September 2, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy's interview with Walter Cronkite
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- President John F. Kennedy’s interview with CBS Evening News Anchor Walter Cronkite. In the interview the President assesses how four current issues will affect his chances of reelection in 1964: civil rights, unemployment, the Partial Test Ban Treaty, and the Vietnam War.
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) Evening News anchor, Walter Cronkite, interviews President John F. Kennedy on the lawn outside Brambletyde house to inaugurate the first half-hour nightly news broadcast. A CBS television crew films the interview. Squaw Island, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Incredibly articulate who thinks on his feet and is VERY comfortable in his skin!
No animosity towards the other party, nothing but charm wit and grace!
We need a good centrist now!!!!
Not a teleprompter in sight. Expressing his thoughts in an insightful and thoughtful manner. He was so very special, along with Walter Cronkite. He left a void beyond measure.
A great President, my favorite.
@Pain FreePresident Trump, a close second for me. Almost a tie.
Trump was and is far superior.
My favorite president too the jersey 9422 Kennedy got cheated
It was unfortunate he would only live 81 days after that interview with Walter Cronkite
This country went down hill since Nov. 22 , 1963 !
How true !
What no teleprompters? Able to articulate coherent responses to questions on many topics and subjects. Non-canned answers such as the one on losing more Southern states in the next election. A very pragmatic and realistic politician. Not a single one today of this caliber.
No cards to read either...
Or people whispering into an earpiece
Barrack Obama is of that caliber weather or not you like him he is brilliant
@@bahamutstear1369 nope. Just a CIA puppet and possiblity the antichrist that wanted total government control
Him and JFK should never ever be mentioned in the same light. JFK was for liberty and making the government work for the people. Obama was the opposite and used social programs to enslave them and keep them stuck. Just like LBJ...
@@bahamutstear1369 Obama is known as the teleprompter President. What you don't realize is, the Media had scripted to him prior questions and his administration controlled the media. Everything was controlled. Kennedy was candid and could think on his feet.
Obama has been groomed his whole life. He only spoke on the agenda people above him in other nations wanted him to push to destroy our nation. Please dig deep and do more research. No time left to waste.
Military address; Obama called his wife 'Michael' twice. So I kept hearing him say this in interviews. So I decided to research it. You should too. Study photos of his whole life. Is O of good or evil? He had to choose a side. Truly dig deep.
When it came to the presidency Kennedy was a patriot and a class act. Wish we had him now.
That’s How People were brought up then. Before Liberals, Media, Entertainment, Music Industry made it unfashionable to be respectful, educated, and tolerant of all. Not just Special Interests, whats in Vogue, or who Lobbyists help formulate, fabricate a popular opinion for.
JFK was a real WW2 war hero. He was my first boyhood hero. I would have placed him in the category of a Statesman and not a “professional politician.”
@Christopher Nelson I do as well. Watergate happened as a result of relentless anti-American attacks by the news media.
@Ricky Sanchez JFK was optimistic,straightforward,and sincere.nixon's crook,dirty trickster.He 's
rattlesnake . He loathed the two bros,JFK and Bobby. Robert Kennedy shot dead by who,u think,
sirhan sirhan? Definitely not. He merely was a decoy or redherring. The real killer was a bastard,eugene cesar. Cesar was whose, you guess.
@Ricky Sanchez Yep. Kennedy even donated to Nixon's campaign for congress.
So open and honest. I wish that we’d had that today.
He had come into his own. His death changed everything
Trump's pretty honest about questions
He let's his true feelings come forward in interviews.
He wasn't totally honest, The Kennedy's had an agenda to be in political power for decades, while he stood for many righteous things, he did use his power to work in future elections for himself and his brothers....this in my opinion is what caused his and his brother's demise...and Ted then just became another floozy chaser and murderer.
This is a great interview by two greats! President Kennedy and Walter Cronkite.
2 months later he would tell the world our president was killed... First thing I ever remembered in my life.
@@tommysimmons3258 I was not born for Cronkite's time on the CBS Evening News. He is just incredible to watch. Honorable mention of John Chancellor on NBC. I wish we had new anchors like that today.
@@tony84. Walter Cronkite was a luciferian and not to be trusted
@@edsmall2167 That's not what America thought about him. He is looked at as the gold standard of Anchormen in history.
@@tony84. yes you're absolutely right, the gold standard of Anchormen. The gold standard of luciferianism. Their father is the greatest liar, Deceiver, and murderer. He comes to destroy and devour. Get your Bible out Tony 84. It's easy to read. But you need to beg God to truly understand his word. Know the truth and it will set you free.
The arguments that JFK makes about jobs and need for education still rings true 60 years later.
Listen to all campaign speeches for all the elections in this country (available on YT), the messages are pretty much the same on every election.
@@closetcleaner Maybe we need to follow the Ukrainians and elect a comedian? At least we'd be entertained with good delivery.
@@wtmerit6129 FYI Zelenskyy graduated from the Kyiv National Economic University in 2000 with a law degree.
@@closetcleaner Bc they copy their old foes or predecessors. Obiden is an arrogant moron, and JFK would literally go Republican from the state of what obriden has done.
He was willing and able to change the world.
When he got shot, Walter took it personally.
America took it personally.
Real President in all respects !!
And thats why he was killed. May the conspirators get their just desserts on the other side, to be handed out by the ultimate judge himself...God, The Almighty. Amen.
This man was the most intelligent American President .The future of a new generation was unlimited.. The leader of free world, taken from USA too soon.. Afterwords...we got stuck in the mud in Vietnam.. LBJ dug himself and American youth in a big ole hole..The USA never recovered...This guy was a genuine leader.
104th anniversary of Jack's birthday today, RIP 🙏💐😔
same birthday as me
@@favsa5015 congratulations with your 104th birthday sir, madam.
Not dead - second coming of our Lord and Savior
He's still living! He survived! Thanks to God and Tesla technology! ThankQ JFK for taking down the Cabal and leading this world out of slavery!
@@nonnie8316 🌟💫🙏💓⚡💜😎
How sad this great man will never see 1964.
At least not this version of him. In a parallel universe, he saw out his 2 terms and passed away in the 2000s
@@westyraviz I don’t think he would’ve lived till the 2000’s he was also a gravely ill person
He did in Spirit
Intelligent dialogue spiced with humor was his Forte We encouraged our children to Listen to him This is what a Leader sounds like
How could you not admire this man and not feel extremely proud to be an American? What happened to us?
Woke culture
@@YungChiefWoke culture began with a Democratic overreaction to Republican totalitarianism after 9/11. We're swinging the pendulum back around, as a society, but be wary of too strict a control over the public's doings this time. Our lives aren't the government's to dictate. And rhetoric isn't without consequences, either. We need reasoned debate, not name calling.
The Democrat (Marxist) Party took every aspect of our culture. Plus massive 3rd world immigration happened to us.
Pull up a video of his “man on the moon” commitment speech and focus on LBJ in background… we went from a historic, eloquent philosopher-statesman to a disinterested moron. Pretty much into the future: the morons won.
Overboard wicked liberalism.
This man was Albert Einstein with his understanding of the country and the world compared to the hack and stooge we have today.
The STOOGE was the man with the fake colored hair!
Joe Biden actually has three times the experience of government compared with JFK. Do some homework instead of letting Sean tell you what to think!
You mean President Fake-Bake?
Tesla...
Einstein was a fraud
@T A - President Biden is doing a great job in the aftermath of trump’s fiasco. He knows what he’s doing but people want instant gratification. The thing is everyone has a different idea of what that is.
President Kennedy possessed the most magnetic smile.
At 19:44 President Kennedy flashes his iconic smile.
It was really a genuine, magnetic smile. I can see why the ladies adored him......
JFK's ability to speak so intelligently and eloquently off the cuff is so impressive! His ideology and visions for America were so ahead of his time, yet so eerie and sad hearing him speak of his plans for the upcoming 1964 re-election campaign and beyond, while we viewers know he never made it past 1963 . . .
Vietnam started with his decision to go in. That's history!
dont think joe biden could speak the same way.
@@berto8591 Biden is intelligent and speaks very well.
@@berto8591 PLEASE!
@@berto8591 you can bet that Kennedy never would have tweeted 'COVFEFE'. He would never have instigated or supported sedition, or encouraged citizens to overthrow the government, or stop or interfere with the peaceful transfer of power; pardoned or promised to pardon seditionists. we certainly didn't see members of the Kennedy clan making deals and using his presidency to personally profit - like Jared's multiBillion dollar deal with the Saudis.
Smart man, much more articulate than a past President. When we lost him we lost. Would have been much farther ahead if what happened never happened.
@@elifield7149 Wish the Republicans could come up with something more mature than a Don want a be Clorox man. All the Senators, Congressman and Governors, etc., this is the best we got? We have a problem.
@@wtmerit6129 maybe if they tug on Joe's leg hairs something might pop up.
Smartest president in the history of the country 💪
PULL OUT A 10-SPOT. NOT A LOT TO THE BRIGHTEST STAR OF CAMELOT, BUT ALEXANDER HAMILTON, WHILE NEVER P.O.TU.S, WAS THE CHIEF ARCHITECT OF OUR ECONOMIC DESTINY?!?!?!? STAR BRIGHT, NYX @ KNIGHTZ-OF-CHERUBIUM!!!!🥜🥜🥜🥜🥜🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🍔🍔🍔🍔🍟🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭🥪🥪🥪🥪🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🥞🥞🥞🥞🧇🧇🧇🧇🧇🧀🧀🧀🥦🥦🥦☕☕☕☕☕☕🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🍫🍫🍷🍷🍷🍸🍹🍺🍺🧊🧊🍯🍯🍯🍯⚽️⚽️⚾️⚾️🏈🏈🏉🏉🎱🎱🎯🎯🎰🎰🎲🎲🎨🎨🎭🎭🃏🃏♟♣️♦️♥️
Not even close. He was indeed bright , high IQ despite poor grades in college and before. However, his IQ was certainly far , far less than that of geniuses like Thomas Jefferson and almost certainly below that of : Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, James Madison , and a few others. To be sure jfk was very bright ...I'd put him in a class, intellect wise, in the Jimmy Carter, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover , and or John Adams range.
Of the 45 presidents, he would likely be in the top 15 all time, which = Top 1/3 of all presidents. Impressive.
@@ernestkovach3305 Obama & Clinton were very intelligent too, unlike Trump.
@@tomclewis1040 hell are you talking about?
@@marcsonnenberg623 . I suppose Biden is a genius.
He believed in the U.S. Constitution. Politicians today do not. There in lies the problem.
ReTrumplicans don't. That's a fact. Their god-king has never even read it.
@@Section5_CdnIntelService Your statement is sad, but true…
Yes. He mentioned it quite often in conversation and speeches.
From what I understand, this interview was part of the first 30-minute long edition of the CBS Evening News. Prior to this network evening newscasts were 15 minutes long. NBC followed suit a week later, while ABC didn't to to a half hour long evening news until 1967.
These two great men make me gush with pride as an American. Things seem pretty messed up right now but maybe someday some great men like these will come along.
Walter Cronkite - a gift to journalism.
John F Kennedy - a gift to America.
He was a man of the people. He was, and always will be OUR president.
81 days later, he was dead and Cronkite made that announcement on CBS.
KM… and America wept along with Walter Cronkite.🇺🇸
Cronkite was all
Crocodile tears when he read the memo...
Probably laughed like Bush smirk about a crazed gunman shooting JFK
Thanks for the Upload.
Imagine someone from his party actually being FOR tax cuts. Very smart.
I can see why Mr. Cronkite was fighting back tears announcing to the world JFK was assassinated.
Kennedy was so intelligent and personable.
@@mr.dawson1988 Have u ever been to the JFK library?
@@MustangMike012 I haven’t been there but it is definitely on my list.
@@mr.dawson1988 I have over 30 years ago
Today's leaders could learn something by listening to presidents from the past
Precisely why I listen to Presidents from the past.
The more things change the more they remain the same.
I remember the day President Kennedy got shot! I was a child watching tv with my mother Rose when the news came on the tv that President Kennedy got shot! And my mother Rose and I both sat there in tears. A sad day for our Country.
I read somewhere that he read up to 10 different newspapers everyday, yes, we can only still speculate how things would've turned out had he lived longer, but even the short time he was with us, I think he showed what a Real Leader could be like, also, in regards to the Cuban missle crisis, he had the support and guidance of Eisenhower over the phone, I think he was gradually growing into the role of POTUS, and becoming a World Leader as well
This is so awesome 🙏❤️🙏
At the end, I heard some muddled talk about CBS News going to 30 minutes (maybe to cover the expanding Viet Nam war). Cronkite said something in reply about $50,000 per day. I would assume that would be the cost of extending coverage, or the amount of additional ad revenue this could generate. It was sad to see such a brilliant, level-headed man, be struck down just two months later. His solutions to the economy and the Viet Nam conflict, and descriptions of such, were brilliant. Geez. Now, look what the hell we have.
To expand on your statement, we should look at everyone we have had in the Oval Office SINCE Kennedy’s assassination…
He so head and shoulders above those who have followed him. I have been reading a lot about him in recent months and am very impressed by him. I have always written him off as being rich with mediocre smarts but I have started to see him differently.
Wow...A Democratic president suggesting an 11 billion dollar tax cut in 1963! (9:55) Sadly, those days are forever gone.......:-(
The modern Democratic Party is no Jack Kennedy party, don’t let anybody tel you otherwise
No, JFK’s tax cut was for the working class and the low income, not for the rich. Democratic tax cuts are nothing like Republican tax cuts.
@@thatguywhosayshi7021 and Bill Clinton is probably the individual most responsible for that ... although ironically, the US was extremely prosperous under his administration.
This video shows just how far journalism has fallen today, and if I may say so the quality of Presidentiial candidates in the USA and Prime Minister candidates in the UK.
The quality of UK prime ministerial candidates comment has aged well!! Hasn't it??
@@wilnerolivier7971 in what way has it not aged well?
I believe he's right,
Walter Cronkite is a legend, TAKE NOTES NEWS MEDIA OUTLETS!!
The reporter's story after Tet had dramatic repercussions. And his conclusions were based on a grave misinterpretation. Douglas Brinkley’s new biography of Walter Cronkite has sparked an intriguing controversy about the CBS anchorman’s famous trip to Vietnam in February 1968. That’s when, as legend has it, Cronkite was so shocked at the devastation of the communists’ Tet offensive that he went over to see for himself what was really going on. And he concluded the war was a stalemate, probably unwinnable. Brinkley buys the argument, put forth by the late David Halberstam in his characteristically portentous manner, that Cronkite’s February 27 broadcast, "Report from Vietnam," played a major role in turning Americans against the war and inducing President Lyndon Johnson to abandon his reelection campaign.
Cronkite’s report, writes Brinkley, was "immediately seen as a catalyst by pundits in the Monday newspapers. . . . Cronkite turned dove, and the hawk Johnson lost his talons." This tracks with what Halberstam wrote in his 1979 book, The Powers That Be: "It was the first time in American history that a war has been declared over by an anchorman." Lyndon Johnson was said to have watched the broadcast and exclaimed to his press secretary, George Christian, "If I have lost Walter Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America."
Harvard’s Louis Menand, writing in The New Yorker, has an interesting take on this. "The trouble with this inspiring little story," he says, "is that most of it is either invented or disputed." He cites W. Joseph Campbell’s 2010 book, Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misrepresented Stories in American Journalism, as noting that Johnson did not see the Cronkite report when it was broadcast. Menand recalls a 1979 quote from Christian saying he really didn’t recall what Johnson said in response to whatever or if he said anything at all like what was then being quoted. And Menand questions whether Cronkite’s broadcast had anything approaching the impact now attributed to it. This is all great fun and the kind of thing the intelligentsia loves to kick around. But it misses a fundamental point that goes to the heart of America’s Vietnam tragedy. If Cronkite did in fact have a major impact on the American consciousness back in the winter of 1968 (and he very well may have), that impact was based on a fanciful interpretation of events.
Interesting old videos thanks for sharing
He had less than 90 days of life left here 😢
83 days, to be exact.
😢
History 🙏👌
I love president john f. Kennedy ❤️❤️❤️❤️he is my favorite president. The world is not the same without president kennedy.
I totally agree with you!
@ Penni Candy. How much different and better would the 1960's have been had JFK been able to serve out his two terms. Such a loss.
@@Kayte-tv2cw Hard to say really. Probably no Vietnam War, no MLK day, and maybe RFK elected president instead of Jimmy Carter.
So sad to think he will be dead within 2 odd months.What a great president he was.
I must admit that as I watched this interview, I felt total shock and exasperation. Here is a President answering questions from the Press! It is a President, in just the FIRST ANSWER alone, using more words, and using them correctly, without any mispronunciations, grammar errors, statistical errors, or lapses of memory, than our current President has been able to string together in the last 25 interviews, combined. Furthermore, this President was completely oriented as to time, date, location, his own identity, and was answering spontaneously, creating his own sentences with his own brain. No use of teleprompters or remote audio feeds in earpieces were necessary, and he never once, had to pull out a crib sheet.
If Cronkite had slid a crystal ball over in front of Kennedy and had him peer into the future, and he had observed the intellectual capacity of the current man holding the Highest office in the Land, he would have categorically denied that such a debacle could come to pass. He would have picked up the crystal ball and turned it over in his hands, looking for a defect, insisting that the thing MUST be defective, because, such an injustice could NEVER happen in this country; it'd simply be impossible.
And then he would recall the "strategy" of his own "win" in 1960, hesitate, and remark, "uh, well...perhaps there is one way, it could happen." And with that, he'd have done a little reading of the future himself!
So very well put.thank you for saying what many must feel
Fox and Billy Graham, nuff said.
Good letter. Kennedy was so intelligent, charismatic and eloquent. Even our enemies admired and liked him. It was said that Kruschev wept when he was informed of the Presidents assassination.
I was in the sixth grade during this interview. Three months before his assassination shook America. I still remember when our principal walked into our class to announce his assassination, three months later.. I still feel that Civil Rights trigger his assassination. Some did not want change.
Civil rights had nothing to do with it. JFK like other Demirats had rigged the election in Chicago or jfks dad had it rigged by the america mob. In return he was suppose to stop going after them. Apparently jfk and rfk didn’t know just that they won the election because of the dad having it rigged. The mob got mad when they started coming after them. And they killed him. All the proof was released by trump in 2017 the media didn’t cover it but the facts and the truth came out. Now keep in mind Jim Crow was created by democrats literally to cause division they had it well planned out. Democrats created planned parent hood to abort black babies in 1973 after civil rights for and no joke I’m not joking. “POPULATION CONTROL of black babies” they literally came out and admitted straight up they created it so there welfare program wouldn’t have to pay for them. As a result if you look at the real numbers about 30-35mllion black babies have been killed. They will say 20million but I found a bunch they tried to keep out of the list. Keep in mind we have 41million black Americans today. We would no doubt have 80-100 million black Americans had they not killed them. The politicians admitted that its “murder” so they had to figure out a way to convince black women that it’s just birth control and they did.
I dont think anyone would murder a President to keep a few blacks out of school. Thats ridiculous.
Sad that this was a month after their son, Patrick died at 2 days old. Then JFK would be assassinated two months later.
They both served honorably in Combat in WWll. One, a PT boat Commander. Other, a reporter up front or in the air w the pilots & crews
Thank u so much, u answered a question iv long had.
Great President! RIP JFK
This president shocked the south into kindness toward all citizens.
Ahhhh .... not so.
President Kennedy had found his stride by the Fall of 1963.
The American University Speech on June 10,1963 where he explained the United States" role in the world.
The inspiring Civil Rights speech the next day, June 11,1963.
After President Kennedy's body was returned to Washington, DC, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was with a good friend Charles Spaulding who got him some sleeping pills and talked with him for a while. When Charles Spaulding closed the door to leave, he waited outside and heard the Attorney General sobbing and saying, "Why? Why God Why? We were doing so well. Everything was so poised, so well. Why? Why?"
Mr. Spaulding said "and he repeated it, and repeated it and repeated it, and finally quiet. And I left."
Mind you, June 11th as he gave that speech Medger Evers was assassinated that very night, crazy🤦🏾♂️
Every single day I awake, I cannot believe, what happened to this great president on Nov. 22, 1963 ! 😭 R.I.P. Jack ♥️🥀
Wonderful interview. Thank you for saving and sharing this with us. Notice how the Fed govt had gotten involved in this school situation, but Pres Kennedy as a Dem said, it should be a local issue. Fed govt is more involved than they should be in everything today. Interesting to hear the issues of the day back then.
Yes, but that's because the constitutionality of all citizens, has been broadened...which is of course a Federal act! The Federal government has the constitutional responsibility to make sure the states "carry out" those rights on the state-level, and can assert itself on edicts which support it.
You need to go back and listen to that section again ... he did stress that going through the courts the federal court and what - that he hoped that the state would comply with the federal order. That said --- when I reflect on his presidency, the issues of the day confronting him, particularly civil rights, I can't help but wonder if MLK's decisions and actions didn't play a huge role in Kennedy's lack of popularity plus in his assassination. JFK did not want to publicly get embroiled in the civil rights issue until his second term.
Obsessed 🥺❤️
I completely understand
I wish Kennedy was president now our nation would not be in a mess
I agree with you…
@Pain Free It is highly insulting to me to constantly hear kooks like you mention President Kennedy and “that former guy” in the same sentence. I have lived through both administrations - - and believe me, Trump is no JFK…
Let's hope and pray d trump picks up where both Kennedys left off but better.god test them both.big time.
When you isten to how intelligent, knowlegable, and articulate JFk was compared to what we recently had as a President---you see how far America has declined.
When you refer to "what we recently had as a President, I assume you're referring to Trump.
@@karenmainor4275 of course-that is self-evident
covfefe
@@karenmainor4275yet Joe can't say a word without a teleprompter and an ear piece. It's sad how low the democratic scale has fallen as well .
Todo un caballero 🎩 JFK ♥️🇺🇸
❤
Walter Cronkite was only 6 months older than President Kennedy.
didnt know that, kennedy seemed so youthful.
Yes I had to google it because, I can’t believe it. It’s true he was born nov 1916 and jfk was born in may 1917. Kennedy was definitely the portrait of youth and Kennedy didn’t live as long as Cronkite. Hence we remember him as a young man but Cronkite grew old before dying.
It's in the hair.
In every image of him, Cronkite looked 65. JFK will always look 35.
For younger people, not of that period, this is how people acted, & spoke before Liberals, Media, Entertainment, Music Industry made it unfashionable to be respectful, educated, and tolerant of all. Not just Special Interests, whats in Vogue, or who Lobbyists help formulate, fabricate a popular opinion for.
Boom
Liberals? You rightwingers are pure snowflakes. Poof, melted. Blame, blame, blame. Take responsibility! It's what old time conservatives used to preach before they got taken over by hatemongers.
One thing is certain. It was not "Liberals" that assassinated the liberal President John F. Kennedy.
and before conservatives, the alt right, used 'christianity' and waving bibles as campaign and policy tools; before the alt right made it an art form and part of their platform to spy on everyone's personal bedrooms; beforehand picked justices approved Citizens United granting corporations status of individuals; and before the rise of PACs and super PACs. Before the alt right waged war on individuals and blatantly favored corporations, particularly global corporations.
You forgot conservatives, and Maga supporters.
I was 15 in '63.
His death darkened my view of extremist influence on the American Experiment.
The Democratic party changed dramatically after Johns death. I think the last chance they had to restore its' integrity was Bobby Kennedy, but that ended in '68.
The parties never switched, only Strom Thurmond!
Bobby was headed in the same direction we re headed today he wasnt John
In 1963 i was 16 years old, I admired him at that moment and I still do, he was a very smart and pragmatic polician wanting the best for everyone killed by a lunatic , it was and always will stay as the most dramatic fact in our world
It was a mob hit to neutralize Bobby and leave him powerless to continue harrassing them. Dorothy Killgallen knew this but also paid with her life before she could spill the beans.
If you with "lunatic" mean Lee Oswald, I have to correct you. He didn't kill anyone that day. If you mean that the killer of JFK had to have been a "lunatic", I agree.
Off course.
@@kermitkelly8833 Was it the mob that bungled the autopsy? That convinced the US Government to organize the biggest cover-up in human history?
Yes, the mob played a minor part on the ground, but it didn't sit in the drivers seat, no.
Why can't we watch all of Walter's interviews somewhere? He interviewed Bobby Kennedy in 1968 but it's not on CZcams..
Calling on Diem's gov't to change. JFK was committed to helping, but made it clear that the government of South Vietnam had to win the war.
It was the age of the Domino Theory, as Ike advised JFK.
We will never know what turn, if any, we would have taken had JFK lived.
The turn came on Friday October 11, 1963 ,when JFK authorized National Security Action # 263
NASAM #263 called for the withdrawal of the first 1000 advisors to be home by Christmas 1963. This actually happened
But that was the end of that! On Tuesday Nov 26 ,1963 even before the flowers had begun to wilt on JFK's grave, LBJ issued Nasam #273 which started the shift in our policy regarding Vietnam.
I was born on that day.
Thank you for posting this. I wanted to watch it after just finishing Bill O'Reilly's book.
Is this the best copy available? I appreciate the upload but I wonder if this is all they have.
This was filmed at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport, MA.
This was a very important interview for President Kennedy as a result of what he predicted for 1964. His re-election, the Civil Rights movement and rising crisis in Vietnam.
Listen 👂 6 minutes in Jfk was dropping comms way back then😊😊💓
4:00. It's really too bad America no longer has this level of class. Here we get to listen to President Kennedy thoughtfully and respectful consider the political consequences to his administration for having to over see racial integration. Too bad he wasn't destine to get that second term. America lost a great man in his passing.
I felt like our hope went down with JFK jr's plane. I wanted to see him develop.
Only him, developing u mentioned is impossible. We'll ascertain it if and only if the mass of people
come along with us.
You R talking about the current VP....JFKJR!!
What I like about this interview is JFK ALWAYS talked about one thing: put the NEEDS AND INTEREST OF AMERICA FIRST !!....not kiss the ASS of Nations that are suppose to OUR ALLIES !!!
When he spoke people listened.
CLASS ACT
What a beautiful mind
RIP PRESIDENT JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY !!!
🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
JFK was in the final 83 days of his life, but none of us knew that at the time.
~memento mori
@@thehealthychefri huh?
He didn't miss the dance. RIP sir.
Lee Harvey Oswald only one that did
LBJ did know !
Is it just me or did someone cut out a chunk of the interview when he talked about vietnam?
Yes, caught that
Duly noticed, yes.
When America was still great. This is why my family were Democrats, but no longer.
Great for who? Women? Blacks? Gays? Check the life expectancy in 1963 compared to now. The air and water were filthy. Cars were slow gas guzzling monsters pumping lead into the atmosphere unmolested. You had to pay to vote in some states. There was no Medicare. Oh, and by the way, the man who’s being interviewed was gunned down in the middle of Dallas a few months later. The good old days are now! Stop living in the past.
@@nicktaylor1015 Life expectancy has almost entirely been improved by vast advancements in the medical field. They would be even better if the were not for the Communist death cult that has all but taken over America! Oh, but we don't count those! After WW 2 was out of the way there were steady improvements that really got under way with Eisenhower, even before the 1960's! That's why we have what we have today! They were already underway! Largely already in the private sector. The problem is at the same time enemies of freedom were also working! They were largely ignored now it is almost to late to stop the Communism that has already taken over Washington DC! The black, minority and poor family structure has been worse than decimated. Back then the black family structure was more solid than white families are today! While some things have taken hold, other things with the aid of Communism have been all but destroyed! The same people that want to exterminate 90% of the human race, to "save" the human race! Then pervert and enslave what remains! Just you watch what I am saying this thing is about to come unglued! I lived through those times! You can listen to the propaganda all you want there was good and bad, like now. The bad that was then is largely eliminated by the efforts of the people THEN! But, the bad now is destroying the Freedom and Liberty that we still had then! Soon there will be no Constitutional Rights for anyone except the imaginary right to kill a baby or for a man to marry a man!
Great.
RFK said so, shortly before he died.
Amazing -- “a tax cut to stimulate the economy”! Tax cuts not raising taxes.. Maybe the bumbling fool we now have in the WH should watch this video. Oh wait he’d fall asleep for nappy time!
Hey, genius, economic circumstances have changed in 58 years.
@@bobtaylor170 right now we just print more and more money ( hand it out like candy to all including illegals ) encourage people to stay home ( after vaccination), shut down our pipelines , promote our country as racist, leave our boarders wide open for all, allow BLM /Antifa to take over towns, defund police ( crime on the 🚀 rise, and oh well solve it with more taxes . The middle class always pays .... thanks genius for your two cents .. Save it to pay your taxes ! 🤡
@@timacoata7456
And you haven't got a f-ing clue you fool 🤣
“Maybe the bumbling fool we now have in the WH should watch this video.”
Tim, that’s just not fair. Trump has been out of office for over 4 months now. Leave him alone already.
@@deanachison4651 I wish I could “like” your comment more than once!
Happy Birthday JFK.
Posting 5-25-21. He'd have been 104 next Saturday.
@@TheBrooklynbodine right May 29th is his birthday....
He was wrong about Vietnam, we had no business over their
2 legends
JFK would be considered too conservative to win the Democratic nomination today.
What I find tragic about today's Democratic party is that there isn't any resmblis of the JFK type democrats of yester years. The JFK democrats were very CONSERVATIVE and had the tendency to put the NEEDS OF THE NATION ahead of politics.!!
Eddie a world wide phenomenon. In Australia we have the same problem with our politicians on both sides
President Kennedy was a man in politics ahead of his time, from Civil Rights for Blacks and people of color, education in which Kennedy came up with Affirmative Action policy, and Civil Rights Bill that became law under President Johnson, and also the war in Vietnam in which Kennedy was not fighting in that war, and that may have been last thing he did, that definitely put him in harms way .
This interview was filmed with Zapruder's 8mm camera too.
Superior leaders for the nation’s progress tend to get mowed down. Look at Caesar, Hamilton, Lincoln, McKinley, JFK, RFK, Chung Hee Park (S. Korea), Indira Gandhi, Anwar Sadat, Bhutto (Pakistan)...
Leg crossing in front of a very respectful president is very unrespectful.
His nephew will make a great president. RFK, Jr. for President 2024 💯🇺🇸
His prediction on China has become true.
"assuming you are the nominee"😣
The more things change the more they stay the same. Certainly in regards to much of what was spoken here.
2022
NSAM 263 and it's presumed wording would more than strongly suggest an exit strategy from Vietnam as early as the beginning of 1964.....or presumably as easily a postponement of such a plan until after the election. Kennedy had made it clear enough that the war was for the South Vietnamese, and the South Vietnamese alone to fight.
For me Kennedy had always been an easy many to admire, he was an extraordinary departure from the template insisted upon for leadership before. Nonetheless a thinking person arguably would have to reserve ultimate judgment on the matter, international affairs invite unforeseen outcomes.
Bohemian Grove!
CIA did not agree with him.