June 25, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy's Address at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.

Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt.
'' The first task of the Atlantic Community was to assure its common defense. That defense was and still is indivisible. The United States will risk its cities to defend yours because we need your freedom to protect ours. Hundreds of thousands of our soldiers serve with yours on this continent, as tangible evidence of that pledge. Those who would doubt our pledge or deny this indivisibility--those who would separate Europe from America or split one ally from another--would only give aid and comfort to the men who make themselves our adversaries and welcome any Western disarray.
The proposal before us is for a new Atlantic force. Such a force would bring strength instead of weakness, cohesion instead of division. It would belong to all members, not one, with all participating on a basis of full equality. And as Europe moves towards unity, its role and responsibility, here as elsewhere, would and must increase accordingly.
Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries. We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. And we shall ever remember what Goethe told us--that the "highest wisdom, the best that mankind ever knew" was the realization that "he only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew."

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Helmer Reenberg, I don't know where you get these JFK vids but they are much appreciated.
I was 10 when JFK was assassinated and the whole country(Ireland) went into mourning...
It was only in my 30s when I realised just how great a statesman he was and what a loss for humanity the coup d' etat of November 22, 1963 was.
Thank you for keeping his memory alive...

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I searched for Kennedys Addresses and Famous Speeches before 1990s. Lucky a lot of the speeches since then received a lot demand from the World to hear the eloquent voice of the beloved President. His vast imagination is evident in the countless speeches which are as cherishable and rare as the Hope Diamand

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His funeral was just 5 Months later