transcript of the speech?
Does anyone have a copy of the transcript of the speech that was playing over the loudspeakers when Walker and Buckner were escaping from the bus?
shareOkay, I couldn't catch the entire speech due to dialogue and screams and other background noises during certain parts. You'll see several .... during the parts that I missed, but the rest is as follows.
"Wow, what a crowd, talk about your best multitudes. Be honest now, show of hands, how many of you came to see me? Okay, now. How many of you came here for free sex? Ah, that's what I though. Guess what. You're having free sex right now. That's right. I say you're being screwed right now and you don't even know it. I'm talkin' about this war we're in. I'm talkin' about the bozos who sit in the driver's seat of our government. They're givin' it to you good, and all of you know what - they're not even gonna call you in the morning and say thanks. I wanna say something about this.....whenever we go to war....How can we get out? Turn the boats around. We've now dropped more bombs, by tonnage, on Vietnam than on Germany and Japan together in all of World War II - enough to kill everyone in Vietnam 28 times. Unfortunately, some of us can only die once. ....It's a civil war, not a revolution. We have.....You look up the word embarrassment in the dictionary, and you'll find his picture - LBJ a legend in his own mind......he did that pretty good.....we spent $171 billion in Vietnam. We could have bought every Vietnamese a house cheaper than that. It's a crazy time. You must not ratify your government's madness. They talk of patriotism, but it's a song of death. If you're a girl, no one will be here to love you. If you're a parent, you'll never see the harvest, the grandchildren. But those who have the most at stake are the young, the strong, the hopeful - the boys. Only our best qualified to die. It's not dangerous to be old and frail. The young have the most to lose, and they're betting you don't care. I'm betting you do. You can make a difference, you can make a choice. In that sense, you're the most important generation since Jefferson. And what do you get if you win? The only thing I can promise you is a clear conscience. Well, some of us have to be in court in the morning, so I'll see you later."