Monday, April 11 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

In 1963 President John F. Kennedy made a dramatic turn toward peace and began an attempt to lead the American people out of the Cold War and toward peaceful co-existence with the Soviet Union. One of the highlights of his efforts was his speech at American University on June 10, 1963, a speech addressed to the American people about peace and what we as a people needed to do to begin moving in that direction.

One thing we must learn from President Kennedy’s death is that it is not enough to have a leader who genuinely pursues peace. We must be organized as a people to demand our nation genuinely pursue peace. And in order to do this we, ordinary citizens, have to understand what genuine peace is and how to pursue it. One place to begin is by returning to the President’s historic speech, studying it, and extracting from it principles of peace that we can apply today.

Join us for this a public showing of President Kennedy’s American University speech, followed by a discussion.

Sponsors: Massachusetts Peace Action, New Hampshire Peace Action, Peace Action Wisconsin, Peace Action Bay Ridge, World Beyond War, and the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice