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Anonymous ID: b9ff71 July 31, 2018, 10:15 p.m. No.2385235   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5345

>>2385002

Just listened to JFK's President & The Press speech again.

Could be one of the best Presidential speeches ever, certainly the best of the 20th century imo.

So many pieces in there still painfully relevant today.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DznTND–4eI

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeches/American-Newspaper-Publishers-Association_19610427.aspx

The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.

 

The question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.

 

On many earlier occasions, I have said–and your newspapers have constantly said–that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.

Anonymous ID: b9ff71 July 31, 2018, 10:26 p.m. No.2385354   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>2385000

>thanks for the trips

JF & Allen Dulles' 23rd Great Grandfather was King John of Robin Hood fame.

Appears that blood really does run deep.

 

https://bitaboutbritain.com/the-castle-at-newark-on-trent/

So far, England has only had one King John, and he was a bad ‘un. However many times some historian suggests that this much-maligned monarch has been misrepresented, misunderstood, or was at least no worse than any other medieval king, another historian shouts out that John was as bad as they got. In fact, by most accounts, King John appears to have been untrustworthy, shockingly cruel, a depraved sexual predator of the lowest sort and, most unforgivable of all, incompetent.