Newly unearthed AUDIO: John F. Kennedy Addresses Latinos Night Before Assassination

[Tx4obama]

President John F. Kennedy addresses civil rights leaders at a LULAC gala in Houston's Rice Hotel, Nov. 21, 1963. It was one of the president's last speeches before his assassination and the first speech to a Latino group by a sitting president.

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John F. Kennedy Addresses Latinos Night Before Assassination

The night before John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, he addressed the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Hispanic civil rights group, at an event in Houston, Texas. Associated Press reporter Russell Contreras unearthed a recording of the remarks and uploaded them to YouTube on Wednesday -- the 96 anniversary of the former president's birth.

Kennedy's remarks highlighted the role that the Cuban Revolution played in shaping his presidency. With the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year behind him, Kennedy played up a Latin American economic development program known as the Alliance for Progress during his speech to LULAC.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/john-f-kennedy-latinos_n_3354849.html

[midnight]

1. "Equality for all" "Prosperity can be the handmaiden of freedom.."

Elegant ideas that have been replaced with austerity and ugliness...

[Plucketeer]

2. Austerity, ugliness...

and GREED

[midnight]

3. Greed is ugly isn't' it.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Many things have changed...

Never attaining what big, progressive ideas JFK had, we should reflect 50 years later... WHY?

After all, we all breathe the same air...

[Plucketeer]

5. WHY?

Because there's a genetic mutation lurking in our pool. And at this very moment, some of us are angling for a way to charge us for breathing.

[Boomerproud]

6. I keep wanting to say "Please get on the plane and go back to Washington."

To our everlasting regret, we let JFK's dream die with him.