If we could clone one news reporter, it would be good ole Walter Cronkite. I remember him vaguely as a small child...but he seemed a very comforting person....calm and stuff...like if we had him on 9/11, I think it would have been easier to handle the news of that tragedy. As it is, Dan Rather was a wonderful substitute of sorts....now we have loud mouth Nancy Grace and Jean Velez Mitchell, and Geraldo Rivera. Totally wish peter jennings and tom brokaw were around.
i was in grade school when he died was my birthday, we got the day out of school. my family has always been democrats, we however hated lbj and what he stood for,
LBJ was criminal on so many levels, war criminal, murderer, assassin conspritor, and I think he was even a thief with his dealings with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol est tese. I mean this guy and George Bush jr gotta be one, two as the worst Presidents in history.
He ordered the murders of us servicemen with the help of israel
youtube USS Liberty - these sailors are still seeking justice for being stabbed in the back by Johnson - they are still being ignored.
Lyndon B Johnson got the Israeli military to attack a US Naval vessel, to use it as a pretext to go to war with Egypt and blame it on them, it was a false flag
Johnson killed American Servicemen. Go research, it's all true.
I'm just curious, I'm sorry, I'm from 1987 and I know I'm behind the generations before of transitioning from Black & White TV to Color TV. This was 1973, why was this in black and white? thank you :-)
@candytotty Color TV was around in mid to early 50's but sets were expensive and it was not until the mid 60's before the general public started buying color sets, and it was not until the mid 70's that a color set became the norm in US households. Color programs at the time were special events and the news was a regular broadcast. It may seem strange, but think about how long High Def TV has been around (first analog HD in the US in 1981) and how it is not totally the standard in the US yet.
@candytotty it was still rare for people to have color tv's and for the news to be in color for some reason..i remember being 5 or 6 in 73 and watching the news in b&w...we still had a 19 inch black and white tv until 1982 or so..lol
@candytotty Color TV was still very much a luxury in 1973. Kind of like air-conditioning, even here in the south, was still a treat during that time. I remember we didn't get a color TV untl 1977 and our second TV was black-and-white.
I remember seeing this live when it happened. Understanding how the CBS Evening News operated in 1973, I knew that when the camera showed Walter Cronkite on the phone like this, it had to be something serious.
I am brave, sitting behind this 2007 slow ass running windows vista operating system computer. It took me a whole day just to post this frickin' comment!
@dualityofman999 You are hilarious..Funny as hell..Vista is shit. I had one..Now to a serious note..Medicaid and Civil rights pased under LBJ to the angst of republicans..
@sunshine45986 I don't have to learn my history. I already know it.I was a history major in college.In 1964, in the House, Democrats on the bill voted 152 yes-96 no.On the Republican side 138 yes-34 no.In the Senate the bill won passage 76-18..Through my careful and meticulous calculations neither political party in the majority was opposed. It was a bipartisan win for the bill. Now, I have a question for you. Who was the first president of the United States.You have 15 seconds.
@801liveable it was a vote on ideology and not party. consevatives opposed and liberals were for. in those days the two parties had differing ideologies and worked better than i think they do today. i blame the ultra conservatives for todays problems. they alienated the ROCKERFELLER republicans and pushed liberal, and even now are trying to push out moderates from their party...what a disservice to the american public. i do agree with you, too bad these illinformed new comers to politics dont.
@sunshine45986 Only Southern Democrats were opposed to the Civil Rights Act. And most of those old codgers became Republicans after segregation ended (if not in name, definitely in practice).
@SgtHydra I said MOST. A few of those southern dixiecrats grew up and realized they'd been wrong. Robert Byrd, George Wallace, and Howell Heflin were among them.
@GeorgiaKev Also, Robert Byrd did NOT support the KKK "until his death", he'd quit the Klan and denounced its intolerance DECADES BEFORE he passed away.
Your story is a crock of shit. Byrd would never have made a public appearance at a Klan meeting because if ANY media outlet found out about it, it would have been ALL over the news (let along the internet!). Liar.
Klansmen are a bunch of cowards who are afraid to show their faces at their rallies. Talk about NOT being proud of what you believe in!
Again, it's DEMOCRATIC Party, not "Democrat Party." Get that thru your white-coned head.
@SgtHydra First off, it's Democratic politicians, not "democrat" policitians. You can't use one noun to describe another noun.
School choice--nobody is saying you don't have the right to send your children to whichever accredited school you choose. but you cannot force taxpayers to cover the cost of the tuition of a private religious school. That is a blatant violation of the 1st Amdmt.
Urban schools--education funding (overall) is insufficient and needs to be increased.
@GeorgiaKev Yes, you do have the right to send your children wherever you want. The government does not have the right to bus them over to crowded "black districts" or "white districts."
And urban schools have been underfunded ever since the democrats started running them.
Interesting comments Feistv. This country has been the best friend England has for a long, long time. I'm glad you don't speak for the majority of your people. Your comments also show a great amount of ignorance about the US. I actually pity you and your uninformed mind. As for Socialism, it is causing the economic downfall of your once great nation. 20% sales tax? That sir, is a crime.
@GoMagic22 Indeed 20% sales tax is a crime - introduced by the right wing Conservative Party in the UK as a way of raising revenue from the poorest and not harming the richest.
@lozman67 Sales taxes are truly the fairest of all, even at unseemly rates of 20%. If you don't want to pay it, simply don't make purchases. Our food in the US isn't taxed, and I'll assume yours isn't either. If it is, then that is something I would disagree with. However, to say that rich should be gouged by a government that wastes their money is foolhardy at best. Rich people aren't inherently evil and shouldn't be reviled for their success.
@GoMagic22 Kindly go fuck yourself already. The rich are paying the lowest federal taxes historically thanks to the WAR CRIMINAL George W. Bush. Ron Paul lives in a fantasy world from 1776 & the GOP is dead.
@dualityofman999 Nice language. Your lack of civility is only exceeded by your lack of wisdom, and that's saying something. The GOP is dead? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That's rich. How about that's all I heard in '08, and by '10 Princess Nancy had been fired. We're a year away from restoring the White House with a capable leader. God I can't wait. If this is being dead...I'll take it.
@GoMagic22 What is the real motivation of your post? Tell us the truth boy, spit it out or we'll just assume you are another rascist. Go on now, the stage is all yours.
@dualityofman999 "We"???? You speak for all of Youtubeland now? What an egomaniac you are. And you think I care one bit what you think? Think what you will, it does not define me or matter to me in the least. Oh, and you talk real tough. You are such a brave one sitting behind your computer.
@harrymannjr10001 You're making a good point; the leadership of the Republican Party really doesn't want people who can offer Americans a real choice (and obviously, neither do the Democrats).
This is why I was for Herman Cain and, as you pointed out Rick Santorum (and Ron Paul, too).
While these men aren't the greatest, they DO represent some very real and basic change and at least they've come out of the Republican party and not the Democrats.
@harrymannjr10001 The question then, remains, will the people of the Republican party actually CHOOSE someone that represents REAL change; too often, it has been my experience, that when people are offered a REAL CHOICE they reject it.
@GoMagic22 Rich people ARE inherently evil, just as whacko enviornmentalists are; they rort the system for their own benefit; if you don't know this you're living a fantasy world.
My question is this. Why in 1973 was the news being broadcast in black and white? Color TV had been around at least a decade before this broadcast. Perhaps it was broadcast in color but recorded in black and white. It's interesting an interesting question to propose to say the least.
@clemsonbloke CBS News had long been broadcasting in color by 1973. (I think color broadcasts started around 1965-66.) This is, most likely, from the television news archive housed at Vanderbilt University (or some similar archive), all of which was recorded in black and white. It was commonplace for years for live network broadcasts to be recorded in black and white, even after the advent of color.
Yes it is. Also that day one of the major news stories was the Supreme Courts ruling in a case that is still debated today. That was the day that the Roe vs. Wade decision was announced.
The news may have seemed legit back then but it as just as phony as it is today. Cronkite sure fooled the hell out American's but the truth is now out. Cronkite was a Mason and a huge part of the New World Order. LBJ knew he was going to die because he had a big mouth. This whole story is a fraud. Cronkite was actually on the phone with LBJ when he was murdered by secret service. 1-22 a pagan sacrifice day. Same day Sam Cooke was killed. LBJ & Cronkite are probably burning in hell.
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This is pure fucking Bull Shit. The news may have seemed legit back then but it as just as phony as it is today. Cronkite sure fooled the hell out American's but the truth is now out. Cronkite was a Mason and a huge part of the New
World Order. LBJ knew he was going to die because he had a big mouth. This whole story is a fraud. Cronkite was actually on the phone with LBJ when he was murdered by secret service. 1-22-66 a pagan sacrifice day. Same day Sam Cooke was killed. LBJ & Cronkite suck.
@RandomPlayIist For the love of God right. What makes you think I am wrong and you are righ. I'll dig up the proof and show it too you. Why would I lie.I thought Cronkite was legit until he was in Bildergerg and I saw this video and read on other site where Cronkite was calling LBJ to tell him about the news that the war was over. LBJ was murdered by the CIA pal.
@Tomsouthrock No, he wasn't. That is all part of far-fetched conspiracy theorists. There is no solid evidence to indicate that LBJ had anything to do with with Kennedy's murder.
@SatchmoSings Again, that is a conspiracy THEORY, there is no hard evidence whatsoever to implicate LBJ or anyone for that matter in the murder other than Lee Harvey Oswald. You may want to read Gerald Posner's book "Case Closed". A very comprehensive book that is largely based on factual evidence.
I was but a War Baby in Australia during World War 11--fathered by a dishonorable Captain in the US Medical Corps. The United States treated the Abandoned Overseas Children of American in the shabbiest manner. Lyndon B Johnson was reported as having fathered an illegitimate child...I wonder how he treated the person!
@ScooterpupReljac Yes, I do too! It was on Monday January 22, 1973. I recall Cronkite taking the call while on the air. It was a very dramatic moment. This was also the day of Roe v Wade and Frazier v Foreman. 1973 seems like a real long time ago now.
the guy who really pioneered the politics of stealing from the future to buy votes today. the whole medicare mess, useless expansion of government and debt is his legacy.
@Helotes420 This is a black-and-white tape with time code, probably from the Vanderbilt University TV news archive.
I actually watched this in color when it aired live.
I also seem to recall that after the filmed piece on Vietnam ended, CBS went to commercial, and this clip begins when the commercial break ended, with Cronkite still on the phone.
Despite President Johnson's "love-hate" relationship with the networks, he was a friend of Cronkite, so that's why CBS got the scoop on his death.
I'm sure Jack meet him with a warm smile and a handshake. Thanks Lyndon, your a hell of a barber! That was some hair-cut you gave me in Dallas. No, no old boy, no hard feelings!
It's well know now that WC had a very liberal point of view but kept it to himself and out of his reporting. Can't help but wonder what would a young WC be like on say MSNBC?
I'm so glad I'm British, you lot seem to be the most bigoted, racist, in-tolerant, conservative nation on earth where Socialism seems to be a dirty word. I'm so glad I live in a country more tolerant and democratic than yours will ever be. I pity you.
@Feisty1967 No wonder why England is going broke because of socialism. Actually the UK is the most intolerant against Muslims, Jews, and 4rd world immigrants. Also the UK is rejected of diversity. Trust me, i went to England and i see a lot.
Also the U.S. GPD is better than the UK. You bigoted naive asshole.
@DontForgetToJog And now we've learned Cronkite never told it like it is - and is a far left wing idealogue, and has flames in his pants and tingles up his legs for DEMORATS - PERIOD - and likely colluded with the communists as much as he possibly could. RED PINKO TRAITOR & LONG TIME TV NEWS LIAR WITH AGENDA.
This is the first time I have seen this report. I was an 18 year old college student, in Laie, Hawaii, then. We were quite isolated there and rarely saw or heard a news report. It wasn't until two years later that I heard that Pres. Johnson had died in 1973. Of course, no one was happy when he became president, because we wanted to still have Pres. Kennedy, but I think he did a decent job of it, at a very difficult time in American history.
Walter got us all through the 60s and 70s; and he was a genuine national treasure. Nobody else from that era, perhaps any other era in TV had the presence of Walter Cronkite.
Shut the hell up Johnson was as selfless a politician as it comes the guy was a SOUTHERNER fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS in the already hectic 60's. When he took over for Kennedy he put his entire career and re-election on the line to push civil rights so if that's what is defined as selfish in your book then we should all hope to be as selfish as Lyndon Baines Johnson. They name everything after him in Texas because he deserves it so don't you ever talk down to President Johnson again.
@mjwillbethere37 Screw Johnson and all those other corrupt, asshole politicians - especially the Texas ones. The sorry sonofabitch was just like any other politician - just in it for themselves.
Johnson absolutely is great. Top Ten President of all time. He took Civil Rights to another level even Kennedy's aides admit Johnson was the main reason behind Civil Rights passing. Also Great Society and Medicare? Please say what you want about Johnson's foreign policy we all know Vietnam was a massive disaster, but Johnson's domestic policy was absolutely impeccable the economy was BOOMING granted civil unrest was high but civil rights in the South and Vietnam among the youth were main causes.
@mjwillbethere37 But according to all you worshipful libtards every middle class american and the poor have been getting poorer ever since - Carter staglfation, then you whined about Reaganomics - now we have the biggest financial collapse disaster ramming through the back door after it already broke down the front and washed all the criminal fannie and freddie homes away and nearly destroyed world trade. GREAT = you liberals cheating and wrecking till utter destruction reaps it's death tolls.
I was in country in Naval Intelligence in 1965/66 and discovered we were not allowed to win the war. We could have won the war at any time but the directives from the White House were to perpetuate the war and every commander in that theater knew it. LBJ and his cronies were personally making millions off the US troops they were having killed. Honoring his memory in any way disgusts me.
Richard Nelson, USN, Vietnam combat veteran 1965/ 1966
Johnson was another VERY sorry excuse for a president. ALL about HIMSELF. Just look at how much shit in Texas is named after this sorry scumbag. ALL these politicians are alike. Put them all in a boiling vat with the Clintons, Bushes, and the rest of them and the sludge would all look the same.
Shut the hell up Johnson was as selfless a politician as it comes the guy was a SOUTHERNER fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS in the already hectic 60's. When he took over for Kennedy he put his entire career and re-election on the line to push civil rights so if that's what is defined as selfish in your book then we should all hope to be as selfish as Lyndon Johnson. They name everything after him in Texas because he deserves it so don't you ever talk down to President Johnson again.
i believe that where lbjohnson's (that is what my maternal grandmother referred to president johnson as) vietnam policy was concerned, i agree with lt. col. billy sparks, usaf, who was a thud pilot in the war, when he stated that one could not totally blame either johnson or secretary of defense robert mcnamara for the war's outcome. there were VERY FEW senior u.s. military officers who were willing to stand up and criticize a failed war policy and fall on their sword.
LBJ was neither a bigot nor a savior with respect to civil rights. He was a pragmatist who spent most of his time in office maneuvering to first become Majority leader, then president and played the political game with ambition as his motivator. Fact was he would not come out for a robust civil rights bill as long as it was a reelection bomb in Texas and antagonize the entire southern block he needed to stay in leadership. He stopped being pro segregation when he needed the liberal votes too
kennedy was ambivalent about Vietnam, read Hugh Brogan's book on Kennedy's presidency; on the one hand he knew the war couldn't be won by the US, it was the Vietnamese war, they had to win it or lose it, and yet, a few days before he died he SENT 1000 more troops to Vietnam.For Kennedy, it was a case of playing both ends against the middle.I dont think Vietnam was the reason he was assassinated either.
footage, you are even lesser than a footage in history of your misarble whore family. Your mother was a whore, instead of this great man, called LBJ!!!!!!
This definitely aired in color. It's the recording that was in b&w; this is from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, which continued to use b&w videotape for years because color tape was so much more expensive.
News reporting was so dry back then. They always had the sound of typewriters in the background. This was why i never watched the news as a kid. But in fairness,, of course, the news back then, actaully was news. Not like now,, when CNN has constant ``Breaking NEWS```like Brittney Spears has a new bathing suit.!
@waltherppk1000 Are you serious? Check your records. I made simple comment about the style of news reporting and you came back with a racist, bigoted comment, and with insults. You should be reporting yourself.
@DontForgetToJog I agree with much of what you say. I still find sitting on the air live with a phone to your ear and nodding, to be a bit over done for the death of a -former- president.
If we could clone one news reporter, it would be good ole Walter Cronkite. I remember him vaguely as a small child...but he seemed a very comforting person....calm and stuff...like if we had him on 9/11, I think it would have been easier to handle the news of that tragedy. As it is, Dan Rather was a wonderful substitute of sorts....now we have loud mouth Nancy Grace and Jean Velez Mitchell, and Geraldo Rivera. Totally wish peter jennings and tom brokaw were around.
pika23 4 days ago
January 22 1973 was my dad's 42nd birthday. BTW he hated LBJ.
harrymannjr10001 2 weeks ago
What Walter didn't tell America was that at 1:44, he was instructed to pick up a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk on the way home...
moproducer 3 weeks ago
Read the Robert Caro books on LBJ; 'nuff said.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
war criminal
essi8757 3 weeks ago
War criminal
Musiclover2009able 3 weeks ago
Vietnam war will haunt him forever.
sammy1995 3 weeks ago
fuck LBJ! he deserved it .
SlamdogX 4 weeks ago
i was in grade school when he died was my birthday, we got the day out of school. my family has always been democrats, we however hated lbj and what he stood for,
denniswilsonfan 4 weeks ago
LBJ was criminal on so many levels, war criminal, murderer, assassin conspritor, and I think he was even a thief with his dealings with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol est tese. I mean this guy and George Bush jr gotta be one, two as the worst Presidents in history.
Sept11Discovery 4 weeks ago
Dont say too much like before mate, re: Masuer found at DSBD etc, Wait to we tell you what we want you to say.
7071t6 1 month ago
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Lyndon B Johnson is a traitor to America.
He ordered the murders of us servicemen with the help of israel
youtube USS Liberty - these sailors are still seeking justice for being stabbed in the back by Johnson - they are still being ignored.
Lyndon B Johnson got the Israeli military to attack a US Naval vessel, to use it as a pretext to go to war with Egypt and blame it on them, it was a false flag
Johnson killed American Servicemen. Go research, it's all true.
Communist2012 1 month ago
I'm just curious, I'm sorry, I'm from 1987 and I know I'm behind the generations before of transitioning from Black & White TV to Color TV. This was 1973, why was this in black and white? thank you :-)
candytotty 1 month ago
@candytotty Color TV was around in mid to early 50's but sets were expensive and it was not until the mid 60's before the general public started buying color sets, and it was not until the mid 70's that a color set became the norm in US households. Color programs at the time were special events and the news was a regular broadcast. It may seem strange, but think about how long High Def TV has been around (first analog HD in the US in 1981) and how it is not totally the standard in the US yet.
AltamontUnit10 1 month ago
@candytotty it was still rare for people to have color tv's and for the news to be in color for some reason..i remember being 5 or 6 in 73 and watching the news in b&w...we still had a 19 inch black and white tv until 1982 or so..lol
sabreyow 1 month ago
@candytotty Color TV was still very much a luxury in 1973. Kind of like air-conditioning, even here in the south, was still a treat during that time. I remember we didn't get a color TV untl 1977 and our second TV was black-and-white.
GeorgiaKev 2 weeks ago
Right this second...LBJ is burning in hell.....and I hope JFK and RFK and MLK are watching with glee....
Sept11Discovery 1 month ago
I remember seeing this live when it happened. Understanding how the CBS Evening News operated in 1973, I knew that when the camera showed Walter Cronkite on the phone like this, it had to be something serious.
author 2 months ago
@author And today we have the hyperbolic "breaking news" graphics for something inane like "Casey Anthony just went to the bathroom."
daward2 1 month ago 3
Love this videos classic! 1973?!
nativemrv19722 2 months ago
I am brave, sitting behind this 2007 slow ass running windows vista operating system computer. It took me a whole day just to post this frickin' comment!
dualityofman999 2 months ago
@dualityofman999 You are hilarious..Funny as hell..Vista is shit. I had one..Now to a serious note..Medicaid and Civil rights pased under LBJ to the angst of republicans..
801liveable 1 month ago
@801liveable It was Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964! Learn your history!
sunshine45986 1 month ago
@sunshine45986 I don't have to learn my history. I already know it.I was a history major in college.In 1964, in the House, Democrats on the bill voted 152 yes-96 no.On the Republican side 138 yes-34 no.In the Senate the bill won passage 76-18..Through my careful and meticulous calculations neither political party in the majority was opposed. It was a bipartisan win for the bill. Now, I have a question for you. Who was the first president of the United States.You have 15 seconds.
801liveable 1 month ago
@801liveable it was a vote on ideology and not party. consevatives opposed and liberals were for. in those days the two parties had differing ideologies and worked better than i think they do today. i blame the ultra conservatives for todays problems. they alienated the ROCKERFELLER republicans and pushed liberal, and even now are trying to push out moderates from their party...what a disservice to the american public. i do agree with you, too bad these illinformed new comers to politics dont.
bduhe219 1 month ago
@sunshine45986 Only Southern Democrats were opposed to the Civil Rights Act. And most of those old codgers became Republicans after segregation ended (if not in name, definitely in practice).
GeorgiaKev 2 weeks ago
@GeorgiaKev Really?
Then I'm sure Robert Byrd (KKK member and supporter until his death) was just pretending to be a democrat all those years.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
@SgtHydra I said MOST. A few of those southern dixiecrats grew up and realized they'd been wrong. Robert Byrd, George Wallace, and Howell Heflin were among them.
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev Also, Robert Byrd did NOT support the KKK "until his death", he'd quit the Klan and denounced its intolerance DECADES BEFORE he passed away.
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev Lies.
He spoke at KKK meetings as recently as 2004.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
@SgtHydra Kindly cite documented evidence that Robert Byrd addressed a KKK meeting in 2004.
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev I was at said meeting and shook his fucking hand.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
@SgtHydra Wait a minute, let me get this straight.....YOU attended KKK meeting and you accuse (and condemn) Sen. Byrd for attending one??
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev I condemn him for supporting it long after he claimed he no longer did.
It is much the same way throughout the Democrat Party.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
@SgtHydra
Your story is a crock of shit. Byrd would never have made a public appearance at a Klan meeting because if ANY media outlet found out about it, it would have been ALL over the news (let along the internet!). Liar.
Klansmen are a bunch of cowards who are afraid to show their faces at their rallies. Talk about NOT being proud of what you believe in!
Again, it's DEMOCRATIC Party, not "Democrat Party." Get that thru your white-coned head.
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev The vast majority of democrat politicians supported segregationist policies and continue to support them today.
Just look at their views on school choice and funding for urban schools.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
@SgtHydra First off, it's Democratic politicians, not "democrat" policitians. You can't use one noun to describe another noun.
School choice--nobody is saying you don't have the right to send your children to whichever accredited school you choose. but you cannot force taxpayers to cover the cost of the tuition of a private religious school. That is a blatant violation of the 1st Amdmt.
Urban schools--education funding (overall) is insufficient and needs to be increased.
GeorgiaKev 1 week ago
@GeorgiaKev Yes, you do have the right to send your children wherever you want. The government does not have the right to bus them over to crowded "black districts" or "white districts."
And urban schools have been underfunded ever since the democrats started running them.
SgtHydra 1 week ago
P.S. I haven't heard a typewriter click clack for a very long time. Ahh, simpler times
patricia2249 3 months ago 10
@patricia2249
I thought I also heard a teletype machine too. Definitely a simpler time.
bob4analog 22 hours ago
Loved Uncle Walter. He was always the first news anchor to break the news of president's death.
patricia2249 3 months ago
Interesting comments Feistv. This country has been the best friend England has for a long, long time. I'm glad you don't speak for the majority of your people. Your comments also show a great amount of ignorance about the US. I actually pity you and your uninformed mind. As for Socialism, it is causing the economic downfall of your once great nation. 20% sales tax? That sir, is a crime.
GoMagic22 3 months ago
@GoMagic22 Indeed 20% sales tax is a crime - introduced by the right wing Conservative Party in the UK as a way of raising revenue from the poorest and not harming the richest.
lozman67 3 months ago
@lozman67 Sales taxes are truly the fairest of all, even at unseemly rates of 20%. If you don't want to pay it, simply don't make purchases. Our food in the US isn't taxed, and I'll assume yours isn't either. If it is, then that is something I would disagree with. However, to say that rich should be gouged by a government that wastes their money is foolhardy at best. Rich people aren't inherently evil and shouldn't be reviled for their success.
GoMagic22 3 months ago
@GoMagic22 Kindly go fuck yourself already. The rich are paying the lowest federal taxes historically thanks to the WAR CRIMINAL George W. Bush. Ron Paul lives in a fantasy world from 1776 & the GOP is dead.
dualityofman999 2 months ago
@dualityofman999 Nice language. Your lack of civility is only exceeded by your lack of wisdom, and that's saying something. The GOP is dead? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That's rich. How about that's all I heard in '08, and by '10 Princess Nancy had been fired. We're a year away from restoring the White House with a capable leader. God I can't wait. If this is being dead...I'll take it.
GoMagic22 2 months ago
@GoMagic22 What is the real motivation of your post? Tell us the truth boy, spit it out or we'll just assume you are another rascist. Go on now, the stage is all yours.
dualityofman999 2 months ago
@dualityofman999 "We"???? You speak for all of Youtubeland now? What an egomaniac you are. And you think I care one bit what you think? Think what you will, it does not define me or matter to me in the least. Oh, and you talk real tough. You are such a brave one sitting behind your computer.
GoMagic22 2 months ago
@dualityofman999 I'm a registered Republican and if Mitt Romney is the choice of the Republican leadership, I'm voting for Obama.
While I'm not that crazy about Ron Paul, he is indicative of which way the Republican party should move to at least give us a real choice.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
@SatchmoSings How about Rick Santorum? The difference between him and Romney is that he is a voice and not an echo.
harrymannjr10001 3 weeks ago
@harrymannjr10001 You're making a good point; the leadership of the Republican Party really doesn't want people who can offer Americans a real choice (and obviously, neither do the Democrats).
This is why I was for Herman Cain and, as you pointed out Rick Santorum (and Ron Paul, too).
While these men aren't the greatest, they DO represent some very real and basic change and at least they've come out of the Republican party and not the Democrats.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
@SatchmoSings I doubt that Romney can beat Obama. But, Santorum and Paul offer real change and a real choice.
harrymannjr10001 3 weeks ago
@harrymannjr10001 The question then, remains, will the people of the Republican party actually CHOOSE someone that represents REAL change; too often, it has been my experience, that when people are offered a REAL CHOICE they reject it.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
@SatchmoSings Let's see how this race turns out.
harrymannjr10001 2 weeks ago
@harrymannjr10001 Yes, let's do that.
SatchmoSings 2 weeks ago
@GoMagic22 Rich people ARE inherently evil, just as whacko enviornmentalists are; they rort the system for their own benefit; if you don't know this you're living a fantasy world.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
@righttoright1, fuck you
wiiplayer9revisited 3 months ago
@wiiplayer9revisited Don't feed the troll.
RetroVideoFan 3 months ago
Even his war outlived him. Sad.
MusicProjectX 3 months ago
My question is this. Why in 1973 was the news being broadcast in black and white? Color TV had been around at least a decade before this broadcast. Perhaps it was broadcast in color but recorded in black and white. It's interesting an interesting question to propose to say the least.
clemsonbloke 3 months ago
@clemsonbloke CBS News had long been broadcasting in color by 1973. (I think color broadcasts started around 1965-66.) This is, most likely, from the television news archive housed at Vanderbilt University (or some similar archive), all of which was recorded in black and white. It was commonplace for years for live network broadcasts to be recorded in black and white, even after the advent of color.
JakeMabe1 3 months ago
"Stricken"? What the hell does"Stricken" mean?
BOBBJface 3 months ago
@BOBBJface "Stricken" means you're an asshole who, even with the internet, can't look up a word on an online dictionary.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
Anyone up for some barbecue?
yahokobbenyah 4 months ago
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Have fun burning in the lake of fire LBJ.
yahokobbenyah 4 months ago
Is that the date at the top right of the screen (22 January 1973)?
Poopingbotham 4 months ago
@Poopingbotham
Yes it is. Also that day one of the major news stories was the Supreme Courts ruling in a case that is still debated today. That was the day that the Roe vs. Wade decision was announced.
paulsonj72 4 months ago
some people are just plain nuts.....
SaturnVGuy 4 months ago
It's a shame that piece of shit didn't die sooner.
RobertBruceBanner 4 months ago
Boy, some of the people commenting on this video are batshit loony...
mezzofondo 4 months ago 15
@mezzofondo Well, that's "Youtube" for you !
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
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The news may have seemed legit back then but it as just as phony as it is today. Cronkite sure fooled the hell out American's but the truth is now out. Cronkite was a Mason and a huge part of the New World Order. LBJ knew he was going to die because he had a big mouth. This whole story is a fraud. Cronkite was actually on the phone with LBJ when he was murdered by secret service. 1-22 a pagan sacrifice day. Same day Sam Cooke was killed. LBJ & Cronkite are probably burning in hell.
earlsworld70117 5 months ago
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This is pure fucking Bull Shit. The news may have seemed legit back then but it as just as phony as it is today. Cronkite sure fooled the hell out American's but the truth is now out. Cronkite was a Mason and a huge part of the New
World Order. LBJ knew he was going to die because he had a big mouth. This whole story is a fraud. Cronkite was actually on the phone with LBJ when he was murdered by secret service. 1-22-66 a pagan sacrifice day. Same day Sam Cooke was killed. LBJ & Cronkite suck.
earlsworld70117 5 months ago
@earlsworld70117
Oh man please get on some medications...for the love of God.
RandomPlayIist 4 months ago
@RandomPlayIist For the love of God right. What makes you think I am wrong and you are righ. I'll dig up the proof and show it too you. Why would I lie.I thought Cronkite was legit until he was in Bildergerg and I saw this video and read on other site where Cronkite was calling LBJ to tell him about the news that the war was over. LBJ was murdered by the CIA pal.
earlsworld70117 3 months ago
@earlsworld70117
Yeah sure buddy. And Elvis, Jim Morrison and 2Pac are all hanging out drinking beer together.
RandomPlayIist 3 months ago
@earlsworld70117 Are you normal?
harrymannjr10001 3 weeks ago
LBJ said that he would not live long enough to fill a 2nd term. He was off by 2 days.
hammermjh 5 months ago
lbj knew there was jfk would not be leaving texas alive, and that puke cronkike was a masonic n.w.o. scumbag, period.
irishgeal1 5 months ago
lbj knew there was jfk would not be leaving texas alive, and that puke cronkike was a masonic n.w.o. scumbag, period.
irishgeal1 5 months ago
it's ironic that cronkike anounced both death's on the air (jfk and LBJ)
Scottwilkie18 5 months ago
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LBJ burn in hell you evil coward
leochoquette 5 months ago
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He did more for Black Americans than any other president, including Abraham Lincoln.
bleachbred 5 months ago
any body recognize the date ( had it been november he would've died 10 year's to the date)
Scottwilkie18 5 months ago
@Scottwilkie18 LBJ died on 22nd January 1973.
johnloony 5 months ago
he was an evil man who was part JFK's assasination
Tomsouthrock 5 months ago
@Tomsouthrock No, he wasn't. That is all part of far-fetched conspiracy theorists. There is no solid evidence to indicate that LBJ had anything to do with with Kennedy's murder.
GeorgiaKev 5 months ago
@GeorgiaKev Barr McClellan's book, "Blood, Money & Power" makes a credible case for Johnson killing Kennedy.
McClellan subsequently worked at the lawfirm of Johnson's personal attorney where this was allegedly planned.
SatchmoSings 3 weeks ago
@SatchmoSings Again, that is a conspiracy THEORY, there is no hard evidence whatsoever to implicate LBJ or anyone for that matter in the murder other than Lee Harvey Oswald. You may want to read Gerald Posner's book "Case Closed". A very comprehensive book that is largely based on factual evidence.
GeorgiaKev 2 weeks ago
@Tomsouthrock You have proof? I thought LBJ was a horseshit president. But, he would never stoop to that.
harrymannjr10001 3 weeks ago
Too bad LBJ got mized up in the assassination of Jack Kennedy. He is no doubt in Hell for that (and other criminalk acts) even now.
Boelcke1919 5 months ago
Le Blow Job
PantsInTheFamily 5 months ago
I was but a War Baby in Australia during World War 11--fathered by a dishonorable Captain in the US Medical Corps. The United States treated the Abandoned Overseas Children of American in the shabbiest manner. Lyndon B Johnson was reported as having fathered an illegitimate child...I wonder how he treated the person!
brunon44 5 months ago
Poor, poor LBJ
TheNewFrontier1960 5 months ago
@TheNewFrontier1960 he wasn't poor, he was richer than most people :)))
geert574 5 months ago
I remember watching this as it happend way back when
ScooterpupReljac 6 months ago
@ScooterpupReljac Yes, I do too! It was on Monday January 22, 1973. I recall Cronkite taking the call while on the air. It was a very dramatic moment. This was also the day of Roe v Wade and Frazier v Foreman. 1973 seems like a real long time ago now.
TheTweeter53 5 months ago
0:02 - :04 Just a moment.
027220 6 months ago
he died a lonely and pathetic man haunted by his guilt over so many things
BurkeDevlin66 6 months ago
@BurkeDevlin66 Come on Hitler died that way, not Lyndon, he couldn't live up to JFK's chrisma and popularity.
OperationAnime262 6 months ago
the guy who really pioneered the politics of stealing from the future to buy votes today. the whole medicare mess, useless expansion of government and debt is his legacy.
andrelebaron 6 months ago
I love the sound of the typewriter in the background. Newscasting of yester-year is the way it should be done. Report the facts and not the flub.
VSharpshooter 6 months ago
1-22-73????
11-22-63. . . hmmm . . .
RupertDCD27 6 months ago
1-22-73????
12-22-63. . . hmmm . . .
RupertDCD27 6 months ago
@Helotes420 This is a black-and-white tape with time code, probably from the Vanderbilt University TV news archive.
I actually watched this in color when it aired live.
I also seem to recall that after the filmed piece on Vietnam ended, CBS went to commercial, and this clip begins when the commercial break ended, with Cronkite still on the phone.
Despite President Johnson's "love-hate" relationship with the networks, he was a friend of Cronkite, so that's why CBS got the scoop on his death.
altfactor 7 months ago
Not to many people who knew him probaly gave a shit about that day.Big asshole Texan arrogrant prick finally whithered away.Oh well too bad.
brsfan66 7 months ago
Hope JFK and RFK kick your ass now. May you not RIP for what you did to the American people. From Canada
08dukeduke 7 months ago
I'm sure Jack meet him with a warm smile and a handshake. Thanks Lyndon, your a hell of a barber! That was some hair-cut you gave me in Dallas. No, no old boy, no hard feelings!
univibe23 7 months ago
It's well know now that WC had a very liberal point of view but kept it to himself and out of his reporting. Can't help but wonder what would a young WC be like on say MSNBC?
alpharben 8 months ago
Johnson Died about less than month after former president Harry Truman died.
RandyOnlineGaming 8 months ago
I'm so glad I'm British, you lot seem to be the most bigoted, racist, in-tolerant, conservative nation on earth where Socialism seems to be a dirty word. I'm so glad I live in a country more tolerant and democratic than yours will ever be. I pity you.
Feisty1967 8 months ago 2
@Feisty1967 No wonder why England is going broke because of socialism. Actually the UK is the most intolerant against Muslims, Jews, and 4rd world immigrants. Also the UK is rejected of diversity. Trust me, i went to England and i see a lot.
Also the U.S. GPD is better than the UK. You bigoted naive asshole.
Hperman09 3 months ago
@Hperman09 4rd?
Melodycat918 2 months ago
LBJ was a socialist scumbag who gave us BIG government and were paying the price today. Rot in He'll
RRNYC1998 8 months ago
@RRNYC1998 True he wasn't the best sort BUT his programs don't entail socialism, this country is and always will be CAPITALIST.
Thejbirdy 8 months ago
Johnson was one of the best legislators of his time
larryiloos 8 months ago 4
I was only 15 then.
nanlisa 9 months ago
@DontForgetToJog And now we've learned Cronkite never told it like it is - and is a far left wing idealogue, and has flames in his pants and tingles up his legs for DEMORATS - PERIOD - and likely colluded with the communists as much as he possibly could. RED PINKO TRAITOR & LONG TIME TV NEWS LIAR WITH AGENDA.
Silicondoc 9 months ago
This is the first time I have seen this report. I was an 18 year old college student, in Laie, Hawaii, then. We were quite isolated there and rarely saw or heard a news report. It wasn't until two years later that I heard that Pres. Johnson had died in 1973. Of course, no one was happy when he became president, because we wanted to still have Pres. Kennedy, but I think he did a decent job of it, at a very difficult time in American history.
aMarinedaughter 9 months ago
This is the way news should be.
fishaman1980 9 months ago 2
@fishaman1980 Lyndon Baynes Johnson, from ? JOHNSON CITY, TX
See, that's who OWNED the city - this is a democrat for you - self glory, as they STEAL from EVERYONE.
Silicondoc 9 months ago
Walter got us all through the 60s and 70s; and he was a genuine national treasure. Nobody else from that era, perhaps any other era in TV had the presence of Walter Cronkite.
cdadave83814 10 months ago
Is Cronkite talking on the phone to Chevy Chase?
glimmer2158 10 months ago 15
@glimmer2158 Be serious.
027220 6 months ago
@glimmer2158 Are you under the covers right now? Did you take a shower? Hello I'm Chevy Chase and you're a statistic.
nellgwen48 6 months ago
@glimmer2158 he was actually talking to Johnson's press secretary
Scottwilkie18 5 months ago
@glimmer2158 No he is on the phone to Johnson City.
ThenISaidHey 4 months ago
broadcasting history a man who stops everything to get all the facts to 22 million people
manhbx96 10 months ago 2
Had it been fir Vietnam, LBJ would've easily been the best president of the last 50 years.
mr19932001 11 months ago 2
i hope jfk was waiting for him to give him what he richly deserves
frankiesweeney 10 months ago
Shut the hell up Johnson was as selfless a politician as it comes the guy was a SOUTHERNER fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS in the already hectic 60's. When he took over for Kennedy he put his entire career and re-election on the line to push civil rights so if that's what is defined as selfish in your book then we should all hope to be as selfish as Lyndon Baines Johnson. They name everything after him in Texas because he deserves it so don't you ever talk down to President Johnson again.
mjwillbethere37 11 months ago 2
@mjwillbethere37 Screw Johnson and all those other corrupt, asshole politicians - especially the Texas ones. The sorry sonofabitch was just like any other politician - just in it for themselves.
aviationwingnut 7 months ago
@mjwillbethere37 he was a murderer, it's proven - not a theory, look it up
1982Lennon 5 months ago
Johnson absolutely is great. Top Ten President of all time. He took Civil Rights to another level even Kennedy's aides admit Johnson was the main reason behind Civil Rights passing. Also Great Society and Medicare? Please say what you want about Johnson's foreign policy we all know Vietnam was a massive disaster, but Johnson's domestic policy was absolutely impeccable the economy was BOOMING granted civil unrest was high but civil rights in the South and Vietnam among the youth were main causes.
mjwillbethere37 11 months ago
@mjwillbethere37 But according to all you worshipful libtards every middle class american and the poor have been getting poorer ever since - Carter staglfation, then you whined about Reaganomics - now we have the biggest financial collapse disaster ramming through the back door after it already broke down the front and washed all the criminal fannie and freddie homes away and nearly destroyed world trade. GREAT = you liberals cheating and wrecking till utter destruction reaps it's death tolls.
Silicondoc 5 months ago
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@Silicondoc You are a worthless moron. Do the world a favor and go kill yourself.
shabeki 5 months ago
Cronkite was a fruit and a fraud. He's on the phone during the news...he's getting the details and repeating them that effortlessly? lol Bullshit
gablio77 11 months ago
This videotape is in colour elsewhere...
DavidHenesy 1 year ago
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I was in country in Naval Intelligence in 1965/66 and discovered we were not allowed to win the war. We could have won the war at any time but the directives from the White House were to perpetuate the war and every commander in that theater knew it. LBJ and his cronies were personally making millions off the US troops they were having killed. Honoring his memory in any way disgusts me.
Richard Nelson, USN, Vietnam combat veteran 1965/ 1966
ExplorerExperience 1 year ago
Johnson was another VERY sorry excuse for a president. ALL about HIMSELF. Just look at how much shit in Texas is named after this sorry scumbag. ALL these politicians are alike. Put them all in a boiling vat with the Clintons, Bushes, and the rest of them and the sludge would all look the same.
aviationwingnut 1 year ago
@aviationwingnut
Shut the hell up Johnson was as selfless a politician as it comes the guy was a SOUTHERNER fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS in the already hectic 60's. When he took over for Kennedy he put his entire career and re-election on the line to push civil rights so if that's what is defined as selfish in your book then we should all hope to be as selfish as Lyndon Johnson. They name everything after him in Texas because he deserves it so don't you ever talk down to President Johnson again.
mjwillbethere37 11 months ago
One of the most unusual newscasts I've seen.
RetroVideoFan 1 year ago
Also, sjefdevries, you are a bad speler...
LowBid86 1 year ago
People need to know the truth about LBJ just like Hoover they were both crooks and more points to his involvement of JFKs assassination
MrRanwolfe 1 year ago
I've never had anyone killed...
LowBid86 1 year ago
i believe that where lbjohnson's (that is what my maternal grandmother referred to president johnson as) vietnam policy was concerned, i agree with lt. col. billy sparks, usaf, who was a thud pilot in the war, when he stated that one could not totally blame either johnson or secretary of defense robert mcnamara for the war's outcome. there were VERY FEW senior u.s. military officers who were willing to stand up and criticize a failed war policy and fall on their sword.
MsKeith1969 1 year ago
LBJ was neither a bigot nor a savior with respect to civil rights. He was a pragmatist who spent most of his time in office maneuvering to first become Majority leader, then president and played the political game with ambition as his motivator. Fact was he would not come out for a robust civil rights bill as long as it was a reelection bomb in Texas and antagonize the entire southern block he needed to stay in leadership. He stopped being pro segregation when he needed the liberal votes too
BTURNER1961 1 year ago
kennedy was ambivalent about Vietnam, read Hugh Brogan's book on Kennedy's presidency; on the one hand he knew the war couldn't be won by the US, it was the Vietnamese war, they had to win it or lose it, and yet, a few days before he died he SENT 1000 more troops to Vietnam.For Kennedy, it was a case of playing both ends against the middle.I dont think Vietnam was the reason he was assassinated either.
memoir4you 1 year ago
LBJ was a whore of FED/zionists
ww2footage 1 year ago
@ww2footage
footage, you are even lesser than a footage in history of your misarble whore family. Your mother was a whore, instead of this great man, called LBJ!!!!!!
sjefdevries 1 year ago
@sjefdevries
Just curious, why do you think Johnson was great?
waiting , tic toc, tic toc............
045781 11 months ago
@045781 breathe man breathe, he wont answer :) one problem with this video.... no champagne....
kahetel13 11 months ago
@kahetel13
The answer for why he thinks johnson was great, he just gave the answer: no champagne.
regards
sjefderies
045781 11 months ago
@045781 ? lol i didnt think he was great
kahetel13 11 months ago
LBJ was a bad, bad man.
LowBid86 1 year ago
@LowBid86
Low abject figure you are.
LBJ was bad, bad man?
my gosh, you judge about a very great person, who presented more in one minute then you will ever get in your whole misarble life!
sjefdevries 1 year ago
lbj is gone straight to hell.
irishgeal1 1 year ago
i like to think that johnson didn,t won,t re-election because he could not stop the war in Vietnam.
as a honoust and concious man he did not won,t to take responsibilty for all those war-mongering generals.
this was a genuine people,s president by making law,s who realy made a difference for the average american.
ThePeeterd 1 year ago
@koolkid21ful so what happend to kennedy if he was in the pentagon too with castro mcnamara and nixon?
MrShapiroman 1 year ago
This definitely aired in color. It's the recording that was in b&w; this is from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, which continued to use b&w videotape for years because color tape was so much more expensive.
Bloodybunny 1 year ago
News reporting was so dry back then. They always had the sound of typewriters in the background. This was why i never watched the news as a kid. But in fairness,, of course, the news back then, actaully was news. Not like now,, when CNN has constant ``Breaking NEWS```like Brittney Spears has a new bathing suit.!
xvoy2002 1 year ago
@xvoy2002 - You stinking red neck racist. You are nothing but a kid, a moron. I
have gone to Youtube to report your racist activities.
waltherppk1000 1 year ago
@waltherppk1000 Are you serious? Check your records. I made simple comment about the style of news reporting and you came back with a racist, bigoted comment, and with insults. You should be reporting yourself.
xvoy2002 1 year ago
For them too young to know, the CBS news was actually broadcast in color back then, and most Americans already had color TV in 1973.
Fersomling 1 year ago
looks like the zombies got him in the pentegon
koolkid21ful 1 year ago
@DontForgetToJog I agree with much of what you say. I still find sitting on the air live with a phone to your ear and nodding, to be a bit over done for the death of a -former- president.
Kram6298 1 year ago
Good riddance you evil bastard. Karma's a bitch.
LongLiveOx 1 year ago
Strikes me as quite odd that Cronkite sat there on a live broadcast listening on the telephone about a former president's death.
Kram6298 1 year ago
@Kram6298 There was real news reporting going on back then. Now it's just drones reading their government propaganda scripts off the TelePrompter.
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