The speech was devoid of exaggeration. Neither did Kennedy blame his predecessors for the Soviet incursion in Cuba, President Eisenhower, a Republican, and President Truman, a Democrat.

On June 26, 1963, John F Kennedy became the first sitting President of the United States to visit Ireland. This historic event was recorded for posterity by British Pathé, a UK producer of ...

Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?" President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on TV and radio on the issue of civil rights, June 11, 1963.

The public commitment of U.S. President John F. Kennedy to send Americans to the Moon was an overt challenge to the Soviet Union to demonstrate technological supremacy in space exploration.