Speeches that Changed the World: JFK at American University and Berlin

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  • Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
  • As we approach the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's speeches at American University and in West Berlin, Ambassador Nicholas Burns, veteran journalist Marvin Kalb, Sergei Khrushchev, Adam Frankel (former Obama speech writer and assistant to Ted Sorensen), Kennedy Library Director Tom Putnam, and Fred Kempe, author of BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, discuss the lasting influence of these two moments in history.
    Copyright: John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

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  • @lyndatrones1787
    @lyndatrones1787 4 роки тому +13

    Thank you for this. John Kennedy will never be replaced or forgotten. History will see this 🇺🇸

  •  3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for sharing this wonderful conversation... I'm a child of these times.

  • @dennispearson9287
    @dennispearson9287 3 роки тому +3

    Wow !!!......I Didn't Realize Until This Very Day, That Nikita Kruscev,s Son , Was An American Citizen !!!....This Is Amazing !!!....I Am Sure The Average American, Is Completely Unaware of This !!!.....What An Amazing Discussion !!!...This Panel Was A Summit Meeting !!!...A True Historians Dream Come True !!!.....

  • @vacuumtube1954
    @vacuumtube1954 11 років тому +8

    Thank you for posting this video. I enjoyed it very much.

  • @robertgabuna355
    @robertgabuna355 4 роки тому +5

    We need more of this kind of forum. I learned a lot.

  • @rafaelsoto6485
    @rafaelsoto6485 10 років тому +3

    I'm also very thankful for this videos.

    • @dvl889
      @dvl889 4 роки тому

      I was in Berlin in when Kennedy gave his speech. The Berliners loved Kennedy, he was a light in the darkness. We have fallen so far from statesmen like FDR, LINCOLN, JFK. May this country's citizens vote to restore dignity and honor in 2020.

    • @unpark6463
      @unpark6463 4 роки тому

      @@dvl889 I wonder, how they had chose a communist Merkel!!!!

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy Рік тому +1

    Kennedy had an IQ of 150.6 and he referred to Ted Sorensen (Speech Writer and Special Counsel to the President) as "my intellectual blood bank" Think about that.
    Ted was a very gifted writer and should be remembered.

    • @freduklernas3637
      @freduklernas3637 8 місяців тому +1

      A formidable partnership.. jack and Ted... Times sorely missed even more today with the prevalent mediocrity.

  • @cassieennis507
    @cassieennis507 3 роки тому +1

    Don't demonize your adversaries. Something the politicians of today would be well advised to strive for - although the ones that use it for propaganda purposes won't. I went to AU and this speech was always talked about. It was great to find out so much more about it. Also I am in love with this somewhat famous JFK quote from the ending of the speech:
    ― John F. Kennedy

    • @cassieennis507
      @cassieennis507 3 роки тому +1

      For some reason the speech will not save: “So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And 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.”
      ― John F. Kennedy

  • @kern39743
    @kern39743 9 років тому +3

    the quality of the ideas I agree

  • @Michael-tw6rt
    @Michael-tw6rt 4 роки тому

    An extraordinary Man , Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev ! Former SU Citizen

    • @heidingheu805
      @heidingheu805 3 роки тому

      .

    • @joeschweidinz7775
      @joeschweidinz7775 3 роки тому

      Totally amazing. I never knew

    • @joeschweidinz7775
      @joeschweidinz7775 3 роки тому

      How did a little girl...me Anita... Understand all of this...prior l read every book on Abraham Lincoln and followed JFK until his death... And then Martin Luther King... And then Robert Kennedy.

  • @sebolebo5201
    @sebolebo5201 3 роки тому +1

    We are all mortal,

  • @AfricanDocs
    @AfricanDocs 3 роки тому

    What do you remember most of JFK?

    • @jennifergopinath
      @jennifergopinath 3 роки тому +5

      What I remember most of JFK,as a very young girl,growing up in India, no tv in those days in south India, that He was captivating & his persona, his charisma were all befitting for the great ,grand post he held-leader of a super power,the pictures that came out in our newspapers were being sold out too,he was liked by ALL! It’s later when I heard his speech,on UTube, I was awe struck,sad too, that his life was cut short, very sad. Also, JFK had some Class, dignified & diplomatic ! Best, from BC

  • @johnzeszut3170
    @johnzeszut3170 3 роки тому +3

    Talk is cheap. That is why there is so much of it.

    • @432b86ed
      @432b86ed 2 роки тому

      Words can have consequences too.

  • @sharonroger5959
    @sharonroger5959 3 роки тому

    8

  • @leonardpatterson3969
    @leonardpatterson3969 3 роки тому

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  • @leoschleck1060
    @leoschleck1060 3 роки тому

    The sassy spleen extracellularly roll because church quickly trip among a abject deodorant. wealthy, finicky hubcap

  • @alexandrom323
    @alexandrom323 8 років тому +5

    We are all mortal,

    • @kobushauman3310
      @kobushauman3310 3 роки тому

      Indeed.
      May my life glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.