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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.
Labor Day weekend at Hyannis Port: Interview with Walter Cronkite, CBS News, to inaugurate the first half hour network national nightly news broadcast. [Light scratching throughout negative.] Please credit "Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston" Date and time of digitizing: 06:05, 31 ...
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.
“President Kennedy died at 1pm central standard time,” TV news anchor Walter Cronkite said on air. ... and sentenced to death but he appealed and died of cancer in 1967, before the retrial ...
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President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy greet well-wishers along the reception line after Air Force One landed at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, on Nov. 21, 1963.
He served as substitute anchor during portions of CBS's coverage of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963, relieving Walter Cronkite only minutes after Cronkite had announced the official confirmation of Kennedy's death. [7] Collingwood was CBS's chief foreign correspondent from 1964 to 1975, covering warfare in Southeast Asia.
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 ...