JFK-Secret societies PT1 – Unedited April 27, 1961 President John Kennedy “President and the Press” Speech Recorded at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York before the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Running time is 19:12. Kennedy asks the press for their cooperation in fighting communism by applying the same standards for publishing sensitive materials in the current Cold War that they would apply in an officially declared war.