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1961 - USA: “We Stay” Kennedy Reply On West Berlin. aka Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis

Reel Number: 250076-33

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961

Country: Germany,USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 07:25:30

TC Ends: 07:27:41

Duration: 00:02:11

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1961 - USA: “We Stay” Kennedy Reply On West Berlin. aka Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis 07:25:35 President Kennedy seated at desk w/ microphone (SOF): “Good Evening, seven weeks ago tonight I returned from Europe to report on my meeting w/ Premier Khrushchev & the others. His grim warnings about the future of the world, his aide memoire on Berlin, his subsequent speeches & threats which he & his agents have launched, & the increase in the Soviet military budget that he has announced have all prompted a series of decisions by the Administration & a series of consultations w/ the members of the NATO organization. (edited out until...) 07:26:27 The immediate threat to free men is in West Berlin. But that isolated outpost is not an isolated problem. The threat is worldwide. Our effort must be equally wide & strong, & not be obsessed by any single manufactured crisis. We face a challenge in Berlin, but there is also a challenge in Southeast Asia, where the borders are less guarded, the enemy harder to find, & the dangers of communism less apparent to those who have so little. We face a challenge in our hemisphere, and indeed wherever else the freedom of human beings is at stake. (edited out until...) 07:27:16 The world is not deceived by the Communist attempt to label Berlin as a hot-bed of war. There is peace in Berlin today. The source of world trouble & tension is Moscow, not Berlin. And if war begins, it will have begun in Moscow & not Berlin. For the choice of peace or war is largely theirs, not ours.... JFK Speeches; Anti-Communism; Anti-Communist; Vietnam; Threats; 25Jul61; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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