KENNEDY SPEAKING



SOF BEGINS: "THIS GOVERNMENT WILL DO...."



SOF ENDS: '....VIOLENCE AND HATE."
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TRANSCRIPT: KENNEDY: "THIS GOVERNMENT WILL DO WHATEVER MUST BE DONE TO PRESERVE ORDER, TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF ITS CITIZENS AND TO UPHOLD THE LAW OF THE LAND. I AM CERTAIN THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS OF BIRMINGHAM, BOTH WHITE AND NEGRO - PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO LABOURED SO HARD TO ACHIEVE THE PEACEFUL, CONSTRUCTIVE SETTLEMENT OF LAST WEEK -- CAN FEEL NOTHING BUT DISMAY AT THE EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO WOULD REPLACE CONCILIATION AND GOODWILL WITH VIOLENCE AND HATE."




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Background: PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON MAY 12, ORDERED FEDERAL TROOPS TO ALABAMA FOR USE OF IN CASE OF NEW RACIAL VIOLENCE. IN A NATIONWIDE TV AND RADIO BROADCAST, HE SAID HE WAS SENDING SELECTED UNITS, TRAINED IN RIOT CONTROL, TO MILITARY BASES NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- THE SCENE OF FIERCE RIOTING THE PREVIOUS NIGHT.