Edward M. Kennedy Speeches on Audio & Video

"I have come here to discuss my beliefs about faith and country, tolerance and truth in America."

With "America Back on Track," his first major policy book in more than 40 years, Senator Edward Kennedy reveals a critical plan to revive the lapsed values of the nation.

UC Irvine hosts Senator Edward M. Kennedy as the 2003-04 Peltason Lecturer.

"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man..."

Senator Edward M. Kennedy seen and heard in this original footage are the highlights of speeches, campaigns and presentations delivered during his 46+ years in the United States Senate.

The youngest of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he came of age among siblings from whom much was expected. As a young man, he played a key role in the presidential campaign of his brother John F. Kennedy, recounted here in loving detail.

"Our cause has been, since the days of Thomas Jefferson, the cause of the common man and the common woman."

"No words on my part can possibly express the terrible pain and suffering I feel over this tragic incident."

For decades Americans have turned to LIFE magazine to see, understand, and remember the most important events and people of our time. Just as LIFE once opened up the glittering Kennedy White House, the magazine now focuses its lens on Barack Obama.

Senator Byrd, in discussion with Edward Kennedy and Wesley Clark, offers his perspective on some of the most critical issues facing Americans today.