Cronkite's news reporting - remarkable. In times of tension, no News anchor was better. Cronkite's words and delivery could console the nation. President Johnson once remarked, once he lost Cronkite, then President Johnson knew he had lost the Vietnam War.
One of the greatest and bravest men in history. Beyond sad that the most ignorant and worthless people in the world can take away the lives of men like that.
I bet you have heard the line "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play".. That is often quoted and chuckled at. Why can't we have fun with Dr. King and his wife???
To be honest as a movie director, screenwriter, producer I want this for a historical movie🎬🎬🎬🎬🎥🎥🎥 I want to inform ( educate) people on what happen to MLK this is very important
In life they could not stop him, they could not keep him down. In death they could not stop him, they could not keep him down. The power of love, the power of unity, the power of character surpasses the power of the world and any of it's evils. Thanks be to God for the good example of this noble man, MLK.
@@plezful I know it's one year later but he did not say the killing was successful. He said the attempt was successful. An insensitive way of delivering the news but not a racist statement.
I believe this was a second feed of the "CBS Evening News", normally seen only on the West Coast, but was broadcast network-wide (somewhere around 9 P.M. Eastern time?). Cronkite was in Washington that evening; I think he had been at Cape Canaveral that morning for the second test launch of the Saturn 5 rocket (although I don't know if CBS carried it live that morning) and may have gone to D.C. because that may have been the only way he could prepare and do the "Evening News" in-time for the East Coast feed (6:30 P.M. Eastern time).
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own....Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" ---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way
Sonya Bennetone Allegedly Jesse Jackson called her the original story was they told Jesse not to make the phone call he was not as close to Dr. King as Ralph Abernathy from the beginning Jesse Jackson was an opportunist!!!!!
I remember it like yesterday. Something you never forget.
Cronkite's news reporting - remarkable. In times of tension, no News anchor was better. Cronkite's words and delivery could console the nation.
President Johnson once remarked, once he lost Cronkite, then President Johnson knew he had lost the Vietnam War.
The American people's support for the war, not the war.
One of the greatest and bravest men in history. Beyond sad that the most ignorant and worthless people in the world can take away the lives of men like that.
"Other than that, Mrs. King, how was your husband's stay in Memphis"
I bet you have heard the line "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play".. That is often quoted and chuckled at. Why can't we have fun with Dr. King and his wife???
He gave his life for what he believed, God bless his family ...he was a great man
I grew up listening to Walter Cronkite, that was a sad day
correction: Dr. King had four children; Yolanda, Martin III, Bernice, and Dexter.
An immeasurable loss
Amen!
If this happened today he would be accused of having drugs in his system.
"However he never had a chance to carry out that threat..."
To be honest as a movie director, screenwriter, producer I want this for a historical movie🎬🎬🎬🎬🎥🎥🎥 I want to inform ( educate) people on what happen to MLK this is very important
RIP Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
From JFK TO MLK, Walter Cronkite announces like a boss!
Mr.Davis 1337 King of the mockingbird media.
he didn't shed a tear for MLK tho
Kimmy because of racism
He also covered rfk’s death
And lbj
RIP Walter Conkrite and MLK
Nellie K. Adaba Walter was a racist
+plezful maybe when he was hired in those days that's the criteria
@@plezful i didn't know Cronkite was a racist. How do you know he was?
In life they could not stop him, they could not keep him down. In death they could not stop him, they could not keep him down. The power of love, the power of unity, the power of character surpasses the power of the world and any of it's evils. Thanks be to God for the good example of this noble man, MLK.
I was 6 years old when this happened, but for some reason, I can remember my mom telling my dad, to be careful Dr.King had just be shot.
Walter Cronkite
King of the anchormen
Patrick Smith. Yup
Patrick Smith how can anyone show honor to a racist. Notice at timeline:55 where he termed the killing of Dr King as successful
@@plezful I know it's one year later but he did not say the killing was successful. He said the attempt was successful. An insensitive way of delivering the news but not a racist statement.
Was this a bulletin/cut-in? It's different than the more formal Cronkite newscast that is also on YT.
Cronkite said he had two children - King had FOUR children!
I believe this was a second feed of the "CBS Evening News", normally seen only on the West Coast, but was broadcast network-wide (somewhere around 9 P.M. Eastern time?).
Cronkite was in Washington that evening; I think he had been at Cape Canaveral that morning for the second test launch of the Saturn 5 rocket (although I don't know if CBS carried it live that morning) and may have gone to D.C. because that may have been the only way he could prepare and do the "Evening News" in-time for the East Coast feed (6:30 P.M. Eastern time).
MLK and Coretta Scott King had four children 50 years ago.
Rest in peace, Dr. King.
"In honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s memory we also acknowledge non-violence as a truly powerful weapon to achieve equality and liberation--in fact, the only weapon that Christians who struggle for social change can claim as their own....Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers. The people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it. We believe it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything. Those who espouse violence exploit people. To call men to arms with many promises, to ask them to give up their lives for a cause and then not produce for them afterwards, is the most vicious type of oppression" ---Cesar Chavez, He Showed Us The Way
If you listened to his last speech to the sanitation workers he knew his last day's of walking this earth was near.
Cronkite must have thought oh no here we go again
1968 was one of the worst years in American History.
I'm glad I was only two years old at the time if I had been a adult there's no telling what I would have done
what would you have done?
RIP MLK
How did he know he wasn't go to make it to the top of the mountain?
Wish we had more journalist like Walter C. He was the quintessential Anchorman...
7SKYBALLER he was a mouthpiece for the mockingbird media.
King had four children..... did I hear him say they originally told Mrs. King that he was shot in the shoulder.....??
Sonya Bennetone Allegedly Jesse Jackson called her the original story was they told Jesse not to make the phone call he was not as close to Dr. King as Ralph Abernathy from the beginning Jesse Jackson was an opportunist!!!!!
And thats the way it was april 1968
Um ...
... where did this “ he had 2 children “ come from??
he was only 52 here? And still lived another 40 years
Today mark 56 year's of Martin Luther King assassination
Cronkite cried when announcing JFK death, but not MLK!
He's smirking! I'm sure he was happy about it.
😢
sorry but its mlk jr please correct title
+jon riggall Shut up, everybody knows who's meant.
JFK, MLK, RFK 😢😢
Medgar and Malcolm too.
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Will this also happen to Don Trump? Impeachment trials are happening.
Cronkite said the "N" word. Wow !
Cronkite better controlled himself here. For JFK he nearly cried. Still I don't thin he was rascist.
Kronkite Illuminati puppet
My mother was 2 during the events of 1968.