This speech by President John F Kennedy (JFK) was delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers' Association on 27 April 1961 - less that 100 days after he took office. It is sometimes referred to as his "Secret Societies" speech. <br /> <br />This video contains most of the speech (in sound and typescript). It begins with a discussion of the temporal context of the speech and ends with consideration of what we can make of this speech - more than fifty years after it was recorded. <br /> <br />MUSIC: <br /> <br />Christopher W French: "America the Beautiful" (Public Domain - from http://www.rhythmontherock.com/america_the_beautiful.html) <br /> <br /> <br />IMAGES and historic VIDEO footage: <br /> <br />Most images and the soundtrack of the speech are sourced from the Kennedy archives. <br /> <br />Images not from that source are credited at the end of the video. <br /> <br />Elements not created by the video producer are reproduced for nonprofit educational purposes under the fair use provisions of copyright law. <br /> <br /> <br />RELATED LINKS: <br /> <br />"Road to the White House: JFK's Early Campaign" (1957) <br />- http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/u-s-senate-1957/ <br /> <br />Re Krushchev 1958 speech: <br />- https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/1958-11-26.pdf <br />- http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3089 <br />- https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/CWIHPBulletin11_p5.pdf <br />- https://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia_uk/news/2014_02_23/Crucial-meeting-between-Khrushchev-and-Macmillan-55-years-ago-2281/ <br /> <br />TNC:172 Kennedy-Nixon First Presidential Debate, 1960 <br />- https://youtu.be/gbrcRKqLSRw <br /> <br />"Film by the British Government about the Berlin Airlift" (undated, prior to 1952) <br />- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_airlift.ogv <br /> <br />"Berlin, 1961/08/31" <br />- https://archive.org/details/1961-08-31_Berlin <br /> <br />"Ä City Torn Apart: Building of the Berlin Wall" (27 Oct 2011) <br />- https://www.archives.gov/files/research/foreign-policy/cold-war/1961-berlin-crisis/berlin-publication.pdf <br /> <br />"When Castro Heard the News" Jean Daniel, The New Republic, 7 December 1963, pp. 7-9 <br />- https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WCHN.html <br /> <br />"Unofficial Envoy: An Historic Report from Two Capitals" Jean Daniel, The New Republic, 14 December 1963, pp. 15-20" <br />- https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/UnofficialEnvoy.html <br /> <br />"Inspector General's Survey of the Cuban Operation - October 1961" <br />- http://anusha.com/pigs-all.htm <br /> <br />Time Essay (30 July 1965) "Bay of Pigs Revisited; Lessons from a Failure" <br />- http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/T%20Disk/Tiger%20to%20Ride%20Bay%20of%20Pigs/Item%2001.pdf <br /> <br />"CIA Claims Release of its History of the Bay of Pigs Debacle Would “Confuse the Public.” (17 April 2012) <br />- https://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/cia-claims-release-of-its-history-of-the-bay-of-pigs-debacle-would-confuse-the-public/ <br /> <br />FOIA Bay of Pigs Release (Updated 31 Oct 2016 ) <br />- https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/bay-pigs-release
