Jfk Acceptance Speech Analysis
Besides being the confident world leader, he gives something else to the American people during his campaign: novelty and optimism. In his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention Kennedy evokes the old frontier image and with a modern and current twist he revives it, calling it the New Frontier: ’...we stand today on the edge of a New Frontier -- the frontier of the 1960's, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, the frontier of unfilled hopes and unfilled threats.’. By announcing his plans to create Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress he inspired hundreds of students to sign up for a program which has not existed yet.
Kennedy’s message and his vision for America clearly reached people: in the mid -1963 59% of the people
Kennedy’s message and his vision for America clearly reached people: in the mid -1963 59% of the people