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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.
Sixty years later, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will forever be “The Story” for the North Texas reporters who worked that fateful day in 1963.
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]
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 ...
Who killed John F. Kennedy? 60 years after the President's assassination on November 22, 1963, a botched investigation clouds our conclusions about the crime.
Eyewitness to History was a Friday night CBS Television Network public affairs program. It was initially hosted by veteran broadcaster Charles Kuralt (1960–61), followed by Walter Cronkite (1961–62), and then Charles Collingwood (1962–63).