Immigration - Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), [Democratic], 1960

Item — BurtonHall Cold Storage: 1, PCC - Film Reel - 16mm: 142

Identifier: P-1498-74088

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Issue: Immigration laws are discriminatory, Nixon helped make them that way. Agency or Creating Entity:

Dates

Creation: 1960

Conditions Governing Use

While the University owns the materials in its collection, it does not own copyright to any of the materials. It is the responsibility of the user to acquire any necessary copyright authorizations for use of the materials such as may be required.

Biographical / Historical

The Political Communication Collection, located in the Carl Albert Center Congressional Research and Studies Center Archives, contains political television and radio commercials from the beginning of the 20th century through the present day.

Full Extent

From the Series: 14,137 Items (14,137 items (This series includes United States Office of President Campaign Ads from 1912-2016): Each item within this collection falls under the following categories: 16mm film reels, VHS videotape, 3/4" U-Matic videotape, 1" and 2" tap, Beta SP, Betamax, Mini DV, DVD, and born-digital video formats.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Hold

Additional Description

Transcription - Full

Hello, I'm John Kennedy. Our present immigration laws are completely unfair and discriminatory. We, even though Italy and England may have the same population, we permit ten Englishmen to come in for every Italian. We permit about 300 Portuguese, about the same number of Greeks. We permit very few Poles or Lithuanians, Czechs or Hungarians or Yugoslavs or Romanians or Bulgarians. It discriminates against Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. All this was done in the McCarran-Walters Act, which was vetoed by President Truman. I voted against the bill. I voted to sustain the President's veto. Mr. Nixon voted for the bill. He voted to override the President's veto. I believe we should do better. I believe we should be fairer. And I hope the next Congress and the next President will write a fair immigration law. Vote Elect John F. Kennedy for President.