Press speech by:

President Kennedy

TITLE: Address, “The President and the Press”, Before The American Newspaper Publishers Association, 27 April 1961
Fiftyfive and a half years ago, by the time of writing this, President John F. Kennedy held a speech before The American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961 in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City.

You can listen to a strong part of his famous speech about public media and freedom of information.
For the full text speech see the link to the left.

“And so it is to the printing press–to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news–that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”