Zepp-LaRouche Posts JFK's 1963 UN Proposal for Joint U.S.-Soviet Moon Mission

Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s Twitter feed posted a clip yesterday of an excited, 1963 news report on President John F. Kennedy’s Sept. 20, 1963 speech to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the Moon. He reasoned, “Finally, in a field where the United States and the Soviet Union have a special capacity—in the field of space—there is room for new cooperation, for further joint efforts in the regulation and exploration of space. I include among these possibilities a joint expedition to the Moon. Space offers no problems of sovereignty; by resolution of this Assembly, the members of the United Nations have foresworn any claim to territorial rights in outer space or on celestial bodies, and declared that international law and the United Nations Charter will apply. Why, therefore, should man’s first flight to the Moon be a matter of national competition?” The report contains the video clip of his proposal, and the thunderous applause which followed. China’s current proposal for international cooperation on the Moon and the exploration of space, devoid of competition or geopolitics, echoes the spirit of Kennedy’s proposal. (https://twitter.com/ZeppLaRouche/status/1597668989437550592 ; https://2009-2017.state.gov/p/io/potusunga/207201.htm )