JFK on the Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962 | Today in History | 22 Oct 16

[@deletednachos8653]

What an amazing orator. I will never forget the quote "not for the victory of might, but for the vindication of right".

[@annierosha5946]

He had a great speech writer, Ted Sorenson.

[@Joe-xo4yg]

@@annierosha5946 Thx 🙃

[@dannyburch4973]

I like... one pop we shall never choose is the path of surrender or submission.

[@Witnessmoo]

He had a great speech writer

[@dannyburch4973]

@@Witnessmoo Ted Seorsen

[@beachside1]

My dad was in the blockade of Cuba. His ship was the USS Brough DE 148.He was an I.C which I think had to do with radar or something. It was a small ass destroyer escort and told me that sometimes when the waves were massive and the ship would groan and they would have to weld it underway. The only good thing he told me is that because it was a small ship that it would have to stop frequently due to its limited distance without refueling. He said the food was the best. Rip dad. He died in 2010 due to a stroke..

[@toring61_52]

beach side: Sorry to hear. My Condolences to the family..

[@thomasodetto4670]

Many thanks to your Dad for serving our great country. He will live forever as a hero to our nation. May he Rest In Peace 🇺🇸

[@ericschminke8233]

Your father was a truly courageous man and was definitely a hero. I salute him for his service, especially during such a dangerous period.

[@tarkeshwarpathak2168]

Are you a Russian, American or Cuban?

[@patg912]

I'm sorry for your loss,,,and tyvm for your father's service

[@davemitchell116]

Can you imagine the guts it took to call the Soviets liars while their finger was on the button?

[@kamakirinoko]

There were no fingers on any buttons. None of these missiles were operational. The Soviets did not otherwise have any missiles that could hit the US in 1961. It wasn't until at least 1965 that any fingers on either side could realistically have pushed any buttons.

[@davemitchell116]

@@kamakirinoko It was a figure of speech.

[@Conservative007]

Soviets knew America's nuclear power was way higher then theirs. They wouldn't mess with America

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@kamakirinoko I've heard that at least *some* of those missiles in Cuba were operational. In fact, Fidel Castro wanted to launch them on U.S. civilian population centers to forestall what he perceived to be an imminent invasion of U.S. armed forces into Cuba. This was one of the reasons why Khrushchev finally decided to remove those missiles, as he believed Castro to be psychologically unstable.

[@obisanchez5286]

@@kamakirinoko wrong

[@dennismcclellan7504]

Within 24 hours of this speech, I enlisted in the US Air Force. My uncle, who was a Sr. Master Sgt in Army, told me that "you want to go clean -- not the Army or Marine who might be pounding beaches in Cuba." Since I had not done well in my year of college, he warned me that I was "draft bait". "The Air Force and Navy are clean. Go with One of them," he suggested. I was in basic training within days, became a radar operator, went to assignments in west Texas, underground in Newfoundland, and TDY to Vietnam. My uncle's words haunt me to this day: "Go Air Force. Go Clean. What could possibly go wrong!" While not always the best of times, it did shake me out of my self-centeredness and gave me the incentive to improve upon what I had been. I got a college education, thanks to the GI Bill, and became a school teacher, an archaeologist, and eventually an author and publisher. Just a year and a month and a couple of days after JFK's speech, I was stationed in Sweetwater, TX, when I heard on the radio that President Kennedy had been shot some 200+ miles east in Dallas.

[@anthonycampos8057]

This man single handedly prevented nuclear war. A true hero

[@jamesmayala5491]

Real

[@bakaneko6639]

No, he almost started it

[@albertweedsteinthethuggeni7797]

Top 3 presidents ever

[@icebreaker9995]

He kinda caused it but yeah even when everyone else was pushing for war he remained calm so yeah good president

[@ramkumarsahrawat46]

@@bakaneko6639 lgood

[@gabyj5562]

Dear president Kennedy, i wasn't born when you were president but just listening to all the speeches you give just shows how much of a great president you were compared to the presidents of today. You want peace, these so called leaders today want war, all I want is a president who will take care of the American people and keep the peace so we can live in peace not in fear or hate against each other. Thank you President Kennedy, you and your family will be in my heart forever.

[@melissadunn7428]

This speech is a great way to explain The Cuban Missile Crisis to middle schoolers. It shows how Americans might feel about this, and answers many questions students might have. John Fitzgerald Kennedy became a hero after this crisis. This is a great video to use for teaching, if your students are learning about The Cuban Missile Crisis. I definitely recommend this video. 👍👍❤️😃

[@francisco3336]

This is definitnly not a good video for learning history since it only talks about the missiles in Cuba and doesn't speak of the american missiles in Turkey and Italy, it only shows the american perspective

[@haroldbrown5308]

@@francisco3336 Thank God you had little say in the Cuban Crisis. These missiles were old and ready to be retired. Thank God we had them to give up. Please read history before you put on orange clothes like the traitor that WAS our president. Oh, did he admit defeat --it's been two years!

[@francisco3336]

@@haroldbrown5308 all i said is that this video was not good for learning history since it only shows the american perprective while completely ignoring that the USA had missiles in Turkey and Italy. JFK literally lies in this video like 10 times lol

[@thomasodetto4670]

JFK had unbelievable guts. We as a nation will never get over his passing. Rest In Peace Mr. President. You are still loved and revered through out the world.

[@Woodsm.Woodstock..]

AMEN!!

[@kamakirinoko]

He was the best president the US ever had.

[@jimbaker4931]

@@kamakirinoko I agree with you wholeheartedly, Kamakiri!! He left us much much too young.

[@Caleb_Mandrake872]

JFK did an excellent job here but he's revered because he was martyrdom. He wasn't as great as many have made him out to be.

[@maxaguero2984]

with th e support of the american air force ...the cubans had would get success in the invasion to defeat castro

[@marinegrunt6633]

I was a Sophomore in high school and remember that speech well, it was a difficult next two weeks. This was JFK at his best....

[@vivianpowell1732]

I was also a sophomore in high school during this crisis. My family lived on the East Coast in Charleston SC, home to a large Navy base and shipyard. I recently learned from reading RFK's "Thirteen Days" about the missile crisis, that Charleston likely would have become one of the places where Russian ships attempting to run the blockade would have been towed. Charleston was also within striking distance of the medium-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. So we were particularly vulnerable. After President Kennedy gave this speech to the American people, my father started coming home early from work, about the time that my mother and I got home from our schools (my mother was a teacher). That was a sure sign to me that the situation was deadly serious, because my father rarely took off from work. He continued to come home early until the crisis passed.

[@Bingbumble]

@@vivianpowell1732 Wow. How did your classmates and school respond to this crisis? Were they panicking and were high school seniors drafted for the invasion of Cuba?

[@vivianpowell1732]

@@Bingbumble No students in my high school were drafted in response to the Cuban Missile Crises, to my knowledge. To be honest, I don't think there was enough time to implement a draft. I don't recall any widespread panic among the students at my school. Some of the parents had made the nightly news and other news bulletins off-limits to their kids during the crisis. JFK, RFK, and the Committee of Advisers knew that they had to act fast. War was going to become inevitable if our response wasn't swift and adequate. After JFK's speech to the nation, most adults felt confident that our president had the resolve and ability to do the best he could. What other choice did we have? When JFK first took office a lot of people including some members of Congress underestimated Kennedy. I think Khrushchev did too. That all ended with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@willbill6663]

WOW youtube kids are weird these days. you are probably 12 years old and want to look smart.

[@bohemoth1]

Yeah especially when he said A FULL RETALIATORY RESPONSE. I knew that it meant that NUKES were going to fall on the UNITED STATES.

[@samholden4171]

He saved us from nuclear war he didnt deserve to get killed

[@dylian_]

he was killed by a supporter of nuclear war.

[@klaustoth6982]

R.I.P. JFK. In Europe too we honour his memory as that of a great man and great American president to this day. (I'm Austrian, born in 1961.)

[@navkaDev]

Yeah. JFK was the last great president of the USA. And I truly hope that he didn't know anything about US missiles in Turkey much prior to the Cuban crisis. Otherwise his wonderful speech would be a huge hipocricy. But anyway, he was the last best one. Cause all the rest ones were just sneaky stupid rats without any care for American people and society 😕

[@joe7777b]

Kennedy and Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile crisis wanted to pursue world peace, however others did not.

[@sharingmythoughts1552]

Here it is 60 years later and we are still living in fear of nuclear weapons during the war in Ukraine. Mankind never learns. March 8, 2022.

[@Homer-je1pz]

Russia isn't going to use a Nuclear warhead on Ukraine. Don't be stupid. Keep your stupid thoughts to your stupid self.

[@firehead210]

@@Homer-je1pz you’re stupid for assuming he was talking about Ukraine. He could’ve been referring to me the nuclear black mail Russia is posing to the west. Keep your stupid thoughts to yourself stupid

[@rodneysexton1034]

The war on Ukraine was Biden's stupid fault. No wonder Joe Biden Is hated by Americans. Biden needs to be put on trial for his crimes against our country. And Harris Pelosi and Schummer need to be put on trial for their crimes against our country as well. They all belong in jail!!!!!!

[@m42037]

It's in our nature to kill ourselves

[@lelouchvibrittania8478]

Respect and love to the Americans and JFK from France🇫🇷

[@GhostHead]

He knew that what he was doing was technically a naval blockade which is considered an act of war, so the carefully chosen phrase "naval quarantine" is something i would consider a genius move and arguably prevented further escalation or total nuclear war. JFK is my favorite president and Ive gone as far to read the entire Warren Report (available online via government archives), and this man was something. The charisma and confidence in the face of humanity's greatest threat is something we havent seen in the presidential office since November 1963.

[@gregorall9779]

Thank you for your comment. I located a hard bound copy of the Warren commission report and read it as well. I am currently reading a book about the U-2 spy plane, and it's part of obtaining aerial photographs of the missle sights in Cuba. It's an interesting book.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Kennedy was assassinated because he lost the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[@AtroFear]

Regardless of the atrocities committed by both the US and the USSR at the time in other areas, the leaders successfully avoided the complete destruction of modern civilization and we should forever be thankful for their willingness at the very end to put their egos aside for humanity. The most challenging decision is whether to push the button, which is the easy way, or being wise enough to never use the button.

[@mindfulskills]

Brilliantly conceived and written; perfectly delivered. He neither sugarcoated nor talked down to us -- this was a serious message delivered to a serious people capable of understanding it and making sacrifices if necessary. What clowns we are by comparison today.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

I agree with every word of that.

[@jnstonbely5215]

Great post ! You said it quite succinctly. And we hear you; as Our Country is now stuck with another clown In the oval office. Bozo Biden! God help America sure but God help America for certain !🇺🇸

[@haroldbrown5308]

@@jnstonbely5215 I"ll never forget the first international trip the traitor Trump took! He danced with Saudi Princes with that sword in his hand! He is a draft dodging traitor!

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Kennedy surrendered.

[@thomasodetto4670]

My Dad had told me long ago that our country was lucky JFK was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Nixon was President, we might not be here. What is really disturbing is that Soviet President Kruschev wrote in his memoirs , that he was going to level New York City in case the U.S. invaded Cuba. That is a very disturbing scenario to comprehend.

[@Fighting_Fatigue_117]

We all just need to chill the fuck out. Him of all people.

[@thomasodetto4670]

@@Fighting_Fatigue_117 👍👍👍👍👍 I agree with you my friend. 🇺🇸

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Well, you *do* have a point. Back in 1956, five years earlier, it was *Mr. Khrushchev* that told Western ambassadors visiting at the Polish Embassy in Moscow that _"We will bury you."_ Of course, at the peak of the 1962 crisis, Fidel Castro wanted the operational missiles launched on U.S. civilian population centers to forestall what he believed to be an imminent invasion of Cuba by U.S. military forces.

[@boinknook]

Putin is another kruschev. 🤭

[@justsobanter1577]

@@boinknook no he is not he is only trying to protect and defend his country as Ukraine went back on their word that they will not join nato and now are trying to and as of that they broke the treaty so now putin is doing what is necessary so his country does not suffer the consequences of that so I would compare putin to jfk if anything

[@bdflatlander]

I was 9 years old when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place. In watching JFK’s speech it reminded me of what a brave, courageous and articulate man he was and how his measured response to the Soviet nuclear threat defused the crisis peacefully. I’ll always wonder how things would be different today had JFK not been assassinated and instead would have been re-elected to a second term.

[@northernstar3960]

Now the United States has old, demented and braindead zombie in office who can barely stand on his two feet and can hardly pronounce one or two words correctly. And on the other hand United States is heavily involved in extremely dangerous military conflict in Ukraine (right on the border with nuclear superpower Russia). Same as in times of US war in Vietnam. What a degradation of US leadership and diplomacy.

[@jryecart8017]

First Lady Jackie Kennedy’s press secretary Pamela Turnure had a quick romance with her boss’s husband, the alleged affair coming to light in the book “The Kennedy Half-Century” by Larry J. Sabato. Turnure, who is said to have had a remarkable resemblance to Jackie, began a two-year affair with JFK in 1961 when she was aged 21. JFK is even encouraged his wife to hire her after she worked as his own secretary when he was a Senator.

[@ferideneziri8831]

Compare JFK vs Sleepy Joe, or imagine Joe being POTUS during Cuban missile crisis!

[@bdflatlander]

@@ferideneziri8831 Yes, of course, it’s better to have Trump as POTUS again so maybe he can incite and other insurrection to advance his maze of lies.

[@ferideneziri8831]

@@bdflatlander I never mentioned that zionist useful idiot, Big T, i mentioned only Sleepy Joe.

[@voicegirl555]

60 years ago on October 22, 1962 the world was at the brink of war with Russia and did not know it until John F. Kennedy,35th President of the United States address the country on Monday, October, 22,1962. He said "our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right, not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom in this hemisphere and we hope. around the world. He was one of our great Presidents and watching this speech shows what we are lacking in our leaders today. The whole world lacks true leadership. God help us! I hope in this world there is still men and women with the backbone to lead.

[@steviegr36]

This speech gives me chills. Can you imagine if this happened today..? We Americans would be freaking the Hell out..!

[@toring61_52]

It just might with the puppet that's in the WH today I'rack is an example that these clowns have no idea what to do except start something very dangerous..

[@carolcoopervideoandaudio4407]

It freaked the hell out of me as a child living in Washington DC at the time!

[@Conservative007]

I dont think so. Today America's military power is way higher than Russia's.

[@AA-ke5cu]

Only the weak would be freaking out; get outside; get some sun; and start growing.

[@arjunghanekar6140]

@@Conservative007 yeah that time they were about the same

[@kratos8238]

Wow imagine how people reacted to this balls of steel

[@allprofits3092]

I still don't get why their isn't a million movies made about JFK and his life he is such a inspiration this man prevented a world war, signed the civil rights act, and landed a man on the moon. Talk about a giant leap for mankind . Rest in Peace the only real president who didnt gave a fuck about our nation!

[@RoyalSnowbird]

GOD ! His words ring so true to this day ! When you consider the current threat of Russia upon Ukraine at this hour, such words carry a heavy message if we care about underpinning PEACE for humanity. . . Rest in Peace President Kennedy... the world owes you BIG!

[@RoyalSnowbird]

​@Ranger F. Poor sod. . . the matter is far more complicated than that and no you cannot blame the Cuban Missile Crisis on the USA... if you want to look at history with biased tainted glasses to bolster your opinion, go ahead... but you will not convince me on this one!

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@RoyalSnowbird I heard that during the crisis Castro wanted to pre-emptively launch all of the ready Soviet nuclear missiles on U.S. civilian population centers, as he thought an invasion by U.S. military forces was imminent. This was yet another reason why Khrushchev wanted those missiles removed from Cuba, as he considered Castro as not mentally stable.

[@RoyalSnowbird]

@@chetpomeroy1399 The Soviet regime was not mentally stable too at the time as they should not have sent nuclear missile capabilities upon Cuban soil or gotten involved in threatening the USA no matter how you look at it... and they are mentally stable today!

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@RoyalSnowbird I don't disagree with you, but at least Khrushchev, with his frequent bellicose public statements, was not so unstable so as to listen to Castro, launch a first strike and start World War III. Then as now, I believe the Russian government's corruption will be the cause of Putin being replaced by a new Russian government that wants peace with its neighbors, at least I hope so.

[@hermanoamor3606]

Kenneedyy for keeping peace would have never approach to Russia frontier to threat The Bear like OTAN is doing now great provocation that led Russia to war against the follower of Hitler WW II, Ukrain Nazi leader Stepan Banderas.

[@vivianpowell1732]

President Kennedy's brother Robert F. Kennedy wrote a memoir "Thirteen Days" about the Cuban missile crisis. If you can find a copy, it's a great resource to have about the crisis, because RFK worked closely with President Kennedy and the Ex Comm advisers as they hammered out a settlement with Khrushchev. RFK was serving as Attormey General at the time. There's also a full transcript of this speech by President Kennedy included in the book.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

That was the basis of the 2000 movie Thirteen Days, wasn't it? Very gripping film. Even when I knew how it was going to turn out, I found myself biting my nails.

[@UnicornPizza]

@@jenniferschillig3768 The book wasn’t the basis of the movie - the movie was based on the book ‘The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow

[@Jantv81]

Great book and film! I have them both.

[@tommywatterson5276]

Cuban Soviet missile installation was a result of the US having placed missile installations in Turkey pointed at the Soviet Union. The Soviets backed out of Cuba after we agreed to remove ours in Turkey.

[@ToMi-bm5hh]

@@ausmark24 It is true which you can have confirmed with a help of a few seconds search on Google. Jupiter nuclear missiles were placed in both Northern Italy and in Turkey from where they could reach Moscow in 1961. Soviets decided to place nukes in Cuba one year later partly because of Castros demands and partly because they learnt about the Jupiter missiles and felt it would be fair to balance things up.

[@allancraver3816]

This is what a leader looks like

[@kevinmichaelcallihansr5053]

One man did make a difference as I do when stating my awareness of the nuclear threat today in 2021.

[@2008topshelf]

"Unmistakeable evidence" from that office has changed since these last 60 years.

[@tonyd.214]

I know what you meant to say👍

[@beatlejim64]

We were in school doing "Duck & Cover" during this period!!!

[@toring61_52]

OMG I remember the time ! Walking to school and the sirens going off ! It was scary times. But seems to the dem party it's all about profit and control.

[@sayloltothetroll6806]

Desks are a foolproof protection from nuclear weapons.

[@johnvorres4351]

@@toring61_52 if not for JFK we would not be here today . Had General Lemay had his way Russia would have been in cinders and if we were lucky enough to survive the incoming rockets , we may have experienced a nuclear winter of many decades ! Our democratic party served the world well ! We are still here !

[@SugarRayCharles.]

No American president since JFK had greater unrelenting courage.

[@bnkundwa]

There are so many ways to peace but there is only one life.

[@davesuiter]

What I'd give for another great leader like JFK. 10:22

[@desertfairychickres4021]

We the people have one. Donald John Trump May God bless America.

[@SPIDER-Man669]

@@desertfairychickres4021 yes 👏🏼

[@THE-X-Force]

​@@desertfairychickres4021 NOT FOR LONG AHAHAHAHA!!!!! America has rejected him. Fired him. Diaper Don is on his way out the door. He's a pathetic failure, wearing Depends because he poops himself when he has to try and say a three syllable word. The greatest loss of an election by votes in U.S. history. Soon to be the first ex-president put in prison where he belongs. You know that him and his kids stole from a fraud charity they set up that was supposed to give money to kids with cancer? That's who you support! HE STOLE MONEY FROM KIDS WITH CANCER. He literally is not allowed to operate a charity ever again. Or a "university". People like you are traitors to Democracy, every single one of you.

[@icebreaker9995]

@@desertfairychickres4021 I mean he’s weakened America removing America from foreign affairs and with it Americas influence all over the world and allowing China to come closer to world dominance

[@memebigboi5330]

@@desertfairychickres4021 im be honest i dont think trump or biden comes close to jfk. I dont think we will ever get a good president at this point. Trump and biden are the only ones left to lead it tho but otherwise all the canidates are shit. Were fucked

[@glowgirl8171]

I remember all of this and I'm forever honored to have had him as my president.

[@jryecart8017]

Last year, Mimi Alford, who was once a junior staffer in John F Kennedy’s White House, released a slim memoir recalling her affair with the president. Few people paid it much attention, perhaps because Kennedy’s priapic philandering long ago ceased to be “news”. Even so, Alford’s little book was a useful addition to the Kennedy catalogue. She recalled, for instance, how once while she was swimming with the president in the White House pool, Kennedy told his 19-year old intern that Dave Powers, his special assistant, “looks a little tense” and asked Alford to “take care of it”. By “take care of it” Kennedy meant Alford should perform a sex act on Powers. “Dave was jolly and obedient as I stood in the shallow end of the pool and performed my duties,” Alford wrote. “The president silently watched.” Perhaps this was meant to reward Powers for his willingness to procure women for the president. Even so, there are shades of Caligula’s court here. This was the private squalor behind the public glamour of Camelot - a president whose low view of women was matched by the relish with which he was prepared to humiliate his own staff.

[@lastelin]

Kennedy somehow forgot to tell Americans, that one of the reasons why Soviets decided to place nukes in Cuba was because Soviets learnt that the US government placed Jupiter nuclear missiles in Northern Italy and Turkey within striking distance from Moscow, just a year ago.

[@BarryStallings211786]

Most powerful speech ever in American history in my opinion. Stood down the Soviets!

[@vivianpowell1732]

Kennedy's Inaugural Address was magnificent as well. January 20, 1961. It was a freezing cold day in Washington, DC.

[@BarryStallings211786]

@@vivianpowell1732 totally agree!! Loved that speech and the one in Berlin as well!

[@adamvermillion6037]

@@BarryStallings211786 my favorite is definitely the moonshot speech. probably one of the best speeches ever delivered by man.

[@lindadaws3117]

Who is watching this video in 2022?

[@geoffwilliams4478]

2024!

[@jackwar8779]

Anyone interested in history, you stupid "yuppie" wastes.

[@dannyburch4973]

One path we will never choose is the path of surrender or submission.

[@marthahuls8385]

Unless Cadet Bone Spurs is in office.

[@scottcook9734]

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather ask what you can do for your country.” My mother gave me this quote on a silver stand when I was 5. Never forgot it. Top 5 president U.S. has ever had.

[@jryecart8017]

Judith Campbell Exner, who served as a conduit between JFK and mobster Sam Giancana, had an abortion after becoming pregnant with the President’s child, revealing details about their alleged affair in her 1977 memoir “My Story.” Jackie Kennedy is said to have been unsurprised by what the book revealed. The alleged mafia moll Exner spoke again of her relationship with the president in a 1997 interview with Vanity Fair in which she revealed that she ended her two-year affair with Kennedy in early 1963. It is around this time she claims that she aborted his child. Introduced to Kennedy via her ex Frank Sinatra, she ferried envelopes between the President and Sam Giancana, to whom she was also a mistress, including, she claims, alleged payoffs or instructions for vote-buying in elections and plans to kill Fidel Castro. “Jack never in a million years thought he was doing anything that would hurt me, but that’s the way he conducted himself; the Kennedys have their own set of rules,” she said.

[@jey70yearsago63]

Anyone here before the new Cold War with China?

[@karlhelm875]

I wouldn't call it cold. They released the corona virus onto us.

[@abc-oq7dt]

@@karlhelm875 don't start that patter. Jet fuel cant melt steel dreams

[@terryhanks2314]

Jes

[@Fighting_Fatigue_117]

@@abc-oq7dt ???

[@beewalk34]

Listening to him after hearing Trump and Biden, we definitely took a turn for the worst. ❤JFK

[@jackd105]

I wish he handled the Covid 19 crisis

[@princenoah21]

With all the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers in the world, even he couldn't have handled that.

[@Conservative007]

@@princenoah21 he'd be the first one to call people out for this insanity. Masks are worthless against the covid.

[@quigonjin3123]

@@Conservative007 smh

[@NickzAndMikz]

@@Conservative007 Do you have some research in that? Like in a real journal

[@annfinley5839]

Masks and vax are worthless...but humans want it go for it...as long as its their choice, not mine...

[@malarucoon]

Today's politicians would have royally botched this point in history.

[@crazysteve2395]

One of the greatest presidents ever! Any other president would crumble if they were in his shoes. He was fighting communism both externally and internally

[@nelsonhernandez7123]

No. It was a different time. Eisenhower, Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan would not have crumbled. RFK would not have crumbled.

[@annfinley5839]

He was one ...but there were others just as great or greater...

[@nayelaahmed7887]

The Best President we ever had! President John F Kennedy! You are dearly missed! What would President Kennedy say to President Joe Biden today? What would President Kennedy say to Trump for starting the insurrection at the White House? Can there ever be Peace on Earth as Kennedy was talking about? We can only hope and pray for Peace! Amin

[@chetpomeroy1399]

Neither before nor since, we've *NEVER* been this close to nuclear Armageddon.

[@Thatmanwebby]

I wouldn’t speak too soon

[@frauleinhohenzollern]

"We defeated the wrong enemy" -General Patton

[@aussieoughtamate]

I had no ideas that it went for nearly 19 minutes. Modorn media would be shutting him down by the 1 minute mark these days.

[@stephenclues2948]

Such an impressive speech and speaker. And President Kennedy's words about the lessons from the 1930's ring as true in 2022 as 1962; the appeasement of dictators only makes war more, not less likely. 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇺🇦

[@stephenclues2948]

@King Royal The Polish government of 1939 was centrist, opposed to both communist and ultra-nationalist movements. The Molotov-Ribbentropp pact neutralised France's pact with Russia. Britain's reaction was to make Poland's sovereignty a matter of peace or war; Hitler chose war, and invaded. You know you really ought to learn some history before throwing words like "fascist" around....

[@tombasye1016]

John F. Kennedy Was An Absolute Excellent President In Every Avenue During His Time In Office And A Wonderful Husband And Father Always As Full Of Grace And Caring About All The Great American People And In The Beautiful United States Of America And Around The World He Will Never Be Forgotten.

[@hippojuice23]

Believe it all!

[@ruthcotter5723]

Compare this man to the one we have heading our country now in 2022. No don't. There is no comparison.

[@marthahuls8385]

Better than Don the Con who would have just surrendered and asked his pal Putin for a huge new personal loan.

[@user-qi8zf7cm6i]

Thats a Man you see there that knows right and lives by it❣that loves his people and country and knows what the ramifications would be to cower in the heat of such situation. A TRUE LEADER❤ I still have trouble when I think of what was done to him So I speak of him in the present

[@jryecart8017]

Republican Attorney General Herbert Brownell originally proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Democrat Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had Judiciary chairman Sen. James Eastland drastically water-down the House version, removing stringent voting protection clauses. The bill passed 285-126 in the House with Republicans providing the majority of votes 167-19 and Democrats 118-107. It then passed 72-18 in the Senate, with Republicans again supplying the majority of votes, 43-0 and Democrats voting 29-18. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who later ran for president, voted in favor of an amendment to water down the bill. Kennedy's 1957 book, Profiles in Courage, celebrated the vote of Sen. Edmund Ross to acquit Pres. Andrew Johnson, the first step in ending Republican Reconstruction reforms and paving the way for the Democrat era of Jim Crow laws and the segregation era. The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. Richard Russell, "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again. For decades, historians have assumed, thanks to the important legislation passed in 1964-65, that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon V Johnson were the era’s great civil rights leaders and that Eisenhower failed to “speak out” on the issue. But Ike’s record speaks for itself. JFK and LBJ did not commit to the cause until 1963, when horrific violence in the South compelled them to. It is time, finally, to bury the myth that Ike did nothing on civil rights. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower was more progressive in advancing African-American civil rights than Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson.

[@m42037]

People don't realize this was so close to end 💥🔥

[@ag3957]

Yes they do.

[@Jeremy-y1t]

It wasn't.

[@ericschminke8233]

Can you imagine how Biden would handle the Cuban Missile Crisis if it occurred now?

[@randalllewisa8093]

he would forget where he put his dentures💀

[@DivaDWood]

Much better than Trump, who would have just bent over for Krushchev like he did for Putin.

[@annfinley5839]

Trump better...biden forgot hes the fake president...and has dementia

[@Magg78]

The puppet would have read whatever was put on his teleprompter. It’s laughable that people still think he’s cognitively capable of making important decisions.

[@keenesytes837]

@0:48 a quote from Bill O'Reilly's book Killing Kennedy - ""Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere.” Here the president pauses, letting the words sink in." .. .. President Kennedy doesn't pause at all except to maybe catch his breath for one second, tops.

[@GHustle4]

who gives a fuck about pausing the american government had missiles on their land I wish they would have sent a few so white america can stfu

[@GHustle4]

@jovungus I live in this country! And it is a repeating so if you don’t live here YOU can stfu

[@chriscurtis8344]

@@GHustle4 don’t pay attention to any troll or dark humor hot head.

[@neilhardie6312]

Wish we could have this guy right now for Ukraine instead of Mr Magoo

[@eavyeavy2864]

So stopping other to put their weapon is allowed but Russia cannot do the same? Hypocrisy

[@marty9660]

@@eavyeavy2864 kzbin.info/www/bejne/raDMhGuVpMqZfpI kzbin.info/www/bejne/jn_Ni3p_jthnpa8

[@oscaraleman7081]

where even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouths

[@eavyeavy2864]

So stopping other to put their weapon is allowed but Russia cannot do the same? Hypocrisy

[@wandameadows5736]

AMEN, spread the truth, this is all NATOs fault & this particular situation started in 2014 with the coup in Ukraine.

[@aww2historian]

Its frustrating to admire this man when in the background there's the CIA's actions....

[@andrewmorrissey7008]

Despite plenty of bad words that could be said about the CIA, we are much better on earth with it. They get done jobs that need to be done

[@aww2historian]

@@andrewmorrissey7008 Every intelligence agency justifies their actions with that same idea whether it be CIA, NSA, NKVD, or KGB. Seems somewhat oversimplified in a world of li...rather half-truths.

[@GoldFaceFella]

@@andrewmorrissey7008 no no. They committed war crimes and violated Americans’ civil rights and murdered American citizens. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@harryknutts8428]

When you realize that you are older than he is in this video

[@keithashley6298]

A great President and leader.

[@tripsixtalks3627]

JFK: "We don't wish to engage in a situation that puts other nations at risk. However, and I'm speaking to you, Russia: fuck around and find out."

[@mathewsparks9061]

History Is Being Read, But It Is Also Being Written

[@roncardenas2963]

This is the kind of history about America Teachers should be teaching American children instead of America shaming them.

[@pravesh4056]

Love u Kennedy from india ❤️❤️

[@timboslice1979]

A President who also called out the deep state and the evils within our government. Hard to believe he was a Democrat. God Bless his legacy and may he continue to Rest in Eternal Peace

[@SvRFrontline]

Democrat lost its REAL definition once this man died 😔

[@richardwedlich8823]

This address will always be relevant, now as is was then, to a free nation.

[@mathewsparks9061]

The Thing I Love About Kennedy, He Was So Calm And Steady Like A Real Man

[@mex148bucktown3]

We don't have a leader like him. This day and age,

[@ag3957]

They would character assinate him these days, so he wouldn't be considered.

[@michaelbee2165]

Someone in the White House could best advise Biden by pulling this JFK speech from the archives and having him watch it.

[@peliculas2155]

💪💪💪THAT IS HOW A REAL USA PRESIDENT LEADER AND CHIEF TALKS 💪💪💪💪💪

[@mellow-jello]

With the anniversary of the crisis approaching, this clip should be mandatory viewing, and for global leaders, analysis, so we do not face another challenge between nuclear states. It would unfortunate for humanity to have the period between events known as the Pax Nuclei.

[@kevinoverbeck4250]

Saved the world.

[@joe6096]

JFK was the last great democrat. The last democrat I would have voted for.

[@donholt3361]

Could do with this man today

[@PeriklisDosis]

Is this the speech from the Xmen movie?

[@chair8540]

" a full retaliatory response" scariest words ive ever heard

[@lyndatrones1787]

Brilliant hero..💔

[@aww2historian]

There's a riddle or play on words to unpack here: the best defense is a good offense.

[@tommy-ho1iu]

We don't have JFK this time..

[@dannyburch4973]

His finest hour.

[@Jeremy-y1t]

The greatest defeat the United States had ever suffered.

[@mmmichelrizkallah]

JFK was one of the finest presidents the United States 🇺🇸 ever had.

[@JamesRichards-mj9kw]

Hardly.

[@masummahmudlaskar4159]

Who wrote his speech ..Ted Sorensen or Dean rusk ..do anyone know ??

[@BrandonB10]

Ted Sorensen wrote the speech.

[@Long_island_2017]

60 years ago today

[@Limsed]

What's the song in the beginning?

[@vivianpowell1732]

"Hail To The Chief"

[@THE-X-Force]

Is their no video available where you can see him looking into the camera?

[@vivianpowell1732]

There's one on the KZbin channel called Pax Americana, but the quality is not the best.

[@mathewsparks9061]

Kennedy Knew He ______ The Boss And Spoke Like The Boss

[@juanjoseosoriomartinez5400]

Lima Perú... Nice

[@mrtoast244]

It's 3am, how did I get here..?

[@mathewsparks9061]

You Go Boss

[@berhekahsu590]

It realy shows us , how far the world has diviated from the route of peace and understanding

[@amelaamelajiang493]

Adam . name is Vernon Emmanuel cutkelven 1968. 1:11 the Lisa is 2005.2:12.allen.h.1999.02.02.the nation days.😔

[@LetsPokemonGo]

I’m here because of X-Men first class

[@art.demirjian9721]

The President JFK. dealt with significantly difficult situations. He successfully manage to deal with them through peaceful solutions, doing His best to keep perfect friendly balance with the World. He also took very intelligent forward action toward His own Country's domestic problems. Today as a result of His own effort good things are being clearly visible and help People Of United States proudly to call 🌟🌟God Bless America🌟🌟

[@Cayres9]

Bring JFK back to deal with Putin , maybe clone JFK ?

[@failuretocommunicate]

As I write this on the 60th anniversary...🪔

[@MrLs1racer]

That had to be the hardest speech to give ever.

[@UnicornPizza]

Jesus Christ, only God knows how he created his kids. This man was so fucking hot and handsome, one of the greatest American President. I’m waiting for the day Caspar Philipson - his official lookalike and an amazing actor - will play the President in a biopic as magnificent as the 2016 biopic ‘Jackie’ and in which he’ll deliver the late President’s iconic and legendary speeches (such as this one).

[@JK-fk6qv]

ALWAYS MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT! JFK WAS THE STARTER OF GREATNESS, TRUMP WILL FINISH What you started! RIPJFK No one in the 60's had the balls to do what you did & said for our great country!

[@annfinley5839]

Amen!!!

[@annfinley5839]

Ranger....the party of JFK is gone...its now become the party of soros,china, transgenderz, binary, pronouns, blm, antifa etc

[@georan4323]

Trump would have lead us into nuclear war.