Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Analysis

The Cuban missile crisis started on October 15, 1962. Data from a US spy plane was being reviewed and analyzed, and it was discovered that there was Soviet Union missile silos being built in Cuba. Days later on October 22 John F. Kennedy, the presiding president at the time, delivered a speech over national television and radio to address the situation. Kennedy announced in his speech that he was ordering a naval quarantine of Cuba to prevent soviet ships from transporting any more missiles or supplies to Cuba until Khrushchev dismantled the missiles and returned them to Moscow . Kennedy also stated that the US would stop at nothing to eliminate this threat to world peace. Kennedy begins his speech with many connections to pathos. He told …show more content…
“I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all”. That exert from his speech portrays ethos in a way that shows that he loves his country as much as all of his fellow citizens. To be able to address this speech to the nation it had to have practical and logical solutions to the problems being addressed. This is where Kennedy excellently appealed to logos. He told the american audience many facts and many problems with logical solutions including “the missile sites include medium range ballistics missiles, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than a thousand nautical miles”. “Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right, not peace at the expense of freedom, but peace and freedom”. That is an example of anaphora that Kennedy used to make a certain point stand out more than others. There are many more rhetorical tropes included in his speech many intentional, but also some most likely unintentional. Some of the unintentional tropes include alliterations,”Cape Canaveral”, “worship without”, “base