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                         Sample Informative Speech

 From the Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White.

 President nominee John F. Kennedy sat on a platform surrounded by mother and sisters, flanked by all the men he had defeated—Humphrey and Symington, Johnson and Stevenson.  As the sun set, he spoke, facing the west, to eighty thousand in the Los Angeles Coliseum.  His face was tired and haggard from a year of strain and a week of sleeplessness.  His voice was high and sad.  (Take note in any sample informative speech, it is highly desirable to know the demeanor and delivery pattern of the speaker.)

 I shall make the stress points by underlining breathing intervals by a forward slash (/) framed word by a block surrounding each word, an arrow pointing up ↑ for an up ending and down for ending down ↓.  Note:  There are many other markers that we teach at the Voice Masters of America for the sample informative speech, but for this narrative we shall deal only with those mentioned thus far.

President-Elect John F. Kennedy speaks:

 I think the American people / expect more from us ↑ than cries of ↓ indignation and attack.  The times / are too grave, the challenge / too urgent and the stakes / too high to permit the customary ↓ passions of political debate.  We are not here to arise the ↓ darkness, but to light ↑ the candle that can guide us / through ↑ that darkness to a safe and sane ↓ future.  As Winston Churchill said on taking office ↑ some twenty years ago:  if ↑ we open up a quarrel / between the present / and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future ↑ … Today / our concern must be with the future.  For the world / is changing.  The old era ↑ is ending ↓ The old ways will not do… / The problems ↑ are not all solved ↓ and the battles not all won—and we stand today ↓ on the edge of a new frontier / of unfulfilled hopes ↑ and threats. ↓  It has been a / long road…. Now / begins another long journey, taking me into your cities and homes / all over America.  Give me your help, give me your hand, ↓ your voice and your vote.

 How applicable that Kennedy’s informative speech relinquished over forty-five years ago is to the current global and domestic situation we encounter today.

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