“And that’s the way it is”
It sounds ominous today.
1968- the highwater mark of American “liberal consensus” technocracy.
Wow...what a dick John Lindsay was!
Whatever you think of the newscasters at the time, THAT was a good and straight newscast the way it should be done.
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.
Wow, that triggered a flood of memories.
My brother:
Samuel T. Smith, Jr., LCpl, USMC
Born June 19, 1949 KIA July 14, 1968
Bobby Kennedy had been shot a month before, and America was in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.
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.
And not one female correspondent
I’m in there. Some of my film and reports were in quite a few CBS National stories. I was on the staff of the CBS station in Columbus, Ohio. One was coverage of Robert Kennedy. Covered two “race” riots and a bloody prison riot. The prison riot occurred the day Russia invaded Czechoslovakia (had to look up the spelling). Needless to say I lost my big chance, as I had taken a video crew into the riot. I was a very stupid young man! I haven’t even thought back that far in a long time. My lovely grandchildren no nothing of any of that!