Posted on 11/23/2013 11:06:56 PM PST by Prospero
About seventeen years after the murder of John F. Kennedy, I was given the opportunity to watch an archived film of the President's last public remarks, a short speech to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Friday morning, November 22, 1963.
Having been impressed, I still remembered a line or two, and I briefly searched for what I hoped would be unedited footage. I was disappointed, but not surprised, to find what was to be found had been heavily edited.
There may be better copies of his full remakrs out there, but I did finally stumble on one unedited whole tape with good enough audio thankfully, posted on YouTube.
It's a solid speech, to a city in another time, of course, that should set the record straight on where President Kennedy stood on Vietnam, national defense, Soviet expansionism and even American exceptionalism.
The following link advances directly to the beginning of the President's remarks, again... his last remarks before departing for Dallas and "the Ages," etc., which begin at about 43:03 and run a little over 12 minutes.
http://youtu.be/WNSUuseNcOI?t=43m3s
The world was so much less polarized then.
Now we bite each other heads off in our own camp
Truly, JFK’s Assassination changed the world.
It just did.
It was polarized. We were, after all, on the brink of a third world war.
It is worse now.
Imagine Obama coming to Texas to praise Texas for national defense today.
Amazing how every move of the president from FW to Dallas was defined to the minute.
Streets, times, conveyances.
My Lord we were innocent.
It is worse now, yes. It’s because so many of our enemies (those of constitutional government and a moral society) before our inside this country now, and our government is the enemy of a free people. The leftist mantra is that in order to reshape a culture/government/society it must be broken and destroyed first, and they’ve been working on that for over a century. They’ve done a helluva job.
Innocent is an inaccurate word. Naïve is a better choice. This was not by accident. Enemies were everywhere then, especially in the media. Too many false narratives, lies, and myths were being foisted. When someone would try to tell the truth and alert the people (Joe McCarthy), they had to be destroyed by the myth-pushers. The same ones who today canonize JFK and that whole family, not to mention the current White House Emperor.
There are always vipers in Gov, but it is so crazy now.
I don’t think JFK ever intended to tear the constitution apart.
Obama has stated that he does not like it.
Time and again.
He is systematically dismantling it.
Attacking/stacking the DC court as we speak.
We have an AG that says “I will not persecute ‘MY’ people”
Well that there is justice /s
The GOPe are dolts
Real men like Ted Cruz are our only political hope.
You have a point.
Joe McCarthy went after them.
JFK gave it lip service.
Off to bed.
JFK tore the Constitution apart the moment he took part in stealing the office of the Presidency by any means necessary. It’s hard to have sympathy for someone whose lust for power far outweighed anything else.
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