John Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address
Lectures in History
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🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:32.4 | Hi, I'm Shannon, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and this week we're taking the class on a field |
| 0:37.4 | trip back to 1961 and the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. University of Kansas |
| 0:42.6 | Political Communication Professor Robert Rowland talks about the themes and narratives found throughout |
| 0:47.4 | the speech. More after this. |
| 0:51.5 | Today our topic is the Kennedy inaugural address. |
| 0:55.0 | But in another way, the topic is what makes a speech great? |
| 1:00.0 | Is it eloquence or is it the function that the speech served? |
| 1:05.0 | On the question of eloquence, there is simply no question about the Kennedy inaugural. |
| 1:10.0 | There was a group of rhetorical scholars who did a ranking |
| 1:13.5 | of the greatest speeches of the 20th century. |
| 1:16.2 | I was one of the members of that group. |
| 1:18.7 | And the Kennedy inaugural came in second behind only Dr. King's |
| 1:24.1 | great speech on the mall, the I Have a Dream speech. |
| 1:27.8 | That means the Kennedy inaugural came in ahead of every speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, |
| 1:35.5 | every speech by Ronald Reagan. |
| 1:38.9 | In that way, with the greatness of the eloquence of the speech was recognized at the time. |
| 1:43.7 | One of the most important journalists of the 20 was recognized at the time. One of the most important |
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