Listening In: JFK on Getting to the Moon (November 21, 1962)

At an off-the-record meeting held on November 21, 1962 with NASA Administrator James Webb, NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans, and Special Assistant to the President Jerome Wiesner, President Kennedy states clearly that his administration’s priority is for the United States to land on the Moon before the Soviet Union. This conversation is a part of “Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy,“ available in stores now: