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JFK: The Last Speech, A Documentary
Attendees pay for their own charges
LWVBC has arranged to co-host this event about the speech Stewart Udall called the “most majestic” of Kennedy’s career delivered at Amherst College 27 days before his assassination. The Dairy Center Members’ rate of $6.50 is extended as a courtesy. To order tickets go here and select the member rate. You may need to create an account as you complete the purchase.
The Last Speech
Oct 24 - 7:30pm
Screening and post-film discussion in the Gordon Gamm Theater
Of President John F. Kennedy, many stories have been told. Few are less known or more revealing than his friendship with America’s most celebrated poet. Yet it was Robert Frost that Kennedy made the subject of one of his most famous speeches—just weeks before his assassination. JFK The Last Speech explores the dramatic relationship between these two seminal Americans, reaching its tragic climax in a surprising encounter with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War. At its center is an extraordinary speech about poetry and power that inspires a group of college classmates to alter the course of their lives. (Bestor Cram, 2017, USA, 0:58, NR)
Awarded "Best Documentary" at the October 2018 New Jersey Film Festival.
Post-film discussion with executive producer and Boulder resident, Neil Bicknell, and Roger Mills, co-editor of the companion book.