Thursday, August 27, 2009

Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy

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

Hamburger Hill Speech

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.”

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Liberty Baptist College Speech

October 3, 1969 | Liberty College, Lynchburg, Virginia
A Call for Tolerance in Religious and Political Beliefs