Walter Cronkite--What's My Line

Here, Walter Cronkite, Charles Collingwood, Douglas Edwards, Eric Sevareid, and Robert Trout were the mystery guests on the 12 August 1956 episode of WML.

All of five men were the CBS news team covering the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

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[cheyenne86]

these are newsmen. what we have today are clowns and wanna be actors.

[lamccaugh]

Uncle Walter, You were always there when the world turned dark You reached out your strong hand To a troubled land Including Vietnam overseas Everybody prayed and landed on their knees To stop this disgusting turmoil That made our skin crawl and our blood boil You even lassoed and threw over your shiny anchor as a symbol of a sacrificial light To cease a painful battle sight RIP

[bluebear1985]

While Walter Cronkite was doing the CBS News, John Charles Daly was doing news broadcasts over on ABC at the time.

[mgwilliams1000]

Arlene Francis... SIGH...Wow. You notice how the two women picked up on this and the men didn't? I was 8 when this was aired but wanted both of them to marry me!

[jedispaz2002]

that was good!

[wkyken]

@lamccaugh And through it all, Walter Cronkite showed integrity and was a total professional. Compare that with what passes for TV journalists today.

[einsamste]

@cheyenne86 naw. what we have now are puppets, not newsmen

[Juliaflo]

@cheyenne86 You could never have said it more accurately. I grew up watching these intellectuals on television. (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, LOLOLOLOL).

[CadillacL]

I recognize 2. Douglas Edwards & of course the great Walter ConKrite.:)

[MegaObserver1]

The line "do you ever work with puppets" got a laugh, because a few years before Cronkite hosted CBS' Morning Show, their competitor to NBC's Today Show. One of the regular features of the CBS show was a lion puppet! Cronkite said he liked doing that show, but had to leave when CBS made it into more of an entertainment show. He was replaced by Jack Paar.

[MegaObserver1]

In 1956, the evening news shows weren't considered a major part of network news. They were only 15 minutes on all 3 networks, Live coverage of conventions, election returns, inaugurations and documentaries were the main focus of network news in those days. Cronkite anchored/hosted all of those for CBS while Edwards anchored the evening news.  He took over the evening news in 1962, a year before CBS expanded it to a half hour.

[darwincity]

@myboylollipop09 Same thing in dear old France. We had Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, the French version of Cronkite, until 2008. got sacked by Sarkozy, and now we have a busty blond, no pun intended to blondes, but still, this problem is worldwide, I do believe...