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[[Image:Kennedy Speech.jpg|thumb|Screen at Madison Square Garden gig]]
==Description==
An audio sample of this speech by US President John F. Kennedy was played live at most of shows during the August/September, 2007, tour of the US.  The speech was originally given to the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on April 27, 1961. <ref name="jfkspeech">[http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm jfklibrary.org 20070812]</ref> It is not quoted in its entirety, nor are all the excerpts presented chronologically.  The full transcript is available through the external reference.
 
==Additional Information==
This speech was played at the following gigs (listed chronologically):
*[[New York City Madison Square Garden 2007 (gig)|Madison Square Garden, New York City]]
*[[Fairfax Patriot Center 2007 (gig)|Patriot Center, Fairfax]]
*[[Philadelphia Festival Pier 2007 (gig)|Festival Pier, Philadelphia]]
*[[Boston Agganis Arena 2007 (gig)|Agganis Arena, Boston]]
*[[Seattle KeyArena 2007 (gig)|KeyArena, Seattle]]
*[[Portland Rose Garden Arena 2007 (gig)|Rose Garden Arena, Portland]]
*[[Orem McKay Events Center 2007 (gig)|McKay Events Center, Orem]]
*[[Austin Zilker Metropolitan Park 2007 (gig)|Zilker Metropolitan Park, Austin]]
*[[Grand Prairie Nokia Theater 2007 (gig)|Nokia Theater, Grand Prairie]]
*[[Denver Red Rocks Amphitheatre 2007 (gig)|Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver]]
*[[Mesa Amphitheatre 2007 (gig)|Amphitheatre, Mesa]]
*[[Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 2007 (gig)|Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine]]
*[[Chula Vista Coors Amphitheatre 2007 (gig)|Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista]]
 
==Speech==
<pre>The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed
to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. 
 
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy
that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--
on infiltration instead of invasion,
on subversion instead of elections,
on intimidation instead of free choice.
 
It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources
into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines
military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
 
Its preparations are concealed, not published.
Its mistakes are buried, not headlined.
Its dissenters are silenced, not praised.
No expenditure is questioned, no secret is revealed.
 
That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen
to shrink from controversy.
 
I am asking your help in the tremendous task
of informing and alerting the American people...,
confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be,
free and independent.</pre>
 
==References==
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