Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.” ~ John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th US PresidentSource: Questionable: supposedly spoken at a speech at Columbia University on Nov. 12, 1963, 10 days before his assassination. There is no record of this speech.