Kennedy and the New Frontier

In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture delivered as a sequel to last week’s Franklin Roosevelt’s Republican Grand Design, historian Pascal Chevrier introduces the figure of John F. Kennedy from several valuable frames of reference: His family traditions, his experience in the military during WW2, the geopolitical world in which he lived, his anti-imperial vision and his broader grand design for a world of unbounded exploration and win-win cooperation on earth and in space.

Additionally, we are introduced to John F Kennedy’s continental water management designs, his program for full energy sovereignty, his efforts to end the Cold War by creating a joint US-Russia space program, and his intention to revive FDR’s anti colonial strategy by exporting the best American System principles of the New Deal to Africa, Asia, South America and beyond.

A discussion of the assassination of John F Kennedy and the sabotage of his vision for humanity is also featured in this lecture.

Supplementary Reading Material:

Cynthia Chung’s Trilogy on JFK and Vietnam

part 1: https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/03/08/return-of-the-leviathan-the-fascist-roots-of-the-cia-and-the-true-origin-of-the-cold-war/

part 2: https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/04/04/the-u-s-pivot-to-asia-cold-war-lessons-from-vietnam-for-today/

part 3: https://risingtidefoundation.net/2021/04/05/a-damned-murder-inc-kennedys-battle-against-the-leviathan/

Selected Speeches by JFK

• President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 : https://youtu.be/PEC1C4p0k3E
• Kennedy at Amherst College & Class of 1966 graduation: https://youtu.be/7RAopWjYjxU?t=179 (I wish that one was edited and only JFK speech was audible, I don’t care about Clinton reminiscences or the intro)
• JFK’s UN General Assembly (20 September 1963) : https://youtu.be/ZhmamM5Kt68
• President-elect Kennedy addresses MA legislature (City on a Hill Speech) : https://youtu.be/vRDL2qEttA8
• JFK’s 1963 Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights : https://youtu.be/58O2De-iPOk
• JFK at the Dedication of Greers Ferry Dam, October 3, 1963 : https://youtu.be/In1ciXfpEdA
• JFK Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, 15 July 1960 : https://youtu.be/SKjT-ntFiKg
• JFK at the National Academy of Sciences, Oct. 22, 1963 : https://youtu.be/BaYzqysyOcE
• JFK’s speeches in Ireland 1963 : https://youtu.be/cXQ62qeHG90
• JFK addresses The Irish Parliment, 1963 : https://youtu.be/Xyr0ORFi-JY
• President Kennedy’s Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/20/61 (TNC:197): https://youtu.be/1wXf08-42×4