John F Kennedy - Alan Shepard Speech — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:04Ladies and
3. 0:07gentlemen, I want to express uh on
4. 0:10behalf of us all the great pleasure we
5. 0:13have in welcoming Commander Sheepard and
6. 0:15Mrs. Shepherd here today. I know that
7. 0:17the uh other members of this team who
8. 0:20are astronauts know that our pride in
9. 0:22them is equal. They have been part of
10. 0:25this effort from the beginning and I
11. 0:27think it does uh credit to him that he
12. 0:31is associated with such a distinguished
13. 0:32group of Americans whom we are all glad
14. 0:35to honor today his companions in the
15. 0:38flight to outer space. So I think we'll
16. 0:39give them all a hand.
17. 0:52They are the tanned and healthy ones.
18. 0:54The others are Washington
19. 0:57employees. I also want to again express
20. 1:00my congratulations uh to Alan Shepard.
21. 1:03Uh we're uh very proud of him and I
22. 1:07speak on behalf of the vice president
23. 1:09who is chairman of our space council and
24. 1:12who bears great responsibilities in this
25. 1:13field. the members of the House and
26. 1:16Senate Space Committee who are with us
27. 1:19today. And uh this decoration which has
28. 1:23gone from the ground up here
29. 1:28[Applause]
30. 1:51Telstar communication satellites and
31. 1:54Tyrros weather satellites followed the
32. 1:56success of Alan Shepard.