John F. Kennedy Audio & Video

"I am telling you what you are entitled to know: As I come before you seeking your support for the most powerful office in the free world -- I am saying to you that my decisions on every public policy will be my own…"

"The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment…"

"This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President..."

"I repeat: our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus."

"While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight..."

"For in the development of this organization rests the only true alternative to war -- and war appeals no longer as a rational alternative."

"Confident and unafraid, we must labor on--not towards a strategy of annihilation but towards a strategy of peace."

"This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal..."

"This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba."

October 19: JFK meets with the secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, and the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before leaving on a scheduled campaign trip to Ohio and Illinois.