How did we ever manage before this?

President John F. Kennedy at the press conference
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  Today is the 52nd anniversary of the televised Presidential Press Conference.  Commonplace now but history making in January 1961 - the first time.
  It's hard to imagine now how important that may have been.  With twenty-four hour non-stop news in several formats is the rule, but it wasn't always this way.
  But that press conference while not as important, as say the telegraph, it was ground-breaking; it made the President more human and approachable.  Imagine that.

How it looked at home, in black and white.
Photo: www.wikipedia.org