A couple of weeks ago, on YouTube, I was listening to the Nov. 22, 1963, NBC live coverage of John F. Kennedy’s assassination from the moment it was reported he was shot (JFK’S Assassination; NBC-TV Coverage; Part 1).
At 37:50 of the video, before they knew he was dead, they discussed a speech he had been scheduled to deliver in Dallas, where there were people who supported the nomination of Barry Goldwater for president.
Kennedy was to have said: “Ignorance and misinformation, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap the country’s security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America’s leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason, or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality, and the plausible with the possible, will gain the ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.”
So here we are!
Wayne Kuegel
Gorham
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