The speech President Kennedy was due to give on the day he was assassinated in November 1963 has been constructed in his own voice using new technology Getty ImagesFive decades after his assassination shocked the world, John F Kennedy can now be heard delivering the speech in Dallas that he was never able to make. Engineers have used new technology to recreate the voice of the 35th US president speaking the words he was due to say on November 22, 1963, when he was shot dead. Kennedy was killed, aged 46, as his motorcade travelled through the city on his way to a lunch at the Dallas Trade Mart. The text of the speech he was due to give there was preserved and given to a local businessman by Lyndon B Johnson, Kennedy’s vice-president who became president after his death. The Times teamed up with CereProc, a British audio technology company, and Rothco,…

Source: The Times March 15, 2018 21:56 UTC