I once saw an interview where he said the reason he was giving the different time zones was because he was trying hard not to break down crying. I give him creds for such composure. Rest in peace, Mr. Cronkite.
See, on September 11th, nobody showed that much emotion. This generation is just totally devoid of empathy. It was like "many dead. Shocking scenes there in New York." Nobody cried. Nobody panicked. The news just HAD to keep up its image, even when the worst was happening.
@hotelmario510 Don't start 'this generation' BS. There's tons of footage of people of all ages in the streets on 9-11 screaming, crying, praying, and yes panicking - which is what reporters, by doing their jobs and staying as cool as possible, are trying to keep from happening. In those days as today reporters were supposed to be impartial, almost like judges. Walter's brief 'breakdown' was very unusual. It can't (& shouldn't) all be like Morrison reporting on the Hindenburg.
@hotelmario510 "This generation is just totally devoid of empathy."
probably because they're concerned with their own lives, rather than some televised fairytale. if you really cried about the death of some person you never even knew there's something wrong with you.
@uprooting I'm sorry, but are you really that much of a fool? JFK wasn't just a person...he was a symbol of hope for people who were being shit on, a beacon of light during a really dark time in our history. You may be so disconnected and/or ignorant that it feels like a fairytale to you, but this was a REAL, devastating event. It was like one step forward and two steps backward for racial tensions and human equality.
It is a big deal. It's a big deal because a coup was executed at high noon (12:30pm) in broad daylight by men occupying the highest positions in the federal government. CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and the vice presidency.
We still don't understand why they wanted Kennedy killed. Could have been the military industrial complex or the bankers or both. JFK, LBJ, and Nixon were all in Dallas on that day. George H. W. Bush was reportedly there. Gerald Ford cooperated in the fictional WCR.
CBS news trustworthy and impartial from then to now... now in the degenerate media jungle of FOX news and Msnbc. Cronkite is genuinely moved by JFK's murder.
In solidarity with the American people -- & all people -- I call on the current president, his surviving predecessors, Congress, and all U.S. & intl. media; on all who spoke/wrote yesterday to honor President Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his inauguration: to speak/write now to honor & examine, for the benefit of the American people -- & all people -- his Executive Order 11110 & its fate. President Kennedy stood up for all of you. Now who of you will stand up for President Kennedy? Who?????
RIP President Kennedy...if it wasn't for him, we would have been dead from ww3, he handled the cuban missile crisis...he was young yes...but he cared and he tried..that is all I ask for. And to die the way he did is just plan horrific and that fate should never be wished upon anyone.
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Walter Cronkite was a Rabid dog Traitor who sold out Am Republic for his personal fame and fortune. This dirty dog worked for those who instigated WW1,WW2, Vietnam, Lincilon&Kennedy assassination yet he made speeches that he was for a World Govern to prevent these. The SOB was dumb, and confused but a ready mouth piece for World Govern cause the Banker-zion controlled media paid him well. I know he was anti-GOD,anti-Christ, cause the Bible tells that a One World Gov. is terrible,tragedy for all.
All these people making fun of Kennedy being shot. I hope you get shot. America would be alot better than it is now if Kennedy was never killed. He was going to do great things. So to all you little ignorant and arogant shits out there your mom should have swallowed. Have a nice day.
@BSacchetti13 It's a shame that he died sure, but name 5 of his achievements as president besides banging Marilyn Monroe and being high on amphetamines almost all of the time.
@thenutintheushanka18 a. A steady series of actions and interventions by Justice Department in Prince Edward County, Virginia; Louisiana; Alabama to end segregation.
b. Beginning September 1963 segregated schools would not be suitable for Federal installation children under impacted area program.
c. Summer and Academic Year institutions under NDEA and National Science Foundation and no longer held in colleges which refuse to accept students without regard to race.
a. A steady series of actions and interventions by Justice Department in Prince Edward County, Virginia; Louisiana; Alabama to end segregation.
b. Beginning September 1963 segregated schools would not be suitable for Federal installation children under impacted area program.
c. Summer and Academic Year institutions under NDEA and National Science Foundation and no longer held in colleges which refuse to accept students without regard to race.
Desegregation in numerous school districts achieved through persuasion and informal assistance from Federal officials. Civil defense training for military and civilian personnel required on non-segregated bases similar policy on off base training.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF HIS CIVIL RIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. iN A MOMENT I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT SOME OF HIS OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OTHER AREAS.
@BSacchetti13 that true some stupid americans or others stupid ppl what are not americans make fun from it cuz there are like 10 years old and they think is funny
the same was with polish president lech kaczynski and ppl generals and so on from plane crash i hate lech kaczynski but it was sad
@BSacchetti13 Kennedy was "An inside job"! He did not want to go to war in Vietnam, that's the reason why J.F.K. was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was extremely intelligent for a President who cared more about the people of the United States rather than to fool with the Politics of being a President. He was already at war with Castro in Cuba. Why would he want to send troops to their own Deathbeds in Vietnam?
@Jiltedin2007 is true, Kennedy would not go to war in Vietnam ... but look what happened after: LBJ and RMN embraced the Vietnam war by sending hundreds of thousands of troops, and many of them came home in bags ...
@Jiltedin2007 is true, Kennedy would not go to war in Vietnam ... but look what happened after: LBJ and RMN embraced the Vietnam war by sending hundreds of thousands of troops, and many of them came home in bags ...
@viclariosf EXACTLY! And when Richard Nixon became President in 1968, slowly but surely, he was pulling troops out of Vietnam, the same way that Obama is now slowly pulling troops Iran and Afghanistan. Why we lost in Vietnam was because we were actually fighting two nations who were bigger than us(USSR and China), it was not just the Vietnamese that we were fighting. But Johnson didn't care. If it was legal, as John Wayne would put it "What I'd do to your grave wouldn't pass for Flowers".
@BSacchetti13 I fully share your view, anyone who makes fun of Kennedy's death, does not know the magnitude of the tragedy that today we live in the world due to the murder of that great man who could change the fate of not only U.S., but many countries especially in Latin America
Which is what makes me sad cus after Michael Jackson passed away the media continue to sensationalize his death and treat speculation, rumors and gossip as "facts".
thankyou for posting this , it brings back so many memories from that horrible day, who ever masterminded this horrible murder , may you rot in hell, and to you president kennedy, god rest your soul.
my grandma always tells me stories about JFK. man what a great president <3 she said she cried ALOT. and so did all her friends. & they called her. wow i cant imagine being alive when this happened.
PLEASE DONT READ THIS!! you will die in seven days if you dont post this comment on 10 videos in the next hour. if you do tomarrow will be the best day of your life
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Just remember Dr. Humes, who performed the autopsy on Kennedy, BURNED HIS ORIGINAL AUTOPSY NOTES SHOWING THAT THE BULLET ENTERED THE THIRD VERTEBRA IN THE BACK, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE TOO LOW TO EXIT THE THROAT. Once Oswald was conveniently eliminated, he then burned those original notes and was instructed to change the direction of the bullet. Simpy put, conspiracy you morons.
I was 11 years old at the time, I remember the event well, it all seemed rather surreal at the time watching the nonstop TV coverage over the next few days.
thank you for uploading this - I was born in 1967 and have never seen a lot of this original footage of the announcements and reactions at the time of President Kennedy's assassination.
I was in the 5th grade. I got to leave class at 2:45pm to get to my safety patrol post by 3:00pm when school let out. As I was coming down the main staircase to the school lobby a kid came through the front doors yelling "somebody shot the president". I didn't believe him and went to my post. When I was off duty I walked over to my friend Bobby's house. His mom was supposed to drive us to our bowling league at 4pm. She was understandably glued to the TV set. (cont)
I got into the news big time that weekend. Stayed up late Friday and watched all day Saturday and again on Sunday morning. I saw Oswald get shot live as it actually happened. Blew my little 10 year-old mind. Went running out to the living room to tell my dad. He thought I was pulling his leg. Then I turned on the TV out there and we watched it together.
To this day that was the most surreal weekend I've ever experienced. 9/11 was big, no doubt. But Dallas was a whole lot bigger
CBS television was founded by William Paley who was a specialist in pyschological warfare for the military.The CIA controls most media & newspapers with "Operation Mockingbird".Have you noticed that every show or report is always to convince you the Oswald acted alone?
you make a good point but more than likely i would say he already was dead the second the bullet hit him. The doctors just went the extra mile in hoping for a miracle more than likely due to who the patient was. Had this been the average joe with a gunshot wound like that they probably would have pronounced him dead at the scene and called for the coroner to take him straight to the morgue with no trip to a hospital.
The soap opera "As the World Turns" was on. My mom was feeding my older brother, then age 17 months, while watching the soap when the news bulletins began. (I wasn't born until 1965.) They were living in a small Bronx apartment and my mom was watching on an old B & W Zenith TV. Soon all the tenants were gathering in the hallways and in apartments where people had TV's (not everyone did in 1963).
My mother and father told about their stories. My father was in high school in CA and he said that the teachers just said go home and my mother's story was similar only that she was in Minnesota and she was in middle school. Needless to say there was no school the next week.
the CIA mkultra programme could easily have provided the neccesary protagonists here.They must have been scared for some reason of Kennedy.For anyone still in the dark,put your flag down and watch the "manchurian candidate"
if anyone accused the spooks of this murder they would probably be "unamerican" and arrested by those lovely homeland security people(didn't the nazis have a dept of homeland security)but luckily this film CAN say the things that need to be said.
you got most of this right on... scared of him cause he wanted to end the VN war for one thing, too many people were making too much money from it to want it to stop... he had many many enemies... the FBI was shit scared of him and Bobby... it goes on and on
I appreciate your concurring with my last two posts. I am sure most are so tired of the characters and the network and cable channels
who produce the rubbish they all do. Left or Right we want news and information. I trust the broadcast journalists of today as much as I trust our politicians on both sides. It is the hard right and the hard left in our government, fertilized by our partisan news carriers who have pulled the tapestry of this once great nation apart. It will change in time.
Today we have trash talking journalists who are lowering the bar by the minute. Incompetent, irreverent, self absorbed, over paid (5-10 million annually), destructive, bloviating blow hards.
God bless you. You nailed it on the head perfectly... better than I have heard in quite a while. You even managed some alliteration! Instead of "nattering nabobs of negativity" you got fashioned "bloviating blowhards!" I love it.
Katie Couric, Kieth Olberman, Bill O'Reilly,Chris Mathews, Charlie Gibson, collectively could not come up to the knee of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Eric Sevaried, John Chancellor or "any" of the olde guard. This second group here mentioned were real journalists. They did their job and "delivered" the news unlike today's group who decide the news and how it is to be interpreted. I'm not sure who is worse ...todays politicians or the so-called journalists of our day. Thank you & good luck.
In the video response I submitted, pay particular attention to two men standing behing two Dallas Police Officers ( 1 minute 31 seconds) one of the men is Phil Ochs legendary folk singer who was sent to Dallas as an observer. He was later found dead of an apparent hanging suicide. I wonder.....
These few minutes on camera has got to be one of the most famous pieces of film ever captured. Walter Cronkite has become almost iconic as he saw it all--- JFK Assassination, Civil Rights Era, Moon Landing, Vietnam. He is a fine man and a damn good news broadcast journalist.
I'll understand if people don't agree with me on this, but I think the US used to be less desensitized to the world than they are now. Kennedy was mourned throughout the whole country, whereas 9/11 had some lukewarm reactions.
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tell us how to feel walter! I loved how this lib said he misses helping to set the agenda? you heard right? my question is what agenda, who's agenda!!!!
As a first grader in SW Florida, my experience of this was somewhat different than most of you. Most of the adults around me were glad that the "SOB" was dead. My clearest memories of that time center around being ticked off because the news coverage took over almost all of TV airtime and my regular programs and cartoons were cancelled for several days. Maybe it was not as innocent a time as some would have you believe.
I know what you mean. It's different for us who were born after the assassination. I was startled to find that when the March on Washington was televised live on Wednesday August 28, 1963, CBS was beseiged by angry viewers when the coverage of actual HISTORY pre-empted the afternoon line-up of their precious game shows "Password," "To Tell the Truth" and the soap opera "The Secret Storm."
Those women took their soap operas seriously back then. I wouldn't think that this happens much anymore, but there are documented cases of crazy old ladies who wrote letters to the shows, warning the "good" characters about what the evil ones were plotting against them. Actually, I was one of the people who got pissed off about TV shows being cancelled for news coverage, but hey, I was only 7 at the time.
Let's face it, those old bats probably didn't go past the sixth grade in school, so their perceptions of fact and fiction were rather murky at best. People today generally have more education now; they know that the stuff they see on All My Children and One Life to Live is pure fiction. Besides, technology has made soap operas accessible 24/7 (DVDs, program delayed software on cable/satellite converters, etc.) - and about as many men watch these things as women now.
LOL - "The March on Washington". If that interrupted my viewing I'd by pissed too.
You were born later so therefore you hold anything regarding "Black history" with some sort of reverence, which is ridiculous. Only if you're Black could I see that being important.
Walter cronkite delivers the tragic news to the nation...so emotional...tears well up in my eyes i can see he is sad too....but must deliver this awful news...must have been so difficult...
The "bulletin" slide was initially flashed at 1:40pm(et), interrupting "AS THE WORLD TURNS"- no cameras in the CBS newsroom were "warmed up" as yet for Cronkite to be shown; he delivered the first bulletins before 2pm as "voice-overs" until the camera was ready; during continuous coverage, it was 2:38pm(et) when he announced that President Kennedy had died...
My grandma called my mom to tell her what she heard end when my mom heard J.F.K was dead she dropped the phone!!
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songbirdband 3 months ago
Cronkite taking off his glasses and avoiding eye contact with the camera is pretty much an on air break-down for the man.
One of the Country's best anchors grieving the loss of one of its best leaders, tragic poetry.
AColonDashSix 4 months ago
You people should be thanking Kennedy for the cuban missile crisis. If it wasn't for him, we would probably all be speaking Russian.
fifaplayer10 5 months ago
I once saw an interview where he said the reason he was giving the different time zones was because he was trying hard not to break down crying. I give him creds for such composure. Rest in peace, Mr. Cronkite.
HenryvKeiper 6 months ago
so sad, he almost starts crying at 0:16 , but he swallows it and keeps his cool
bethXcooper 7 months ago
See, on September 11th, nobody showed that much emotion. This generation is just totally devoid of empathy. It was like "many dead. Shocking scenes there in New York." Nobody cried. Nobody panicked. The news just HAD to keep up its image, even when the worst was happening.
hotelmario510 7 months ago
@hotelmario510 Don't start 'this generation' BS. There's tons of footage of people of all ages in the streets on 9-11 screaming, crying, praying, and yes panicking - which is what reporters, by doing their jobs and staying as cool as possible, are trying to keep from happening. In those days as today reporters were supposed to be impartial, almost like judges. Walter's brief 'breakdown' was very unusual. It can't (& shouldn't) all be like Morrison reporting on the Hindenburg.
ksol1460tv 7 months ago
@hotelmario510 "This generation is just totally devoid of empathy."
probably because they're concerned with their own lives, rather than some televised fairytale. if you really cried about the death of some person you never even knew there's something wrong with you.
uprooting 7 months ago
@uprooting I'm sorry, but are you really that much of a fool? JFK wasn't just a person...he was a symbol of hope for people who were being shit on, a beacon of light during a really dark time in our history. You may be so disconnected and/or ignorant that it feels like a fairytale to you, but this was a REAL, devastating event. It was like one step forward and two steps backward for racial tensions and human equality.
LydiaTangos 7 months ago
@LydiaTangos right, they cried the same way about Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Charlie Sheen, etc.. its all a national tragedy
and you just know you're so connected because you care about dead icons, who by their very definition have already been immortalized
I'm not trying to shit on JFK.. I'm just saying its not such a big deal
uprooting 7 months ago
@uprooting
It is a big deal. It's a big deal because a coup was executed at high noon (12:30pm) in broad daylight by men occupying the highest positions in the federal government. CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and the vice presidency.
We still don't understand why they wanted Kennedy killed. Could have been the military industrial complex or the bankers or both. JFK, LBJ, and Nixon were all in Dallas on that day. George H. W. Bush was reportedly there. Gerald Ford cooperated in the fictional WCR.
LiquorWreckedEmGood 6 months ago
CBS news trustworthy and impartial from then to now... now in the degenerate media jungle of FOX news and Msnbc. Cronkite is genuinely moved by JFK's murder.
MetrazolElectricity 8 months ago
What pain and sadness Walter Cronkite must have felt when he made this announcement.
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In solidarity with the American people -- & all people -- I call on the current president, his surviving predecessors, Congress, and all U.S. & intl. media; on all who spoke/wrote yesterday to honor President Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his inauguration: to speak/write now to honor & examine, for the benefit of the American people -- & all people -- his Executive Order 11110 & its fate. President Kennedy stood up for all of you. Now who of you will stand up for President Kennedy? Who?????
20jan1961 1 year ago
RIP President Kennedy...if it wasn't for him, we would have been dead from ww3, he handled the cuban missile crisis...he was young yes...but he cared and he tried..that is all I ask for. And to die the way he did is just plan horrific and that fate should never be wished upon anyone.
kaitlynskorner11 1 year ago
WALTER CRONKITE WAS THE MAN
hanl9889 1 year ago
I'm English so i can't really empathise with losing a great leader. In my life time we've had no real amazing prime ministers... R.I.P JFK.
MilkyyGFx 1 year ago
Here's what the wounding on the right/rear of the head looked like as the limo sped out of Dealey Plaza....
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Here from two Dealey Plaza films is the moment the wounding on the right rear of the head occurred...
youtube.com/watch?v=igMVdcT3FCo
Here's how the doctors/nurses at Parkland hospital were physically in a position at his head to observe that right/rear wounding
youtube.com/watch?v=0Qc4fhaBoxI
mimusremedium 1 year ago
I find it hard to believe 6 anti vietnam public figures were all killed by lone gun men is 5 years
harj2009 1 year ago
even though im not american, i still know JFK was one one of the best leaders America ever had, shame he had to die in such a messed up way. RIP JFK.
macks2u 1 year ago
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Walter Cronkite was a Rabid dog Traitor who sold out Am Republic for his personal fame and fortune. This dirty dog worked for those who instigated WW1,WW2, Vietnam, Lincilon&Kennedy assassination yet he made speeches that he was for a World Govern to prevent these. The SOB was dumb, and confused but a ready mouth piece for World Govern cause the Banker-zion controlled media paid him well. I know he was anti-GOD,anti-Christ, cause the Bible tells that a One World Gov. is terrible,tragedy for all.
exposetruthwolf 1 year ago
@exposetruthwolf get a fukin life
bansheewhiskey 1 year ago
@exposetruthwolf LOL U MAD
thewhiteniinja 1 year ago
This was such a sad day. I was 18 at the time and will never forget the terribleness of it all. Jackie was so brave. The entire nation mourned.
TheMartinick 1 year ago
Kennedy did not die but he died right
oldest1man 1 year ago
@oldest1man can you teach me some of your logical reasoning. I am intrigued to learn more of this excellent philosophy
MICHAEL1110367 1 year ago
In the assassination video, his brains fall on to his knees. Was there anyone who even thought he was alive?
ldjmcc 1 year ago
Oswald was a yellow-belly Red Commie traitor and Ruby was a dirty mob hitman.
The other conspirators involved were even more evil-KGB, Mafia, Cubans, CIA , FBI double-crossing agents, etc.-bastards
busterbone 2 years ago 2
@busterbone Exactly. Because who were two better of friends in the 1960's than the CIA and the KGB?
thenutintheushanka18 1 year ago
i always hated this because it was my dad's birthday when kennedy died. Very sad.
LoveNeden 2 years ago 3
he died the day my dad was born too
nathanrs10 2 years ago 2
he was assasinated on my birthday to
theTF2sniper 1 year ago
RIP Walt. One of the very few but important heroes of the 1960's who saved untold numbers of lives.
LLORT3 2 years ago 2
Google "Many Small Fission Nukes at the WTC"
WTCnucleardemolition 2 years ago
great quality
supergamer73 2 years ago
what did he say at the very begining. cbs newsflash?
ibagazelub 2 years ago
this is truly a tragic event in US history. R.I.P JFK and Walter Cronkite
HistoryBoy23 2 years ago 18
"now here you have your Walter Cronkite moon ring." -Planes, Trains and Automobiles
JonMoucheron17 2 years ago 2
Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather (Think that is how you spell it...) are my favorite newspeople.
RIP
TehBirdzNBeez 2 years ago 2
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Cronkite... MSM liar and fascist commie apologist.
see you in hell
finefilth 2 years ago
R.I.P. Walter
Sirena860 2 years ago 5
All these people making fun of Kennedy being shot. I hope you get shot. America would be alot better than it is now if Kennedy was never killed. He was going to do great things. So to all you little ignorant and arogant shits out there your mom should have swallowed. Have a nice day.
BSacchetti13 2 years ago 46
@BSacchetti13 It's a shame that he died sure, but name 5 of his achievements as president besides banging Marilyn Monroe and being high on amphetamines almost all of the time.
thenutintheushanka18 1 year ago
@thenutintheushanka18 a. A steady series of actions and interventions by Justice Department in Prince Edward County, Virginia; Louisiana; Alabama to end segregation.
b. Beginning September 1963 segregated schools would not be suitable for Federal installation children under impacted area program.
c. Summer and Academic Year institutions under NDEA and National Science Foundation and no longer held in colleges which refuse to accept students without regard to race.
michaelbme 1 year ago
@thenutintheushanka18
a. A steady series of actions and interventions by Justice Department in Prince Edward County, Virginia; Louisiana; Alabama to end segregation.
b. Beginning September 1963 segregated schools would not be suitable for Federal installation children under impacted area program.
c. Summer and Academic Year institutions under NDEA and National Science Foundation and no longer held in colleges which refuse to accept students without regard to race.
michaelbme 1 year ago
@thenutintheushanka18
Desegregation in numerous school districts achieved through persuasion and informal assistance from Federal officials. Civil defense training for military and civilian personnel required on non-segregated bases similar policy on off base training.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF HIS CIVIL RIGHT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. iN A MOMENT I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT SOME OF HIS OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OTHER AREAS.
michaelbme 1 year ago
@thenutintheushanka18
Also, he founded the Peace Corps. He also kept USSR nukes out of Cuba.
michaelbme 1 year ago
@BSacchetti13 youre right
bansheewhiskey 1 year ago
@BSacchetti13 that true some stupid americans or others stupid ppl what are not americans make fun from it cuz there are like 10 years old and they think is funny
the same was with polish president lech kaczynski and ppl generals and so on from plane crash i hate lech kaczynski but it was sad
[*] to jfk and those important ppl what die.
burzak111 1 year ago
@BSacchetti13 hmm, bit of a camelot school supporter i see?
tupacsomething69 9 months ago
@BSacchetti13 Kennedy was "An inside job"! He did not want to go to war in Vietnam, that's the reason why J.F.K. was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was extremely intelligent for a President who cared more about the people of the United States rather than to fool with the Politics of being a President. He was already at war with Castro in Cuba. Why would he want to send troops to their own Deathbeds in Vietnam?
Jiltedin2007 7 months ago
@Jiltedin2007 is true, Kennedy would not go to war in Vietnam ... but look what happened after: LBJ and RMN embraced the Vietnam war by sending hundreds of thousands of troops, and many of them came home in bags ...
viclariosf 6 months ago
@Jiltedin2007 is true, Kennedy would not go to war in Vietnam ... but look what happened after: LBJ and RMN embraced the Vietnam war by sending hundreds of thousands of troops, and many of them came home in bags ...
viclariosf 6 months ago
@viclariosf EXACTLY! And when Richard Nixon became President in 1968, slowly but surely, he was pulling troops out of Vietnam, the same way that Obama is now slowly pulling troops Iran and Afghanistan. Why we lost in Vietnam was because we were actually fighting two nations who were bigger than us(USSR and China), it was not just the Vietnamese that we were fighting. But Johnson didn't care. If it was legal, as John Wayne would put it "What I'd do to your grave wouldn't pass for Flowers".
Jiltedin2007 6 months ago
@BSacchetti13 How would swallowing have helped?
metathus 6 months ago
@BSacchetti13 I fully share your view, anyone who makes fun of Kennedy's death, does not know the magnitude of the tragedy that today we live in the world due to the murder of that great man who could change the fate of not only U.S., but many countries especially in Latin America
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ankithvyas 5 months ago
Agreed bro, it's a misfortune of America that Bobby and Jack got shot, or that Abe got shot, but then people like Dubaya got 2 full terms.
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Goodbye and good riddance, Communist Cronkite!
SuperDroogie187 2 years ago
R.I.P. Walter
KassianGunsch 2 years ago
Requiescat in pace, Walter Cronkite.
ryojikun 2 years ago
He told the truth - even when it hurt. He also did not believe in character assassination. We need -desperately- more like him in broadcasting today.
Those of us who grew up with him miss him so much!
rcadog3310 2 years ago 6
Which is what makes me sad cus after Michael Jackson passed away the media continue to sensationalize his death and treat speculation, rumors and gossip as "facts".
JayDG6385 2 years ago 3
An American with greater intelligence, greater integrity and pure honesty never walked God's green earth.
Walter Cronkite was a voice of reason and truth.
His loss will never be truly measured.
God bless this great man's soul.
Arkady63 2 years ago 6
To Mr. Cronkite, RIP....
ltoledo23 2 years ago
RIP
jake94 2 years ago
Thank you for being the most trusted man in America. Wow! Those were the days!
kimberle1129 2 years ago 4
Thank you for your service...
quentinst 2 years ago 3
And that's the way it was, Friday July 17th 2009.
RIP Mr. Cronkite.
jj201 2 years ago
RIP Walter Cronkite
sdcazares1980 2 years ago
R.I.P walter you were a true pioneer and your influence will live on forever
mrdansoko 2 years ago
Mr. Cronkite you were a true broadcasting icon. R.I.P.
thenewhorizons 2 years ago
RIP Mr. Cronkite - You were the best!
fallingfaceup 2 years ago
R.I.P walter cronkite
jacklental 2 years ago
R.I.P. Walter Cronkite, the best in broadcasting, hands down
tidesox28 2 years ago 6
thanks alot texas
kills jfk and gives us two bushes
sealhunta 2 years ago 9
thankyou for posting this , it brings back so many memories from that horrible day, who ever masterminded this horrible murder , may you rot in hell, and to you president kennedy, god rest your soul.
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lmfao that bitch got shot
tloc666 3 years ago
What a sad day that was.
I remember the funeral.
JFK was a man for the people.
We need leaders like him today.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 3 years ago 29
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He was a suspect of Marilyn Monroe's, which was pretty obvious not a suicide. Enough for me
xxwhoelse 1 year ago
my grandma always tells me stories about JFK. man what a great president <3 she said she cried ALOT. and so did all her friends. & they called her. wow i cant imagine being alive when this happened.
xoJoceox 3 years ago 9
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VkyleV 3 years ago
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less than one year later after Marilyn Monroe....HHHHMMMM. What are the odds of that.
mmcglone1 3 years ago
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Just remember Dr. Humes, who performed the autopsy on Kennedy, BURNED HIS ORIGINAL AUTOPSY NOTES SHOWING THAT THE BULLET ENTERED THE THIRD VERTEBRA IN THE BACK, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WOULD BE TOO LOW TO EXIT THE THROAT. Once Oswald was conveniently eliminated, he then burned those original notes and was instructed to change the direction of the bullet. Simpy put, conspiracy you morons.
ElevenMileRecords 3 years ago
shut the fuck up noone cares about you're dick fondling conspiracies. this video was probably made to salute him not post nutbar conspiracy shit
kitkatpoopoo 2 years ago 3
I was 11 years old at the time, I remember the event well, it all seemed rather surreal at the time watching the nonstop TV coverage over the next few days.
JSTONE9352 3 years ago 4
Man, if I lived in the era of the 1960s, I would've cried for a month to hear the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy.
JeremyForest 3 years ago 10
thank you for uploading this - I was born in 1967 and have never seen a lot of this original footage of the announcements and reactions at the time of President Kennedy's assassination.
katesatriani 3 years ago 9
No problem ;)
adarsharon1 3 years ago
@adarsharon1 I was only 2 years old when this was going on
Chicago10281 1 year ago
same year as my dad lol
MrDesiballer 1 year ago
@katesatriani
I was in the 5th grade. I got to leave class at 2:45pm to get to my safety patrol post by 3:00pm when school let out. As I was coming down the main staircase to the school lobby a kid came through the front doors yelling "somebody shot the president". I didn't believe him and went to my post. When I was off duty I walked over to my friend Bobby's house. His mom was supposed to drive us to our bowling league at 4pm. She was understandably glued to the TV set. (cont)
LiquorWreckedEmGood 6 months ago
@katesatriani
I got into the news big time that weekend. Stayed up late Friday and watched all day Saturday and again on Sunday morning. I saw Oswald get shot live as it actually happened. Blew my little 10 year-old mind. Went running out to the living room to tell my dad. He thought I was pulling his leg. Then I turned on the TV out there and we watched it together.
To this day that was the most surreal weekend I've ever experienced. 9/11 was big, no doubt. But Dallas was a whole lot bigger
LiquorWreckedEmGood 6 months ago
CBS television was founded by William Paley who was a specialist in pyschological warfare for the military.The CIA controls most media & newspapers with "Operation Mockingbird".Have you noticed that every show or report is always to convince you the Oswald acted alone?
themeaningoflife38 3 years ago
Very good point you made there.
siobelaup 3 years ago
Not to be ghoulish or anything, but I'm SHOCKED Kennedy lived for a half hour after sustaining a wound like that.
I didn't think you could lose that much... Brain without dying instantly.
UdallIn72 3 years ago
Udallln,
you make a good point but more than likely i would say he already was dead the second the bullet hit him. The doctors just went the extra mile in hoping for a miracle more than likely due to who the patient was. Had this been the average joe with a gunshot wound like that they probably would have pronounced him dead at the scene and called for the coroner to take him straight to the morgue with no trip to a hospital.
ZX2ManDave 3 years ago
My mom always told me about this day.
The soap opera "As the World Turns" was on. My mom was feeding my older brother, then age 17 months, while watching the soap when the news bulletins began. (I wasn't born until 1965.) They were living in a small Bronx apartment and my mom was watching on an old B & W Zenith TV. Soon all the tenants were gathering in the hallways and in apartments where people had TV's (not everyone did in 1963).
paktype 3 years ago
My mother and father told about their stories. My father was in high school in CA and he said that the teachers just said go home and my mother's story was similar only that she was in Minnesota and she was in middle school. Needless to say there was no school the next week.
-response to paktype
statboy08 3 years ago
Ironic that the soap was called "As the World Turns" am I right?
stevestoner13 3 years ago
What show was this in the middle of when the news broke? Thank You.
roosevelthighschool 3 years ago
the CIA mkultra programme could easily have provided the neccesary protagonists here.They must have been scared for some reason of Kennedy.For anyone still in the dark,put your flag down and watch the "manchurian candidate"
if anyone accused the spooks of this murder they would probably be "unamerican" and arrested by those lovely homeland security people(didn't the nazis have a dept of homeland security)but luckily this film CAN say the things that need to be said.
burkenecro 3 years ago
you got most of this right on... scared of him cause he wanted to end the VN war for one thing, too many people were making too much money from it to want it to stop... he had many many enemies... the FBI was shit scared of him and Bobby... it goes on and on
esxp 3 years ago
Love the feedback sound at the beginning!
eartant 3 years ago
Edward Murrow is really good too, love them both.
QuestionstheQ 3 years ago
I appreciate your concurring with my last two posts. I am sure most are so tired of the characters and the network and cable channels
who produce the rubbish they all do. Left or Right we want news and information. I trust the broadcast journalists of today as much as I trust our politicians on both sides. It is the hard right and the hard left in our government, fertilized by our partisan news carriers who have pulled the tapestry of this once great nation apart. It will change in time.
LordofDublin4 3 years ago
Butt-plugs like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity dont even have enough spine to suck on Cronkite's left testicle.......Walter was true class.
Hunkola 3 years ago
That is the TRUTH!
kcg5000 3 years ago
Today we have trash talking journalists who are lowering the bar by the minute. Incompetent, irreverent, self absorbed, over paid (5-10 million annually), destructive, bloviating blow hards.
LordofDublin4 3 years ago 8
God bless you. You nailed it on the head perfectly... better than I have heard in quite a while. You even managed some alliteration! Instead of "nattering nabobs of negativity" you got fashioned "bloviating blowhards!" I love it.
facetime4me 3 years ago
Katie Couric, Kieth Olberman, Bill O'Reilly,Chris Mathews, Charlie Gibson, collectively could not come up to the knee of Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Eric Sevaried, John Chancellor or "any" of the olde guard. This second group here mentioned were real journalists. They did their job and "delivered" the news unlike today's group who decide the news and how it is to be interpreted. I'm not sure who is worse ...todays politicians or the so-called journalists of our day. Thank you & good luck.
LordofDublin4 3 years ago 2
In the video response I submitted, pay particular attention to two men standing behing two Dallas Police Officers ( 1 minute 31 seconds) one of the men is Phil Ochs legendary folk singer who was sent to Dallas as an observer. He was later found dead of an apparent hanging suicide. I wonder.....
sindoniproductions 3 years ago
These few minutes on camera has got to be one of the most famous pieces of film ever captured. Walter Cronkite has become almost iconic as he saw it all--- JFK Assassination, Civil Rights Era, Moon Landing, Vietnam. He is a fine man and a damn good news broadcast journalist.
YogaNate79 3 years ago 11
...and he's the voice introducing us to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
rd2mms 3 years ago
This is George W. Bushes fault....elect Barak Obama and this will never happen again!!
MachineKing1313 3 years ago
although i'm for obama.
everyone here must agree that that was a stupid comment.
dowhat93 3 years ago
You are not a true Obama believer then, you in your heart, support Bush. Conversation over!
MachineKing1313 3 years ago
I'll understand if people don't agree with me on this, but I think the US used to be less desensitized to the world than they are now. Kennedy was mourned throughout the whole country, whereas 9/11 had some lukewarm reactions.
youvebeenthunderstru 3 years ago
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tell us how to feel walter! I loved how this lib said he misses helping to set the agenda? you heard right? my question is what agenda, who's agenda!!!!
mikemoair 3 years ago
Think of Katie Couric delivering that message....just wouldnt be the same, if she looked on the verge of tears we'd tell her to relax cunt.....lol
GeorgesRushStPierre 3 years ago
Poor Walter...
burnsybaby1987 3 years ago
As a first grader in SW Florida, my experience of this was somewhat different than most of you. Most of the adults around me were glad that the "SOB" was dead. My clearest memories of that time center around being ticked off because the news coverage took over almost all of TV airtime and my regular programs and cartoons were cancelled for several days. Maybe it was not as innocent a time as some would have you believe.
tech2rescue 3 years ago
Sw florida..trailer in the sand..eh?
mfp508 3 years ago
No, Jim Walter house in the boondocks. Is that close? :-)
rippedwrangler 3 years ago
I know what you mean. It's different for us who were born after the assassination. I was startled to find that when the March on Washington was televised live on Wednesday August 28, 1963, CBS was beseiged by angry viewers when the coverage of actual HISTORY pre-empted the afternoon line-up of their precious game shows "Password," "To Tell the Truth" and the soap opera "The Secret Storm."
32Mark109 3 years ago
Those women took their soap operas seriously back then. I wouldn't think that this happens much anymore, but there are documented cases of crazy old ladies who wrote letters to the shows, warning the "good" characters about what the evil ones were plotting against them. Actually, I was one of the people who got pissed off about TV shows being cancelled for news coverage, but hey, I was only 7 at the time.
rippedwrangler 3 years ago
Let's face it, those old bats probably didn't go past the sixth grade in school, so their perceptions of fact and fiction were rather murky at best. People today generally have more education now; they know that the stuff they see on All My Children and One Life to Live is pure fiction. Besides, technology has made soap operas accessible 24/7 (DVDs, program delayed software on cable/satellite converters, etc.) - and about as many men watch these things as women now.
markojameow 2 years ago
LOL - "The March on Washington". If that interrupted my viewing I'd by pissed too.
You were born later so therefore you hold anything regarding "Black history" with some sort of reverence, which is ridiculous. Only if you're Black could I see that being important.
sudaev 3 years ago
@sudaev Are you serious? The March on Washington was only important for black people? With all those whites in attendance???
Their TV shows needed to have been interrupted. They were back on the next day anyway, so big deal.
snoops71 8 months ago
CURSE YOU, LEE HARVEY OSWALD
SSJ3Sandslash 3 years ago 4
Walter delivers this message with such an emotional and sad way. I was not born at the time of JFK's death, but I get real sad when I see this.
evamas01 3 years ago 4
Walter cronkite delivers the tragic news to the nation...so emotional...tears well up in my eyes i can see he is sad too....but must deliver this awful news...must have been so difficult...
butterflycomb 3 years ago 4
The "bulletin" slide was initially flashed at 1:40pm(et), interrupting "AS THE WORLD TURNS"- no cameras in the CBS newsroom were "warmed up" as yet for Cronkite to be shown; he delivered the first bulletins before 2pm as "voice-overs" until the camera was ready; during continuous coverage, it was 2:38pm(et) when he announced that President Kennedy had died...
fromthesidelines 3 years ago 2
i was born 30 years later on the exact same date
shaun8235h 3 years ago