Video: 'AFTER TWO YEARS: A CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT'

(Sunday, December 16, 1962, evening) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy said today the Cuban Missile Crisis had made a Soviet-American understanding less likely in the foreseeable future.

In the first such interview ever engaged in by an American president, Kennedy told correspondents of the three networks (taped for airing Dec. 17, 1962) that the placing of soviet missiles in Cuba had been a major effort to alter the world balance of power against the United States.

Video: '"AFTER TWO YEARS: A CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT" (UNEDITED VERSION)'