JFK warns of ‘great difficultly’ fighting a guerilla war in Vietnam 50 years ago today (1962)


Video: Dec. 12, 1962 (at 4:33)

(Wednesday, December 12, 1962, afternoon; during the Vietnam War, part of the the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy admitted today in a news conference that there is “great difficulty” in fighting the guerilla war against Communist forces in South Vietam, but the situation is not darker than it was a year ago, “and in some ways lighter.”


Video: Dec. 12, 1962


Video: Dec. 12, 1962