Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's 8th News Conference - March 23, 1961'

(Thursday, March 23, 1961, 6:00 p.m. EST; during the Laotian Civil War, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — President John F. Kennedy told the people of the United States tonight of the dangers in the Laotian situation and warned the Communist world that “no one should doubt our resolution” to preserve an independent, neutral Laos.

In a nationally televised and broadcast news conference from the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C., Kennedy said that hostilities must cease in Laos and negotiations for settlement of the country’s problems must begin promptly.

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