JFK's Comments on Vietnam, Cronkite Interview 1963
Channel: 9z mox
Date: 2022-10-21

President John F. Kennedy's interview with CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite on September 2, 1963, to inaugurate the new half-hour nightly news broadcast on CBS.

In the interview, President Kennedy discussed the conflict in Vietnam with Cronkite. Kennedy noted that the war was ultimately a Vietnamese conflict. He also expressed America's staunch support for South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. President Kennedy feared that a Communist takeover of Vietnam would cause other "dominoes" in Asia to fall to Communism as well.

Part of a longer 20-minute interview. Full audio available from the JFK Presidential Library and Museum: https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHA/1963/JFKWHA-212-002/JFKWHA-212-002.