June 8, 1968 | St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, N.Y.
Senator Kennedy’s Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy
On June 8, 1968 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Senator Kennedy eulogized his brother Robert “as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.”
http://tedkennedy.org/ownwords/event/eulogy
http://tedkennedy.org/page/-/legacy/audio/speech-1968-rfk-eulogy.mp3
http://tedkennedy.org/page/-/legacy/pdf/kennedy-speech-1968-rfk-eulogy.pdf
Ted’s Eulogy For Bobby: A Moment Of Greatness |
May 20, 1969
Calling for an End to Military Operations in Vietnam
At the height of our nation’s involvement in the war in Vietnam, Senator Kennedy called on President Nixon to begin an immediate drawdown of our forces in that region. In his speech, Senator Kennedy argues that “American boys are too valuable to be sacrificed for a false sense of military pride.”
Liberty Baptist College Speech
October 3, 1969 | Liberty College, Lynchburg, Virginia
A Call for Tolerance in Religious and Political Beliefs