Speech

I am doing the Eulogy for Robert F. Kennedy for my speech project. Ted Kennedy is such a powerful speaker and the speech really made me think. Ted gives such dramatic pauses between his words, that I think it will work really well for this project.

"Like it or not, we live in times of danger and uncertainity.. That is the way he lived, and that is what he leaves us. My brother need not be idealized.. or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life. To be remembered simply as a good and decent man... who saw wrong, and tried to right it... Saw suffering, and tried to heal it... Saw war, and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him, and take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others, will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times.. in many parts of this nation.. to those he touched, and who sought to touch him: some men s-see things as they are, and say why; I dream things that never were, and say why not."













We made a book out of magazine clippings to teach us about sequence. It helped me think about pacing a lot. With this speech in particular, pacing is going to be key. The dramatic pauses need to be emphasized. Michael Selby did a great job with this speech last year. The music that he added behind the words worked really well also.