John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We have established this Commission for two reasons.”

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

I know who they are going to blame.

They may be facts which some would prefer to forget, but if the United States of America, and particularly the Northeast United States, these 15 States, are going to move ahead and provide a better life for the people of Delaware and the…

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.