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- This claim is false. We see that Cronkite never declared it a loss, and that his report was quite accurate. Further, we have objective data collected from Gallup polls that show the report did not turn the public against US involvement in Vietnam, as public opposition had steadily increased ever since troops had been deployed in 1965.
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Nor did he do so with a report from Washington, DC that came moments later, which said that government sources were now reporting the President was dead (this information was passed on to ABC as well, which took it as official confirmation and reported it as such; NBC did not report this information at all and chose instead to rely on reports ...
From the anchor chair of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, he reported on the most traumatic and triumphant moments of American life in the 1960s, from the assassination of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1963 to the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.
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Jul 18, 2009 · On February 27th, 1968 during a CBS News Special Report, Cronkite did something that changed America's perception of the Vietnam War. Mr. WALTER CRONKITE (Anchorman): I wrote a...
May 25, 2018 · CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite went to Vietnam to provide viewers with an assessment of the war’s progress. His one-hour special report aired on Feb. 27, 1968.
Cronkite visited Vietnam in July 1965, flew on a combat mission, and even expressed embarrassment about some skeptical, younger reporters who questioned the accuracy of official information about...
Jul 12, 2012 · Douglas Brinkley’s new biography of Walter Cronkite has sparked an intriguing controversy about the CBS anchorman’s famous trip to Vietnam in February 1968. That’s when, as legend has it ...
