PRESIDENT KENNEDY RECEIVES 'FAMILY OF MAN AWARD'
New York City (JFK+50) On November 8, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was presented with the Protestant Council of the City of New York's 'Family of Man Award' at the Hilton Hotel.
In accepting the award, the President said...
"The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion (but) the rich must help the poor. The industrial nations must help the developing nations and the United States must do better by its foreign aid program."
Mr. Kennedy added, however. that the people of the United States "are not weary in well-doing" and he remained confident that "we shall...reap the kind of world we deserve and deserve the kind of world we will have."
JFK+50 NOTE
The Protestant Council of Churches of the City of New York, now the Council of Churches of the City of New York, was founded in 1895 to work in behalf of Protestant churches in the city.
SOURCES
"JFK Received Family of Man Award 50 Years Ago Today," JFK+50, November 8, 2013, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/
"Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963," United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1964.
