President John Kennedy's Press Conference on South Vietnam 

He always seemed to know exactly what to say, no matter how tough the questions were. Easily one of the most intelligent presidents we’ve ever had

Intriguing - thanks for this, enjoyed it - greetings from Melboourne, Australia

The summer of 1963, Kennedy saw the buddhist crisis and knew it can't be won. He also visited the country in 1950s with his brother and they met with DeGaulle and the French leaders. He vowed to never let the US get in the same position as the French against a people who so clearly wanted independence from colonialism. Don't make it a white mans war. He ordered 1000 troops/advisors out by end of 63 when they had near 16k total personnel in country (technicians, advisors, spies, green berets and a few hundred combat troops). I find it compelling that he would have found a way to avoid that quagmire once it became politically possible after the 64 election. The 60s would have turned out so differently and America would have been prospering with tax cuts and reasonable spending.

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Kennedy was a keen student of history. He felt that because the French were forced out after being there for almost 100 years had a profound effect on him. He was wise enough to realize that Vietnam was a quagmire without any end!!

I MUST SAY I ENJOYED THIS VIDEO THANK YOU

This is how a President handles tough questions about intelligence

when did this aire on Tv? anyone know?

You can hear in his voice that he’s on it, he’s in charge. Someone didn’t come to like it.

I guess we could say the IQ since those days in that office have taken a pretty regular down slope.

Correction within a couple hours: I'm sorry If they said Ricky is a ruthless killer. That hurts so much it never goes away. But the father is also a tactical genius, and the family therapist gave them to him.

Does anyone know the year/ month of this press conference?

Date please!!

President Kennedy was a great President.

I wonder if CIA gave him a heads up about Dallas.

@255engin Ron Paul could revive all that

Start of a long brutal war

👉🏻 *Allen Dulles. Suspect #1* 👈🏻

How to simplify this situation? I couldn't tell because this video says, "The End"; "End of Recording"; and President Kennedy on Saigon. Hanoi and Pyongyang are stronger in Intelligence out of necessity. The point was that there were volumes of pages which Saigon should have admitted to the RECORD, but the C.I.A. held the confidential, and he said he worked with the NSA, Doolittle, McNamara, Tailor, and Murphy. On t.v., he uniquely recognizes that the connection with the woman reporter will elucidate it, but she doesn't QUITE get a handle on it. That is rude. I'm certain and I always thought the C.I.A. supported Kennedy and then destroyed him. Psychopathic killer Ricky Ramirez father was told Jerry Mahoney is a real person and received copies of The Paul Winchell Show that my father doesn't have a copy of. He didn't get along with his father, but his mother was a paralegal and she thought it was hysterical. When things started falling into place, that part got better. Joseph Kennedy wanted a Fall Guy and they never punished him. They now have a recording and will analyze the VOCAL INFLECTIONS. A nurse would say, "That's straight," the machine will land on the right word with the right interpretation with an acceptable mens rea. Then what? Everyone knows there are elephants in Laos and Cambodia, and the Saudis would rather ride their camels. I thought you are supposed to kill the enemy, which is what Prince Harry and Jack Kennedy did. Psychiatrists are very concerned with the conflict this creates. It was morally wrong, because both men had some status, which would make it even better for the United States to blow their head off. I saw one of them talking to my witness and I don't know that I wouldn't, because the police said we all have immunity, and I don't have any signs that OUR TEAM has any immunity at all, and I already gave it up for President Kennedy. If I took an unnecessary risk, it still counts with the shakers and the spinners. In TEACH YOUR CHILDREN, Nixon puts both arms up and the bombs drop down. It's always been known that his treasonous behavior got him into office, telling us if THEY get what they want, the war will end (vote for me.) Take that.

October 9, 1963

What a shock. Kennedy did not scorn the reporters and journalists. He did not say “that was a stupid question “. Whether it was against him or for him, JFK answered everyone respectfully and with immense knowledge. Every time I hear Trump open up his mouth, I yearn for the days of President Kennedy!

2:00 They had lady reporters back then? I guess the show MadMen overhyped the sexism of the early 60s, huh?

Poor Kennedy. He had no choice but to lie, in his mind anyway. Fascinating, and sad of course.

It’s sad in retrospect to know that the cia was dishonest with him about dealings in Vietnam

The first US Chief Executive to authorize the use of napalm on civilian targets in Vietnam.

he was the greatest president we ever had

Make war jfk

i believe Kennedy truly fucked up in Vietnam. he had the opportunity to change course and to extend an olive branch to ho chi min. his judgement was clouded

kennedy lying and trying to keep things quiet. body language isn't the best.

Extreme war criminal. None of the US presidents since WW1 would survive a Nuremberg trial (all would be hung), but Kennedy was arguably then worst. The invasion of Cuba was outright aggression without any purpose. Eisenhower planned it, incidentally, so Kennedy was involved in the invasion as conspiracy against his public even earlier than the actual invasion. After the invasion of Cuba, Kennedy launched a huge terrorist campaign against Cuba, which was very serious. Cuba at that time as well developed socially as the best of Europe, later a devastated place. Bombardment of industrial installations with killing of plenty of people, bombing hotels, sinking fishing boats, sabotage. Later, under Nixon, it even went as far as poisoning livestock and so on. And then came Vietnam - Kennedy invaded Vietnam. He invaded South Vietnam and 1961-1962 he sent Air Force to start bombing villages, authorized napalm. Protests didn’t start until five years later when corporations realised the war wasn’t profitable and so they allowed the protests only because of that. Kennedy also laid the basis for the huge wave of repression that spread over Latin America with the installation of fascist gangsters that were always supported directly by the United States. That went on and in fact increased in intensity under Johnson. Cuba now left in pieces. Economic sanctions and political interference continues in Cuba until today to keep it out of their own public control and instead subservient to US private interests.

He was a liar.Pure and simple. A liar.