httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMQiNNQdih8
JFK tree planting (@ 1:39)
(Tuesday, May 16, 1961) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy, having just arrived for a state visit in Ottawa, Canada, badly strained his injured back tonight during a tree planting ceremony on the lawn of Government House. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. He would be dependent on massive injections of painkillers as he faced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna next month.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WbYKkcP7vM
(Friday, May 5, 1961, 3:30pm ET) — President John F. Kennedy hailed his nation’s first manned shot into space today, and pledged “a substantially larger effort in that field” during a news conference. Continue reading JFK pledges bigger U.S. space effort
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYfeYhQ9eU
JFK speech on secret societies + transcript/subtitles
(Thursday, April 27, 1961) — President Kennedy told American newspaper publishers in New York tonight that his administration intends to be candid about his errors following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. As a wise man once said, Kennedy recalled, “an error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” “We intend,” he assured, “to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXZp8bxpNY
(Thursday, April 20, 1961) — President Kennedy, following the anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion had been crushed, said today that United States’ restraint is “not inexhaustible” and that we do not intend to abandon Cuba to communism (CLICK HERE to watch Kennedy’s Apr. 20, 1961, speech).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlnM_n1s1E Cuban exile invaders surrender (at 5:00)
(Wednesday, April 19, 1961, afternoon) — At the Bay of Pigs, Cuban exile invaders surrendered.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlnM_n1s1E Kennedy refuses to intervene (at 4:45)
(Tuesday, April 18, 1961) — At the Bay of Pigs, brigade leaders beg for help from nearby American warships, but President Kennedy refused tonight to grant permission for the navy to engage.
