KENNEDY SPEECH

JOHN F, KENNEDY IS NO LONGER WITH US. INSISTENT VOICES FROM OUR
PULPITS, TELEVISION, AND THE PRESS ARE REMINDING US THAT HE DEPARTED AS
A VICTIM OF A DISEASE NOW PREVALENT IN OUR LAND--A DISEASE THAT DEFIES
MODERN ANTIBIOTICS, VACCINES, OR DRUGS, OUR PEOPLE APPEAR TO AGREE THAT
HE WAS MOST CERTAINLY THE VICTIM OF HATRED, MALICE, AND THE ABSENCE OF
UNDERSTANDING, THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN OUR HISTORY AS YOU KNOW, WAS THE
INTIMELY EXECUTION OF JESUS CHRIST. THERE IS A GREAT PARALLEL HERE,
OUR LORD WAS ALSO A VICTIM OF HATRED AND DIVISION, YOU HAVE LEARNED IN
YOUR ENGLISH CLASSES THAT GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY, HIS WONDERS TO
PERFORM, PERHAPS HE PERMITTED THIS AWFUL ACT AS A MEANS OF SHOCKING US
INTO A REALIZATION OF THE NEED FOR A RECONSTITUTION OF OUR NATIONAL
CONSCIENCES, SUBSTITUTING LOVE, UNDERSTANDING, AND MUTUAL RESPECT FOR THE
PRESENT POISON BEING THRUST UPON US BY OUR EXTREMISTS, THE COWARD WHO WAS
ACCUSED OF PERFORMING THIS INFAMOUS ACT MADE NO SECRET OF HIS LEANINGS
TOWARD IDEOLOGIES FOREIGN TO OUR OWN; IN FACT, HE BRAZGNLY’ BOASTED OF THEM,
THE VERY CITY WHERE IT OCCURRED HAD EXPERIENCED RECENT ACTS OF HATRED AND
VIOLENCE. BEFORE WE CONDEMN THAT CITY OR STATE, HOWEVER, LET US FIRST
EXAMINE OURSELVES. WE MUST SHARE IN THE TRAGIC EVENT IN DALLAS. WE

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WE CONTRIBUTE TO UGLINESS WHENEVER WE BELITTLE OUR GOVERNMENT. WE INCREASE
MEANNESS WHEN WE GIVE ONLY LIP SERVICE TO OUR CHURCH, WE NURTURE
MISUNDERSTANDING WHEN WE FAIL TO TREAT OUR NEIGHBORS WITH RESPECT. WE
BECOME LESSER CITIZENS WHEN WE NEGLECT TO ASSUME OUR FULL RESPONSIBILITY
FOR MAKING THIS GREAT DEMOCRACY WORK. WE HAVE ALL BEEN DIMINISHED BY THIS
HORRIBLE AND PURPOSELESS VIOLENCE. JOHN F, KENNEDY WAS CLOSER TO YOUNG
PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT. HE WAS PART OF THIS CAMPUS, BEING THE
ONLY PRESIDENT EVER TO VISIT HERE. HE, ALONG WITH HIS WIDOW, STRESSED
THE NEED FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, TRAINING FOR SPECIFIC JOB OPPORTUNITIES,
AND AN APPRECIATION OF BEAUTY AND THE ARTS IN OUR LIVES, HE WAS THE HERO
OF YOUTH BECAUSE OF HIS PHYSICAL AND MORAL COURAGE, DURING HIS VISIT
HERE AT EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE ONE OF HIS AIDS ASKED ME WHAT MR. KENNEDY
COULD DO TO HELP US, IN HASTE, I REFERRED TO OUR DESIRE TO BECOME A
MEMBER OF THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE. THIS PLEASED THE PRESIDENT, FOR HE
DEVOTED PART OF HIS ADDRESS, IN THE OLD STADIUM, TO OUR ATHLETIC AMBITION,
iF WE LEARN ANY LESSONAAT ALL FROM THIS TRAGEDY IT SHOULD BE THE
FUTILITY OF CYNICISM AND SMUGNESS, AS WELL AS THE REALZZATION THAT THESE
ARE BUT STEPS TOWARD BITTER HATRED, PRESIDENT KENNEDY WAS SYMBOLIC OF

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N HOPE FOR A BETTER AMERICA,
YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE WERE STIRRED BY HIS CHALLENGE TC
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THE TORCH HAS BEEN PASSED TO A NEW GENERATION OF AMERICANS , ..
© WITNESS OR PERMIT THE SLOW UNDOING OF THOSE HUMAN RIGHTS
1 THIS NATION HAS ALWAYS BEEN COMMITTED, AND TO WHICH WE ARE
COMMITTED TODAY AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD,"
| SHOULD SUMMON US TO A PROGRAM OF SELF EXAMINATION
WE MUST REDISCOVER AND USE THE LOVE THAT GAN
BE FOUND IN THE HEARTS OF ALL RATIONAL MEN, WE MUST DEDICATE OURSELVES
TO THE REMOVAL OF VIOLENCE AND HATRED FROM OUR NATIONAL LIFE, IF WE

FALL IN ATTAINING THIS GOAL, THE DASTARD
EPEATED MANY TIMES AN HROUGHOUT
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MBER OF YOUR FAMILY, LET 1
NEW AWARENESS OF THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE AND IN HIS WORDS: DO NOT ASK

WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT RATHER ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR

COUNTRY, ®

 

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