Newly released FBI files discuss Walter Cronkite aiding Vietnam antiwar protestors

[Demeter]

Source: YNEWS

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, show 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 November 13 and 14—the day of the Apollo 12 launch from Cape Kennedy, which Richard Nixon would be attending—as part of a nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. That protest action culminated in a massive march on Washington, D.C., on November 15. According to the informant, the group's leader—whose name is redacted in the documents—told the attendees that during a visit to a local CBS News station to drum up publicity for the protests, he ended up in a 45-minute phone conversation with Cronkite....

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Oh, THAT Liberal Media? That totally no-longer-with-us, actually reported the news, liberal media?

[benld74]

1. And THATS the way it was, BUT NEVER AGAIN, with todays so called media,,,

I miss you WALTER!

[whathehell]

4. +100 n/t

[Echo In Light]

2. K/R

[leftstreet]

3. K&R

Interesting!

[DURHAM D]

5. Good for Walt. My admiration continues to grow. nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. They say it like it's a bad thing? -nt

[Libertyfirst]

7. +1000

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. I remember, when Cronkite died, a particularly nasty DU troll went on an insult tirade against him.

Said he was dishonest and other things, and failed to elaborate.

[spanone]

9. i remember when reporters had a conscience....