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It took eight weeks to bring to life the 2,590 words John F Kennedy never got to speak. Sound engineers pulled 116,777 sound units from 831 of his speeches and radio addresses.
Fifty-five years ago, President John F. Kennedy delivered his final speech, at Amherst College, just weeks before his assassination in November of 1963. A new documentary airing on WGBH television ...
President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech on this day in 1963.
President John F. Kennedy can finally make the speech he never got to deliver because of his assassination — thanks to voice synthesis technology.
What did John F. Kennedy sound like as a 20-year-old? Well, now we know. Archivists from Harvard University have just released a new audio file of the future president delivering a speech in 1937 ...
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress calling for the country to "commit itself ... to landing a man on the moon," a goal achieved by the end of the decade. Ira Flatow ...
Some of us wordsmiths will take any available chance to savor a great speech, like the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address that's being observed Thursday.. And it deserves ...
What John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech Means 50 Years Later “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” By Marina ...
President Obama paid tribute Wednesday to a famous John F. Kennedy speech -- but not the one that's getting the most attention. On June 10, 1963, a full 16 days before his celebrated "Ich bin ein ...
John F. Kennedy, who became the youngest person elected as the President of the United States and then tragically the youngest one assassinated, won his presidency on Nov. 8, 1960.