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.
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I always new he was a leftist kook !
ReplyDeleteok, so what? isn't this a free country where you can protest?
ReplyDeleteJ. Edgar Hoover was trying to paint Cronkite as a Commie. He did the same to Dr. King.
ReplyDeleteCronkite was, and is, the most trusted man in America.
ReplyDeleteThis does not surprise me. A big thanks to Salisbury News for calling the article to our attention.
ReplyDeleteWhen you sell yourself as a unbiased news reporter you should be that not an under ground spy for the progressive movement !
ReplyDeleteRead the comments at GO HERE...maybe, maybe not. For me I think not. Walter Cronkite was the last of the good ones in my book.
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