Remembering Walter Cronkite
Cronkite interviewed John F. Kennedy in Hyannis Port in 1963. Cronkite got Kennedy to express views on the Vietnam conflict and how his civil rights stand might cost him votes in the South.
Cronkite was a fixture of CBS's political coverage, covering every political national convention from 1952 through 1980, save for the Democrats’ in 1964. The CBS anchormen there generated abysmal ratings, and in one week CBS received 11,000 letters protesting Cronkite’s absence.
Cronkite was a fixture of CBS's political coverage, covering every political national convention from 1952 through 1980, save for the Democrats’ in 1964. The CBS anchormen there generated abysmal ratings, and in one week CBS received 11,000 letters protesting Cronkite’s absence.
