{"id":11634,"date":"2013-06-10T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2013-06-10T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T08:18:03","slug":"america-and-peace-kennedys-1963-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11634","title":{"rendered":"America and peace: Kennedy&#8217;s 1963 speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still in the process of watching on Sky Atlantic the series\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oliver_Stone's_Untold_History_of_the_United_States\">&#8220;Oliver Stone&#8217;s Untold History Of The United States&#8221;<\/a>. It&#8217;s a fascinating, if controversial, project and I have now viewed eight of the 10 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Stone seeks to highlights opportunities when the aggressive nature of US foreign policy could have been tempered. One of those occasions was a speech made by President John F Kennedy exactly 50 years ago today in which he addressed the need for world peace. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace &#8211; &#8211; the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living &#8212; the kind that enables man and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children &#8211; &#8211; not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women &#8211; &#8211; not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five months later, JFK was assassinated and his vision went with him.\u00a0You can read the text of this remarkable speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.media.american.edu\/speeches\/Kennedy.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still in the process of watching on Sky Atlantic the series\u00a0&#8220;Oliver Stone&#8217;s Untold History Of The United States&#8221;. It&#8217;s a fascinating, if controversial, project and I have now viewed eight of the 10 episodes. Stone seeks to highlights opportunities when the aggressive nature of US foreign policy could have been tempered. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11657,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}