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Jim Wald

22 November 1963: assassination of John F. Kennedy.
This five-cent stamp featuring the eternal flame from his grave in Arlington National Cemetery and words from his inaugural address was the first US commemorative dedicated to him (a 13-cent stamp followed in 1967)

blue-gray images and text left: the eternal flame right: head of JFK text around the border: ...and the glow from that fire can truly light the world 1917 John F Kennedy 1963
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Jim Wald

President John F. was assassinated in Dallas OTD 1963.
He gave his last public speech here on
October 26, 1963 at the groundbreaking of the Robert Frost at Amherst College. For good reason, it is considered one of his greatest.

Ann & Joseph Blumenthal (typographer and publisher of Frost's poetry) produced 600 copies of this keepsake as their holiday greeting for 1964-1965. The woodcut is by Fritz Kredel

had been unable to attend a memorial service for Frost in February

The Place of the Artist in Society by President John E Kennedy stylized version of traditional patriotic image of eagle perched on shield with olive branch and arrows (pale blue-green) Spoken at the Dedication of the Robert Frost Library Amherst College - Massachusetts
engraved invitation and reply card The honour of your presence is requested at a memorial service for Robert Frost on Sunday, the seventeenth of February one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three at two o'clock Johnson Chapel, Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts R.S.V.P. ___________________________________ ___________will attend the memorial service on Sunday, the seventeenth of February at two o'clock. ___________will not be able to attend
stationery THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON hand-written text: The President and Mrs. Kennedy regret their inability to accept the courteous invitation to be present at a memorial service for Mr. Robert Frost on Sunday, February 17, 1963 at two o'clocl Johnson Chapel, Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts
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Jim Wald

was assassinated OTD 1963. His last public speech, delivered a month earlier at the groundbreaking for Robert , Amherst College, is considered one of his greatest.

Best known for its soaring praise of the artist in society and the call to measure a nation's greatness by its culture rather than power alone, it in fact began with a plea for educated elites to recognize their privilege and "to put back into our society."

audio + transcript
jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk

I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. | look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future. | look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. | look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And | look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well. And | look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility. And | think, as your president said, that it must be a source of satisfaction to you that this school's graduates have recognized it. | hope that the students who are here now will also recognize it in the future. Although Amherst has been in the forefront of extending aid to needy and talented students, private colleges, taken as a whole, draw 50 percent of their students from the wealthiest 10 percent of our Nation. And even State universities and other public institutions derive 25 percent of their students from this group. In March 1962, persons of 18 years or older who had not completed high school made up 46 percent of the total labor force, and such persons comprised 64 percent of those who were unemployed. And in 1958, the lowest fifth of the families in the United States had 4 1/2 percent of the total personal income, the highest fifth, 44 1/2 percent. There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty. And unless the graduates of this college and other colleges like it who are given a running start in life-- unless they are willing to put back into our society, those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion--unless they are willing to put those qualities back into the service of the Great Republic, then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.
In October 2017, Amherst College marked the centenary of JFK's birth and the anniversary of his speech at the groundbreaking of Frost Library with a ceremony, symposium, and exhibit. Here, in front of Frost Library, from which hang purple and white banners (the College's colors) then President Biddy Martin introduces Congressman Joseph Kennedy III https://www.amherst.edu/news/events/calendar/node/692479
final session of the symposium on "Poetry and Politics" to mark the centenary of the birth of JFK and the anniversary of his speech at the speakers at wooden table in front of projection screen. Red carpet. Attendees in tiered seating on the other three sides of the room https://www.amherst.edu/news/events/calendar/node/692479 The symposium took place in Converse Hall, the College library prior to the construction of the new Frost Library nearby
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