President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University

[@h8utubesomuch]

thanks for posting this. the context provided by the lack of edits provides an invaluable insight into this decade.

[@tinmansunbeam]

It is nice to see the full speech rather then just odds and ends. Well done. =)

[@dpm-jt8rj]

Sorensen was a terrific speech writer but Kennedy was a great speaker.

[@jkrasney1]

@@dpm-jt8rj Kennedy wrote his speeches, Sorensen tweaked and added tone as well as rhythm to the context of President Kennedy's speeches. Still, President Kennedy's delivery remains incomparable to any other speaker. This speech with President Kennedy's self effacing moments was among President Kennedy's finest. Well written, use of tone, rhythm as well as delivery are what separated Kennedy's speeches from other President's and speakers.

[@thierry9592]

what a time to be alive. rest in peace, american hero.

[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

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[@brantperry1210]

This should be shown in every history class in America.

[@thierry9592]

or europe, or asia. this is a vital piece of history

[@F15CEAGLE]

Split screen this with who we have today.

[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

Sim com o homem de verdade Somos casados eu e o presidente Kennedy ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

​@@thierry9592mulher do homem de verdade Do presidente Kennedy ❤❤❤❤

[@EmmanuelEzedom]

Is it not possible to have a president like this again?

[@NIZAR-i8l]

Why president jhon f kennefy was mosy highly respected by each and every nation because he was most kind generous honest president in 20th centurey.aswellas he wad true genuine leader in his time.

[@johnhanson9098]

Pay attention kids. This is what a REAL president looks like.

[@astro8585]

That was a President.

[@F15CEAGLE]

Compare him to what we have now.

[@jcb3393]

The things we take for granted these days... 25:04 Imagine a time when 45 satellites was considered "a lot". (SpaceX just delivered more than that simply to try a new method of broadband internet carrier.) Imagine a time when one space probe (Mariner) was all we had measuring the cosmos. Imagine a time before GPS and weather satellites. And yet they went to the moon just 7 years later to grow science and technology on the way to defeating communism and socialism. What have we done with this patrimony?

[@jackkomisar458]

The internet, smartphones, personal computers, GPS, the human genome project, the Hubble, James Webb, and other space telescopes, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, MRI, PET and CT scans, microwave ovens, LED bulbs, ultra high-definition television, laser eye surgery, RNA vaccines, and space probes to every planet in the Solar System including the dwarf planet Pluto.

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

Pointing out the relatively small amount of a person's tax payment put into the space missions, then the comparison to the highest mountain, and then levitating back to why George Mallory and Andrew Irvine attempted to reach the roof of the world; that is brilliant :3

[@ibnbobby]

Kennedy at 13:30

[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

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[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

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[@AnaFerreira-h4k]

YES somos casados ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@NEO6874]

citation for that? New information is always interesting :)

[@티라노사이언스]

22:57

[@MarkCarwyn]

As we go into this new technological age. Men should pick up the tools, and build, so that we remain in the forefront of this technology. The United States is slowly losing this Tech advancement. We need men to create small businesses around robotics, and show the world the creative mind of the United States. That we can work with the machines, to further this Great Country of Ours. We do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, and enslave the machines. Instead, I encourage that we find ways to work with them. Not just for ourselves, but for our children and for the Future of this Planet. If we allow corporate greed to restrict the use of robots because of the patent office, then we as a society need to rise to the challenge; and make sure this new technology does not become abused by corruption, and greed. With all the privileges of a citizen of the United States, we Need, to be the forerunners in this race of technology for the sake of Freedom for Humanity. We need to throw off these shackles of a war on terror. And focus our resources on becoming what we have preached. Or does our word mean nothing? This patriotism is what they now call toxic. Will we allow them to destroy the Moral Law that this country was founded upon? Or will we prove with the creativity of the U.S. Male mind, that we will never be out done? The sky is not Falling. This is opportunity knocking. Will men get to inventing? Will men get to building? Will men find answers around corruption? If we stop being solitary, and take our God Fearing Country back from these ideologies that are destroying the society our Fore Fathers built. We need to support our representation, that isn't silenced by their hate speech against our masculinity. We need small businesses, with patents. We need regulation, that benefits Humanity. We also need to understand our liabilities, but not smothered by them.

[@teshua]

He'd be considered a 'racist colonizer' for some of the content of this speech, nowadays

[@F15CEAGLE]

Compare him to what we have now.

[@thethaig]

15:54

[@stevehislop]

34:52 for the key line...

[@WhiteCamry]

+stevehislop 23:09

[@NEO6874]

Germany surrendered. The bomb was the lesser of two evils. Killing a quarter-million people is _terrible_ ... but on the other side of that coin; the death toll was estimated at around 1.7-4 million US casualties (400-800k fatalities) with another 5-10 MILLION Japanese casualties (in 1945). The Japanese Emperor was warned to surrender, and didnt -- Hiroshima was nuked. US gave the Emperor a second chance to surrender, he didn't -- Nagasaki was nuked. The Emperor surrendered.

[@brycekleinsteuber6636]

In actuality Japan surrendered because Russia or the Soviets were advancing upon them from manchuria and had just capture a lager portion of the Japanese forces stationed there, your teachers just taught you that the atomic bombs made them surrender because of the Cold War

[@deankaren9237]

Bryce Kleinsteuber you’re a fucking idiot

[@Jantv81]

That was Hitler that really put the rage on WWII. Why are you babbling about that war anyway? That has nothing to do with this speech.

[@Jantv81]

Frankly, how else were we going to end it? Anyway, it began the Cold War.