FBI Files: Walter Cronkite Collaborated With Anti-War Activists…

Weasel Zippers ^ | MAY 15, 2010 | ZIP

[RobinMasters]

Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even pledging CBS News resources to help pull off events, according to FBI documents obtained by Yahoo! News.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, say that in November 1969, Cronkite encouraged students at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., to invite Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie to address a protest they were planning near Cape Kennedy (now known as Cape Canaveral). Cronkite told the group’s leader that Muskie would be nearby for a fundraiser on the day of the protest, and said that “CBS would rent [a] helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally,” according to the documents.

The claims are contained in an FBI memo recounting a confidential informant’s report on a November 1969 meeting of a Rollins College protest group called Youth for New America. The group was planning rallies near Cape Kennedy on Nov. 13 and 14 — the latter being day of the Apollo 12 launch from Cape Kennedy, which President Nixon would be attending — as part of a nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. That protest action culminated in a huge march on Washington on Nov. 15.

[Marty62]

The blinders are off of most of America now.

We know that the msm is nothing but propagandist for the commie/fascist/socialist/dums.

[Travis McGee]

Uncle Walter, “the most trusted man in America,” was a globalist traitor.

Traitors should be hung by the neck.

[GeronL]

Breitbart seems to think the media leads it, along with academics I guess.

[narses]

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[Melian]

I never liked him because he seemed portentous.

As time went on, I liked him less and less. There’s no fool like an old fool.

[reader25]

No surprise here. Main stream media have always worked to subvert the very government that provides them with the freedom to print lies, distortions, and embellishments.

[daniel1212]

http://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal_bias

[MamaB]

We already knew that. It was very obvious to anyone with a grain of sense. He is the main reason I quit watching network news.

[Thunder90]

PING

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Some of IncPen’s finest work...

[ChiMark]

My father distrusted Cronkite.

Nixon said Walter was hardly the man trusted to be truthful.

Archie Bunker was right “pinko Cronkite”.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Without a doubt.

[Tammy8]

I am really not surprised. At the time I lumped him in with Hanoi Jane and that bunch- it was pretty plain he was biased.

[MountainDad]

I remember him saying something about the war one night and my Dad throwing his shoe at the TV. I'm pretty sure it was the "Veitnam war cannnot be won" rant.

Dad was a Korean war vet.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Breitbart seems to think the media leads it, along with academics I guess."

Andrea Mitchell is one of their "leaders". Media in bed with Monetary. The two actual branches of power.

[zot]

Treason ping.

[YHAOS]

"My question is, are they in on the plan to destroy America, or are they just useful idiots? "

Yes

[Carling]

Walter Cronkite realized that power that he held over the public, and once he did, he used his powerful position to push his agenda on this country.

Cronkite is no better than Goebbels, at least in terms of being a propagandist. He should be held in shame by true Americans. The fact that the left celebrates him should be enough of a signal.

[Wolfstar]

Chronkite was and remains an avowed Communist.