President John F. Kennedy's 52nd News Conference, March 21, 1963

[@walterfounds2757]

I was seventeen and ran home from School to watch. Spectacular Inspiration. Thanks to Susan Burcaw, history teacher.

[@samseaborn2916]

His capacity to answer thoroughly, articulately, and extemporaneously on such a broad range of topics was truly impressive. Haven't seen any president in my time who was so thoroughly engaged.

[@actualideas8078]

Presidents today are literal criminals. I hope you understand that by now

[@sheilac1845]

@@actualideas8078 Would you rather pay taxes to a king ? There’s been a few good presidents, not all are bad

[@CRA5759]

How incredible. Intelligent,thoughtful, and competent in his answers. Not blaming anyone or bragging about himself. No whining about the questions the press ask him. No conspiracy theories about the soviets. My how times have changed(for the worse I might add).

[@jakejudah126]

President Kennedy is demonstrating such mastery of all the questions/issues brought before him in this press conference. Truly impressive. He’s not just giving answers but he’s buttressing his responses with contemporaneous examples of related developments. There wasn’t much he didn’t know about. Impressive.

[@clc-gl4jn]

Spot-on. Kennedy was incredibly knowledgeable and even when he did not have knowledge on something he would simply admit to not being informed and would give his vantage point without hesitancy by his wit and recourse on the topic...

[@clc-gl4jn]

It's no wonder he went to Harvard. Incredibly intelligent, articulate, and scholarly young man. He was America's last known quintessential hero...

[@larrywheeler9917]

Any time you attempt to reform an entrenched system resistance is enormous. But only the brave push foward. Kennedy was brave.

[@kendo4242]

What a nimble mind!.....You could argue, I think, that JFK was probably one of the the most intelligent presidents we ever had. A full grasp of almost any subject, and an ability to convey his thoughts in such a concise way. Modern presidents have soooo paled in comparison!

[@actualideas8078]

Modern presidents are criminals. JFK was honest. That’s the difference

[@jaredmclaren5571]

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick!

[@goblue85]

@@actualideas8078 I like JFK, but he was pretty mobbed up

[@a.deewai3181]

@@goblue85 Hi there.😏 January 2023 22th. May I recommend the post -> from JFK to 9/11, a rich man's trick" (duration explaining approx. 3 hours). Sincere regards in Christ Jesus Our Lord through The Holy Spirit 💖, in His service ✝️🌹, A. DEE WAI 🕊️

[@cynthiagoble7006]

Miss him terribly.😢

[@intrepid5646]

A man on top of his game a fantastic performance. What a loss to the world

[@rmjennings01]

I was 12-14 years old and living in the suburbs of Washington DC during JFK's administration and would often listen to his press conferences that my mother had recorded on a huge Motorola recorder while I was at school. Viewing them now after more than 50 years saddens me as I realise how uncivil modern politics has become. Young Americans have come to know the nasty rhetoric of today as the norm. This reminds me that it wasn't always that way. Notice how the reporters politely stand up as they ask their questions.

[@fletcherwhite9718]

All I have is a memory of a pissed off 8 year old boy who to listen to get my cartoon shows.

[@davidtuley1068]

I cried.

[@michaelirizarry2276]

there will never be,a president like him.

[@michaelbee2165]

What a Boss. The man walks with purpose. He walks in with the purpose of answering the freedom of the press questions. He walks off with the purpose of getting back to the Oval Office and his sworn responsibilities to our country.

[@jackvanderwall]

They don't seem to make presidents that smart anymore. Thanks for posting!

[@AQ-uc4bb]

Excelente Rueda de prensa . Me quito el sombrero mi Q uerido Presidente.

[@geneobrien8907]

I was 12 years old when JFK held this press briefing, this is the world I grew up in. While far from perfect, it appeared to me that intelligent and qualified adults were in charge. Maybe its because life has broadened my awareness far beyond that of a hope filled young boy but I don't think I'd feel as secure if I were 12 today.

[@XYZ-lz3xv]

Wow, the man was very sharp

[@samseaborn2916]

He sure seems well informed.

[@1burnman]

he was made for these he was made for these press conferences he was extremely well informed and engaged

[@marilynlarosa6507]

He treated the Press with respect and humor the trademark of a confident man

[@michaelbee2165]

Indeed, he MADE himself well informed.

[@serenafranklin6198]

So brilliantly conducted

[@wally1452]

Barry Goldwater, near or in retirement (and other times as well) praised Pres. Kennedy strongly and said he had the greatest respect and admiration for him, that he was (and had he not been murdered) he would be one of the very greatest leaders in the world. JFK was brilliant and I think he and Jefferson were two of a kind...so amazingly intelligent and retained all the great Greek and Roman philosophers. Goldwater said JFK was a gentleman and he and Jack K. debated on the Senate floor against one another more than any others, and he loved it. What an awful sadness and tragedy that JFK was killed by our own CIA/Corp. U.S.

[@actualideas8078]

Sadly, Goldwater was one of them.

[@TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy]

@@actualideas8078 I've seen no evidence near to satisfying for thAt theory

[@michaelbee2165]

JFK once had a State Dinner at the White House, for all the most brilliant scientific, educational, literary and mathematical, etc. Minds in the country. Addressing the invitees he stated, humorously and also accurately, that not the entirety of that room, including himself, could ever eclipse the brilliance of Thomas Jefferson. He was correct. That's how brilliant JFK was himself.

[@nowdid]

Thanks I was dying for a video that had considerable length

[@actualideas8078]

This one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIjEmImYjZipqrc

[@barbarafischbach8480]

Amazing! I remember as a little kid how he made those self important press Corp laugh. JFK was the real deal 🇺🇸

[@brianhurley2194]

Although I disagree with the Cuban embargo, at least there was a logic to it and Kennedy clearly thought it through. That's more than you can say about most executive and legislative decisions made today.

[@universe4839]

I agree, but there's no denying that the World is increasingly becoming more and more complicated as I type this sentence.

[@larrywheeler9917]

Invasion of Cuba was desired by generals.

[@michaelbee2165]

@@larrywheeler9917 and they were proven wrong by JFK. An invasion of Cuba would have triggered World Apoloclypse.

[@shahrulamar5358]

@@michaelbee2165 Castro lived much longer than Kennedy. 😟😟😟

[@roberthendry614]

Every kid today needs to watch this.

[@AQ-uc4bb]

Any question have an answer.. thanks Mr President

[@AQ-uc4bb]

I’m still holding the line.. God won 17

[@jodywhelan7995]

The Dude who, saves the World ❤🙏

[@132indo]

Smartest and more fully involved in that job than any man since. He was the best of the brightest and during America's golden age.

[@jln55]

It seemed like all of his press conferences were televised. They were usually on weekday afternoons, if I remember correctly. In the summers, I used to complain because he was preempting my favorite game shows!

[@missybaker1875]

+Barney Fife He took advantage of the TV culture. In spite of only being president for a few years he did more press conferences than the past few presidents I think.

[@TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy]

@@missybaker1875 than all before or since.

[@musicalmelodies3595]

Yes they were usually either at 11AM or 4PM but I think the 4PM ones were always live and most if the 11AM ones were shown later at 4PM usually via CBS

[@drjaweed1344]

When now I see the present country leadership and declined political affairs of the country It feels that this is not the same America of the Hon.(late) John F. Kennedy a president of magical wisdom influences with the💥 magnificant personality with glamour and required grace*. *Kulsoom Soroya.💚💥💦

[@michaelbee2165]

There was nothing "magical" about it. JFK was raised to be President of the United States after his brother Jospeph P. Kennedy, Jr. Died. He knew all the world's major issues. Was educated in the politics of the world. He was the son of an Ambassador to Britain, and heroically fought in WWII. Few American Presidents have been more qualified for the office and in his own time.

[@larrywheeler9917]

He was in such a tough spot in Latin America. He started the alliance for progress so reforms away from the old banana republic dictatorships . Yet the pressure from cia and military to overthrow Castro. He had no idea a parralel foreign policy was getting out of control.

[@michaelbee2165]

He had EVERY idea. He learned the hard way at the Bay of Pigs that the CIA and Joint Chiefs had no concern for the nuclear age. The Cuban Missle Crisis proved him right and he REFUSED the invasion and bombing campaigns the Hawks on the Joint Chiefs insisted upon. Eventually, though not initially, JFK concluded the Cuba quarantine was the best course of action. He also we decided NOT to acknowledge Soviet belligerent telexes publicly, but only those that the Soviets sent that were conciliatory. He boxed Khrushchev with his own words and prevented nuclear war. Brilliant.

[@wheelinthesky300]

Yes, Kennedy was very well informed and engaged. He doesn't obfuscate, parries curveballs with quips. Our current President, who to some the smartest man in the country, is a Pygmy compared to Jack.

[@drjaweed1344]

When the Hon.John F. Kennedy former Hon.president of America speaks in a press conference it feels that God almighty is speak ing into his 🍒 throat with divinely arrangments of ideas, vision and universal love philosophy*. *Kulsoom Sroya.💚💥💦

[@MegaTriumph1]

JFK was "ADAMANT" about nuclear weapons in other countries hands and realized it could be a future problem for humanity. Israel wanted nuclear weapons and nobody was going to stand in their way of achieving them. Thats all I have to say on that subject.

[@michaelbee2165]

Everybody was going to stand in Israel's way. In their region of the world there was and is no reason to believe they would indiscriminately use those weapons. But when everyone around you wants you to watch your mother's, wives, and children raped and murdered Israel is going to acquire EVERY deterrent. They've proven their prudence for decades, yet are still attacked as Apartheid. Laughable. 😅

[@tommyboy1653]

That's something to think about, but the secret society speech probably another.

[@patsheppard2616]

He was a well educated and well informed president. He was well received where ever he went. His wife too especially in Germany and France. When he died the world realized what they had lost when later presidents held office.

[@rstefanie2622]

Now compare go compare to Mr. Potato Head who was installed in 2021.

[@AQ-uc4bb]

I want to walk like him

[@lizadivine3785]

He had 52 conferences! I weep for my country under JoE

[@chrispaschal7955]

And no tears when a Putin-backed traitor and terrorist attacked our Capitol and fellow Americans? Wow!

[@gingerdude7040]

What an extraordinary man!

[@aarontritt9355]

Please let us be the Generation to Continue (Progress for Alliance) Master of Our Own House.

[@berniecioffoletti3398]

Whenever I hear "1964," how I wish he were still around. I was five when that fateful day happened and I still don't think we have recovered from it, mainly because there's still no closure, as the real assassin hasn't been made known.

[@AQ-uc4bb]

Su plan ya casi se cumple querido presidente. ! thank Q

[@JorgeGonzalez-vd2vu]

Gracias a Dios jeova y jesucristo nuestro Salvador y ustedes pol creer en que Dios me envió en la biblia me registra Dios como el hijo de el rey David

[@larrywheels762]

The Cia got to central America well before Kennedys alliance for progress. So did the mafia.

[@mariomartellacci9462]

JFK could have been a teacher providing insight, illuminating ideas and provoking thought in students...

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

3:58 Regarding the TFX contract controversy: Boeing and General Dynamics were competing for the government contract to build a state-of-the-art heavy armament plane. Boeing had the lower bid to develop the plane and both the Air Force and Navy review boards recommended Boeing to the Pentagon. However, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara awarded the contract to the more expensive TFX plane developed by General Dynamics, thus causing controversy in the Defense Department and launching a Senate investigation. An FBI document released in the late 1980's revealed that a former FBI agent, I. B. Hale, broke into the apartment of JFK's then-mistress Judith Campbell in late 1962. The former agent was by then a security chief for General Dynamics. 3 months after the apartment break-in, General Dynamics unexpectedly got the government contract. Sources inside the FBI said that Hoover learned about the break-in and that General Dynamics had sufficient info on the JFK/Judith Campbell affair (something he also knew about) to blackmail Kennedy into forcing McNamara's decision. Kennedy's ambivalence to the question at the press conference here had more to do with knowing that Hoover would not reveal the info to Congress for his own job security (RFK had the power as Attorney General to fire Hoover.) General Dynamics would not leak it, since revealing the "blackmail" and a potential Kennedy resignation from office would sink the contract. McNamara being pointed out here as the sole decision-maker on the matter would have easily been fired by JFK to make the matter go away if needed.

[@132indo]

do you have a source for this. or a book. I would very much like to read

[@UAL320]

How sad that we regressed to the country bumpkin LBJ after his very untimely passing…..

[@Cathleen7259]

My Mother Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis will be The Queen! ❤

[@thomasjimenez5479]

That one reporter's question about Americans trying to travel to Cuba via Mexico how ironic is it that Lee Harvey Oswald was trying to do that very thing around the time this press conference had happened.

[@132indo]

He was beloved in South and Latin America because he tried to help them modernize and avoid poverty starvation and wars. Also his religion helped in that area of world. American policy faltered after his death and they started funding cartels and any kind of dictators and strong men just to fight communism.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Read The Shark and The Sardine by J.J. Arevalo as to his and other's views about how the US was viewed by South Americans. They saw the US was constantly seeking to take, and give nothing. Oswald was reading that book when he died.

[@AQ-uc4bb]

Can I share this video HelmerReemberg?

[@Duncan1974]

Compare and contrast Kennedy with Trump....where did it all go wrong?,

[@edandkarendamadio4108]

The difference between apple pie and shit

[@roscomeon3965]

The corrupt orange orangutan Trump says it all.

[@GeraldMantel]

JFK: "War ... what a stupid way to settle disputes."

[@desmondmurphy1474]

Why why why did the cia kill him, he was Brilliant

[@julianroberts5407]

Because he was going to splinter them into a thousand pieces and scatter them to the wind

[@jasonwright1226]

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[@sevendigits3203]

Wow! JFK was gonna tax cut for real! 🤔 not even a wonder what happened here

[@michaelgilbert3713]

Caroline's 👅 her FATHER'S 🧠 😲

[@智美伊東-d5h]

谷原章介様 マーガリンの話は、わかるでしょう？ 伊東智美MI6とCIA

[@sonofadoy]

"further proof [in my opinion] that the "powers that be,"involved in the art of war and in the arms trade, that is, those who deal in the death of others, were already set against any peaceful end to the "Cuban situation" and Communism in the WHD. dm

[@volcanicsour]

Ramo

[@michaelirizarry2276]

he has 8 more month''s,before the c.i.a. wack's him.

[@智美伊東-d5h]

ピッパ・ミドルトンどうしたの？ 伊東智美MI6とCIA

[@hkhilner]

Imagine Joe Biden trying to field these kinds of questions . He would be absolutely dumbfounded. It is absolutely criminal that we have an Alzheimer’s patient sitting in the White House. No doubt, we’ll have a new leader, come 2025.

[@timcartwright7650]

who is the white male asking him the questions , bald on top?

[@noonze1]

Kennedy's IQ is estimated to have been 119, which is lower than that of any other president in recent memory, including Reagan, George W Bush, and others who have been lampooned as being 'stupid' (they weren't). Some people have estimated Kennedy's IQ to be 170 or higher, which is way off the mark. Among other things, JFK was a terrible student. But, as Reagan also proved, brilliance is not the key to leadership. Kennedy - despite his youth - had broad experience in the world, a mature, balanced perspective, and guts. He DID have a nimble mind and the willingness, and capacity, to state his views articulately, without a teleprompter. He was not a narrow-minded ideologue, as Obama is; in fact, he was everything that Obama isn't, despite Obama's supposed 'brilliance'.

[@bullhorn3tails]

@noonze1 What point are you trying to make, you effin halfwit? JFK's IQ is estimated to be in the 150 range, which is in the genius range. He would've run circles 'round Reagan and Dubya. You're all over the place. You wouldn'r know your ass from a hole in the ground... Idiot.

[@bullhorn3tails]

The point is pups, you've got your head firmly tucked up your ass, which may explain why you talk out of it. If you think that Reagan was a patch on Kennedy, think (think?--that'll be the day!) again. And I'm not going to get involved in a slanging match with the likes of you as to who was the better president, so don't even go there. My estimate of Kennedy's IQ is not mine, you silly twerp! Your attempt to portray JFK as an average boob falls at the first hurdle; as if his early academic record diminished him, quite the contrary. But trying to explain such things to an anal-retentive would be pointless. If you're trying to say that there are other factors and qualities, beyond having a brilliant mind, which contribute to a president's success, then you're stating the obvious. But groundlessly disparaging JFK's intellect, which by your lights was inferior to the semi-literate Dubya, scuppers any chance you may have had of not being taken for a fool. Have you ever bothered to listen to his press conferences or speeches? Apparently not. And don't come back with the discredited nonsense about Sorensen having drafted his speeches, even down to the last letter. As I said, you're a halfwit and will no doubt remain so 'til your dying day. Prat.

[@JMC786]

noonze1 His IQ was rated in the 160 range

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

Kennedy's reading speed was estimated at 600 words per minute. He read every major newspaper and documents that passed his desk in the mornings and therefore was a step ahead of all the reporters in these conferences on any question he would be asked. He did not need briefings or rehearsals for these and could go on the fly. Like they used to say: "Reading is Fundamental." ;-)

[@dannyburch2122]

idealist with out illusion JFK self-described himself.

[@chrispaschal7955]

The greedy powers that be didn't have the same vision of the world held by this future-thinker, and so they shot and killed him.