<span> love the thrill of jumping out of an airplane, pulling the parachute’s rip cord, and landing smoothly.</span>
When apostrophe is used as a figurative language in a poem, it gives the poem a more personalized effect as the speaker is going to call out a non-existing person, an idea, or thing. It has not been common in the 20th century, though.
At the time of Kennedy's presidency no one was still very nice to the Africans. The time of the Civil Rights movement was about to be at its peak and when when Kennedy did this speech he said it as in a way to say, "Hey, no matter what heritage you belong to or what your skin tone is, we should all be friendly to each other and help each other out." That was his way of asking for equality and the peace for the Africans. He wanted them to have the same rights as the white men had at the time. "Without regard to his race or color" meant that everyone that was different should still be together and not worry about that because it did not matter as long as they all agreed in a uniform idea that would be the best for the country and its people.