[gitmo]

1	"I Have a Dream"	Martin Luther King, Jr.	28 Aug 1963	Washington, DC
OK. I'll give them that one.
2	Inaugural Address	John F. Kennedy	20 Jan 1961	Washington, DC
3	First Inaugural Address	Franklin D. Roosevelt	4 Mar 1933	Washington, DC
No way.
4	War Message ("A Date which Will Live in Infamy")	Franklin D. Roosevelt	8 Dec 1941	Washington, DC
Yes.
94	Address at the Brandenburg Gate	Ronald Reagan	12 June 1987	West Berlin, Germany
94 !!! Should be 3-4.

[HumanaeVitae]

Reagan's First Inaugural. Hands down.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, I saw that 94th and I almost had to grab for the air-sickness companion bag. That is one of the single greatest speeches ever made in the past century, bar none (perhaps with the greatest single line -- Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !). I have not even heard of half these speeches, let alone the rantings of supreme genocidal racist Margaret Sanger and the overrated windbag Barbara Jordan (may she rest in peace) complaining about Nixon, or Mario "Mumbles" Cuomo (MARIO CUOMO !?!) getting ranked so far ahead of the Brandenburg Gate speech. Utterly sickening.

[VOA]

2
Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
20 Jan 1961
Washington, DC

I'll agree with you that this speech is ranked too high.
BUT...if it is the same speech that I heard (I believe accidentally) played on NPR some
years ago, I'll say it does deserve to be in the top 100.

I was SHOCKED at how openly defiant the tone of the speech was toward Communism;
I guess that being a small child at the time of the speech, I'd not gotten
the direct, unapologeice belligerant tone of the speech.

Heck, it was practically a St. Crispin's Day speech for the Cold Warriors!!!
(That's why I decided that the propaganda officers at National Public Radio must have
taken one too many hits of LSD when they actually played the speech on their "All Things Considered".)

For all of JFK's feet of clay, he hit the right notes for the time with this speech.

[SoDak]

I agree...the "tear down this wall" speech (if this is the one) was definitely a top 5.