Reply #1: I had never seen so much of that coverage before.

[ClusterFreak]

Definitely one of the iconic moments in modern history, one of the many Mr. Cronkite would preside over in his long and illustrious career.

As an aside, I found it so odd to watch so many different people during that broadcast repeating what were at the time unsubstantiated rumors that the President was dead. Just strange to hear them suggest he might be dead, or he might not. Not what I would have expected to hear about what was such a monumentally important story. Of course they were ultimately right, but it's possible that they could have been wrong too. Imagine the walkback on that. It makes me think ahead to when Reagan was shot and Frank Reynolds on ABC was given wrong information that Reagan was dead, and then when it was quickly corrected Reynolds tore a strip off the news staffer who gave him the wrong info.