Oval Office Address on the Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy - Oct. 22, 1962
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2018
- A week after Kennedy had been presented with evidence of the Soviet deployment of 'offensive' missiles in Cuba, at 7:00PM ET on October 22, 1962, the President delivered a nationwide televised address on all of the major networks announcing the discovery of the missiles.
Transcript of President Kennedy's remarks: www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...
They just don't make Presidents like this any more. Rest in Peace, Mr. President.
@Andrew Caller The Soviet Union wasn't about to commit national suicide over Cuba in 1962. We came dangerously close to nuclear Armageddon in Berlin in 1958-59 because of Khrushchev's ultimatum over that formerly divided city during the Eisenhower Administration.
Bull! Trump was superior to this fool.
@@gregpeterman1102 Well, we don't know how Trump would have dealt with the Soviets had he been in office during the Cold War. His administration would have quite possibly acted in a similar fashion, though.
@@chetpomeroy1399 No chance in Hell!
Trump sold out our country and the Ukrainian people. Thank God his traitorous behaviour was stopped by the American people handing him a massive election defeat in 2020.
Remember the sons of Trump admitted repeatedly, on camera, that Trump got his money from Russia to save the family from bankruptcy early in this century. Putin owns Trump.
@@chetpomeroy1399 you cant claim credit for what he never actually did.
Amazingly powerful speech delivered in a strong resolved manner.
A good man, who didn't want to see the world go up in flames... Taken from us by those in power...
A good speech, level with the public, explain why it matters, and finally set out what's being done about it.
Few 60 year old televised statements of any kind still make you get goosebumps when you watch or even listen to them. This, my friends, is certainly one that actually still does. Every time.
It's actually almost 59 years ago.
Agreed. Like Reagan’s speech after bombing Libya. Just great leadership and orating.
I was 5 going on 6 years old< I remember my Dad getting picked up by Tucson Police to take him to the base so Mom would have use of our only car. I thought he was getting arrested, I clung to his leg, crying and throwing a fit. My parents and the officers did their best to convince me that Dad had to spend a few days at the base without coming home. This was the closest time we had to be at the brink of all out nuclear war. Had either country launched their weapons we would not be here today!!! I later served in the Air Force just as my Dad did, and with the nuclear weapons, we had a few close calls, but none so severe as October of 1962. Of course my Dad did later come home and the Soviet Union stood down their build up of weapons on the Island of Cuba!! I learned of the close call we had and what could have happened when I was serving in the Air Force!!!
We came very very close to war that time if this wouldn't have worked it could been very different today
Jeeeez. I was 5 yrs old.I Recall being Upset cause it was on Every channel. I Think I wanted capt. Kangaroo? Or something? Same thing I recall with his funeral profession. I Remember All those white horses.. How Close we all came folks....
I was in the U.S. Navy when this speech was delivered stationed in Norfolk VA. We were on special alert and it was a very tense time. Russian submarines were everywhere up and down the Atlantic and we surveilled and chased them constantly. Russia finally got the message and reversed course.
Your family needs to record your thoughts on video as to what was happening to you. We need to preserve your story and others from the time. Thank you for posting.
Nice Going Mike!
Hey Mike, I like your name! I was 14 years old, and remember lying in my bed scared shitless over this. By the time I went in the Navy 6 years later, we were in a completely different bag of shit, eh?
Now is NATO who ships are in the Black Sea and Mediterranean and causing havoc and watching and instigate war among Ucrania and Rusia. At this moment NATO is Rusia and Rusia is USA. Kennedy was a hero that he took a risk and almost drive us to Third World War. Today is Biden, a man who doesn’t have any scrupulous to instigate a World War, this genocide he will destroy our nation and humanity and drive us to the Stone Age. The man is a maniac and seeks to control his agenda to the whole world. 😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🇺🇸🇺🇸😈😈😈😈
My father was on independence
What clarity. He achieved all of the main points in the fewest number of words. And reading it from his desk, not a teleprompter. It set the perfect tone for a very serious subject. Nuclear war.
Compare this to Biden. Our current administration is a disgrace.
Sry nukes don't exist
I remember this speech. I was a cadet at Culver Military Academy. It was my first time away from home. I called my Dad. He said, "Don't worry". So I didn't. In my life, the two best Presidents that I remember are Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
this reminds me of Ukraine
@Ted Timothy
Wow....talk about two completely different Presidents
At this time Civil Rights was a major issue with the Democratic presidents..ie...JFK and LBJ
Ronald Reagan was in no way connected to Civil Rights or frankly anything associated with people of color, other than talk about the " welfare queens" and raise the national debt significantly
Well ten years later I don't remember seeing any glasses on the time. At Missouri Military Academy. But thank you for sharing
The two "best"... And that ain't saying much.
You Bet!
I was born just a week following this broadcast! So thankful to God that cooler heads prevailed. This nation has never come so close to utter destruction. Gives me the goosebumps hearing this in it's entirety.
I remember seeing this live on TV .At that time I wanted him to launch a sneak attack on Cuba to destroy the missiles and conquer Cuba even if an atomic bomb was dropped on Havana,Cuba where I and my parents were born in as well as the rest of my family. At that time my father's brother and my 2 surviving grandmothers were still living there.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say that ALL International "conflicts" are nothing more than THEATRE, put on by the real Powers That Be, to keep us idiots under control.
I was 5 weeks to the day!
Good thing that kind of pressure on your Ma, didn't cause her to have a miscarriage!
I was born later, when America was trying to help South Vietnam, fight off the North.
@@roostercogburn3771 I was born on May 18,1956 several years before and we were 2 months late living in NYC my old hometown. The place of the Mad Men era on TV.
That's how you deal with bullies.
My dad was went to Cuba back in the day. I never understood why. Thank you, President Kennedy, for laying out the crisis
Joe Biden can't even level on what his role with his son is, starting with Hunter's laptop!
Why did he go to Cuba?
I’m a republican but JFK is one of my favorite presidents
I totally agree !!! A Mighty President.
I'm a republican also and the democratic party certainly isn't like this anymore o agree Kennedy was a great president
@@michelewalburger9729 And is the Republican party like it was?....
@@turnne Whom would you list as your 5 favorites; (in no specific order)
?
@@patrickc3419 I need more criteria than that
1. Lasting Legislation
2. National Debt
3. Economy Improvement records
4. Racist/disenfranchised group statements and how policy effected them
But here is an economy fun fact that does not favor the Republican presidents.
Since 1933, the US economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans. GOP tax cuts for the wealthy have never boosted the US economy. Ten of eleven U.S. recessions between 1953 and the present began under Republican presidents
Just imagine if we had a president like this now. Someone who loved his country, was actually able speak a complete sentence, and was competent at his job. What a world it would be.
amen mike
matt
It's a national tragedy what the democrat party has evolved to since the days of Kennedy.
@@1940limited Agreed 100%. They have been totally corrupted by extremists.
@@1940limited You said it! Today if he came back to life, the Democratic Party would kick him out and use every word that ends in IST.
the loss of this great man is still felt today, what could have been we shall never know. please remember his great words. ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY. i am now 71 years old, and would die for my country. LET NO COUNTRY TRY TO TAKE OUR FREEDOMS FROM US. rest in peace JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY.
Could you be any more melodramatic?
I think the course of world history, and certainly that of the US would have been so much different, and for the better, had Kennedy served 2 terms.
Sry nukes don't exist
Sly: As has been said, you don't win by dying for your country; you win by getting the other guy to die for his country.
Good words Sly, I agree that JFK would of been better in 2 terms. But it aint going to be another country taking our freedoms, it'll be our own, attempting to. We may need to have another war for independence, or an actual Civil war. My state is working on articles of secession. As of 18 June 2022.
On that date, I was a junior in high school, and had landed a part in the school play. We were to have play practice that night. Before I left our house, my Dad and I watched this delivery from President Kennedy . At the end of it, I asked my Dad, "Did he just say what I think he said?" In as serious a voice as I ever remember, Dad said simply, "Yes, he did." I went off to play practice, but that night and the next several days, were some of the most tense I ever remember. We faced the distinct possibility of nuclear war, but Khrushchev and Kennedy ended up responsibly working out an agreement. It still gives me chills to this day.
"Our path, is not submission, and surrender" yes, John ...well said 👏
@King Royal well, you can't surrender to them (Soviets) guess, he had to go ...never surrender to Commies ... neverrr! Your surrendering to hell on earth 🌎 🔥
Can you imagine another Cuban Missile Crisis in our time with Joe Biden as President and Commander in Chief? World War 3 here it comes!
@@luislaplume8261 thanks Luis ...yes
He behaves the same way that Putin but Kennedy was American president and he can get away with it. Incredible
@@MapleSyrupPoet And I hope Vincent that every branch of the U.S. military does not blindly follow all orders without question like Hitler and Stalin did for their respective militaries! Those who do should be charged with high treason punishable by death!
What a lot of us forget is that Kennedy was as hard core anti-Communist as Nixon and Joseph McCarthy. Still, he displayed an amazing calm when things got incredibly intense.
Not really. He wanted nothing to do with Vietnam, he also wanted to create a joint space mission with the Russians. What he was not was a war monger globalists like most of our presidents have been. JFK really went rouge on them all and that’s why they killed him. He was no were near McCarthy or Nixon for that matter.
Aint nothin' wrong with being anti-communist. Communism is an evil philosophy, and is only good for the ruling class, but Hell for all the commoners/underlings. There is no freedom under communism. Only fear and heartache. It is to be shunned at every opportunity.......PERIOD !!!
Only thing Nixon was hardcore about was lying to America and giving our gold to the scamming Zionist bankers
ANY American who is a hard core anti-Communist is okay in my book. So am I, having grown up after WWII. Communism and Socialism have murdered more innocent people than all other forms of tyranny combined. My own view is that the only good Communist is a dead one. I feel the same about Socialists and Progressives. I'm not that fond of present Democrats either. There are no more John F. Kennedys in the modern Democratic party... not even close. It is controlled by Socialists, Communists and Buffoons like Biden, Harris, Shumer, Pelosi, AOC, et Al.
The most dramatic line in the speech, and the one that surely made everyone swallow hard and realize the stakes, was at 10:28. "It shall be the policy of this nation...". No warning could have been more direct or dire.
I watched this broadcast live with my parents, sister and brother. We were living in florida at the time.
I did too. I was 10 years old. I remember how scary it was and how the churches were open 24hrs.
It was a Monday evening. I was 8 (in 3rd grade in Massachusetts) when this address suddenly interrupted our TV watching. I was too young to know what the situation was, but I could see my parents were shaken. I asked them "What's happening?", but they didnt really answer me. Perhaps they were trying to sort it out themselves, first. The next day in school - and for almost the next two weeks - every adult (including my teachers) appeared truly scared. You could feel it. There were bomb drills in school. But nobody would tell us what's going on. I now know they were trying to protect us children, and not get us scared, also. Then, suddenly, the adults seemed relieved, and things returned (mostly) to normal.
I like how he calls out Gromyko’ false statements with firmness.
One that is lacking under BRANDON
@@patrickschneider1289 That’s for sure!! Every other President would have called someone out like Gromyko also.
@@patrickschneider1289 Sure let's put back in the clown who would sell out the country for the rental of a suite at the Washington Trump hotel.
@@filmsgraded at least we werent paying 6 bucks a gallon for gas. How did your retirement accounts do when Trump was POTUS??
@@robfmas How did the stock market do under Obama (straight up) and Clinton (straight up)
Back when we had a leader with a BRAIN!!!
This clearly shows why president Kennedy was such a great president and that is a understatement.
A great man stood up against the USSR, and forced them to back down. A great Patriot
great president, last good democrat compared to now. he would not back down, he had some guts
@@leepenlack5548 I agree with that; the last good Democrat.
@@patrickc3419 Seriously?...the next Democratic president was responsible for the Civil Rights Act and Voting rights act
But hey..I understand why those are not important to you
@@leepenlack5548 Seriously?...the next Democratic president was responsible for the Civil Rights Act and Voting rights act
But hey..I understand why those are not important to you
@@turnne Johnson was worse than worthless. He destroyed the black family with his “great society” welfare that paid unwed mothers for spewing out bastard children. His mismanagement and escalation of the Vietnam War divided the country and killed thousands of young soldiers for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It also sent the draft dodgers to the universities with their deferments, where they stayed and produced the worthless, weak anti American commie young people who are destroying this country now. Every democrat president since has been awful, along with most of the Republicans.
Thanks so much! Been looking for this for so long, always wanted to watch the speech just as millions did that night. What a terrifying address to the nation.
But it was real leadership.
I learned having served in the Air Force with the nuclear weapons what the Air Force did and was ordered to do in response to this threat. Our bombers were re positioned at airports and other non SAC bases to make targeting them very difficult!!! Our ICBM force was put on alert, ready to launch, all leaves were cancelled and military personnel ordered to return to base. The defense posture was elevated to DEFCON II, this is just short of nuclear war. The highest I experienced while serving was DEFCON III. Every command with-in the military was effected. Tactical fighters were moved to locations on the eastern seaboard ready to respond. The Navy was directly in charge of the blockade. You could sense that everyone was scared, my parents made sure they told us they loved us!!!
@@GM8101PHX
Looking back on it, it’s easy to see now that the Russians would back off. I was only 14 at the time, so I didn’t understand that, but I reckon Kennedy did. He knew he was taking a risk, but it was a very well calculated risk.
There are two truths that are easy to see in hindsight.
(1) US strategic superiority was massive. Kennedy understood that and so did Nikita Krutschev.
(2) The Soviets had suffered such a huge loss of life in WW2, that it was highly improbable that Nikita would take them down that road again.
The loss of life on both sides would have been huge, but I think Kennedy read the situation well.
We ordinary people did not see that at the time. Probably most of us did not. But Hindsight is always perfect.
I lived not too far from a major industrial facility that I am sure would have been on the Soviet target list. My father worked there. I was scared. Everybody around me was scared. I cannot fault anybody for failing to understand at the time something that is very clear with hindsight.
Now, this was a REAL President. Why can't today's elected officials be like this President?
To be fair to modern times,we no longer occupy the position in the world that we had in 1962.
Voters are too stupid to keep a good president.
The voters are not the same either. And then almost as many had voted for Tricky Dick Nixon in 1960.
Because they’re STUPID…..
@@rentslave how so? Only difference is that now there is five major powers, not two, being the EU, India, China, US and Russia
The last great democratic president God Bless
Thank you so much, finally the original broadcast.
I was seven years old. It was the only time I ever saw my parents frightened.
My father had been called at our home in Ft Knox the night (0200 hours--the phone woke me up) before. By the time Kennedy spoke Dad's armor unit was already on trains to Mobile and other gulf ports for the invasion of "Cuber."
My mother was weeping, I didn't know why. By the way some of those missiles in Cuba were already emplaced WITH warheads, manned by Soviet AND Castro's troops---who would have fired on an American invasion fleet/ American ports no matter what the Russians said.
An American spy plane WAS shot down, its pilot killed. His death was ignored. We didn't invade and calmer heads prevailed.
That time. Can you imagine Trump in that position? Mr. " Bone Spurs" was busy evading the draft. His CLASS always could.
My dad once said when this man said something he meant it unlike the puppets of today's political theater so sad they're will never be another one like him.
Your dad was absolutely correct *
And that is why he was killed sadly, too good of a president.
I miss him more each day!
17:20 won my heart. Great leadership
How so? Left out of this discussion is that the Sovs were only doing what the American military had already constructed in Turkey. That is, had built nuclear armed Medium Range Ballistic JUPITER Missiles bases in sufficient numbers across the Turkish countryside to effectively pre-emptively strike the Soviet Union with weapons of mass destruction. [Of course, the Jupiter was operationally a total failure, but the Sovs weren't aware of that, nor was the American public aware of the large number of installations ready to incinerate Russia, or that Castros permission to Moscow to base MRBMs and IRBMs on Cuba was to create a truly unthinkable MAD scenario. It was Kennedy's reckless nuclear brinksmanship that brought us seconds to midnight. It’s extraordinary that to this day Americans have no idea how close we came to total, world-wide annihilation, and we came can credit JFK for it.
Of course, half a world away in Southeast Asia, he was making good on his bellicose inauguration address, escalating an already 15 year long war against Vietnam to prevent the native peoples of that country from achieving liberation from the yoke of French colonialism and establishing a modern sovereign nation state. Thanks to the “great leadership” of JFK two million Vietnamese would ultimately die. Domestically, Kennedy did nothing for labor, nothing about the deplorable state of blacks constrained by Jim Crow laws, certainly nothing for the remnant of the nearly exterminated indigenous peoples of the lower 48; he was gentle on taxing his own class and the rich adored him for it. JFK was not a great leader, but the mythology built up by the family's public relations operations would have you believe otherwise.
This is how a strong leader speaks and acts.
As a small 7-year old boy, my father and I watched the LONGEST train come through our small town at least 70 mph. FULL DIESEL smoke coming from the stacks, North-South run full of army drab, canvas covered cars of military equipment that went on forever. I asked my Dad, "What is going on?" He said "Son, we are living in a scary world, we just have to be brave and face it." wow. Thank the Good Lord we had someone leading this Country that did. And thank you Dad, for giving me words to live by forever.
I remember watching JFK's address when I was 12 while living in NYC. supermarket shelves were empty and adults were scared you could see it in their eyes.
Like now but just every day and now the fear has become hopelessness. Our current president has a lot to do with that. But, by God, let's not risk offending him by getting him out of office so the country can begin to heal.
@@Lucia-sy7le talking to the wrong guy. I'm a yellow dog democrat who will vote for a yellow dog before I'd vote for any republican. We are where we are because we had a ignorant racist bafoon in office for 4 years who called the pandemic a Democrat and media fraud and advised people to drink bleach.
Maranatha.
So nothing has changed.
@@Lucia-sy7le You really want to see what Kamala Whoreass would do?
Wow, a president that respects the constitution.
grew up with JFK as president, he was the best
I remember this address well. We were worried about a nuclear war between us and the Russians, but also patriotically angered by Russia pulling a deadly stunt like this on our doorstep! Nikita Khrushchev instantly became enemy #1 and most hated human being here in the USA. I was 13 years old and not really into politics, but this issue made me (and many Americans), love our president even more.
What your never told is Cuba was in response to America putting ballistic nuclear missiles on Turkeys border with Russia ? Their 'backyard' ? Oh ! I didn't know that !
10 days earlier,I saw JFK in Newark riding in an open car.
an imperfect man- a hero, a real leader-
Well put.
Gee, a reply is missing, as usual, in 21st century America.
I was 10 years old during the Cuban Missile Crisis. My family had a home about 25 miles west of NYC. I couldn't see the city because of Garrett Mt. blocking the way but my 10 year old brain told me that if I look toward the east, I could see the bright flash of light in time to gather my little brother and my mom and dad into the basement and duck and cover. Little did I know what a 10 MT hydrogen bomb could do. People today don't know how close we were to a real nuclear war with the USSR. The Soviet general in charge in Cuba had autonomous authority to launch the missiles if he determined there was no communication with Khrushchev. He was told he could assume that Moscow was destroyed and he could launch at will. That event knocked some sobriety into the heads of both nations. I'll never forget those days. Source: "Command and Control" by Eric Schlosser
That is an excellent book.
@@deb5200 Yes it is and it's even more relevant today, when we may be on the brink of another nuclear war. I'm not an alarmist, I'm just some old guy who, when he was young, survived an almost nuclear war. Yes, we were really that close to nuclear destruction. Anybody who wished to read and learn, see "The Days of October". Then, after you have read about the history of the Cuban Missile Crisis, tell me that you are not afraid of another nuclear war about to be unhinged.
Sincerely,
Your friendly 10-year-old kid who was taught to "duck and cover" back in the days when the term really meant something.
I cannot even imagine what he would think if he saw the Democratic Party today.
Both JFK and FDR would twirl in their graves if they saw the modern day, neo fascist democrat party
He''d be booed out of the convention.
He’d be a Republican!
@@NLM1000 I’m on the fence and go back and forth with that; in all likelihood he’d be a Joe Lieberman/Tulsi Gabbard Democrat.
and how the GQP has turned out--it's such a shame!
The greatest danger is to do nothing.
There was Lincoln. There was Roosevelt. Then there's John F. Kennedy.
@King Royal your opinion
@King Royal Everybody's racist to a certain extent.
Wish we had a President like Mr. Kennedy! He actually was watching out for the country and had its best interest at heart! I feel safe just listening to him!!
I agree hard to believe we now have a senile old man that hates Americans
WOW, unbelievably well done. And more importantly the strategy was exceptionally well done, especially in hindsight. Every time we see JFK in action (whether it be his WWII heroics, or presidential leadership) I think the overwhelming majority of us longingly think about what might have been if he survived.
@King Royal He was not. He was assassinated because he was prepared to stand up to, and did stand up to the bureaucracies that were prepared to, and did damage our Constitutional Republic. We are now reaping the whirlwinds of the past few decades that have set out to destroy America as we know it.
There may well have not been a Viet Nam War.
@King Royal the third Moron in history!
An Early disengagement from Vietnam! Yes!
💙💙
It’s nice to see the entire speech as it was seen on millions of TV screens that night
What a difference between a great leader and what we have currently in the WH. Both from the same party but the differences couldn't be more apparent.
What's the difference? Both warmongers.
@@gregpeterman1102 thanks for the thoughtful response. the main difference for me is that JFK inspired many and was an eloquent speaker (take the latter for what's it worth) while joe isn't capable of inspiring many people and can barely string together a coherent sentence. your warmonger point is well taken. Thanks again.
And also what a vast difference between a great leader like JFK and the one we had BEFORE the current one.
That's because the democratic party today does not love America they love socialism and control. Most democrats today would love to see our flag burned and our freedom taken away. They say science is real but yet they push ttansgenderism which defies science because these people who claim they are not male or female if their skeletal remains were found in the future they would be identified as male or female so these leftists say they support science in their liberal signs but defy it with their twisted scenarios of 72 different genders. JFK would be appalled at how sick his party has become
@@cartune41 How in this lost world is the current occupant of the White House a great leader?
The Democrats have always claimed to champion this great man. They have absolutely nothing in common with him. Heck, this makes most modern-day republicans look weak. RIP, JFK
JFK would never be allowed in this Democrat party of today ! Hell, he wouldn’t even want in it!! RIP JFK
Oh shame on you for turning political a moment that needed unification most, you know nothing of him or his ways if this is your go to thinking process; I do however agree that politics on both Democratic & Republican sides has these days taken a rather unfavorable transformation, things were a bit more civilized.
@@MrNeonz-fk2ky I know all about JFK, I was a campaigner for him! My entire family were yellow Dog Democrats and damm proud of it! We all stopped voting Democrat after Carter damm near Destroyed the country. Today’s Democrat/communist party is so insane that Unification is out of the question.
@@baymaxc1647 Well with all due respect I apologize for ignorantly assuming your own knowledge, but throwing accusations at each others politics will not mitigate the already tense relationship between political party’s. We reside in the UNITED States, so let’s start acting like it; The more we fight the less focused we are on the real threat & the more the enemy gains, we don’t need another storming of our capitol & we certainly don’t need to have our human rights violated by communist motivations; Let’s not also forget that both political parties act not with malicious intent but rather with what they believe to be best for the nation, because at the end of the day we’re all still fellow Americans, & that shouldn’t change.
@@MrNeonz-fk2ky I know we should all try to get along but that is impossible at this time ! As Patriots we all feel the real threat to the USA is from the PC/WOKE communist/Democrat party, these people are very Dangerous and all the leadership do have Malicious towards This country and Conservatives! They must be Defeated in November midterms and in 2024.
This is an aspect of American History that does not seem to be taught. I was 10 years old when this happened, and I remember how terrified we were living in Michigan since we could have been a major missile target due to our being a major
manufacturing state. A few years ago a fellow made a remark to me, "I don't think Kennedy was a very good President.!" It was apparent he was a listener of one of the anti-America propaganda radio stations popular in that part of the state. I asked him why he asked that question. He said, "name one thing he accomplished." I told him, "Did you ever hear of The Cuban Missile Crisis? He was not even born when that happened. I told him, if it weren't for Kennedy's strategy during that dangerous moment, he would probably not be alive now to criticize a President who saved this nation from a Nuclear attack. That was a serious moment I will never forget.
A historical broadcast.
Great speech and great president! RIP Mr. President!
A real president doing his job, from the real Oval Office
Amen
We lost you too soon. President Kennedy.
We all miss you and your leadership.
@King Royal he was assassinated by people in our government!
My parents were in grade school, and while all 4 of my grandparents are now gone, I remember my father saying how his dad built a makeshift bomb shelter in their basement during this time, as simply no one knew how things would pan out.
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Great to see the original, full broadcast as it was presented on TV. Usually, the only thing you see are snippets or excerpts.
His words are so relevant today in the face of Putin's aggression.
@King Royal Oh right, I didn't notice that it was NATO-flagged armies that invaded Ukraine, murdering and raping civilians, and killing children.
Let me ask this. If Putin is NOT lying, why did he need to shut down the free press and threaten anyone in prison who dares speak the truth?
Putin is the true Fascist. A "man" who has literally stolen billions from his people and destroyed a nation because of his paranoid thirst for dictatorial power. Russians never change. That we know.
As I said in a shorter comment below: Soviet General Anatoly Gribkov, in Cuba in 1962, matter-of-factly included in his 1992 Havana conference presentation a discussion of tactical nuclear weapons in the Soviet forces in Cuba. The Americans were stunned. McNamara even interrupted the translator to make sure he heard that correctly - tactical nukes would have meant enormous casualties in a US invasion, and a major escalatory trigger to which the US would have inevitably responded in kind. The US fleet would have been vaporized, and the Command and Control Centre would have been destroyed, along with the larger US cities. In the words of McNamara himself: "We didn't learn until nearly 30 years later, that the Soviets had roughly 162 nuclear warheads on this isle of Cuba, at a time when our CIA said they believed there were none. And included in the 162 were some 90 tactical warheads to be used against a US invasion force. Had we... attacked Cuba and invaded Cuba at the time, we almost surely would have been involved in nuclear war." The Joint Chiefs almost sent us all to Dealey Plaza.
He was so strong, if only, if only😢
Bobby and jack stopped world war 3. Kudos to bobby and Jack kennedy. RIP!!!!!
what a man. awesome.
Thanks! I needed this! 😀👍
This resonates with exactly what is happening in the world today, truly one of the greatest leaders that the US has every had. May he Rest In Peace
@King Royal Kennedy was assassinated because racism that was going on at that time, and other things that organised crime did not like and possibly J Edgar Hoover lent a helping hand as well
When Presidents had balls of steel.
Wouldn't it be great if we could exchange Joe Biden for John Kennedy ??!!
JFK had balls.
I am trying to put on the shoes of an american citizen back then, listening the president give this speech to the nation. And I can't
I can't imagine the terror and despair of all that people after listening the wise and quiet words of mr. Kennedy, which in fact disguised a tremendous fear
My mother and I watched this in the auditorium on the 9th floor of Foley's Department Store, the merchantile heart and soul of downtown Houston. The place was packed. I was 10. When the President finished, no one said a word. We all knew what might happen. Everyone got up and walked quietly out of the room.
I was 14. It was a scary time.
Obviously he wrote his own speech and delivered it with clarity and articulation. Whet a concept!
No President has written his own speeches in over a century
Theodore Sorenson was his primary speech writer. He collaborated on this.
@@roberttompkins6489 Sorenson also ghost wrote Kennedy's "Six Profiles of Courage". Kennedy's father rigged it so that it won the Pulitzer Prize.
@@filmsgraded Yes, however JFK was certainly a well educated President-not in the league of a Jefferson or Madison--but when coupled with his charisma--he was commanding by any standard.
He was quite simply the greatest president America ever HAD NOT ONLY DID HE STOP A WAR HE also opened an opportunity for communication between russiA and the west and it resonates today
He didn't necessarily stop a war at that time. He stopped the missle buildup in Cuba. What Russia would have done or when if they succeeded is unknown.
@@Mike-pj1kv well OK he didn't stop a war lets put it another way he handled a deadly crisis with firmness skill and fitness cos he knew how serious the Cuban crisis was
Can you picture Biden delivering a speech like this truly JFK was the last great democrat.
How about your Twitter president “ covfefe Moron ?”
I remember that situation very well. I was a sophomore in high school in San Antonio, TX. We all knew we were a primary target for nuclear attacks due to all the military facilities in our area. The situation had gotten so tense that in my spanish class, the teacher read us a mandatory warning that if we saw a missile headed toward the school, we were to get under our desks, as if that would have protected us. One of the boys had said if he saw a missile headed toward the class he would get up and run. He and our teacher actually got into a fist fight over that, and some other teachers had to come in to break it up. I remember saying at the time, that was a ridiculous thing to fight over. If you saw a missile headed to the classroom, you would barely have time to kiss your butt goodbye. Nerves were on edge so much that nothing was done to the teacher or the student for the fist fight.
I remember this speech, as a 20 y.o.,wondering if I would be drafted. Where are the leaders today? We yearn for Presidential leadership.
We can have a young vigorous political leader again if we get away from recycling 80 year olds in both parties...Great President...JFK...
Kennedy was very intelligent and had good advisors. + SALUTE+
Many times I have thought , which president could have defused that crisis better than Kennedy,.... none.
BEAUTIFUL APEECH, WHERE EACH WORD HAD BEEN METICULOUSLY CHOSEN!
"The greatest danger of all would be to do nothing." --President John Kennedy, October 22, 1962
I was 12 when I heard this speech on a Monday night. When he got to the line "even victory would be ashes in our mouths", Mom said 'Oh my God we're going to have a war'. Scared the hell out of me, and we all went through drills at school for about the next 3 weeks until the Soviets started to dismantle the sites. We could use this kind of leadership today.
I watched all of his speeches as President. His Civil Rights Speech and his speech of a hidden Society was just as powerful. It was sad that just 13 months later he would be dead. I think the whole world cried when that happened, schools were shut down, everywhere you went people were crying or in shock. I think if he had survived, Vietnam would have turned out a lot differently and would not have lasted near as long as it did.
I agree completely, I only would like to know after all these years the true story of his death.
Said with the steely resolve of someone who had already risked his life at war.
@King Royal Opinions are like assholes; everyone's got one.
@King Royal JFK stood down the Soviet Union in October 1962. I'm guessing you got a failing grade in that history class. 🙄
This was broadcast also in black and white. In 1962 the only TV shows in color was Bonanza and the World of Disney.
Not many people had color TV sets back then.
I was 5 years old when this happened.... A very scary time indeed ......
I was 7 yrs old at the time, I remember vividly this speech on our black and white TV, nobody slept well for the rest of that week to follow...
I was 7 years old when His tragic end took place. I was devastated when I heard tragedy, and now that I am 67 years old I still feel the same way about Him. He and His entire Family were remarkable Human existence...!
You capitalize Kennedy’s pronouns? Like he’s God? 🙄
@@SuperTonyony The word "God" has various categories - as far as the meaning is concern. Being a great "Leader" of a Super Power Nation such as the United States Of America - is one of those categories. Indeed! He was a God in a sense of being a
🌟🌟 Brilliant Leader 🌟🌟
That is the only description I have in mind about JFK. and His Powerful and Prosperous Nation. They easily fit one of the category of being "God"!
Wow! Back when there were Democrats that loved America first; hated Socialism/Communism, and put America's interest first!
I was a Marine on alert at Camp Pendleton. One has to wonder what would have become of our world if the Kennedys had been allowed to contribute what they and to give for the country.
Ready for 2022,let’s go. Thanks ☺️
Joe Biden could learn plenty from this man! Rest In Peace President Kennedy you are loved by many.
Could?
Biden thinks he is a genius , he is too stupid to know he is dumb as a box of rocks
First time I ever saw armed troops come through our town. Thousands of them Scary!!
I still remember this! I was 8 years old!
We were close to nuclear war during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis however September 26, 1983 was the absolute closest ever nuclear war nearly happened due to a false alarm at a Soviet missile installation.
Able archer
This is the video we saw then. Not the one with JFK in profile.
He was certainly a great President.
can u imagine kamala given this speach she would be laughing and giggling probably saying something about her old science teacher because missiles are scientific 😅
Oh God.
I watched this live when I was in the 9th grade. I remember the tension everyone felt at that time.
Where have you gone JFK, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you. Paraphrase of Simon and Garfunkel
A wonderful President who is still missed to this very day. I was 10 years old and I remember this well. Rest In Peace JFK
When I was a kid in rural Montana we didn't get a TV until 1964 and then it was one station.
This should be played on the national broadcaster to remind us of our freedom and what it takes to preserve it
I saw this live for several days we were on edge but thank God JFK kept his head and solved it thru diplomacy
And 60 years later the problem still exists with Russia.
THIS WAS ON MY 21ST BIRTHDAY! I WAS ON TOUR WITH THE LARRY ELGART BAND SITTING IN A BARBER CHAIR AT MY HOTEL IN BOZEMAN, MONTANA!
This speech was brilliant, especially the appeal to the Cuban people.