Greenpeace Recycles JFK for Campaign

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NEW YORK Digitally altered footage of everyone from Fred Astaire to Steve McQueen has been exhumed for TV commercials. Now the controversial environmental group Greenpeace is taking it a step further by featuring John F. Kennedy in its new digital ad campaign.

As part of its “Energy [R]evolution” push, one of the 35th presidents’ most famous speeches is altered to deliver a message about the dangers of global warming. It says:”When man first walked upon the moon it defined a generation.

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