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by Douglas Brinkley


  “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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  CREDITS

  Cover illustration courtesy PARS International and © Estate of Robert Vickrey/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

  Cover design by Anthony Morais

  COPYRIGHT

  CRONKITE. Copyright © 2012 by Douglas Brinkley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Epub Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780062196637

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Brinkley, Douglas

  Cronkite / by Douglas Brinkley.—1st ed.

  p. cm

  Includes bibliographical references.

  ISBN 978-0-06-137426-5

  1. Cronkite, Walter. 2. Television journalists—United States—Biography. 3. Biography and autobiography—Editors, journalists, and publishers. I. Title.

  PN4874.C84B75 2012

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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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