08/28/2023
1963
Not only did the 1963 magnificent March on Washington happen 60 years ago with Martin Luther King’s vision of freedom and justice, which was one of the most important speeches of the 20th century, but so also a speech that JFK gave two months before on the foundation of peace in the world. This speech is complex, some of it dated, much of it universal, and much of it profoundly relevant today.
I hope you watch the entire, close to half-hour, speech, that history has called Kennedy’s Peace Speech. For those of us who grew up during this era, there was a new understanding of how people could join together on behalf of building a better world together. Not as a utopian empty ideal, but as a direct product of humanity understanding what is in its best interest.
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/President-John-F-Kennedy39s-quotPeace-Speechquot/10737439909/