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On September 2, 1963, Kennedy gave an interview with Cronkite, helping CBS inaugurate network television's first half hour evening newscast. [29] It should perhaps be noted that CBS did not include any further coverage from Dallas or Washington as the other networks had until after the announcement of Kennedy's death.
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News [1] from 1962 to 1981.
It was written by Joe Garner; the foreword was written by the veteran American newscaster Walter Cronkite. In addition to many descriptions and pictures of notable news events from the 20th century, compact discs containing audio news clips from the events described in the book are also included.
In September, a 10-second clip of Kennedy’s motorcade speeding down a Dallas freeway towards Parkland Hospital after he was fatally wounded was uncovered. The home movie, on 8 mm color film, was ...
In 1950, when Edward R. Murrow convinced Walter Cronkite to join CBS News, the television news industry was still in its infancy. Nineteen years later, Cronkite left the network's anchor desk as ...
The Kennedys came together for Ethel Kennedy’s 96th birthday party last April. ... juxtaposing clips of famous speeches by JFK and Ted Kennedy with senators grilling his cousin at the hearings ...
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [306] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [307]
On November 22, 1963, Sevareid joined Walter Cronkite on CBS television with a commentary about the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the road ahead for the new president, Lyndon Johnson. From 1964 to his 1977 retirement from the network, [ 4 ] Sevareid's two-minute segments on the CBS Evening News (anchored by Cronkite) inspired his ...