JOHN F. KERRY
SPEECHES, STATEMENTS & INTERVIEWS

2004

Mar. 10  :  Speech - AFL-CIO Executive Council Meeting - "Tax Fairness for Americans" - Chicago, IL

Mar. 3  :  Interview - Time Magazine

Feb. 29  :  Democratic Debate - New York, NY (CBS News; New York Times)

Feb. 29  :  Interview - Gabe Pressman (WNBC News) - New York, NY

Feb. 26  :  Democratic Debate - Los Angeles, California (CNN; Los Angeles Times)

Feb. 25  :  Interview - Today Show (NBC)

Feb. 25  :  Interview - Early Show (CBS)

Feb. 25  :  Interview - Good Morning America (ABC)

Feb. 23  :  Speech - York College - Jamaica, New York (Partial)

Feb. 19  :  Speech - AFL-CIO Meeting on Jobs and the Economy - Washington, D.C.

Feb. 19  :  Interview - Judy Woodruff (CNN)

Feb. 18  :  Speech - Town Hall Meeting on Jobs and the Economy - Dayton, Ohio

Feb. 17  :  Speech - Wisconsin Primary Night Remarks

Feb. 16  :  Interview (of Vanessa Kerry) - American Morning (CNN)

Feb. 15 : Democratic Debate - Milwaukee, WI (Journal Communications; WTMJ-TV; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Feb. 11 : Interview - Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Feb. 10 : Interview - Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Feb. 4 : Interview - Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Feb. 3 : Interview - Hannity & Colmes (FOX News)

Feb. 2  :  Interview - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)

Jan. 30 : Democratic Debate - Columbia, S.C. (WIS-TV; Center for Community Change; Tom Joyner Morning Show)

Jan. 29 : Democratic Debate - Greensboro, S.C. (Peace Center for Performing Arts)

Jan. 27  :  Speech - Following New Hampshire Primary Victory

Jan. 27  :  Interview - American Morning (CNN)

Jan. 23  :  Interview - Crossfire (CNN)

Jan. 22 : Democratic Debate - Manchester, N.H. (St. Anselm College)

Jan. 11 : Democratic Debate - Des Moines, Iowa (Brown & Black Presidential Forum; MSNBC)

Jan. 6 : Democratic Debate - Des Moines, Iowa (NPR; WOI Radio Group)

Jan. 6  :  Interview - Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Jan. 5  :  Interview (John & Teresa Heniz-Kerry) - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)

Jan. 4 : Democratic Debate - Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Register)

2003

Dec. 10  :  Interview - Crossfire (CNN)

Dec. 9 : Democratic Debate - Durham, New Hampshire (ABC News; Democratic National Committee)

Dec. 1  :  Speech - Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa

Nov. 24 : Democratic Debate - Des Moines, Iowa (NBC; Democratic National Committee)

Nov. 5  : Democratic Debate - Manchester, New Hampshire (Planned Parenthood and others)

Nov. 4 : Democratic Debate - Boston (CNN; America Rocks the Vote)

Oct. 26 : Democratic Debate - Detroit (Congressional Black Caucus Institute)

Oct. 20 : Interview - Hardball with Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

Oct. 20  :  Speech - Environmental Policy Address - University of New Hampshire

Oct. 17  :  Speech - Arab American Institute - Washington, D.C.

Oct. 9 : Democrtic Debate - Phoenix (Democratic National Committee)

Sep. 25 : Democratic Debate - New York City (CNBC; Wall Street Journal)

Sep. 25  :  Interview - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)

Sep. 9 : Democratic Debate - Baltimore, Maryland (Congressional Black Caucus Institute)

Sep. 9  :  Interview - Paula Zahn Now (CNN)

Sep. 4 : Democratic Debate - Albuquerque, New Mexico (Democratic National Committee)

Sep. 2  :  Speech - Announcement of Candidacy

Sep. 2  :  Interview - Larry King Live (CNN)

Aug. 31 : Interview - Meet the Press - with Tim Russert (NBC News)

Aug. 5 : Democratic Debate - Chicago (AFL-CIO)

June 26 : Democratic Debate - Los Angeles (Calif. League of Conservation Voters and the League of Conservation Voters)

June 26  :  Senate Floor Speech - Schumer-Santorum-Kerry amendment to the proposed Medicare Advantage Program

June 13  :  Speech - League of Conservation Voters - "A New Manhattan Project" - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

May 17 : Democratic Debate - Iowa (AFSCME)

May 3 : Democratic Debate - Columbia, South Carolina (ABC News)

Mar. 13 : Speech - Commonwealth Club - San Francisco, California

Mar. 8 : Speech - Drake Law School Supreme Court Celebration - Des Moines, Iowa

Mar. 6 : Senate Floor Speech - Moscow Treaty (Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty)

Mar. 6 : Letter to President Bush - Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve Release

Mar. 5 : Editorial - "Moscow Treaty is Full of Holes" (Boston Globe)

Mar. 5 : Senate Floor Speech - Bill on Presumption of Duty-Relation in Fire Protection Death of a Federal Employee

Feb. 20 : Editorial - "If I Were President: Addressing the Democratic Deficit" (Foreign Policy Magazine)

Feb. 9 : Speech - John F. Kennedy Library Forum - Environment - Boston, Massachusetts

Feb. 6 : Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Testimony from Secretary of State, Colin Powell

Feb. 5 : Senate Floor Speech - Bill to Provide Assistance to Nonfarm-Small Businesses for Drought

Feb. 4 : Senate Floor Speech - Tribute to Astronauts of the Space Shuttle Columbia

Feb. 4 : Senate Floor Speech - Bill to Award Congressional Gold Medal to Jackie Robinson

Jan. 30 : Interview - Tavis Smiley Show (NPR)

Jan. 30 : Senate Floor Speech - Bills and Joint Resolutions Introduced

Jan. 28 : Speech - Response to the State of the Union Address

Jan. 23 : Foreign Policy Speech - Georgetown Univeristy, Washington, D.C.

Jan. 23 : Speech - National Conference of Democratic Mayors - Washington, D.C.

Jan. 23 : Senate Floor Speech - Continuing Appropriations for 2003

Jan. 22: Senate Floor Speech - Continuing Appropriations for 2003

Jan. 21 : Speech - NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League) 30th Anniversary Dinner

Jan. 20 : Speech - Martin Luther King Day Celebration - Richmond, Virginia

Jan. 17 : Senate Floor Speech - Continuing Appropriations for 2003

Jan. 16 : Senate Floor Speech - Continuing Appropriations for 2003

2002

Dec. 26 : Op-Ed Article - "Give America a Payroll Tax Cut" (Boston Globe)

Dec. 3  :  Speech - City Club of Cleveland

Nov. 19  :  Senate Floor Speech - Homeland Security Act of 2002

Nov. 19  :  Senate Floor Speech - Opposition to Nomination of Dennis Shedd to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals

Nov. 13  :  Senate Floor Speech - Veterans Day

Nov. 11  :  Speech - Vietnam War Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Oct. 16  :  Senate Floor Speech - Community Development Tax Credit Act

Oct. 16  :  Senate Floor Speech - Help America Vote Act of 2002

Oct. 9  :  Senate Floor Speech - Authorization of the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq

July 31  :  Senate Floor Speech - Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act of 2001 (Graham-Smith Amendment)

July 25  :  Senate Floor Speech - Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Conference Report)

June 11  :  Speech - Dedication of Massachusetts Vietnam Memorial

June 6  :  Senate Floor Speech - Supplemental Appropriations - New England Groundfish Industry

May 31  :  Speech - Massachusetts Democratic Convention - Worcester, Massachusetts

May 23  :  Senate Floor Speech - Andean Trade Preference Expansion Act

Apr. 16  :  Interview - Crossfire (CNN)

Mar. 20  :  McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Act

Mar. 14  :  Speech - Energy Security is American Security

Mar. 13  :  Senate Floor Speech - National Laboratories Partnership Improvement Act of 2001

2001

Dec. 14  :  Interview - Larry King Live (CNN)

Oct. 25  :  Senate Floor Speech - USA Patriot Act of 2001

Oct. 3  :  Senate Floor Speech - Vietnam Trade Act

Sep. 12  :  Senate Floor Speech - Terrorist Attacks Against the United States

Aug. 2  :  Senate Floor Speech - Legislation to Expand Medicare Coverage of Treatment of End Stage Renal Disease

May 6  :  Interview - Meet the Press with Tim Russert (NBC News) (partial)

May 2  :  Senate Floor Speech - National Security Strategy - Missile Defense

Mar. 21  :  Senate Floor Speech - Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001

Mar. 1  :  Speech - Georgia Democratic Party Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner

Feb. 13  :  Senate Floor Speech - Public Education Reinvestment, Reinvention and Responsibility Act

Feb. 7  :  Senate Floor Speech - The Future of Indo-American Relations

Jan. 24  :  Senate Floor Speech - Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2001

2000

Nov.  :  Biography - United States Senate Web Page

1997

Nov. 9  :  Senate Floor Speech - We Must be Firm with Saddam Hussein

1993

July 1  :  Senate Floor Speech - Vietnam: Normalization of Relations; POW/MIA Issues

Jan. 13  :  Report of the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs - United States Senate : (PDF files)
                      (This is the extremely controversial final report of the commission headed by Sen. Kerry, which determined that there was little or no
                       evidence to suggest that any American POWs remained alive in Vietnam)

1992

Sep. 30  :  Article - "Kissinger, Peace and P.O.W.'s" - By A.M. Rosenthal (New York Times)
                  (As published in the Congressional Record)

Apr. 29  :  Senate Floor Speech - Report of the POW-MIA Committee Trip to Southeast Asia

Feb. 27  :  Senate Floor Speech - Not to Inject Vietnam into the Presidential Election

1991

May 14  :  Senate Floor Speech - MIA-POW - Trip to Vietnam and Cambodia

1990

Feb. 27  :  Senate Floor Statement - Campaign Finance Reform - Testimony Before Senate Rules Committee

1988

May. 13  :  Senate - Statement for the Record - Senate Veterans Affairs Committee-Hearing on Agent Orange

1986

Feb. 27  :  Article - "Kerry is Building an Image as a Worker" by John Robinson and Robert L. Turner (Boston Globe)
                  (As published in the Congressional Record)

1985

Feb. 21  :  Article - "John Kerry, Coming Full Circle: The Vietnam Hero, The Protester, The Senator" by Lois Romano (Washington Post)
                  (As published in the Congressional Record)

1984

May 23  :  1984 Freeze Voter Questionaire - Memo advising Kerry how to modify his political positions on nuclear weapons to
                  better his voting "grade" from an anti-nuclear activists group.

1972

Jan. 26  :  Article - "A Dozen Dissidents Criticize the President and the Government in 'the people's State of the Union'" (New York Times)

Jan. 12  :  Article - "War Critic at Dartmouth, Bids Audience Join Politics (New York Times)

Jan. 11  :  Article - "Kerry on War" (Portsmouth Herald)

  1971

Nov. 14  :  Advertisement - Appearance by John Kerry on Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr. - Listing Kerry as being
                  the spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, to debate "war crimes" and other Vietnam issues.

July 20  :  Staff Meeting Minutes, Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Notes include the decision that no American flag
                  should be flown at VVAW offices because it causes "bad feelings."

June 30  :  Interview - John Kerry & John O'Neill - Dick Cavett Show

Apr. 28  :  Excerpt from Recorded Telephone Conversation - Between Pres. Richard M. Nixon and White House counsel,
                  Charles Colson (Discussing the activities of John Kerry)

Apr. 23  :  Video of Medal-Tossing by Vets in Washington, in Which John Kerry Participated (2:18 - 5.8Mb)

Apr. 22  :  Opening Statement on Vietnam Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ( Complete transcript - .pdf format)

                  Audio of John Kerry's statement to the Senate that U.S. soldiers were committing war crimes in Vietnam (1:32 - 454Kb)

Apr. 21  :  Photo - John Kerry walking with Ted Kennedy on the Capitol Mall, in Washington; They are said to be discussing the
                  upcoming April 22nd and 23rd activities, and whether Kerry's group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, should wilfully disobey
                  the order of the Supreme Court that the vets not sleep out on the mall.

Apr. 18  :  Interview - Meet the Press with Crosby Noyes (Interview in which John Kerry admits to having committed atrocities
                  and war crimes as a soldier in Vietnam)  (As replayed in Meet the Press interview on May 6, 2001)

                  Watch the video excerpt (1:51 - 4.7Mb) -  Read the text excerpt

                  Audio excerpt of Kerry admitting personally to having committed war crimes

Jan. 31  :  Video of Kerry Asking Questions in Winter Soldier Investigation (1:52 - 2.0Mb)

Jan. 31 - Feb. 2  :  "Winter Soldier Investigation" - Detroit, Michigan (Vietnam Veterams Against the War) :

Audio clip of selected testimony (2:30 - 597Kb)

1st Marine Division Panel

1st Air Cavalry Division Panel

Weapons Panel

Third Marine Division Panel

Racism Panel

"What Are We Doing to Ourselves?" Panel

Prisoner of War Panel

Miscellaneous Panel

"What Are We Doing to Vietnam?" Panel

25th Infantry Division and Public Information Office Panel

82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and 173rd Airborne Brigade Panel

1st, 4th and 9th Infantry Divisions Panel

Americal Division Panel

Medical Panel

Closing Statement

1970

Sep. 11  :  Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Kerry in attendance; items on agenda
                  include engaging Jane Fonda for a speaking tour.

Sep. 7  :  Operation RAW Rally Schedule, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Lists John Kerry as
                speaking at 11:10 am, and Jane Fonda at 1:35 pm.

Sep. 4-7  :  Flyer - Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawl), Vietnam Veterans Against the War, March from Morristown,
                   New Jersey to Valley Forge, Pannsylvania, for a rally; Speakers listed included Jane Fonda and John Kerry.

                   Another Operation RAW Flyer, Vietnam Veterans Against the War; March and Valley Forge Rally on Sep. 7, 1970;   
                   Lists both John Kerry and Jane Fonda as speakers and as sponsors.

                           View photo of Fonda with Kerry two rows behind at the Sep. 1970 Valley Forge rally

Feb. 18 :  Interview - Harvard Crimson