John F. Kennedy's Moon Speech

What brings out the best in a Nation? What is the outcome of difficulty to the people of the United States? “Kennedy acknowledged the difficulty of Apollo's quest but argued that a challenge brings out the best in the United States ” (Space.com). According to this quote, the reason for the “Moon Speech” given by John F. Kennedy at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas was memorable because of the fact that going to the moon would benefit the country. On September 12, 1962, John F. Kennedy gave a memorable speech on the fact that going to the moon will make the nation great, bring together people in time of difficulty and made it a priority to win the “space race” and beat the soviet union. John F. Kennedy exceeded expectations with the conclusion of his speech, his delivery skills and techniques and the vocal variety used throughout the speech. Probably …show more content…
However, in this area, there was room for improvement. The only aspect of that was sometimes distracting was his constant use of notes. This was a technique he needed to work on. Even so, with his notes, he still gave great amounts of eye contact and still engaged the audience with emotion and enthusiasm. Kennedy was most definitely passionate about what he was addressing. He spoke with inflation and infliction in his voice and did not use a monotone voice throughout the entire speech. When Kennedy showed the enthusiasm that is when the audience interacted with him the most. This was an effective way to create interest and curiosity of the fact that we could put a man on the moon. The audience reactions to the speech were for the most part in a pause or break in a line of speech. Kennedy, for the most part, made his pauses meaningful. However, sometimes there was just a break in wording to look at notes. Even though he was on still reading from notes and it did not memorize it did not take away from the powerful message the speech