Great Speeches in History. app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Education
Developer: Llorenc Palliser Barber
Free
Current version: 2.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Sep 2011
App size: 745.81 Mb

Amazing app!! A great piece of history!!

Includes audio and some videos from the following speeches:

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address - delivered 20 January 1961
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - First Inaugural Address - delivered 4 March 1933
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation - delivered 8 December 1941
Barbara Charline Jordan - 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address - delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
Richard M. Nixon - Checkers - delivered and broadcast live on television 23 September 1952
Malcolm X - The Ballot on the Bullet - delivered 4 April 1964 at Cleveland, Ohio
Ronald Reagan - The Space Shuttle `Challenger´ Tragedy Address - delivered 28 January 1986
John F. Kennedy - Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association - delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas
Lyndon Baines Johnson - Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation - `We Shall Overcome´ - delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.
M. Matthew Cuomo - 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address - delivered 16 July 1984 in San Francisco
Jesse Jackson - 1984 Democratic National Convention Address - delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco
Barbara Charline Jordan - Statement on the Articles of Impeachment - delivered 25 July 1974, House Judiciary Committee
General Douglas MacArthur - Farewell Address to Congress - delivered 19 April 1951
Robert F. Kennedy - Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. - delivered 4 April 1968, Indianapolis, IN
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Farewell Address - delivered 17 January 1961
General Douglas MacArthur - Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address `Duty, Honor, Country´ - delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
Richard M. Nixon - The Great Silent Majority - delivered 3 November 1969
John F. Kennedy - Ich bin ein Berliner `I am a Berliner - delivered 26 June 1963, West Berlin
Russell Conwell - Acres of Diamonds - delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
Ronald Reagan - A Time for Choosing - Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The Great Arsenal of Democracy - delivered 29 December 1940
Ronald Reagan - Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals `The Evil Empire´ - delivered 8 March1983, Orlando, Florida
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - `The Banking Crisis´ First Fireside Chat - delivered 12 March 1933, Washington D.C.
Harry S. Truman - The Truman Doctrine - delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress
Hillary Rodham Clinton - `Womens Rights are Human Rights´ Remarks to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session - delivered 5 September 1995, Beijing, China
Dwight D. Eisenhower - Atoms for Peace - delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly
John F. Kennedy - American University Commencement Address - delivered 10 June 1963
Ann Richards - Democratic National Convention Keynote Address - delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA
Richard M. Nixon - Resignation Address to the Nation - delivered 8 August 1974
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The Four Freedoms - delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence - Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
William Jennings Bryan - Imperialism - delivered 8 August 1900, Indianapolis, IN
Barbara Pierce Bush - Commencement Address at Wellesley College - delivered 1 June 1990
John F. Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation - delivered 22 October 1962
Spiro Theodore Agnew - Television News Coverage - delivered 13 November 1969, Des Moines, Iowa
Jesse Jackson - 1988 Democratic National Convention Address -delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA
George C. Marshall - The Marshall Plan - delivered 5 June 1947 at Harvard University

And much more...