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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.
Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. [40] While Cronkite was reading this bulletin, a second one arrived, mentioning the severity of Kennedy's wounds:
CBS host Walter Cronkite broke the news on live television. [123] [124] The Secret Service was concerned about the possibility of a larger plot and urged Johnson to leave Dallas and return to the White House, but Johnson refused to do so without any proof of Kennedy's death.
When John F Kennedy became the fourth sitting US president to be assassinated, at the hands of a gunman, in Texas 60 years ago, the country was left stunned and heartbroken.. The handsome and ...
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 Star-Telegram’s evening edition, sent to presses before the news of the assassination, carried a banner headline about Kennedy’s chamber speech on a big military contract in Fort Worth.
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.
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.