Walter Cronkite was an Anti-War Sympathizer

I admit you have to take this with a slight grain of salt, having the source blacked out. But you know “The Most Trusted Man in America” was very leftist and was against the Vietnam War. And then again many “objective journalists” tell us to "just trust us" when they say we have confidential sources. So these “objective journalists” will extend that courtesy to this author, right.

FBI files discuss Cronkite aiding Vietnam protesters
Fri May 14, 1:39 pm ET

.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, say 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 Nov. 13 and 14 — the latter being day of the Apollo 12 launch from Cape Kennedy, which President Nixon would be attending — as part of a nationwide Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam. That protest action culminated in a huge march on Washington on Nov. 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.



Just nine months before, Cronkite had delivered his famous on-air judgment that the "bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." Even so, such tight collaboration between a news organization and the anti-war movement — particularly the offer of CBS News resources to help ferry a sitting senator and future presidential candidate around in opposition to the war — was highly unusual and would presumably have been explosive if known widely at the time. It's unclear whether Muskie ever actually attended the event....

A CBS News spokesman declined to comment....

But I’m curious about one specific thing. Will CBS Propaganda, Err News support this man? After all when Danny Boy Rather tried to throw the 2004 election to John Kerry (who by the way served in Vietnam) he had allegedly 25 year old “papers” that had obviously been made from a modern word processor. But Danny Boy sticks by them to this day. This document looks like it came from a typewriter, not MS Word. Just wondering if this man’s brothers and sisters in journalism will come to his side when the usual suspects start screaming.