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1、2023年13 美国经典英文演讲100篇Chappaquiddick 美国经典英文演讲100篇:Chappaquiddick broadcast nationally from Joseph P.Kennedys home on 25 July 1969 My fellow citizens: I have requested this opportunity to talk to the people of Maachusetts about the tragedy which happened last Friday evening.This morning I entered a ple

2、a of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.Prior to my appearance in court it would have been improper for me to comment on these matters.But tonight I am free to tell you what happened and to say what it means to me.On the weekend of July 18, I was on Marthas Vineyard Island part

3、icipating with my nephew, Joe Kennedy - as for thirty years my family has participated - in the annual Edgartown Sailing Regatta.Only reasons of health prevented my wife from accompanying me.On Chappaquiddick Island, off Marthas Vineyard, I attended, on Friday evening, July 18th, a cook-out I had en

4、couraged and helped sponsor for devoted group of Kennedy campaign secretaries.When I left the party, around 11:15 P.M., I was accompanied by one of these girls, Mi Mary Jo Kopechne.Mary Jo was one of the most devoted members of the staff of Senator Robert Kennedy.She worked for him for four years an

5、d was broken up over his death.For this reason, and because she was such a gentle, kind, and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the Kennedy family.There is no truth, no truth whatever, to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have be

6、en leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening.There has never been a private relationship between us of any kind.I know of nothing in Mary Jos conduct on that or any other occasion - and the same is true of the other girls at that party - that would lend any substance to such ugly specul

7、ation about their character.Nor was I driving under the influence of liquor.Little over one mile away, the car that I was driving on an unlit road went off a narrow bridge which had no guard rails and was built on a left angle to the road.The car overturned in a deep pond and immediately filled with

8、 water.I remember thinking as the cold water rushed in around my head that I was for certain drowning.Then water entered my lungs and I actual felt the sensation of drowning.But somehow I struggled to the surface alive.I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong a

9、nd murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm.My conduct and conversations during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, make no sense to me at all.Although my doctors informed me that I suffered a cerebral concuion, as well as sho

10、ck, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or on anyone else.I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately.Instead of looking directly for a te

11、lephone after lying exhausted in the gra for an undetermined time, I walked back to the cottage where the party was being held and requested the help of two friends, my cousin, Joseph Gargan and Phil Markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with me - this was sometime after midn

12、ight - in order to undertake a new effort to dive down and locate Mi Kopechne.Their strenuous efforts, undertaken at some risk to their own lives, also proved futile.All kinds of scrambled thoughts - all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of them which I cannot recall, and some of which

13、 I would not have seriously entertained under normal circumstances - went through my mind during this period.They were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent, and inconclusive things I said and did, including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that

14、immediate area, whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what had happened and to delay my report, whether somehow the awful weight of this incredible incident might in some way pa from my shoulders.I was overcome, Im

15、 frank to say, by a jumble of emotions: grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion, and shock.Instructing Gargan and Markham not to alarm Mary Jos friends that night, I had them take me to the ferry croing.The ferry having shut down for the night, I suddenly jumped into the water and impulsive

16、ly swam acro, nearly drowning once again in the effort, and returned to my hotel about 2:00 A.M.and collapsed in my room.I remember going out at one point and saying something to the room clerk.In the morning, with my mind somewhat more lucid, I made an effort to call a family legal advisor, Burke M

17、arshall, from a public telephone on the Chappaquiddick side of the ferry and belatedly reported the accident to the Marthas Vineyard police. Today, as I mentioned, I felt morally obligated to plead guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident.No words on my part can poibly expre the terr

18、ible pain and suffering I feel over this tragic incident.This last week has been an agonizing one for me and for the members of my family, and the grief we feel over the lo of a wonderful friend will remain with us the rest of our lives.These events, the publicity, innuendo, and whispers which have

19、surrounded them and my admiion of guilt this morning raises the question in my mind of whether my standing among the people of my State has been so impaired that I should resign my seat in the United States Senate.If at any time the citizens of Maachusetts should lack confidence in their Senators ch

20、aracter or his ability, with or without justification, he could not in my opinion adequately perform his duty and should not continue in office.The people of this State, the State which sent John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster, and Charles Sumner, and Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Kennedy to the Uni

21、ted States Senate are entitled to representation in that body by men who inspire their utmost confidence.For this reason, I would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign.For me this will be a difficult decision to make.It has been seven years since my first election to th

22、e Senate.You and I share many memories - some of them have been glorious, some have been very sad.The opportunity to work with you and serve Maachusetts has made my life worthwhile.And so I ask you tonight, the people of Maachusetts, to think this through with me.In facing this decision, I seek your

23、 advice and opinion.In making it, I seek your prayers - for this is a decision that I will have finally to make on my own.It has been written a man does what he must in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles, and dangers, and preures, and that is the basis of human morality.Whatever m

24、ay be the sacrifices he faces, if he follows his conscience - the lo of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow man - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow.The stories of the past courage cannot supply courage itself.For this, each man must look

25、into his own soul.I pray that I can have the courage to make the right decision.Whatever is decided and whatever the future holds for me, I hope that I shall have been able to put this most recent tragedy behind me and make some further contribution to our state and mankind, whether it be in public

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