Third World War speech by President John F. Kennedy, April 21, 1961 (Bay of Pigs):

[Wifflestick]

I am in the process of writing an alternate history book about how JFK gives into the pressure given to him by his military advisers and authorizes for the landing of marines to rescue the Cuban exiles and also to finish their job of overthrowing Castro, which the Soviets retaliate by taking West Berlin (a reference to the Berlin Crisis later that year) and then follows through with an invasion of West Germany, causing the spark to ignite a third world war. (There will be no usage of nuclear weapons, high tensions, yes, but actual usage, no, purely conventional warfare.) In the speech I'm writing for the beginning of the book, I am trying to have him say that because of JFk authorizing this, we must be ready for any form of communist retaliation, where ever it might be, and the road to victory will be tough. I have ran into writer's block, I won't use your words exactly for the most part, paraphrase them basically and would appreciate the help. Thank you.

Here is what I have written of the speech so far:

Good evening, my fellow citizens:

In this earnest hour it is my moral obligation to address you tonight, in the wake of an essential and rapidly deteriorating endeavor, to issue a call which this government has striven with great deliberation to prevent, and that call is one for action.

Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information of an attempt to invade the Republic of Cuba with intentions to depose Fidel Castro from his reign of tyranny and liberate that imprisoned island by a brigade of Cuban exiles having fallen into complete desperation,I have requested for the authorization of limited aerial and naval bombardments and an amphibious landing by marines to provide assistance for those embattled partisans.


(Any further ideas for what to put? Feel free to write out your version of the speech using what I've got and post it in your reply. Thank you.)

[red1]

Here are my ideas:

1. To me, the first part of the speech just seems not Kennedyish. I can't explain it, but that is how it seems to me.

2. It should be cuber, not cuba.

[Wifflestick]

I understand now what you meant by "Cuber" instead of "Cuba." I knew that he had an accent, but didn't realize it was one from around Boston until you and my Language Arts teacher pointed it out. Thank you, red1.

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[Vexacus]

Originally Posted by red1

Here are my ideas:

1. To me, the first part of the speech just seems not Kennedyish. I can't explain it, but that is how it seems to me.

2. It should be cuber, not cuba.

Remember, Kennedy is NOT Diamond Joe Quimby so it is pronounced Cuba

[Wifflestick]

I'll keep that in mind, thank you.

[wfm]

Originally Posted by Vexacus

Remember, Kennedy is NOT Diamond Joe Quimby so it is pronounced Cuba

Not sure of your point. Kennedy pronounced it Cuber many many times on radio and tv.

It was a very slight national joke.