John F. Kennedy speeches

John F. Kennedy, White House photo portrait

The BBC has links to several of John F. Kennedy’s speeches, along with written transcripts.  You will need Real Player to listen to these audio clips, and there are links for downloading it beneath each audio clip.

Click here to go to the BBC Kennedy audio page.

Speeches include:

“Ask not what your country can do for you…”  Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

“The differences today are usually matters of degree”, Yale University commencement, June 11, 1962

“Our policy has been one of patience and restraint”, Cuban missile crisis, October 22, 1962

“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue”, civil rights speech, June 11, 1963

“A shaft of light into the darkness”, The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963

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