Ask not what your country can do for you

Today I saw again an OLIVER STONE’s film called JFK on a Projector.

During a secret rendezvous in Washington DC, "X"'s (Donald Sutherland) spellbinding, 15-minute long paranoic monologue about a massive conspiracy that encouraged New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to continue to pursue his investigation into Kennedy's assassination; X claimed a "massive plot in Dallas" and that Kennedy's killing was a "coup de'etat"; his words about Kennedy's threat to the establishment and its desire to maintain war powers and to instigate the Vietnam War were intercut with photographs, footage, reconstructed behind closed doors meetings, etc.

It’s a memorable of work OLIVER STONE & KEVIN COSTNER.

I tell you what he says in this long paranoic monologue :

An American naturalist wrote, "a patriotmust always be ready to defend hiscountry against its government।" Well,I'd hate to be in your shoes today. Youhave a lot to think about. Going back towhen we were children, I think most ofus in this courtroom thought that justicecame into being automatically, that virtuewas its own reward, that good would triumphover evil. But as we get older we knowthat this just isn't true. "The frontieris where a man faces a fact." Individualhuman beings have to create justice and thisis not easy because truth often presents athreat to power and we have to fight poweroften at great risk to ourselves. Peoplelike Julia Ann Mercer, S.M. Holland, LeeBowers, Jean Hill, and Willie O'Keefe havecome forward and taken that risk.(he produces a stack of letters)I have here some $8000 in these letterssent to my office from all over thecountry - quarters, dimes, dollar billsfrom housewives, plumbers, car salesmen,teachers, invalids ... These are the peoplewho cannot afford to send money but do,these are the ones who drive the cabs, whonurse in the hospitals, who see their kidsgo to Vietnam. Why? Because they care,because they want to know the truth -because they want their country back,because it belongs to us the people as longas the people got the guts to fight forwhat they believe in! The truth is the mostimportant value we have because if thetruth does not endure, if the Governmentmurders truth, if you cannot respect thehearts of these people ... then he shakes later and starts again then this is no longer the country in which we were born in and this is not the country I want to die in ... And this was never more true than for John F. Kennedy whose murder was probably the most terrible moment in the history of our country. You the people, you the jury system, in sitting in judgement on Clay Shaw, represent the hope of humanity against Government power. In discharging your duty, in bringing the first conviction in this house of cards against Clay Shaw... "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

John F। Kennedy was used this line (Ask not...) in a speech on 20th JAN 1961. And from 1961 to till date this speech is described as a motivational speech, persuasive speech or inspirational speech… So, this month can be dedicated to that famous event of the day during the era of John F. Kennedy.