Please Join Us at the JFK Monument at American University at 12 noon on June 10, 2014
Marilyn
Tenenoff writes:
On June
10, John Judge will make an appearance by audio at American University in
Washington, DC. Supporters of COPA and the Museum of Hidden History will
gather on that day, at noon, to commemorate the 51st anniversary of a
groundbreaking speech made by President John F. Kennedy, and also to honor the
life and work of John Judge. The event will feature an audio recording of
John reading a portion of President Kennedy's speech.
JFK Gives "Peace Speech" at Graduation Commencement at American University
June 10, 1963
The American University
speech, titled A Strategy of Peace, was a commencement address delivered
by President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 1963.
In the
speech, Kennedy announced his agreement to negotiations "toward early
agreement on a comprehensive test ban treaty" (which resulted in the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty) and also
announced, for the purpose of showing "good faith and solemn
convictions," his decision to unilaterally suspend all US atmospheric
testing of nuclear weapons as long as all other nations would do the same. The
speech was unusual in its peaceful outreach to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and is remembered as one
of Kennedy’s finest and most important speeches. (excerpt from Wikipedia)
The
first appendix of Marty Schotz's History Will Not
Absolve Us is the text of the address. Dave Ratcliffe took that
text and made it reflect the words actually spoken by President Kennedy along
with a film box and audio player at the top of the file. A server
redirect is at http://ratical.org/JFK061063.html.
There is
a plaque at American University which commemorates President Kennedy's speech.
It is at the southern end of Reeves Field, which you can see on the left
edge of this map of the campus.
Please
join Randy Benson and others in front of the plaque at noon on June 10 for
this annual event.
For Directions please see:
Bill Kelly
1 comment:
Hi Bill,
I'm looking for the script of JFK's speech at American University. I need to send it out to hundreds of people who have forgotten how great JFK was & what a great loss he was to America. And to think a KIKE replaced him & had 50,000 Americans killed in Vietnam & 30 or more murdered on the USS LIBERTY.
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