President John F. Kennedy's 45th News Conference - November 20, 1962
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- President John F. Kennedy's forty-fifth news conference was held in the State Department Auditorium at 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, November 20, 1962.
‘’ I have several statements.
I have today been informed by Chairman Khrushchev that all of the IL-28 bombers now in Cuba will be withdrawn in 30 days. He also agrees that these planes can be observed and counted as they leave. Inasmuch as this goes a long way towards reducing the danger which faced this hemisphere 4 weeks ago, I have this afternoon instructed the Secretary of Defense to lift our naval quarantine.
In view of this action, I want to take this opportunity to bring the American people up to date on the Cuban crisis and to review the progress made thus far in fulfilling the understandings between Soviet Chairman Khrushchev and myself as set forth in our letters of October 27 and 28. Chairman Khrushchev, it will be recalled, agreed to remove from Cuba all weapons systems capable of offensive use, to halt the further introduction of such weapons into Cuba, and to permit appropriate United Nations observation and supervision to insure the carrying out and continuation of these commitments. We on our part agreed that once these adequate arrangements for verification had been established we would remove our naval quarantine and give assurances against an invasion of Cuba.’’
now there's a president!
U darn right!!!!!! This is supreme president!!!!!!!
How fortunate I feel to be able to say this man was the first president of my lifetime.
Same here. Me too.
Only
I was born on thr 22nd of October - the day he made the announcement.
Ever since I was 13 months old, we have been fucked ever since.
He was the LAST person whom was actually he one person who thought he actually was the POTUS, the way it should be - but we all found out what a fucking fraud that was...
Me too, cannot and will not forget him.
Yes indeed you are fortunate
Me too and my parents both campaigned for JFK in Massachusetts and attended the inaugural ball in Washington!
Such intelligence, grace, humor, command of the issues and the English language.
This is wonderful PRÉSIDENT USA
SUPERLATIVE !!
My goodness that's an accurate account
❤️
Grace under pressure.
It's such a pleasure to listen to an informed, coherent, intelligent, reasonable, well spoken president.
Yes. We certainly don’t have one today.
@@Chauncey60 and haven’t had one for a mighty long time.
Like him or not, if not for this man none of us would be here. He kept his cool, made the right decisions and saved this country from destruction.
Craziest part is today’s politicians would of kept it from us
He instinctively swerved away from the great unknown --- what awaited us on the beaches of Cuba, shit-canning the CIA assurance of Cuba being nuke-free, a woeful mistake.
@@ShawnLamont1997 Kept what from us?
@@raoulbataller5454 Is there a point?
@@michaelbee2165 These kind of dealings I suppose.
If he had served his 8 years as president, I believe he would have been one of America's greatest presidents. I was born in 1961 and no president since Kennedy has been as good as him.
I agree. I was born in 58 and he was a hero. Not sure there would have been any change regarding our involvement in Vietnam but I could be wrong
Infinitely better man than we have now! JFK was not perfect -- no one is; everyone has relative strengths and weaknesses. Every time I can look at Kennedy in action, over 56 years after his death, the tragedy of his having his life snuffed out seems greater. I am glad we have footage of his news conferences, for among many things they give examples of mutual respect. A lot can be learned from that.
Respect is missing these days. What we hear in the last decade is unbelievable. Disrespect is what is common today.
President Trump was every bit the President at home and abroad in the 21st Century that JFK was in his own time.
@george washington Your clarity is precisely on point.
Yes, he protected our nation. Sadly today we are mocked around the world because of the “ big guy” in office now. God help us.
@@michaelbee2165 No. JFK was genuinely intelligent, wonderful speaker, had a great sense of humor and quick wit.
Actually informing the American public on what is happening at home and abroad. Amazing.
Yep. And the CIA didn’t like it one bit.
@@cockyhemi-123 after they killed him no other president dared speak the truth
JFK's balls were huge in this press conference. He saved the world.
This was the day before my 11th birthday. During the Cuban Crisis, I remember being at school, my favorite teacher talked to us about what was going on. I remember looking up at the rain and fog on the mountain behind our school. I thought I want to see the sun shine and a blue sky before I die. The sun did come out and the sky was blue. We were scared because where we lived in southeast Kentucky, we're less than 100 miles from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We knew Oak Ridge would be a target. I've often wondered what this country would be like if President Kennedy had lived. I don't think he would want this country going towards Socialism the way many Democrats now seem to want. President Kennedy was my hero. I'm 70 years old. I have him and God to thank for all of us to be here. I've got 2 adult children, 5 grandchildren, and 2 small great-grandchildren.
What I appreciate most about President Kennedy is that he knew in his heart of hearts that Americans *can* treat each other better and that we *should* treat each other better. I admire him even more after being able to view these uploads as an adult.
I love always his accent and voice, Boston accent, it seemed only Yesterday, i was 6 years old then😭😬RIP Mr. President, i cant just always listening and viewing all his videos, thanks for uploading😘
A President who understood a free press is necessary as a check on the government! What a concept, I say facetiously.
And watch how JFK respectfully looks at each reporter that asks a question. Today we have that piece of shit Sarah Huckabee Saunders.
And this isn't the only time he talked publicly, directly to the news media, on the record, about how important it was that they do their job in reporting what a presidential administration was up to, even-indeed, especially-when the coverage be unfavorable.
With Donald Trump, the behavior of the presidential administration has fallen into the abyss, and too many in the media (on both the left and the right) have not done a good enough job of keeping themselves from falling right down there with him.
There's reason to hope things will get closer to a proper norm again under President Biden.
@@smadaf Biden is cognitively compromised. He’s not much more than your typical nursing home resident at this point. We haven’t had a president who was well put together since JFK. He was beyond generational, because it’s been generations since his death and still we’ve had no one come close to him.
In a sit down JFK did in December of 1962 with reporters from the then Big Three Networks he espoused as such. The kicker is he reminded them of the responsibility of the press. Which is not to distort things. Not to take some news in order to prove a political point. He said the press should be as hard as they can on an administration with the intent to get as close to the truth as they can and not merely because of some political motivation.
Unfortunately today's press, rather reporting facts, makes facts up.
John F. Kennedy is still, over 55 years after his death, a vastly underrated president. He was an extraordinary and a complex man who did not have enough time to develop, although he was developing a remarkably independent streak as he gained more confidence in his ability to handle tricky domestic and international problems. The mass media were more on their toes, generally, than today. Exception: sophomoric question in re invasion of Cuba. But, by contrast, what a different attitude from recent occupants of the White House, in Mr. Kennedy’s response!
You just said it *Independently*
Nor so much more on their toes as they were seeking the actual truth. Today's media finds the truth to be disdainful. That being the case they make up facts. Never have the press been more dismissive of truth, respect, facts, and ethics.
Mass media was much less monopolized in the 60's as well. In the 1980's there were 83 different corporate ownerships of main stream media. Today there's 4.
When I look at him and look at today’s politicians I weep 😢
Outstanding leader
A very good president!
How refreshing this feels when compared to the way the last few presidents handle the press and inform the people.
He gave his 45th press conference in his 45th year of age
Man of Peace and Courage.
I must admit, JFK handled the press with the skill of a matador.
Understatement I love, but 'not dumb' is a questionable way of putting it.
@@dixonpinfold2582 I edited the statement.
As far as I'm concerned, and I mean every word of this... John Kennedy saved my life. In 1962 I was 10 and living with my Dad just outside of Boston and with my Mom on the beach at Hyannis, about two miles from the Kennedy compound. I therefore was in the midst of two nuclear air bases, the Portsmouth Naval Shipyards (servicing subs,) the fifth busiest airport in the US and MIT. I would have suffered the effects of at least two nuclear explosions and as many as four. And by the way, I believe Khrushchev saved my life as well thanks to his fighting off the panicked hawks in the Politburo.
D my zzz
Keep in mind, KHRUSHCHEV and his homely wife in Vienna found JFK and Jackie appealing and soon sympathized with each other. NIKITA was the only one in the room with traumatic experience grappling to death the anti christ on the Eastern FRONT.
He knew that JFK Didn't know what 25 million frozen and incinerated bodies looked like, but JFK could imagine what Kind of hell KHRUSHCHEV had known not two decades before against Hitler.
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Wow! Amazing
Go to the 5:25 time mark in the Video and if you are a black man or woman in America ask yourself how your mom or dad, or grandpa or grandma got the loan for their house! That's the Government that we lost!
I am so proud of JFK. He had a good head on his shoulders.
Now that JFK's press conferences are available for viewing, it is disgraceful that they get so few views.
Mind-boggling.
I watch them. It’s better than bush, Obama’s, or trump. I’ll take jfk or Reagan over those bozos.
What are you talking about bullhorn. There has been 10 million hits.
thats because most people re asleep
I believe that his first news conference in 8 weeks
He's no Justin Bieber. 😉
Watching all his press conferences is a video course in Advanced Leadership. I watched some of them live at 8 through 10 years old.
My mom sat me down to watch them too when I was 8. Nice to meet 'cha. :)
My goodness i am not even american but this is pure leadership beyond politics. His articulation of issues at hand is superb and if he does not know smthg no word salad just a simple request 4 time till he gets clarity on the issue.
If it had not been for the way he handled that crisis half of the United States would've been obliterated. I know because I was a 13 year old 8th grader in a Catholic grade school and we most certainly took this situation seriously. Our teacher a nun told us that we could stay in the classroom for as long as this crisis lasted and I raised my hand and said "Sister, if you don't mind me and my friend and my younger sister want to walk home because if we are going to die I want to die with my mother". She didn't like that very much!!!! This was not a trumped up crisis - it was very, very real and we all took it seriously. I am here because of the way it was handled.
Well said.
If you want to see what direction America is headed in, watch this press conference, then switch to Biden's first press conference. For what it's worth my impression is that with the Kennedy press conference, we are in the presence of a serious country run by adults. Flip to Biden's conference and, well. Draw your own conclusions.
Biden is a damned sight better than lying trump.
@@palmbeachcitizen Oh, and Biden isn't a liar, ever? Better than Trump? Give him time, give him time. Ask that question after four more years.
@@palmbeachcitizen Once again, not a single Trump lie cited, while Biden engages in human and narcotics trafficking.
@@palmbeachcitizen You got it all wrong, friend.
Apologists from the #TrumpCult.
We need leaders like him to bring this world back to better times. It wasn’t long ago when JFK was revered as the gold standard for future presidents. I am hopeful that will be resurrected in the future.
You gotta love JFK, @20:54 His response to the journalist re: Soviet Union was completely and honestly of indifference, he didn't give two sh--s for them. He knew them for what they were.
He was only eight years old at the time of this conference, hospitalised in the south of France. I will never forget how the following year, still in the hospital, all the medical staff were silent at the news of his murder, and the nurses were teary-eyed.
I don't think any president has ever been mourned and missed like that outside his own country.
Great exchange!
Not one accusation of a "nasty question" and not a single insult.
Yup. They treat trump terrible
Back when the press had more class in Press Conferences. When President Kennedy pointed to that man and the lady thought he pointed at her she politely sat back down. Nowadays they argue back “no you pointed at me”
On November 20, 1962, 29 days after his famous speech "Cuban Missile Crisis". President Kennedy gave his 45th News Coference.
Will share with friends.
every conceivable subject brought up: answers instantaneously with great detail total command of any subject.
My dad had clearance to work on B-52's during this era. We lived in Warner Robins, GA - home of Robins AFB. It was a SAC base until 1983. My 3rd birthday was October 19, 1962. I don't remember any of this. My Mother was upset and called her father (my grandfather Smith) who lived 60 miles away. He told her that if the situation got really bad, we wouldn't suffer.
@ 76.5 years of age... having had a younger brother served in Vietnam and myself having had minor involvement regarding the Iran crisis .. I fully appreciate ..
respect and admire JFK for his wisdom.. leadership and decisiveness ... he truly changed the world in many ways and no matter what your ethnic..racial..or political background is.. we all owe this man forever a great debt of gratitude for his ability and courage to rise to the occasion on not only the Cuban Crisis..but also his contribution to furthering racial equality and many other issues...Thank you JFK...Thank.you Mr Prsudent!!
Bob Roberts
A father
A grandfather
A Citizen of the World
SUPERLATIVE USE OF THE LANGUAGE AND CADENZA !
I admired the book of her wife Jacqueline Kennedy historic conversation and I have it because I am experiencing nostalgia moments when I'm reading it together with my John f. Kennedy stamps thank you
He was a wonderful Président of USA
Great video my friend thank you very much
😎 as a cucumber
Long after the Cuba crisis a guy told me he was in the army stationed at Ft. Dix in New Jersey at that time. He said he was one of approximately 100,000 army troops sent to Florida via train for the possibility of an invasion of Cuba if the missiles weren't removed from the island. He said something else I wouldn't forget. On the train to Florida he thought he wouldn't return to the base alive.
Wow is that what a real and honest media looks like?
I didn't realize just how alone Kennedy was in dealing with the Cuban crises, even RFK was a hawk about Cuba, but did do his brothers bidding when asked. After Cuba JFK seemed to be taking steps in reducing tensions with Vietnam and Russia as well as elswar, but after he was killed that all changed with LBJ and later Nixon & Kissinger who secretly moved bombing to Cambodia, destabilizing that country which led to the Khmer Rouge and disaster for so many! I wish Presidents since where half as thoughtful and articulate!
Genius President... Look at the clarity of his thought & speech. Heaven knows if & when an equivalent leader will emerge. He saved the world from nuclear disaster in 1962. His Greatest Mind conceived the Peace Corps. Nobel Peace Prize was certain for JFK. The world would have been a much better place today had he lived. The world lost a Messiah... May God send him back to earth...
Human nature is the same, fortunately, on both sides of the iron curtain, which is why I am optimistic about the ultimate outcome of this pointless mess, uh.... struggle.
Worth repeating his eloquence, but you should use punctuation to make it clear that the words "pointless mess, uh" are your own.
367 days left in his presidency.
just a little less in the number of days before trump is defeated in the next election
now we have ......? in The White House.....no comparison at all....
He sure was one smooth dude
He had a year and two days to live.
They all rise. What a wonderful feeling to see this president.
As a lifelong Republican, I can admire and respect Kennedy. He had command of all the issues and was a class act. I will also give credit to the press who in those days, asked intelligent policy questions and didn't seem to revel in the "gotcha" style of journalism permeating within its ranks today.
From 4:57- 5:16 reminds me from x-men first class when he gave that same speech.
Courage man
A year and and 2 days to live this was also his brothers birthday.
This speech re-inforced "their" decision to speed up his ouster
Look st how big the room is and how large the number of correspondents.
The first correspondent sounds just like James Gregory's character ("John McCarthy") in 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1962).
Cuber
Great photos
Fantastique PRÉSIDENT USA !
I still do not understand why the Russians accepted that the witdrawel of the US missiles from Turkey had not to made puplic.
The US Senate, Congress, Press, political &. crazy flag waving Commie hating American voters. Kruschev understood. He was top military dude in Moscow during German invasion. He knew death & sent the missiles home. Kruschev won. He got a promise USA wouldn't invade Cuba. Which the US had spent $ Billions, on planning.
A few days later..
Blake Bendele What do you mean “A few days later”. This news conference was held on November 2, 1962. Not November 2, 1963.
You could see the look on his face this man was in pain
Were these televised live?
Up to the network? But there were reporters there. For the thousands of papers & mags. Also, political news was on TV. Weekends?
@@baberRuth were you around back then?
@@DzNutz-kf9ob good ? History is not just being there. I was. But the advent of cable TV history shows & right here at UA-cam. I still remember TV shows from the mid 50s. JFK & wife were a chic young 2ple. Diff from what preceded them. BTW. This clip we just saw? Topic would be on early daytime shows. "NBC's Today show", or any of the Sunday political talk shows. The 5:30 Central National News shows were BIG. Cronkite CBS, Huntley & Brinkley on NBC. When TV showed JFK & wife in Latin America & Europe? They adored them. The atomic Cold War fears. We're given a New hope. that youth, smarts & kids in the White House would/could heal those fears. Even today. I read of racial improvements JFK offered, in our economy, that Congress didn't approve of. Those Bills Were implemented by LBJ. In His honor. Also, magazines & newspapers reported on these pressers. Why did the press stand at the end? Respect, and to get out of there to fille their reports. I was listening to Rush limbaugh yrs ago. John Kennedy Jrs plane went down east of Massachusetts, in the sea. Navy, coast guard aided in looking for the plane. Rush took a call. "I don't want my tax $$ spent looking for a Kennedy.". One jerk, so what. But Limbaugh did Not chastise or correct him. U & me, I hope never think that's good national media.
Even then the PRC (China) was attempting to nibble away at India, as they are attempting to do today.
What other Presidents since articulated events and actions nearly as well to the public? We must excuse Mr. Joseph Biden of this question for a number of reasons obviously.
Kennedy's accessibility by the press is in stark contrast to that of all of his successors.
He never mentioned what the US agreed to. The removal of our Jupiter missiles from Turkey.
That were obsolete.
Anybody notice the quote from X men first class from 25:39 to 25:20
You mean the quote from kennedy used by someone else.
@@davidhutchinson7888 he did ? I didn’t know that
@@twiggs9560 unless someone wrote the script for xmen first class before kennedy was president lol
So many Americans are not aware of the Cuban missle crisis and how close we were to nuclear war. JFK was the right man for president at the time and America was spared this catastrophe episode...
Donald Trump could do worse than study this film and learn how to deal with the press
Not only will he not. He will probably never have a news conference - or probably very few.
But the press in 1962 didn't hate President Kennedy's guts and weren't trying to bring him down by asking "gotcha" questions . So what would Trump learn from this?
Yes, but also his handlers should make the press stay in an auditorium like this to ask questions, STAND, then sit down after the question is asked. Make the press act formal!!!.....It's just too much of a free for all with the idiots we have submitting questions to our President!!!
Maybe modesty and a sense of humor.
Even better if the modern-day press would study how the press behaved in 1962 and get back to that. Most of today's politicians aren't the problem - the press is. Why in the hell do you think that I abandoned my pursuit of a career in journalism (which I was VERY well suited for)? The politicians are what they've always been - publicity seekers and self-promoters. That was true long before virtually ALL so-called journalists became the hopeless and shameless hacks that they are today.
The Second Time ❤🇮🇪🇺🇲
He's coming back !!!
If he was our leader today we could all rest much easier. God rest his soul.
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Oh well..
It does my old heart good to read the intelligent comments about my beloved president I was 15 when he was so cruely taken from us,he was the total package,johnny we hardly knew ye.
MN 10 Gr 5. Me, "why would a cowboy (TX) shoot the Prez!"
Just don't know all presidents and leaders do good and bad.People argue till whenever.
He was just doing SO MUCH
CIA memo dated 11-12-63 did K FKk in.
17:35 question about his Christmas plans
If you want to see swag just look at the way he ended and left the press conference!
Thanks JFK, we appreciate you service.
He looked unwell the pain not just in his back but the rest of his body
Can't hold a candle to President Trump
The Last Great President. 😎
We still need to #AbolishTheMortgage
I question if he had a clue what he was getting himself into.
Hey Sleepy Joe..listen to news conference from a real president
strategy announced
1 year 2 days later
There never was a Chinese or Soviet threat in India or Pakistan.Or the US if the truth be known. That would have been suicide by the the Soviets.Paranoia in the US at that time was rampant.
On behalf of a grateful nation let me express my relief for your national security experience and up close advisory role in the daily intelligence briefings.
@@michaelbee2165 60 years later, and there still isn't.
the commenter made a valid obsevation - you could address it intelligently (without dismiissive snark)
peace
The Kruschevs and Kennedys, no remorse, were always dead to me
This ladies and gentlemen is a perfect example of narcissistic ignorance to history and just how dangerous the world is. Sadly, this person is likely of voting age.
America was on top of the world the last time a Kennedy was in charge. That's what RFK Jrs. campaign slogan should be.
I was born just 4 days after this speech
maybe you are him reincarnated :)
there is only one way to find out. Get him to pronounce Cuba. If it’s, “ cuber” it’s him alright. Just hide your wife first.
Bruce Smith Happy 55th birthday!!!
Happy fifty fifth.
Two days before he was assassinated. A dark day.
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From Kennedy to Biden, an incredible decline.
Cuber.
jon122569
dont forget Afriker.
Er ah I hadn't ah, hearrrrrd that one, ah.. obviously, ah.. that is , ah acccccurate.
Chiner. Marylin monroe. Errr.
withdrawreral, also....
He didn’t do that with Marilyn. Lol.
This man was all that AND did Marilyn Monroe. Kind of makes your own life seem pretty worthless when you think about it.