“Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam” (CBS Reports), 577
Johnson’s policy on, 340–41, 342, 347, 349, 352, 356, 364–65, 367, 462
Kennedy’s policy on, 259–61
last Americans to die in, 512
moratorium to end the war, 443, 444
My Lai tragedy, 446
Nixon and, 442, 443, 447, 448, 451, 463, 472–73
Pentagon Papers and, 458–60, 461–62, 463
Pleiku attack, 340–41, 346
release of American POWs, 492–93
as a stalemate, 378–79, 380, 384, 441, 462
the Tet Offensive, 366–86
torching of Cam Ne, 347–48, 349
during 2004 presidential election, 641
“Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The” (CBS Reports), 569–70
wounded correspondents in Vietnam, 381–82, 511
“Vietnam Weekly Review” (NBC News), 342, 345
Vitarelli, Bob, 376
Voice of America (VOA), 136
Voice of the UN Command, 325
von Braun, Wernher, 193, 337, 338–39
Von Fremd, Charles, 234, 257
Vonnegut, Kurt, 417
Von Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd, 122
Voorhis, Jerry, 214
“Voyage to the Moon” (MacLeish), 423
Waco CG-4, 117
Wade, William, 95, 97, 147
WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA, 328
Wakefield, U.S.S., 80–81
Walesa, Lech, 553
Walker, Gerald, 624, 645
Wallace, Chris, 314–15, 319, 322
Wallace, George, 298, 329, 365, 408, 409
Wallace, Henry, 221
Wallace, Mary, 649
Wallace, Mike, 186, 249, 309, 314, 315, 336, 406
and brutal treatment at 1968 DNC, 403
as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 248–49
and Cronkite, 574, 607, 638
and Cronkite’s death, 659
and Memogate, 642, 643
retirement from CBS, 649
Shah of Iran interview, 534
and Turner bid for CBS, 585
“Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The,” 569–70
Walters and, 524
Wall, Jimmy, 330–31, 550
Wall Street Journal, 107–8, 163, 373, 379
Walt Disney World, Florida, 591
Walter and Betsy Cronkite Foundation, 659
Walter Cronkite: Witness to History (PBS), 652
Walter Cronkite and the News (CBS News), 171
Walter Cronkite at Large (CBS News), 578
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, 484
Walter Cronkite Newsletter, 488
Walter Cronkite’s Esso News Show (CBS News), 171
Walter Cronkite’s Universe (CBS News), 548, 554–58, 567, 568, 609
Walters, Barbara (broadcaster), 516, 523–25, 526, 529, 538, 540–42, 574, 599, 644, 647, 660
Walters, Barbara (writer), 179
Walters, Vinny, 244
“Walter Wants” phenomenon, 529
Waltons, The (CBS TV), 509
Ward, Jonathan, 614, 619
Warhol, Andy, 593
War Is Hell (movie), 277
War of the Worlds (radio drama), 413
war on poverty, 416
War Powers Act, 636
Warren Commission Report, 282–83
Warren, Earl, 221, 282, 501–2
Warsaw Pact, 553
Washington Post, 154, 155, 158, 188, 201, 202, 220, 251, 280, 367, 389, 400, 424, 467, 592, 666
and G. W. Bush administration, 637
on Cronkite and Carter, 526
and Cronkite on USIA blacklist, 571
on Cronkite’s Legacy of War, 654
Cronkite’s retirement announcement to, 537
and Nixon’s resignation, 508
Post-owned TV stations, 475, 477
and Watergate scandal, 471, 474–75, 477, 478, 479, 497
Washington Star, 657
Washington State University–Pullman, 47, 60
Washington Times, 623
“Watergate: Part I” (CBS News), 477
“Watergate: Part II” (CBS News), 478
“Watergate Affair, The” (CBS News), 475–76
Watergate scandal, 164, 445, 470–71, 474–79, 496–97, 501, 502
Waterway Guide, 527
Watson, Tom, 608
WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL, 381
WCAU radio, Philadelphia, PA, 73
WCBS-AM radio, New York, 331, 362, 512
WCBS-TV, New York, 500, 515, 616
WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN, 181
WDZ radio, Decatur, IL, 244
Weatherly (yacht), 244
Weathermen, 400
Web journalism, 281–82
Webster, Don, 361
Weedin, Harfield, 40
Weiner, Lee, 406
Weisman, Alan, 560–62, 563–64, 565
Welles, Orson, 413
Wells, H. G., 224
WELY radio, Ely, MN, 364
Wenner, Jann, 592–93
Werner, Douglas, 86, 89
Wershba, Joe and Shirley, 154, 155, 622, 648
West, Betsy, 642, 643
West, Cornel, 297
West, Dick, 320, 418
West, Rebecca, 132
Westerland (Dutch ship), 86–87
Western College for Women, Oxford, OH, 296–97
Westin, Av, 332
Westinghouse, 162, 165, 166, 212
Westminster Abbey, 171
Westmoreland v. CBS, 570
Westmoreland, William, 347, 349, 350, 365, 371–72, 373, 379, 382, 513, 569–70
Westwind (Cronkite and Ellis), 580
WHAS-TV, Louisville, KY, 255
What Is Happening to News (Fuller), 615
What’s My Line? (CBS TV), 153, 155, 158, 166, 186–87
WHB Broadcasting Company, Kansas City, MO, 70
wheat graft, 474
“Where We Stand” (The Twentieth Century), 195
White, Edward H., 333, 336
White House
Cronkites’ invitation to, 626
press corps, 259, 260
tours of the, 157–58, 250
White House Years (Kissinger), 467–68
White, Paul, 101, 112–13, 115–16, 218, 250
white supremacists, 328
White, Theodore, 203, 205, 257, 310, 574
Whitmire, Kathy, 33
Whitney, Gifford, 580–81
Whitney, Jock, 96
Whitney, William C., 581
Whole Earth Catalog (Brand), 428
Who Speaks for Birmingham? (CBS Reports), 245–46
Why in the World (PBS), 554
Wicks Aircraft Company, Kansas City, MO, 117
Wilder, Billy, 247
Wilkman, Jon, 324
William Allen White Medal for Outstanding Journalistic Merit, 454
Williams, Brian, 187, 481, 486–87, 489, 499, 579
Cronkite and, 616–17
Williams, Jane, 617
Williams, Robert J., 318
Williams, Woody, 43–44
Williston, Scotti, 562
Willkie, Wendell, 311
Wills, Garry, 402
Wilson, Woodrow, 15, 16, 36, 75
Winchell, Walter, 38, 155, 309, 326
Winfrey, Oprah, 614
Winner Take All (TV game show), 158
Winter, Cornelia “Bit,” 32, 36, 37, 38, 43–44, 45, 46, 50
wire service industry<
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newspapers and, 30, 41–43, 54, 55, 218
See also United Press (UP)
With Kennedy (Salinger), 261
With Lawrence of Arabia (Thomas), 198
Witness to Power (Ehrlichman), 465
WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, FL, 477
WKMG-TV, Orlando, FL, 444
WKRC-TV, Cincinnati, OH, 516
WKY radio, Oklahoma City, OK, 59, 85
WKYZ radio, Detroit, MI, 140
WMAQ-TV, Chicago, IL, 249
WNBC-TV, New York, 273
Wolfe, Tom, 317–18
women’s movement, 522–23
Wood, Lew, 244–45, 581
and Kennedy assassination, 265–66, 269, 276, 277, 278–79, 281, 282
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 555–56
Woodstock music festival, 411
Woodward, Bob, 471, 474, 475, 476, 503, 508
Woodward, Joanne, 174
World Book Encyclopedia, 18, 22, 70
World Federalist Association, Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, 630
World Is My Sea, The (Michener), 526–27
World News Tonight (ABC News), 551
World War I, 13, 15–17, 18, 34, 75, 89, 95
World War II, 60, 61, 71–132, 163–64, 177, 224, 291
Allied air war against Germany, 89–91, 93–95, 97–98, 108–9, 112
Battle of Britain, 73–75
Battle of Dieppe, 80
Battle of Midway, 81
Battle of the Bulge, 122–23, 373
Cronkite and fiftieth-anniversary ceremonies for, 620–21
Cronkite as UP war correspondent during, 76–132
end of, 131–32
journalists on bombing missions, 95, 97–98, 108–9, 112
Legacy of War (PBS), 654–55
Normandy invasion (D-day), 80, 103, 110–14, 119, 288, 298–99, 572–73, 620
Operation Market Garden, 117–20
Operation Torch, 81–83, 86
UP reporters covering, 64–65, 77
V-E (“Victory in Europe”) Day, 125–26
war correspondents killed during, 78, 98, 100, 101–2, 108, 122
World Wildlife Fund, 438
WPLG-TV, Miami, FL, 477
WRAJ-AM radio, Anna, IL, 165
Writing Sixty-Ninth reporters, 95–103, 147, 343
WTBS-TV, Atlanta, GA, 516, 558
WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C., 152–57, 180, 189, 251, 350, 520
Wussler, Robert J., 222–25, 234, 308, 332, 336, 415, 423
WWL-TV, New Orleans, LA, 265, 328, 525
Wyler, William, 96
Wyman, Thomas, 584
Wyntje (yacht), 245, 439, 471, 480, 501, 526, 539, 581, 582, 596, 599, 625–26
X-15 aircraft, 193
Xuan Oanh, 372
Yahoo! News, 444
Yank (Army weekly), 95
Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent, The (Caro), 285
“Yellowstone Remembered” (PBS), 617
Yippies, 399, 402, 403, 404, 406–7
You Are There (CBS News), 173–75, 176, 178, 179, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 333, 385, 458, 482
Young, John, 332, 590
Your World in Review (CBS News), 171
Youth for New America, 444
Yucca Flats, Nevada, 175, 176
Zapruder, Abraham, 283
Zapruder film, 283, 284
Zenker, Arnold, 357–58, 359
Zhou Enlai, 467, 468
Ziegler, Ron, 458, 465, 467, 475
Zwick, Charlie and Barbara, 592
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY is a professor of history at Rice University and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. The Chicago Tribune has dubbed him “America’s new past master.” His most recent books are The Quiet World, The Wilderness Warrior, and The Great Deluge. Six of his books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. He lives in Texas with his wife and three children.
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FOOTNOTES
* Eyewitness originally aired in 1959 as Eyewitness to History, with Charles Kuralt serving as host. Walter Cronkite took over the show in 1961, when the program’s name was shortened to Eyewitness, and hosted it until 1962. Charles Collingwood acted as the show’s emcee from 1962 until the end of its run in 1963.
* The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite was telecast at 6:30 p.m. (EST) from 1962 to 1981, though some affiliates elected to carry the broadcast at a later time (such as WCBS-TV in New York), until that practice was outlawed in the 1970s.
* In the coming years at least four other CBS correspondents distinguished themselves with edgy Vietnam reports: Ed Bradley, Bob Simon, Richard Threlkeld, and Bruce Dunning.
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