The Cronkite most remember is the man who took off his glasses mourning the fatal attack on JFK. Then others might recall, is declaring Tet a communist victory and that “only negotiations” could end the war.
After the Battle of Ia Drang valley - our first major engagement Cronkite in a long report on it after it was over said something like “It remains to be seen how long the wives and mothers and the American public will accept seeing their brave boys coming home in caskets.” The FIRST battle!
The media had a great deal to do with the eventual loss of Vietnam even when the American military basically won every battle fought.
While insinuating the whole time that it just had to be Right-Wingers that killed JFK.
Yup. I hated the SOB for his lying so called reporting then and has not changed. He was a hero to the same filthy anti war hippies that spit on me in the San Francisco airport-—rot in Hell Uncle Walter, America’s so called must trusted reporter.