John F. Kennedy inauguration speech was held on January 20, 1961, to become the thirty-fifth president of the United States. An image was captured by the United States Army Signal Corps that revealed the moments of Kennedy shaking hands with Chief Justice Earl Warren after his oath. Fifty years later, Eleanor Clift publishes an article called “Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On”, published on the website “Daily Beast” and later republished on “Newsweek” about personal encounters in inauguration day by Kennedy’s relatives. Resemblances between these three medias are that they all use pathos, emotions, to arouse their spectators. Although there are different forms of media and points of views, it’s the way they use rhetorical appeals and how they link abstract words, what kind of emotion is transferred to the audience and how they react to their medias. Likewise, all three authors, Kennedy, Clift and the United States Army Signal Corps, all used pathos, emotions, to convey the reader to keep on reading or looking at the media they created. John F. Kennedy targets individuals when talking and it seems like they were being talked to directly. Eleanor Clift uses emotions to revitalize the day of Kennedy’s inauguration which is made apparent in the beginning of the article, “Weather forecasters had predicted light snow turning to rain on the eve of President Kennedy’s inauguration, but the snow fell heavily and steadily, covering Pennsylvania Avenue with an eight-inch white…show more content… Kennedy’s inauguration has triggered the feeling of the public. After the tragic event, the subject of Kennedy is emotional such article by Eleanor Clift’s “Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On” and a photograph by United States Army Signal Corps, “Inauguration of John F. Kennedy” prove this. Besides the similarities, there are differences in the way the audience perceives the media, and how abstract words and rhetorical appeals are used to make them
