This administration has failed to recognise – has failed to recognise – that in these changing times, with a revolution of rising expectations sweeping the globe, the United States has lost its image as a new strong vital revolutionary society. John F Kennedy, University of Illinois October 1960
This country is moving and it must not stop. It cannot stop. For this is a time for courage and a time for challenge. Neither conformity nor complacency will do. John F Kennedy, undelivered speech Austin Texas 22nd November 1963
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. And that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. My fellow Americans, this is a problem which faces us all. In every city of the north as well as the south. Today there are Negroes unemployed two or three times as many compared to whites. Inadequate education, moving into the large cities, unable to find work, denied equal rights; we cannot say to 10% of the population you can’t have that right ... We owe them, and we owe ourselves, a better country than that. John F Kennedy 19th June 1963
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. John F Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F Kennedy, address White House 1962
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has laboured hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline. John F Kennedy, December 1962
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose ... and is a test of the quality of a nation’s civilization. ibid.
War appeals no longer as a rational alternative ... Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F Kennedy, address United Nations September 1961
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow – and a community without law is but a shell. ibid.
Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear Sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. ibid.
Peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems – it is primarily a problem of politics and people. And unless man can match his strides in weaponry and technology with equal strides in social and political development, our great strength, like that of the dinosaur, will become incapable of proper control – and like the dinosaur vanish from the earth. ibid.
We shall never negotiate out of fear, we shall never fear to negotiate. ibid.
Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. ibid.
Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. ibid.
We all inhabit this small planet; we all breathe the same air; we all cherish our children’s futures; and we are all human. John F Kennedy, American University Washington June 1963
We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. John F Kennedy, Saturday Review October 1960
We must seek a world of peace – a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard – a world where peace is not a mere interlude between wars, but an incentive to the creative energies of humanity. We will not find such a peace today, or even tomorrow. The obstacles to hope are large and menacing. Yet the goal of a peaceful world – today and tomorrow – must shape our decisions and inspire our purposes. So we are all idealists. We are all visionaries. Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries. We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. John F Kennedy, June 1963
What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children – not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women – not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. John F Kennedy, 10th June 1963
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough – more than enough – of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labour on – not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace. ibid.
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F Kennedy
Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties. John F Kennedy, February 1961
The assassination that shook our country to its core. Police quickly catch the culprit but many believe there’s more to the story. History’s Greatest Mysteries s4e3: The Assassination of JFK, History 2023
The first known episode where Jack Kennedy and Frank Sinatra come together in Vegas is at the Sands hotel. Kennedy, Sinatra & the Mafia, historian, Channel 4 2023
Sinatra is the one who can give Jack Kennedy easy entre to any woman he wants. ibid.
This is the junction of politics and showbizness. ibid.
Hoover finds out that Kennedy is having this affair with Sam Giancana’s mistress. ibid.
There came a point in his young life where Frank Sinatra decided I want to be a singer. ibid.
Frankie Goes to Havana: 1947 Sinatra attends a Mafia conference. ibid.
Throughout his life Frank was close to the Mob. ibid.
The Rat Pack: the summit of everything in the ’50s. ibid.
Sinatra fulfilled very much to role of pimp for Kennedy in California. ibid.
Sinatra went to Momo and said, The big man needs your help. ibid.
Frank was working the phones from his home in California. ibid.
‘We are all indebted to a great friend Frank Sinatra.’ ibid. Jack’s speech
Nothing they’re doing is escaping the notice of the FBI. ibid.