of our papers there were many radio and television representatives here too making tape recordings, and this program was carried live by other Greenville AM stations as well as our on campus radio station, WWWS, motorcade is leaving the field now, car 15, which was the first one who arrived NBC television is now the last to arrive and it is followed by the two busloads of press representatives who greeted Senator Kennedy at the airport and were members of the official party. They too are now leaving the field and will go up back to the airport to follow Senator Kennedy the band is leaving the field and the people are leaving the bleachers at the end of the most auspicious event in the life of college stadiums since the inauguration of our president Dr. Leo W. Jenkins on May 13 as President of East Carolina College. This has been a special event broadcast campus radio, your broadcaster your announcer FM this. Your announcer has been Rosalind Ross, your engineer has been our station manager, Jerry Moore Windbury in the studio our engineers Jimmy Schumann and Charlie Colin. We hope you've enjoyed this broadcast and that you will drop us a card and let us know whether or not you heard us we would really appreciate a card from you. We return you now to our studios.





Speaker 1 [0:00]
Presidential Campaign for Senator Kennedy the Democratic Presidential Campaign as the only swing to the South, the Coliseum is about full. There are a few vacant seats about 100 I suppose. Up in the very front of the Coliseum where we are located here at the press box. And at the very rear of the Coliseum. The there's an estimated crowd tonight of around 15,000 people to be packed into this wonderful Coliseum here. I'll be back in just a moment with more on Senator Kennedy's campaign from Raleigh. The governor of North Carolina is now taking his place on the on the stand, the crowd is now standing, given him a standing ovation. And you can hear the crowd roar in the background. Governor Hodges will introduce Senator Kennedy who has not yet arrived I do not believe.

Governor Hodges [1:13]
I am pleased to present to you, a man I am confident will be the next President of the United States. My faith in this prediction is based partly on realization of the crisis that our country faces, in critical periods in the past, competent leaders have arisen to see us safely through I think we are facing one of those periods. It seems to me that it has never been before so vitally important as it is now that we have a man greatly devoted to truth on principle, and dedicated to serve his country, as this man has for 14 years in the Congress, in the Senate, our democratic candidate for president has faced in complete frankness, every question that has been raised in this campaign as to his qualifications for the presidency, and has been discussing the issues with deep understanding of what these issues mean, in order to ensure his victory in November in North Carolina and the nation, we need to do nothing more than to make clear to the voters of this country, the quality of his leadership for the country, and his concern for its welfare and his vision about its danger and it's destiny. We will need greatness in the White House in the years just ahead of us if the United States and the free world how to survive and grow stronger. Believing in the ability of our own people in North Carolina, to see greatness in leadership and to discriminate intelligently among those who offer those sales for high place. I feel confident that North Carolina will help elect this great American in November. I proudly present a gallant soldier, a profound student of law and statesmanship and a statesman himself to this audience of my fellow North Carolinian who are well qualified to sense strength and devotion behind the simply spoken word of Senator John F. Kennedy. I present to you the next President of the United States.

Speaker 1 [3:49]
The Honorable Luther Hodges has just introduced Senator Kennedy and he is now coming down the aisle here in the Coliseum tonight, there are about somewhere between 15 and 20,000 people here which are packed into the Coliseum. The this is on a statewide hook up, television and radio, the local television in Raleigh, here he comes now ladies and gentlemen. He's coming up now walking up on the platform. As you can hear the crowd roar. The gubernatorial nominee for North Carolina Terry Sanford is beside him. The mayor, the governor Hodges has just shook his hand and he has stepped up to the platform. You can hear the enthusiasm of this crowd as newsman from NBC News. All local and, and state hook up radio, TV, are around with the clamors everyone is shaking hands. So quite an enthusiastic crowd here tonight. There are banners all over the place. It says that the Southern Baptist are for Kennedy says the South is for Kennedy. Everyone has got their Kennedy for President banners flying high as the balloons. Many balloons are in the in the are flying around.

John F. Kennedy [5:25]
Chairman, Governor Hodges.

Speaker 1 [5:30]
Here is Senator Kennedy,

John F. Kennedy [5:32]
I am proud tonight to be here in a great democratic state, as the standard bearer for the oldest political party in the United States, the Democratic Party. The great strength in my opinion of the Democratic Party has been that it's not only survived every crisis in the history of our country, but it also represents every section of the United States, every group within our country, and therefore representing the people, it speaks for the people. I am proud tonight to be introduced by my friend, your distinguished Governor Luther Hodges, who has led this state and who has been associated with us intimately in this campaign, and by your next Governor Terry Sanford.

I serve in the United States Senate, with two distinguished Democrats from North Carolina, Senator Ervin with whom I served on the rackets committee for three years. And Senator Jordan who speaks powerfully for the interests of this state, and for the nation, and the members of your congressional delegation, such as Congressman Cooley, the chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the House, and other members who speak for their districts and speak for their country. North Carolina has put its confidence in the Democratic Party. And I come here tonight as the standard bearer for that great body and ask your support, ask your help in this campaign.

North Carolina must make a decision this year, as they have in other great years of crisis in the past, which road they will take. I think the decision is quite clear. Because I think the alternatives are clear. Mr. Nixon, and I did not suddenly spring out of nowhere. We have not been frozen in ice, or collected an amber since the national conventions. We are part of two great political parties, which stretch back in history like rivers. And you can judge the river and its future course. By studying its past flow, where it rose, where it ran, how fast it moved. When we compare the record of the Republican and Democratic parties in this century, I don't think that there is any question at a time when it is most important that the United States begin to move again, that it will turn for a progressive future to the Democratic Party as it has in the past. Contrast the political slogans which our two parties have used in this century. Stand pat with McKinley return to normalcy with Harding, keep cool with Coolidge and social security with Landon. It's time for a change with Dewey. And you never had it so good. Today. I point with pride. I point with pride to the slogans of the Democratic Party in this century. Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Harry Truman's Fair Deal. And now we present in this century and this decade of the 60s, we present a New Frontier.

I hope that anyone in this state who feels that things are as good as they can be, textile workers and textile manufacturers, tobacco growers, farmers, those who live in this state, those who may be satisfied with things as they are those who are satisfied at the prestige and power of the United States is increasing faster than that of the communist, then I agree they should vote for the Republican Party. But those who want to move ahead, those who believe that the United States has a great role to fulfill those who believe that the future belongs to us, that it requires our dedicated effort in this state and in this country, I hope you will come with us, I hope you will stay with us.

I think Franklin Roosevelt put it to us in 1936, when he accepted the second presidential nomination, and in that speech before 100,000 people at Franklin Field Philadelphia, he said governments can earn, presidents to make mistakes. But the immortal Dottie tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold blooded, and the sins of the warm hearted in a different scale, better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity, then the consistent omissions of a government, frozen in the ice of its own indifference, I think for the past eight years. I don't think that the American people want in the 60s, a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. I think they want this country to move again. I feel that the 1960s will be a difficult and challenging time for us all. Senator Johnson and I run, recognizing that the responsibilities which may be placed upon us, will be more pressing and burdensome that have been placed upon any president in this century. I think the Democratic Party must be used for a greater national purpose in these trying days. And I think there are four things that we must do if we're going to meet our destiny in the 1960s. First, the United States must rebuild its strength here at home, if it's going to maintain its position in the world. Last year, the United States had an economic growth 1/3, that of the Soviet Union, and it had the lowest rate of economic growth of any major industrialized society in the world. Here's the United States a powerful and vigorous country, a country which used to be the model for all countries who wanted to trod the same road that we're treading. And now we've seen in the 50s, where countries which we helped at the end of World War Two, now move ahead at a far faster rate of growth than we do. I think that it's most important that we recognize that as long as there are nearly 5 million people out of work, as long as our steel mills are producing at 44% of capacity. As long as we produce food that we can't use usefully. And that we do not distribute to those who can use it, I think we must recognize that there's unfinished business for us here in the United States.

Secondly, we cannot be satisfied with the fact that the Soviet Union is turning out today. Twice as many scientists and engineers as we are, that it's accepting from Africa and Asia, and Moscow and Peiping are both doing it. 1000s of more Native students who come to Moscow and Peiping and go back and carry the message. Here in North Carolina, which has more children probably for its population than any place in the United States, you must recognize above all other states the importance of maintaining a strong and viable educational system.

Third, I think it's vitally important, if the next President of the United States is going to be faced with the necessity in 1961 of negotiating with the Soviet Union over Berlin, or defending the commitments we've made in Southeast Asia against the Chinese Communist, I think it's important that he has as Commander in Chief, a military force second to none. I do not think that there is any sense, I do not think that there is any sense in having the second best defense. It's as useless as the second best poker hand. We want to be first, not first, if not first, but not first, when, but first, and that is our object and that is our policy.

We need an invulnerable atomic force, a retaliatory force and also conventional forces, which can maintain the peace of the world without resorting to nuclear struggle on both sides. And lastly, we must be prepared to reassert our initiative in foreign policy. The United States has had less than 100 people working on the complicated and scientific subject of modern disarmament, 100 people scattered throughout the entire federal government, which has meant that we've had no position that our negotiators have gone in unprepared and that the United States has lost a psychological advantage, we must regain the initiative as a peace loving country, which is second to none, which is powerful, which talks quietly and carries a big stick, I see no sense.

I don't think words are a substitute for action. I don't think the United States is going to protect the peace of the world, and our own security, by kitchen debates, all by arguments in conference, we're going to maintain the peace by being strong here in the United States, by attracting the imagination of people all over the world, who stand today on the razor edge of decision, attempting to determine whether the world is moving with the communists, or moving with the West and the United States. Mr. Khrushchev once said, the old and the rotten will always fight with the newly emerged. But it is a law in history that the new will always win. I think we're the new, I think his system is as old as Egypt, and just as rotten. And therefore if we maintain our position here, if we maintain our strength, if we maintain our economic and political and social vitality here in the United States, then it will spread through the world. And the people who watch today will determine that our high noon is in the future, and not in the past. That's what we want to do. Our strength here in the United States, as in the days of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, and Franklin Roosevelt, who was strong here at home, and therefore strong abroad, and Harry Truman, whose Fair Deal had its accompany in his policy around the world point for the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, unless you are moving at home, you're not moving abroad. I asked your help in this election, not promising that if we're successful, life will be easy. But saying that we can move again in this country, we can fulfill our former promises. We can assure today on the 173rd anniversary of the ratification of the United States Constitution, we can assure another 173 years if we in our generation recognize that we to have a rendezvous with destiny, if we're prepared to bear the burdens and responsibilities, which go with freedom after the defense of Thermopylae 2000 years ago, when a few Spartans defended the past against the masses of Persians, you will recall that above their grave, there was carved in stone, passerby tell Sparta we fell, faithful to her service. We today want to live faithful to the service of the United States. The greatest system of government ever devised and it requires the best from all of us. And I am confident that if we meet our responsibilities in this year of decision of 1960, this country will be free and it will be known as the home of the brave. Thank you.

Speaker 1 [19:41]
You had just heard the address by Senator Kennedy here before this packed William Neal Reynolds Coliseum tonight. There is an estimated 20,000 persons here it is it is packed to the brim there's not a seat empty. The crowd is now standing up, giving him a standing ovation. The Honorable Luther Hodges the governor of North Carolina and the the Democratic nominee, gubernatorial candidate Harry Sanford are all three and Senator Kennedy are in the center of the stage now, responding to the crowd. In just a moment, Senator Kennedy will answer questions asked from the floor. I submitted a question to Senator Kennedy. I do not know if I would get a chance to ask him tonight. But I was told that he would contact me directly for an answer sometime after the meeting. The Luther Hodges I see is up to the platform again, I think he is one to ask a few questions. As I said before the WRAL TV here in Raleigh.

WRAL TV in Raleigh is pairing this program tonight on a statewide television basis. There are radio engineers and and reporters here. Plus all people from the press are about 150 press members tonight setting with us here in the press box. Governor Hodges just introduced Terry Sanford and he has stepped up to the platform and is about ready to speak. Let's see what he has to say.

Governor Hodges [21:49]
Earlier this evening as the audience here in the Coliseum nose, question plaques were given out to anyone here who wanted to ask a question of Senator Kennedy. And the limited time we have available left for television, you can understand that Senator Kennedy cannot answer all of these questions. As a result, we are going to start asking those questions which were asked most frequently by the audience. And in a moment, we will get those questions directly from the audience. But first, Jack, I'd like to ask a question. I have traveled all over North Carolina, since the Los Angeles Convention, and I'm convinced of all of the things on the people's minds today and North Carolina, that for most that the dominant issue, the dominant question is the sinking prestige of America and the world. And I would like to ask you as a national view, what is your opinion of the dominant issue of your campaign?

John F. Kennedy [22:58]
Well, I would say, as I suggested in the speech, that I think the basic problem facing the United States, is to maintain the peace, maintain our vital interests and our national security, serve as the leader of the cause of freedom around the globe, and attempt to develop in this country, sufficient forward motion, so that we catch again, the imagination of the world, as a power and a system of government that represents the kind of government which all people want to endorse the kind of government under which all people want to live. In other words, if we do well, here, we enhance the prestige and power and influence of the cause of freedom around the world. If we fail, the cause of freedom fails, if we succeed, the cause of freedom succeeds. Our responsibility is to throw light and luster around that great cause around the globe.

Speaker 1 [23:58]
The question I asked the senator was, according to this morning's report in the newspaper, that it was printed in there that he said during before the National Democratic Convention that that he had would hope to win the nomination without a single vote from the South. Listen to what kind of answer we get from that question if it is asked tonight. Right now, a young lady in the back of the Coliseum here, just asked him a question. I'm sorry, I didn't get it. He is answering it right now. Just a moment. We'll have another question from the floor and answered by Senator Kennedy lets listen to part of his answer to this question.

John F. Kennedy [24:44]
I think they'll continue their struggle against us, but it will take the form of economic competition, subversion, and perhaps brushfire wars. For that reason, I think we should maintain our conventional forces. I think we should strengthen the kind of forces that you have at Strack here in North Carolina. Increase our airlift and be prepared to fight the kind of limited war. If we're prepared to fight, we may not have to, as Winston Churchill said 10 years ago, we armed a parley. If we're strong, then I think we can maintain the peace. I don't think it really, I would hope that it would not be a factor in the campaign. It seems to me that in 1960, the issues which I tried to discuss tonight, the future of this state, the future of the country, the security of the United States, the peace of the world, I would think that they would be a far greater interest to the people of North Carolina than we are I'm going to go to church tomorrow morning.

On the Labor Committee for 14 years in the House in the Senate, I'm chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor as well as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I feel that labor unions are honestly led, and I think the great majority are serve a useful function in protecting the interests of their members and building their wage level. Unless we have a strong wage level in the United States who's going to buy all the goods we produce? We can't sell them abroad.

My own feeling is that the Jimmy Hoffa's and the others and the Bridges who we investigated at some length during the racket committee hearing are a minority. My own feeling is that I will not be satisfied as long as Jimmy Hoffa remains at the head of the Teamsters Union. And I think I, what I like about the South, is that, firstly, it's a sense of history, and its identification with the history of the United States. Secondly, I think it's had a strong in its history, a strong internationalist viewpoint. It has stood for the defense of our country, its strength and prestige around the world. It has been willing to bear arms and war, and it's had a strong sense of public service in time of peace. Thirdly, or fourthly, I guess it's a growing section. I think the Franklin Roosevelt administration probably meant more to the development of the South than it did to any other section of the United States, I think the 60s. I hope that in the 60s, the South will continue to move ahead. And let me say what I like perhaps maybe should be first is the fact that the South has maintained in good times and bad the Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 [27:34]
That is a wrapping up now of the Democratic rally here tonight. Before everyone gets out. I'd like to ask a few questions sitting beside me here in the press box is Mrs. Henry Bell. Her husband is the editor of the Goldsboro News. And as you probably know, Mr. Bell, Mr. Henry Bell is also one of the trustees on the board of trustees at East Carolina College. Ms. Bell, I'd like to ask you what you think of the meeting here tonight.

Mrs. Bell [28:05]
Oh, it's been a thrilling experience to hear all their wonderful enthusiasm for candidate.

Speaker 1 [28:11]
Thank you, ma'am. And I like to ask you also, what do you think of his prospects of carrying this out and possibly carrying the election?

Mrs. Bell [28:19]
Well, I think right now he could carry anything after the speech. I've just heard him make.

Speaker 1 [28:24]
Thank you so much. I'm glad you feel so enthusiastic and and so faithful to Senator Kennedy and the Democratic Party in the South. This has been a special affairs broadcast of the campus radio Jerry [Banbury] here at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum reporting to you tonight. We take you back now to our campus radio control room.


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Audio recording of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign visits to East Carolina College and North Carolina State University
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Audio of East Carolina College campus radio station's special broadcast of the North Carolina campaign visit on September 17, 1960 of Presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy. Audio includes the speeches Kennedy made at the East Carolina College football stadium in Greenville and at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh. Includes commentary on dignitaries present, press coverage, and crowd response. The rally in Raleigh also includes Kennedy's introduction by North Carolina governor Luther Hodges and Senator Kennedy's answers to audience questions including one question from gubernatorial nominee Terry Sanford.
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