Speeches | Documents | Library Resources

The Candidate:

• Launching what he called the "New Frontier," Massachusetts
  Senator John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic party's
  nomination for president at the National Convention in Los Angeles, July 15, 1960.

• Kennedy/Nixon Debates

  Statement of JFK announcing his candidacy for President, 2 January, 1960
  
  

• National Press Club, January 1960, on The Presidency
  
  

• Address of JFK accepting Democratic Party
  Nomination for President, 15 July, 1960
  

• Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy
  
  

• Establishing the Peace Corp March 1961
  
  

• Address to the American Association of Newspaper Editors, April 20, 1961 (President Kennedy speaks about the failed Bay of Pigs invasion)
  
  

• Remarks Upon Signing Bill Providing for an Expanded Space Program June1961
  
  

• Radio Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis July 1961
  
  

• Radio and Television Address to the American People: "Nuclear Testing and Disarmament March 1962."
  
  

• Address at a New York Rally in Support of the President's Program of Medical Care for the Aged May 1962.
  
  

• Address at Rice University in Houston on the Nation's Space Effort September 1992.
  
  

• Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi September 1962.
  
  

• Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba October 1962
  
  

• Radio Report to the American People on Civil Rights June 1963
  
  

• Remarks in the Rudolph Wilde Platz, Berlin, June 1963
  
  

• Radio and Television Address to the American People
  on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty June 1963

 Links to more JFK Speeches:

• JFK Link

• The American Experience: JFK

Documents

• NSAM 55: JFK Assigns Paramilitary Ops to the Joint Chiefs after The Bay of Pigs JFK says the Military must oversee all paramilitary actions and operations.

• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty download JFK's shining achievement.

• NSAM 57: JFK Subordinates CIA to Defense in Covert Ops

• NSAM 263: Kennedy Begins Troop Withdrawal from Vietnam

• NSAM 273: President Johnson Commits the U.S. to the Vietnam War
  

Library Resources

• JFK Library

• Internet Public Library: Presidents of the United States:JFK

• Audio Materials from the Kennedy Presidency

Candidate Kennedy on Exporting Values

JFK Inaugural Address, 1961 Part 1

JFK Inaugural Address, 1961 Part 2