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RESOLUTION NO. 411. 4-10-80
A RESOLUTION IN REGARD TO THE JOHN F. KENNEDY
SPACE CENTER AND THAT MASS OF LAND HISTORICALLY
KNOWN AS CAPE CANAVERAL
WHEREAS the City €ouncil of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
is bereaved, as are millions of other American citizens, in the untimely
passing of our Persident, John F. Kennedy, and,
WHEREAS the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
strongly believes that there should be proper tribute paid to the memory
of out late President, John F. Kennedy,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CAPE CANURR4, FLORIDA, THAT:
SECTION I
The President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, be
commedded upon his action indesignating the Merritt Island Space
Launch Areas and Cape Canaveral Space Launch Areas as the John F.
Kennedy Space Center in memory of our late President.
SECTION ia
The City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
questions the legal authority of either the President of the United
States or the Governor of the State of Florida in renaming a mass of
land which has borne a name of historical significance for more than
400 years.
SECTION III
The City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
objects to the re-naming of that land mass which has borne the name
of Cape Canaveral for more than 400 years to Cape Kennedy or any other -
[I] name other than its original and only name "Cape Canateral."
SECTION IV
That the City Attorney of the City of Cape Canaveral, Florida
be and is hereby direeted to transmit a copy of this Resolution to the
President of the United States, the Governor of the State of Florida,
the Attorney General of the State of Florida, the President of the
Senate of the State of Florida, the Speaker of the House of the State
of Florida, the two United States Senators of the State of Florida, and
members of the House of Representatives of the Unites StateCongress.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Cape CanaverffS 62
Florida, on this 3rd day of December, 1963.
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/s/ Richard R. Thurm PAGE OF
Attest: Mayor. . oon39
/s/ Donna J. Anderson, City Clerk „ 5'"-- 39