No applause lines, no talking points — just a leader, a microphone, and news nobody wanted. Nine speeches given on the worst days.
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The hardest speech
Robert F Kennedy Announcing The Death Of Martin Luther King - RFK's Greatest Speech
Mohammad Azzam
tells a crowd that didn't know; Indianapolis didn't burn that night
Challenger: President Reagan's Challenger Disaster Speech - 1/28/86
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute
slipped the surly bonds of earth, written in an afternoon
George W. Bush’s bullhorn speech still echoes, ‘I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you’
FOX 35 Orlando
the bullhorn ad-lib that defined a presidency
President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)
C-SPAN
stops speaking, starts singing
William Jefferson Clinton - Oklahoma Bombing Memorial (Audio Enhanced)
AmericanRhetoric.com
you have lost too much, but you have not lost everything
Jacinda Ardern's full Christchurch speech: 'Let us be the nation we believe ourselves to be'
Guardian News
they are us
Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, D-Day 6/6/84
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute
the veterans in the front rows, forty years on
President Obama cries during gun violence speech
CNN
the pause where the president wipes his eye
RFK Eulogy at St. Patrick's Cathedral - June 6, 1968
Edward M. Kennedy - Topic
my brother need not be idealized
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