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The Twentieth Century was a documentary television program that ran on the CBS network from 1957 until 1966. The series produced 112 historical compilation films and 107 "originally photographed documentaries" or contemporary documentaries, each running a half-hour. Productions were narrated by Walter Cronkite and drew on the resources of CBS ...
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) ... In 1957, he began hosting The Twentieth Century (eventually renamed The 20th Century), ...
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 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 ...
A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite was published by Ballantine Books on October 28, 1997. The 384-page memoir chronicles Cronkite's decades of reporting, focusing on his experiences with D-Day, the Civil Rights Movement, the John Kennedy assassination, NASA's first crewed Moon landing and Moon walk, freedom movements in South Africa and much more.
The 22-year-old was the grandson of the late iconic evening news anchor Walter Cronkite, who was the anchor for CBS Evening News for almost two decades.
The film, which was directed by first-time filmmaker John Biffar and narrated by Walter Cronkite, included interviews with Newton (who was 94 years old at the time of production), archival footage and dramatic re-enactments. [1] The film had a brief theatrical release, and reviews were mostly negative.
The assassination of JFK, meanwhile, wasn't just the first presidential assassination of the 20th century—it was also the first killing of a U.S. President that wasn't committed at close range.