Walter Cronkite announces the death of LBJ 1973

[Falcon1red]

hmm,10 years after Kenndy was killed! He probably died from the guilt from Nov of 1963

[ayguey100]

@Falcon1red lame, the Mob killed Kennedy.

[xjlmt]

@ayguey100 That's what the real killers want you to believe, anyway. The mob, or Oswald, or the Cubans, or anyone but the MIC/CIA...

[pistolierer]

Anyone else love looking at the kids argue in the comment section?

[tannerutah]

Elvis loves black people to cook, clean, and powder his nose for him, other then that i don't think he was the greatest person since god by a long shot.

[jontheundertaker]

Now that's about as unfiltered and spinless as you can get.

[itsjustme2919]

@jontheundertaker I know, and even though Walter was a flaming liberal, he witheld his opinion and gave an unbiased report! Astonishing!

[BrooklynMike51]

Wow... I remember this as if it were yesterday

[uzimodem]

back when they reported the news, and not making it up like the MSM does today.

[deetjay1]

When America really trusted real journalists...

[GlengarryGlennBeck]

LBJ - the first BJ in the White House but not the last.

[michellekwan483]

The most honest man in america

[thereddog223]

Walter concrete

[oldies5161]

Cronkite was anything but a great anchor. He was an ultra liberal and admitted it years later. IMHO, David Brinkley was the best and gave the facts, not the liberal or conservative side.

[Grouchomx]

The idiots on air these days couldn't shine his shoes...

[steelersfan7238]

If I were to start a news program and could choose any news anchor that ever lived to be the host, I would choose Walter Cronkite. You could always rely on him to give you the facts on all the important news of the day.

[wtf66611]

Now there's a true journalist with class.

[billyguns2]

Walter Cronkite, the last true reporter/journalist; I miss him! I do NOT miss the overseer of the most catastrophic and tragic presidency in the history of our nation,!

[Suprkit]

@billyguns2 But George W. Bush is still alive.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit oh you are original give yourself a medal! Although I suppose you have already done that as no one in their right mind would have.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 I'm just writing the truth. I would take Johnson over Bush Jr. any day.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Okay, hope your okay with a draft, fighting in Vietnam only to have it end up a total loss anyway. Johnson did send more troops and is on the record as saying its inevitable we are going to lose anyway. You know that right? But have fun fighting the Vietnamese!

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Yeah, I am. Because it wasn't JUST Johnson who was involved in the war. Generals like Westmoreland who lied about body counts and saying we were "winning" against an enemy who was resupplied endlessly by the Soviets and Chinese. Now, LYING to the nation and the world about "WMD'S" and saying "he's got 'em" ENDLESS TIMES before the war even though he was shown evidence to the contrary. At least LBJ did good domestically. What did Bush ever do that was good for America?

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Also, Johnson never said we were going to lose. He said we would get into a "third world war or another Police Action (like Korea)." Which we did. He gave the Generals too much authority when it came to making policy(such as troop requests and letting the Americans take the lead when it came to fighting instead of the South Vietnamese.) If they understood Guerrilla Warfare, rather than fight like it was WWII with a "Fixed Objective" of total Victory, we might have "won".

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit no no there are recorded phone conversations released just a few years ago with Johnson saying "We're losing more and more everyday." They may be on Youtube, I haven't checked yet if I find them I will send you a link. Secondly, Johnson did not do well domestically, his war on poverty has achieved nothing but a broken welfare system. It's part of the reason we are in the situation we are in right now. Plus he burped and farted and was generally appalling in behavior even with dignitary

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Civil Rights Act,Voting Rights Act,Consumer Protection,Aid to Education,Job Corps,Teacher Corps,Medicare/Medicaid,Head Start,Clean Air/Clean Water Act,Public Broadcasting,School Lunches,Fair Housing,Upward Bound,War on Poverty(Which brought it down by 1/3 in 4 yrs.)National Endowment for the Arts+Humanities,NPR,Freedom of Information Act,Dept. of Transportation,Wilderness Act. Reagan+Bush made sure the Great society was dismantled and Defense was built up.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit "Instead of a policy, he had only a set of unoriginal opinions that he articulated with great force and conviction and was unwilling to question even in the face of failure. "

council on foreign relations, 1995

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 So you want me to believe it's all his fault? No one else is to blame? ONLY Johnson. Not Westmoreland or McNamara,Wheeler,or Bundy as well. Besides, if he had pulled out, the right-wing Hawks would be saying what they're saying about Iraq. That the Democrats are "Soft on communism/terrorism."

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit well Iraq and Afghanistan achieved their objectives, Vietnam never did plain and simple. Poverty can be measured many ways and manipulated to suit any administrations needs. My point is there is a reason Lyndon Johnson didn't run again, and thank God he had sense not to.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Bush should of had the same sense. Johnson's legacy will be one of MANY mistakes but great strides in trying to make America a better place in which to live. What will Bush be known for in 10,20,or even 50 years? I doubt very little good. Iraq was a mistake. I don't really care if they're a "Democracy" or not. They should have done what most of the Arab world is doing now. Creating a better nation by doing it themselves.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Well before everyone started their bitching and "9/11 inside job theories" Bush actually had the highest approval rating of any President at 90%. He revived the economy after 9/11 (remember that mini recession?) and he prevented terrorist attacks for eight years. He toppled harsh dictatorships and like it or not he at least set the stage up for the countries in the Arab Spring situation.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Bush knew we were going to be hit and did NOTHING about it. When the country was under attack, he sat there in the classroom and did NOTHING for almost 10 minutes. He didn't prevent anymore,he kept us in fear. Called "alerts" like they were going out of style. Lied to us and Congress about WMD's and when he had 7 YEARS to get bin Laden, he didn't. He even said "I just don't spend that much time on him to be honest with you." (and don't forget his BIG Recession.) Bush=FAILURE

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit cont'd didn't because he doubled or maybe even tripled the deficit and added another war to the list of wars already going on. Bailouts. What did they do? Put money in the hands of the billionair bankers for them to sit on. You know, the ones that put Obama in office. The economy recovered each time from Katrina, 9/11, Enron when Bush was President. Yet it hasn't recovered at all with Obama. Democrats were majority of Congress in Dec. 2007 when recession officially started.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 "Another War"? There were ZERO American deaths as a result of getting Qaddafi. Also, ZERO deaths in doing what Bush couldn't do in 8 years, Kill bin Laden. Iraq ended if you failed to notice. Bush was in Office when the economy tanked. Period. When the President came into office,unemployment was almost 11%. It's at 8.6% now and going down with no help from the Republicans. They held the congress for 3 of the 4 disasters that happened(9/11,Enron,and Katrina/Rita.)

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit But your boy Johnson cared if Vietnam was a democracy. Kind of hypocritical.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Like W "cared" about making Iraq a "democracy". Again, Johnson was an idiot for supporting Vietnam when he could have said no at any moment. At least I admit it. Bush knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and still attacked them. He took us to war over lies. I've never believed 9/11 was an inside job, but he paid little attention to what was going on before the attacks. Again, what will Bush's "Legacy" be other than "Iraq has WMD's"? or "Were gonna Smoke'm out of his cave"?

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Oh ok I see you're one of those, "Bush only did it for the oil" people. Well I would love to see how we supposedly profited from Iraq we didn't. Remember, he went to the UN, gave Saddam 24 hours to resign, and only after that did we invade. So it wasn't like we didn't give him a chance. All Saddam had to do was cooperate with inspectors, intellgence. Besides the vote to go to war was a large majority of both parties. Not just Bush and his party, but Dems as well. They wanted saddam gone

[itsjustme2919]

@itsjustme2919 So, it achieved it's objective. Vietnam never did. Now the whole sat in the classroom thing...would you jump up and cause and scene in front of school children? And frighten them? No. Besides NO ONE was fully aware of what was going on and we didn't suspect terrorism in the first ten minutes. You seem to forget the world prior to 9/11 and the one after. There is stark contrast. It never slipped into the public conscience until that day. After the second and third planes struck

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 IRAQ DID NOT ATTACK THE UNITED STATES ON 9/11!!!!! Don't you get it? We had no business going over there and making it a "democracy". Bush should have excused himself,rather than sit there and look stupid. Imagine if Johnson had still gone to the Trade Mart to give Kennedy's speech for him and then left Dallas? That would have been stupid to do. You don't pretend everything's okay, you act in a calm manner.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Again, comparing an assasination to something where we didn't know all the details right away to doesn't work either. Kennedy was killed with news cameras rolling. The world trade center in the first few minutes for all we knew was an accident of some kind. So, naturally rather than interrupt a classroom full of impressionable children you keep your word and read the book quickly then leave. You don't interrrupt a classroom and then leave a teacher to clean up the mess. Kids react.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 The kids would not have been damaged if Bush had said "Children I hate to leave you so soon but somethings come up." There was only one news camera in Dealey Plaza at the time of the shooting. The rest of the news people were in a bus a few blocks away from Kennedy. The remaining footage of the assassination was captured by bystanders. Bush was told by his Chief of Staff when the second plane hit the towers. And still......He froze up. Exactly what you shouldn't do.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit He handled it with grace just like any public leader would have. He acted fine. You are nitpicking. You are grasping at straws. What would the extra three minutes he saved done? Nothing. Besides the original plan was not to go back to Washington, but to the secret bunker and his response was no we are going back to Washington. Despite the fact they had knowledge one plane was headed to the White House.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Three minutes,it was more like 10. He chickened out and JUST SAT THERE. I don't care about the kids in the classroom, they have nothing to do with this. All he had to do was say "excuse me" and leave. That's it. So they had knowledge of the plane heading towards the White House, but not of the Trade Center planes? That makes no sense. Obviously he would have gone to a secure location, not back to D.C.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit I never said Iraq attacked the United States. But they certainly were happy it happened and would have contributed in the future. Just like Russia, Iran and China work together to make nukes. So, when something happens (when it does not if it does it will) they will all go down. They are all guilty. Above all that, both parties pushed for it anyway so I wouldn't push that issue. Dems and Repubs both did.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Again, wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it. The Bush people didn't care about who really attacked us on 9/11. They wanted to get rid of Saddam to look tough to the public and say "See,were doing something!" Even if what they were doing was for the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. The Taliban was who hit us. bin Laden was who hit us. Bush could have killed him for 7 years. And didn't.

[illusionistdave]

@Suprkit And Bill Clinton had the chance and said no.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit not saying it's right, but you lead. you make a decision and you stick with it. You don't blame a President for lying when you have access to sources to find the correct answers. Anyhow, 2005 rolled around and the dems needed reelecting, so they lied and said they had no idea, and they never supported it when they did.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 He knew the intel. was not correct. He lied,plain and simple. I blame him and his national security team for not paying attention to the actual threat(bin Laden) and attacking someone who never attacked us(Saddam).

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit If Obama had his way, he would have surrendered immediately. And maybe even given the Taliban a gift of some sort.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 uh, The President was against the war before it was even "popular" to be. Saying he would have surrendered is like saying "Bush got bin Laden" you're just pulling things out of your behind because you're wrong. We had no business being there in the first place. What part of that don't you get?

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 I never said he did it for Oil. Please refrain from putting words in my mouth. He lied about the WMD's and the connection between Iraq and 9/11. The UN asked if it could have more time and Bush said no. They went in anyway. Ok, so both parties went along with it, that doesn't mean it wasn't a bad idea. It was a stupid thing to do. Bush said time and again "He's got'm" and we found nothing.Colin Powell before the war said Saddam couldn't make any. His word was "Incapable."

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit You are trying to compare two things that you can't compare though. You cannot compare Vietnam with Iraw because it wasn't a draft. It wasn't a draft of hundreds of thousands of unwilling lied to to die for something that they knew wasn't going to be won. Iraq achieved it's results, and it was soldiers who signed up anyway and were asked to do their job. They knew the risks. It's apples and oranges. Every President has had soldiers die on their watch.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Wrong. Even if soldiers know the risks(which 4 of my family members that went to Iraq can speak from experience), we should send them to the country that attacked us. I don't care if it achieved it's "results" it was still a lie,weather you accept it or not. And no, not every President has had soldiers die on their watch because not every President has had a war. That's just an excuse for trying to cover for Bush.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit No, soldiers do peace time missions, and yes every President has lossed lives under his watch in the armed forces. We like war. Democrats like war (but when wanting to win an election they hate it, typical hypocrits) and Republicans like war. We are a warring nation whether you want to admit it or not.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 No, we haven't lost Service members during every administration. I'm not going to let you get away with lying. What do I have to "admit" to? Yes,we've had wars under Democrats and Republicans.Yes, some of them were unjustified. Yes,Democrats were involved. Republicans are hypocrites.They send kids overseas, then when they return they don't wan't to help them with things like school or medical assistance. They'll pay for the war but not for the help during peace.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Yeah they went in anyway because he said we were going to and ALL the politicans with the exception of Ted Kennedy said "yay do it!" then in an election year three year laters they all said "we didn't know about it." Then you ask. You ask questions. They aren't stupid. they supported it, and the liberals try to make themselves look good, but in the end they voted FOR it like everyone else. It goes all the way back to Clinton and beyond that. Both called for Saddam's demise.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Yeah, because they were shown evidence that turned out to be false. Both sides were lied to, the Neocons just don't want to admit they made a mistake and cost 4,400+ lives for it. A lot of the Democrats in the Congress at the time have said (in effect) they would take back their vote for war. Bush Sr. should have taken out Saddam in '91. Or, if you want to get overly technical, maybe Kennedy should have had him assassinated,since he came to power in '63?

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit Nice hypothetical, considering that Hussein didn't come into power in 1963. So, again I am sure you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Look it up(which I know you won't). The last "President"(remember he stole the election and had to have the Supreme Court select him) was a moron who almost chocked to death on a pretzel. Think what you want but the truth is the truth no matter how much you lie.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit who said the quote about him not caring about Bin Laden? What specific source did you get that from? I am curious. Secondly, the recession isn't Bush's fault. Obama could have easily turned the recession around with tax cuts and reduced spending. Remember the recession Bush cured in the early 2000s? It was conservative principles as to why the economy rebounded. Most President's want a recession going in and boom going out. Obama had the perfect opportunity to prove his greatness and

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Bush said in March of '02 at a Press Conference that "I don't know where he(bin Laden his). Y'know,I just don't spend that much time on him to be honest with you." Type "I don't spend that much time on him" and it will come up. "Reaganomics" only gives rich people more money and cuts services for those who are middle class. Neocons have been pushing it for years,and it only gives us deficits. Bush may have cured one recession,but he gave us an even BIGGER recession in the end.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit True every President deficit spends, but what finally drove the nail into the coffin was the housing bubble bursting. FreddieMac and FannieMae are all liberal concieved entities. Making it easier to give loans to those who can't afford them. Liberals caused the recession. Liberals had the chance to clean up the recession in 2008. They didn't. They made it worse. They also changed the wording from "jobs created" to "jobs saved" in an attempt to fool the public. Sorry but your argumentsux

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 Wall Street(not "Liberals") gave people loans they could not afford. Bush had a former Goldman Sachs executive as his Treasury Secretary. No, they were told by Bush "If we don't do something now the whole thing will collapse". Again, fear mongering people into spending money for little reason at all because they were "Too big to fail." The President has "Saved OR Created" more jobs in his 2 1/2 years than Bush did in 8.

[itsjustme2919]

@Suprkit as POTUS, it as all always your fault. You are captain of the ship.

[Suprkit]

@itsjustme2919 That standard is for EVERY President, right?

[1thru9atoz]

When America was great!

[observer9670]

LBJ's aide, Tom Johnston, took it upon himself to inform the world about his boss' death while at the hospital. His first call was to CBS News, who broke the story. CBS News put him right through to Cronkite on their air at the moment of the call.

[jonofthesun]

this guys the shit

[mdhookey]

You can see Cronkite's face is full of concentration and thinking how he can calmly address this moment. He was a great journalist, and we miss him.

[ALCOSS24]

news today its garbage nice faces but not talent 3idiots express opinion

who care opinions we whant news who care nancy graces and the others idiots

[MANKATO311]

On the same day LBJ passed on.The Supreme Court legalized abortion and a peace treaty was announced in Vietnam.Talk about a big news day.

[thenutintheushanka18]

Why is it that whenever Walter Cronkite is on the phone, a president dies?

[Zebonka]

Walter Cronkite orders a pizza.

[cjzzzzz]

SCREW LBJ!!!

[alfredroberthogan]

This is videotape from the Vanderbilt Television News Archive in Nashville TN. The "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" began colorcasting from Jan. 1966 onward (and experimentally sometimes before that). Kinescopes emerged circa 1947, videotapes in 1956, though some kinescoping was done for a few years of transition while videotaping caught on. Alas, much TV neytwork news was either never recorded or was erased (some amateurs audio-taped from circa late 1940s onward).--arhogan1610@yahoo.co­m

[elc1960]

For people born in the 1960s Cronkite is the image of what a TV news anchor should be, similar to the people who were around to see Edward R. Murrow in the '50s - unassailable credibility, compared to Katie Couric, who tells guests things like "you rock", and other inanities. When she said that to those soldiers that time, I bet Bob Schieffer was at home going "Oh man, what the hell is this shit? They replaced me with THIS airhead???"

[tvnutboy]

One thing I notice here is that after the bulletin is mentioned, they just go back to the news as though it's another day at the office. Nowadays if a major story of that Caliber was breaking, they would pretty much throw all the other stories the had planned out the window & focus on the big story whether there was any info on it or not. Times Have Changed.

[JDThePwner]

The only man to make all of america wait by holding up his finger

[WC3POchannel10A]

@JDThePwner And we did. :-) No one now has his gravitas.

[nanlisa]

I remember this when I came home from school. He also died on the same day of the Roe vs. Wade decision.

[Nostalgico80]

Why a 1973 news program is in b/w?

[lrj1119]

@Nostalgico80 The broadcast would have been in color...this is what I believe is called kinescope...basically this was the network's recording of their programming which was still done in black and white in 1973.

[smadaf]

@Nostalgico80 Many were for decades. The CBS news was in color long before 1973; but many of the archive tapes of the news that were kept were just in black and white, even though the live transmissions had been in color.

[00Billy]

Thats the way the news should be still done....

Walter what a dude. epitome of trust.

[spacepatrolman]

@00Billy Jerry Rubin said that walter cronkite contributed to the ending of the vietnam war by going on the news every night and giveing a lot of grim details

[robatsea2009]

@ajgolfer1 Cronkite is announcing the death of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who passed away January 22, 1973. You're confusing him with President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated November 22, 1963.

[csplendrig]

@ajgolfer1 it clearly says LBJ, not JFK, how could you miss that? Get your shit straight before trying to correct someone else, idiot

[ajgolfer1]

1963

[supernaturalguy2009]

i love the originality of the news back then. you could be on air then the phone rings with the breaking news and they keep rolling... really exciting

[jeffreysnydr]

Hope he's broadcasting in heaven.

[thabigben1]

Cronkite lives on in our hearts forever. And that's the way it is.

[garciaco49]

Walter Cronkite the all time best!

[Stixman41]

Walter is my all-time favorite broadcaster, RIP my friend.

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Only a true reporter will stop live broadcast to get the facts straight. A TRUE reporter.

[MariPamJam]

yes, we wil miss him. To be 92 years old, that was a long live.

[usa02]

R.I.P. Walter Cronkite 1916-2009, we all miss you!