A Comparison Of John F. Kennedy's Speech?

No other president has ever faced a bigger threat than John F. Kennedy did during his first and only term of presidency. John Kennedy faced the threat of nuclear warfare with the Soviet Union during the year nineteen sixty-two. During this year, Kennedy found out that the Soviet Union had built up their military arsenal on the island of Cuba which is only ninety miles south of Miami, Florida and that their arsenal included nuclear weapons. John F. Kennedy then took the best possible plan of action. JFK released this information to the people of the United States and to those in Cuba with his famous speech known as, “The Cuban Missile Address to the Nation” which implied that he was going to quarantine Cuba. This speech shed light on what the Soviets were really doing during the Cold War and put the Soviets in the World 's spotlight. In Kennedy 's famous speech he used rhetorical devices such as clever diction, pathos, and dramatic speaking to get his point across with success.

Kennedy understood how serious the missile crisis was and this is why he knew that he needed everyone in America on his side. The president accomplished this goal using clever diction to make the Soviets look like they could not be

Other presidents before Kennedy’s time had to make speeches similar to this speech but the audiences knew what had already happened. This made the challenge that Kennedy faced in his Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation more difficult than any president had seen. Kennedy surpassed this huge mountain of difficulty by using rhetorical devices to aid him in his speech. Devices such as clever diction, pathos, and dramatic speaking all were devices that made this speech flow eloquently together and helped the world, not just America, avoid nuclear war on a scale in which no one had ever