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CBS Evening News July 31 1968
YouTube ^ | 07-31-1968 | CBS News

Posted on 09/25/2016 9:11:50 AM PDT by NRx

Wow. I remember almost every news story covered in here. Original adverts for added period flavor.

(Excerpt) Read more at youtu.be ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1968; cbs; media; msm
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1 posted on 09/25/2016 9:11:50 AM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

“And that’s the way it is”

It sounds ominous today.

1968- the highwater mark of American “liberal consensus” technocracy.


2 posted on 09/25/2016 9:26:28 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: NRx

Wow...what a dick John Lindsay was!


3 posted on 09/25/2016 9:32:14 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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1968- the highwater mark of American “liberal consensus” technocracy.

Great phrase and concept, but it could equally be argued that the high water mark of American liberal consensus technocracy occurred on August 9, 1974, the day Nixon resigned.

4 posted on 09/25/2016 9:42:55 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: NRx

Whatever you think of the newscasters at the time, THAT was a good and straight newscast the way it should be done.


5 posted on 09/25/2016 9:43:19 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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I agree. It was a straight just the facts please, relatively balanced (certainly by today’s standards) news broadcast.


6 posted on 09/25/2016 9:47:21 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx
I remeber this one;)

US Election Night 1980 NBC live coverage 11-4-1980

7 posted on 09/25/2016 9:47:41 AM PDT by mdittmar
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To: NRx

Reminds me of a time when you could actually watch the mainstream media and get . . . NEWS . . . and not . . . OPINION. At least when it was opinion, they specifically stated that it was.


8 posted on 09/25/2016 9:55:23 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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Wow, that triggered a flood of memories.

My brother:
Samuel T. Smith, Jr., LCpl, USMC
Born June 19, 1949 KIA July 14, 1968


9 posted on 09/25/2016 9:55:36 AM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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To: mdittmar

When the republican colors were blue.


10 posted on 09/25/2016 9:58:41 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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Bobby Kennedy had been shot a month before, and America was in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.


11 posted on 09/25/2016 10:03:26 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (HANDGUNS; You don’t need it until you need it. And when you need it you NEED IT!”)
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“My brother:
Samuel T. Smith, Jr., LCpl, USMC
Born June 19, 1949 KIA July 14, 1968”

Memory eternal!


12 posted on 09/25/2016 10:08:16 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx

At age 20 then, I was neither for or against Vietnam.

So when drafted in December 1968, I complied, and reported.

When I got out of the army two years hence, I was still not firmly on either side.

Those were tumultuous times, though. Young people today cannot imagine how much different it was.

Most young males then were at risk of being drafted for a war that they had little stake with.

Today hardly anybody is at risk, to give anything for their country.

We live in a minimal consequences society.


13 posted on 09/25/2016 10:08:33 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: US_MilitaryRules

And rightly so. Better dead than red. Now I hear that slogan is showing up on bumper stickers in San Francisco!


14 posted on 09/25/2016 10:09:36 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: NRx

And not one female correspondent


15 posted on 09/25/2016 10:15:43 AM PDT by Shark24 (.)
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To: bigbob

Gave the crabs to Florence Henderson, too (per her autobiography)


16 posted on 09/25/2016 10:34:35 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: NRx

No story on the crippled kid that got to ride on the fire truck and no commercial for any prescription drug.


17 posted on 09/25/2016 10:45:23 AM PDT by 11x62
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To: 11x62
But they did advertise good old Marlborough Country. That brought back memories too. My paternal grandfather used to roll his own cigarettes after they started putting filters in the manufactured ones. He was a real mans man.

He also died of colon cancer.
18 posted on 09/25/2016 10:53:37 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: VanDeKoik

“THAT was a good and straight newscast the way it should be done.”

Not really. Cronkite lied to the American people night after night. He claimed the 68 Tet offensive was a loss for America and a win for the North Vietnamese. The exact opposite was true.

His broadcasts were loaded with liberal and communist innuendo, key words, and phrases. He outright lied.


19 posted on 09/25/2016 11:00:38 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

True, but in this video, I at least got to hear stories presented, with opposing sides allowed to give extended statements without a bunch of hype, editorializing, and unprofessional crap from the reporter.


20 posted on 09/25/2016 11:15:20 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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