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Which U.S. president held the first press conference?
- He routinely assembled the press.
- He called more than 100 news reporters to his first press conference.
- His tactics were used by John F. Kennedy.
- His term was in the early 1900s.
Woodrow Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the first president to routinely assemble the press to answer questions for the public. On March 15, 1913, shortly after his inauguration, he called the first presidential press conference. More than 100 news reporters attended the event. Decades later, President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) became known for his frequent use of the televised press conference to directly communicate with Americans.
From The Handy History Answer Book by Rebecca Ferguson, (c) 2005 Visible Ink Press(R) More than a thousand questions explore a cast of thousands, including Socrates, an early advocate of the question-and-answer format.
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