Kennedy Presidential Library Commemorative Ceremony
2013-11-22T14:24:53-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvYTIzXC8yMDEzMTEyMjE0MjUxMTEwMDFfaGQuanBnIiwiZWRpdHMiOnsicmVzaXplIjp7ImZpdCI6ImNvdmVyIiwiaGVpZ2h0Ijo1MDZ9fX0=On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts hosted a commemorative ceremony.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D), Elaine Jones, director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, astronaut Chris Cassidy, who had just returned from six months on the International Space Station, Richard Blanco, poet for the 2013 U.S. presidential inauguration, and Sarah Groustra, an 8th grade student from the Edward Devotion School in Brookline, Massachusetts that John F. Kennedy attended as a child, all read excerpts from a selection of President Kennedy’s most historic speeches.
“A Nation Remembers: A Tribute to President John F. Kennedy” took place on November 22, 2013 and included a moment of silence at 2:00 p.m. ET, when the President’s death was announced to the nation on the same day in 1963.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D), Elaine Jones, director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, astronaut Chris Cassidy, who had just returned from six months on the International Space Station, Richard Blanco, poet for the 2013 U.S. presidential inauguration, and Sarah Groustra, an 8th grade student from the Edward Devotion School in Brookline, Massachusetts that John F. Kennedy attended as a child, all read excerpts from a selection of President Kennedy’s most historic speeches.
“A Nation Remembers: A Tribute to President John F. Kennedy” took place on November 22, 2013 and included a moment of silence at 2:00 p.m. ET, when the President’s death was announced to the nation on the same day in 1963.
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massach… read more
On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts hosted a commemorative ceremony.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D), Elaine Jones, director-counsel emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, astronaut Chris Cassidy, who had just returned from six months on the International Space Station, Richard Blanco, poet for the 2013 U.S. presidential inauguration, and Sarah Groustra, an 8th grade student from the Edward Devotion School in Brookline, Massachusetts that John F. Kennedy attended as a child, all read excerpts from a selection of President Kennedy’s most historic speeches.
“A Nation Remembers: A Tribute to President John F. Kennedy” took place on November 22, 2013 and included a moment of silence at 2:00 p.m. ET, when the President’s death was announced to the nation on the same day in 1963. close
People in this video
-
Richard Blanco Poet -
- Sarah Groustra Student Brookline
-
-
-
James Taylor Musician
Hosting Organization
Related Video
-
John F. Kennedy Commemorative Ceremony in Dallas
On the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas, the city honored the president with a comme…
-
Open Phones with Bill Minutaglio
Bill Minutaglio, co-author of Dallas 1963, talked about his book and about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of …
-
Open Phones with Hugh Aynesworth
Hugh Aynesworth talked about his book, November 22, 1963: Witness to History, and about the 50th anniversary of the assa…
-
The Man Who Killed Kennedy
Political strategist and consultant Roger Stone talked about his book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ,…
User Created Clips from This Video
-
- 5 minutes
- 283 views
-
- 5 minutes
- 165 views
-
- 4 minutes
- 88 views
-
- 3 minutes
- 80 views