RFK SPEAKS AT EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DISPLAY DEDICATION
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 4, 1963, Robert F. Kennedy paid tribute to President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation*.
The Attorney General spoke at the dedication of a display of the original copy of the document at the National Archives Building here in the Nation's Capital.
The Attorney General said...
"In the long course of American commitment to freedom and dignity of the individual, no single deed has done more than Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation."
*The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by A.L. on September 22, 1862 to take effect on January 1, 1863. The document declares "all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be, free." According to the National Archives, the E.P. "fundamentally transformed the character of the (Civil) war."
SOURCES
"Remarks by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at Opening of Exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation at the National Archives," Washington, D.C., January 4, 1963, Department of Justice.
"The Emancipation Proclamation," National Archives, www.archives.gov/
www.justice.gov/
