Audience - JFK's Cuban Missile Crisis Speech

John F Kennedy's  address to the nation about the Cuban missile crisis was not directed to the nation like most people thought. The people who saw this address can be split into three categories: the people of USA, the soviet union and the rest of the world. For the nation of United States, this meant taking the risk of informing everyone of what could be impending disaster. the average citizen already feared nuclear destruction, and this just fueled it more. In fact, many people started stocking up on food and water provisions.  They knew the capabilities of nuclear weapons and that at that time they were unstoppable. The American people were not the only ones who saw this address, so did the international community  . By saying that " Our own strategic missiles have never been transferred to the territory of any other nation under a cloak of secrecy and deception" he convinced other countries that the soviets move of putting rockets in Cuba was inching closer to what could be world destruction by nuclear war. This made the international opinion of the soviets (and thus in return communism) less appealing. Personally, I think JFK and his cabinet thought this all through and understood the video's true audience was the Soviets, they would have analyzed that their public opinion will decrease if they don't move the Rockets, and understood that if they don't move the rockets not as many countries will accept communism. Even if they kept them there, the international community would have stopped providing them in trade deals that would have hurt the soviets economical model at the time (this would be called international pressure).