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This program contains President Kennedy's heroic proposals to control nuclear weapons and curb environmental deterioration. The proposals are aptly chronicled from JFK's salad days as a Senator to the day of his death. The viewer will witness how Kennedy struggled to engage his constituency in the discussion of a survival perspective.
This program contains President Kennedy's heroic proposals to control nuclear weapons and curb environmental deterioration. The proposals are aptly chronicled from JFK's salad days as a Senator to the day of his death. The viewer will witness how Kennedy struggled to engage his constituency in the discussion of a survival perspective.
JFK clearly understood that thermonuclear issues were international in scope and that they had to be resolved internationally. He therefore made heroic proposals, using such phrases as "a grand and global alliance," "a strengthened United Nations," "a world security system," and "world peace through the development of world law."
On September 20, 1963, President Kennedy called for "a worldwide program of conservation (that) could protect the forest and wild game preserves, now in danger of extinction for all time, improve the marine harvest from our oceans, and prevent the contamination of air and water by industrial as well as nuclear pollution." And in the same address he warned us, "that the effort to improve the conditions of man is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations..."
These words are as current as today's headlines. Yet when Kennedy spoke them, the Santa Barbara oil spill and the beginning of environmental consciousness were more than five years away. Ozone depletion had not yet been discovered. The greenhouse effect and global warming were not yet widely understood. Destruction of rain forests was not a large issue. Acid rain was not destroying the forests of Germany, northeast United States and Canada. The lakes of the earth were teeming with fish and plant life. And Earth Day had not yet been declared. In that context, JFK's foresight seems preternatural.
John F. Kennedy: Spokesman for the New Century is not just a documentary about the late President. It contains references to the wide pantheon of scientists, scholars and political statesmen who have called for world peace through the development of world law. Among them were Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, President Harry S. Truman, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Historian Arnold Toynbee, and Newsman Walter Cronkite.
As an added bonus, this production contains some splendid footage of the President's family.
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