I almost made it to the end - but then they mentioned Walter Conkrite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlbEzzubDsc
Walter introduces the above newscast from 1965 on the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam. During the introduction it shows young troops, with Uncle Walter saying “...proud, sure of themselves, but still to be tested in battle.”
Then, with the rows of caskets being unloaded “Last week.....some of them....came home.....”
Later-on Morly Safer says something like “While this battle was claimed a victory, it remains to be seen how long America will stand for the huge losses of their sons fighting in this remote jungle.:
This was in 19-friggin’-65 near the beginning of the war!
The leftist manipulated news has been around for a long time.