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On February 27, 1968, Cronkite closed "Report from Vietnam: Who, What, When, Where, Why?" with that editorial report: We have been too often disappointed by the optimism of the American leaders, both in Vietnam and Washington, to have faith any longer in the silver linings they find in the darkest clouds.
Cronkite's prime time special report, Who, What, When, Where, Why, broadcast on February 27, 1968, ended with his declaration that the United States could only hope for a stalemate in Vietnam. It is often credited with influencing Lyndon Johnson's decision to drop out of the race for President. "If I've lost Walter Cronkite...
"From the People" with Hubert Humphrey (text) (February 1968) [22] Audio on LBJ's signing of Civil Rights Act of 1968 (11 April 1968) [23] Text of eyewitness account of RFK assassination (1968) [24] Marquis Childs; Charles Collingwood [4] Walter Cronkite, 1939-1950, covered World War II for UP. [4] [25] William Boyd Dickinson; Bill Downs [26 ...
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 ...
Died: Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs), 38, American blues musician, died of coronary thrombosis thought to have been caused by injuries sustained in a fight the previous evening. [ 89 ] February 16 , 1968 (Friday)
February 28 – The influential American news reporter Walter Cronkite shows his disdain for the Vietnam War effort during a broadcast, which influences President Johnson not to seek another term. February 29 – The Kerner Commission releases its final report on the causes of the 1967 race riots.
Waterville police responded to a medical emergency at a dormitory on Colby's campus; the call is listed on the police's log as an "unattended death." Peter Cronkite, grandson of the late Walter ...
Now we know—from those who lived and died for it—that it is a way of being in the world." [ 5 ] At the 50th Anniversary “Salute to Peace Corps Giants,” hosted by the National Archives , Moyers said, "The years we spent at the Peace Corps were the best years of our lives.” [ 6 ] Moyers gave the same answer in the famed Vanity Fair ...