CBS Evening News, July 31, 1968

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  • @JenniferMcMullenMusic
    @JenniferMcMullenMusic 7 лет назад +94

    Man, I wish the news broadcast was this way now. Straightforward with out gratuitous commentary

    • @jreiland07
      @jreiland07 3 года назад +13

      You can thank Reagan for doing away with the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine.

    • @I-Libertine
      @I-Libertine 11 месяцев назад

      Yes. They told you what to think about, not how to think about it.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Год назад +9

    How refreshing! Just news, no nonsense about so-called celebrities, and just a few commercials. Not an endless succession of ads for senior citizens’ medications with speeded up disclaimers warning of dire side effects.

  • @mitch4527
    @mitch4527 Год назад +10

    55 years later, we still face the same issues.

  • @SeveredLegs
    @SeveredLegs 4 года назад +19

    What a nightmare the Vietnam War was.

  • @roberthansen2008
    @roberthansen2008 7 лет назад +31

    I am real glad that this stuff is up here. I think that once again all these younger people need to study this stuff. That they can be taught that news is not a tabloid but it should be a surface.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 4 месяца назад +2

    Notice how people who disagree vehemently, can speak civilly, and listen respectfully. There’s no name-calling, overwhelming soundtracks, just the news without extreme bias or half the time dedicated to the personal dramas of so-called celebrities and commercials. How I wish we could somehow get hold of ourselves as Americans to behave with respect and decency once again.
    (P.S. Love the few old commercials!)

  • @Juliaflo
    @Juliaflo 16 дней назад

    Props to RUclips for preserving these amazing and informing news programs from yesteryear. Things like this come in handy for tem papers and professional research.

  • @shawnmalone9711
    @shawnmalone9711 5 лет назад +19

    The Marlboro cigerette commercial had the theme from the Magnificent Seven ( a movie from 1960)

    • @BillBraz-b9o
      @BillBraz-b9o 16 дней назад

      He died of lung cancer 🦀

  • @AarHan3
    @AarHan3 9 лет назад +15

    27:32 - And that's the way it was, Wednesday, July 31, 1968.

  • @dabprod
    @dabprod Год назад +3

    What memories this brings back. I was 24, running a business and had already completed three years in the Army. The future looked so bright.....

  • @mrmapful
    @mrmapful 9 лет назад +58

    This is what the evening used to be.concise and to the point. RIP Walter Cronkite

  • @KB4QAA
    @KB4QAA 7 лет назад +26

    News based on fact, and not commentary, speculation.

  • @EliWurth
    @EliWurth 8 лет назад +17

    How amazing to hear the report about how Bethlehem Steel was going to raise steel prices "across the board."
    Armco and US Steel would follow, causing a wage/price spiral.
    If only we had such "problems" today...

  • @fredkruger2010
    @fredkruger2010 3 года назад +14

    Cronkite is like the the Beatles! Irreplaceable, boy we need walter!

    • @gplunk
      @gplunk 2 года назад +2

      I believe 'the boys' were still working on The White Album when this was broadcast....

  • @hydroplaneing
    @hydroplaneing Год назад +3

    Interesting that the debate at the start of the video did not have each debater interrupting and shouting down their opponent, like we have today.

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 9 лет назад +19

    Philip Morris was a regular sponsor of Cronkite's newscasts until they were forced to stop selling cigarettes on TV and radio after January 2, 1971.

    • @reneauvray3440
      @reneauvray3440 9 лет назад +5

      +Barry I. Grauman Commercials have been never the same since the TV and radio (commercials) stopped advertising cigarettes.

    • @scythal
      @scythal 6 лет назад +4

      Rene Auvray
      A lot of people dislike cigarettes now due to its proven bad effects on health.

    • @stevengolden9009
      @stevengolden9009 9 месяцев назад

      Believe it or not, the cigarette companies were glad to see TV ads going away. Why?? Later the FCC ruled that for every cigarette ad shown on TV, the anti-smoking side had equal time for their messages. Their anti-smoking PSA spots were much more effective than cigarette companies commercials. So when cigarette TV ads went away, the anti-smoking PSA went away too.

  • @michaelwoolsey3886
    @michaelwoolsey3886 Год назад +4

    Fascinating comments by Ralph Abernathy, not mentioning James Eastland by name, but pointing out that Eastland was a U.S. Senator who was being compensated by that Dept. of Agriculture not to plant cotton.......

  • @embossed64
    @embossed64 Год назад +4

    The more things change, the more they remain the same.

  • @frankiemakinster2830
    @frankiemakinster2830 3 года назад +6

    This is brand new news for me as I was serving in Vietnam.

  • @michaelbarnhart2593
    @michaelbarnhart2593 8 лет назад +19

    Loving the commercials! I remember all those products! :-)

    • @irvan36mm
      @irvan36mm 5 лет назад +2

      Yep. Totally forgot about the cigarette commercials. They always had a big, epic,motion picture-style to them.

    • @garycraig6506
      @garycraig6506 3 года назад +2

      I was a Winston smoker in the early 70’s.... Quit tobacco eight years ago..

  • @iVenge
    @iVenge 5 лет назад +10

    My God, can anyone even imagine how far advanced the US would be today had the Rockefeller wing won out?

  • @cpttuttle2007
    @cpttuttle2007 Год назад +1

    i like that you left the commercials in. i could watch walter all day. man, we could use him today!

  • @jamesvokral4934
    @jamesvokral4934 Год назад +7

    Compare this with the current network news shows. Today the national news has a huge amount of commercials, cover silly non news events, and ignore major stories.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 Год назад +1

      And there are all kinds of running news strips, pop-up boxes, loud background music-gives me eye strain and a headache!

    • @braised44
      @braised44 Год назад

      Today America wants to know what JALO had for breakfast!

  • @marcymcginnis
    @marcymcginnis 8 лет назад +17

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

    • @johnnave3706
      @johnnave3706 Год назад

      plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!

  • @robertlandonijr2481
    @robertlandonijr2481 7 лет назад +8

    Thanks so much for posting these ! We got a color TV in summer of ' 68 , interesting to see the earlier color tapes you have put on here ! Interesting history, before I remember ( 1963 born) it on air, thanks !

  • @Sedan57Chevy
    @Sedan57Chevy 8 лет назад +13

    War never changes, and neither do politics.

    • @gplunk
      @gplunk 2 года назад +2

      The only thing that ever really changes are the names and the faces....

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 Год назад +1

    One of the most important videps on RUclips. Real history.

  • @seanwinkel8890
    @seanwinkel8890 2 месяца назад

    I was eight days old when this was broadcast.

  • @dantegood2195
    @dantegood2195 7 лет назад +4

    Amazing upload. For this poli-sci guy this is a fascinating watch.

  • @Klove5343
    @Klove5343 4 года назад +9

    I wish the commercials were still like these, without the annoying music and stupid 😒 stuff we now have

    • @jeanmank6342
      @jeanmank6342 2 года назад +4

      And only ONE!

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 4 месяца назад

      Ads now seem to be aimed at people whose brains have been conditioned to have zero attention span, and whose hearing is damaged beyond recovery.

  • @prairiegirlist
    @prairiegirlist 8 лет назад +6

    I so love this. .I was 7 years 28 days old. ..great

    • @Gertieness
      @Gertieness Год назад

      I was 7 years, 51 days 🥂

  • @1964DB
    @1964DB 5 лет назад +3

    I was about a month away from my 4th birthday. It was about this time that my brother enlisted in the USAF.

  • @usmcfutball
    @usmcfutball 6 лет назад +8

    Just over halfway through what the writer William Manchester called 'the year everything went wrong'.

    • @garycraig6506
      @garycraig6506 3 года назад +2

      I remember 1968. I was nine when MLK was assassinated in Memphis and was ten when the same fate awaited RFK, after winning the Democratic primary, in Los Angeles.. The summer of 68 was one of riots.

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 4 месяца назад

      Followed by the nightmare of 1969.

  • @mariekatherine5238
    @mariekatherine5238 Год назад +2

    Who doesn’t remember the classic Marlboro commercial?!

  • @goyadressunofficial
    @goyadressunofficial 8 лет назад +7

    Eric Sevareid reminded my of Simon Bar Sinister as a kid...

  • @briane173
    @briane173 Год назад

    I remember every commercial from back then. Of course it hits me in the nostalgias.

  • @John-oj5vx
    @John-oj5vx Год назад +3

    Back then the anchors didn't spend half the newscast thanking the correspondents for their reports, as they do today. I guess today they aren't getting paid?

  • @jimster46
    @jimster46 8 лет назад +6

    I don't remember Measurin. I was 15 years old at the time.

  • @wmbrown6
    @wmbrown6 4 года назад +2

    I.I.N.M., the opening announcer was New York CBS staffer Norm Stevens, substituting for Harry Kramer.

  • @bluv6
    @bluv6 8 лет назад +14

    Those talks in Czechoslovakia didn't end up so happy. The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20th.

    • @MrHmg55
      @MrHmg55 7 лет назад +3

      That exuberant crowd reaction to Dubcek probably sealed his government's fate.

    • @jstasiak2262
      @jstasiak2262 Год назад +2

      Nobody else seems to have noticed this important story. Less than one month later (20 August 1968), The USSR and Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia with tanks to squelch the incipient “democracy” and return the Czechoslovak government firmly back into the Communist camp. This is important history that most people are failing to notice.

  • @timothymazzella6062
    @timothymazzella6062 Год назад +2

    On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc.

  • @johnroberts6116
    @johnroberts6116 Год назад +3

    How we need a Walter Cronkite here at the BBC.

  • @hormelinc
    @hormelinc 8 лет назад +8

    Wow I thought I'd never see a Marlboro Man commercial ever again!

    • @shawnmalone9711
      @shawnmalone9711 5 лет назад +2

      A lot of those Marlboro men died of cancer because of smoking.

  • @jamesmills6896
    @jamesmills6896 7 лет назад +26

    See, this is what real news looks like. Not the political spin, opinions, and ratings hunts we have these days.

    • @1964DB
      @1964DB 7 лет назад +9

      That's because today's audience expects to be entertained, not informed.

    • @shawnmalone9711
      @shawnmalone9711 5 лет назад +2

      Exactly!

  • @reving19
    @reving19 2 года назад +4

    They sure this is 1968 and not 2022? I mean Vietnam was in the 1960s but outside of that, a lot of the rhetoric isn’t that far off from today.

  • @sillyone52062
    @sillyone52062 8 лет назад +10

    National interest involved in Vietnam? They send us shrimp now. I started smoking with Marlboros. Was six years, two months, eleven days old when this aired. No mention of Nixon.

  • @Gguy061
    @Gguy061 3 года назад +3

    The more things change...the more they stay the same

  • @tony84.
    @tony84. Год назад +2

    27:31, The great Cronkite!

  • @stk6mkt
    @stk6mkt Год назад +2

    CBS news went from Walter Cronkite to Norah O'Donnell. Talk about a fall from grace!

  • @Michael1966W
    @Michael1966W 8 лет назад +9

    I'm no fan of Strom Thurmond but he did America a favor torpedoing Justice Fortas. That man was crooked

  • @itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427
    @itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427 8 лет назад +3

    I was one year and 30 days old! Wonder what i was up to?

  • @martiemc8398
    @martiemc8398 5 лет назад +4

    Sure sounds like 2019 In 1968…

  • @elwin38
    @elwin38 8 лет назад +15

    My main man Walt!!! RIP.

  • @jeffreydrhodes
    @jeffreydrhodes 8 лет назад +16

    Thank you for posting this. Any chance of posting meet the press face the nation issues and answers from 1968? you guys are awesome

  • @thatamerican550
    @thatamerican550 7 лет назад +4

    A simpler time, always to the point. I would never go back though, not without my phone

  • @dwsh1
    @dwsh1 8 лет назад +7

    "I WAS SIX DAYS OLD!"
    (drops mic)

    • @toma419
      @toma419 8 лет назад

      +dwsh1 I was 2 yrs. 1 month.

    • @elwin38
      @elwin38 8 лет назад +1

      I WAS 2 1/2 MONTHS OLD!!!! :D Turned 3mos AUG 7....LOLOLOL!!!

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 6 лет назад

      I turned 2 in June '68.

    • @AdrianDeVore
      @AdrianDeVore 4 года назад

      I was two years and four months old.

  • @DavianSinner
    @DavianSinner Год назад

    That "Measurin" commercial seems like a SNL ad spoof. (Tryopenin)

  • @ianmccown2934
    @ianmccown2934 8 лет назад +4

    was "liberal" not a term back then?

  • @hifiandrew
    @hifiandrew 5 лет назад +3

    Wow the political rhetoric and bulls**t of yesteryear is the same bulls**t we hear today.

    • @briane173
      @briane173 Год назад +1

      The difference is back then journalists didn't wear their ideology on their sleeve.

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 4 месяца назад

      @@briane173 The difference is that back then journalists didn't constantly shove their ideology in our faces.

  • @teddymski9668
    @teddymski9668 7 лет назад +3

    czechoslovakia pre czech "spring" by the way donald trump's future 1st wife still was a citizen of that country.

  • @MrJoeybabe25
    @MrJoeybabe25 2 года назад +2

    Lindsey became a Democrat in the early 70's.

  • @stephenmadonna6142
    @stephenmadonna6142 7 лет назад +2

    All those steel companies were toast in 12 years, that price increase was not enough. also, lol at stock exchange closed for bookkeeping!

  • @billschauberger1150
    @billschauberger1150 6 лет назад +4

    I was 7 yrs. old -I do not remember this -but I remember the summer The Smothers Brother Comedy Hour and the violence at The Democratic Convention in Chicago.

    • @merriemisfit8406
      @merriemisfit8406 4 месяца назад

      Summer 1968 was, I guess, the first summer all of us kids in my family were big enough to take out and do some things without having to deal with strollers or diapers or naps and such. We made our first family visit to Disneyland within just a few days of this news broadcast. I don't remember the exact date, but I remember that it was mere days before my birthday.

  • @bridus11
    @bridus11 8 лет назад

    27:32 And that's the way it is

  • @rubyfaulk6387
    @rubyfaulk6387 3 года назад +1

    Welcome to 2021

  • @TheJhndarwin
    @TheJhndarwin 3 года назад +2

    We haven’t advanced much if any as far as I can see

  • @Gypsyknight-ob1tn
    @Gypsyknight-ob1tn 15 дней назад

    There were statesmen in those days. STATESMEN! Not criminals, not sexual deviants., not celebrity wanna be politicians. And there was civility and respect. Not juvenile name calling and other such behavior. And there was .......patriotism. A love for country....not love for one's own self.

  • @Timpcruz
    @Timpcruz 9 лет назад

    Amen

  • @joew4295
    @joew4295 2 года назад

    Sorry, thats Daniel Schorr.

  • @cholitolu89
    @cholitolu89 Год назад

    Unfortunately they had a general who don't know to wage war

  • @fromthesidelines
    @fromthesidelines 6 лет назад +1

    Here's the complete version of the last commercial: ruclips.net/video/q7dc4tiv2f0/видео.html
    "Direct from CBS News' convention headquarters in Miami Beach, this has been 'THE CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE'."
    "This is CBS."
    ruclips.net/video/D1YV9qKIkGw/видео.html

  • @nguyendailam6703
    @nguyendailam6703 5 лет назад +13

    Ronald Reagan was 100% correct on both counts.

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 2 года назад +1

      I was in 'nam in 68 and Reagan was an idiot.

    • @stupidyankee9
      @stupidyankee9 Год назад +1

      He was a precursor to the Republican Party we have Nowadays.

  • @Brandon-hn4yg
    @Brandon-hn4yg Год назад

    16:12

  • @FlavioGirl
    @FlavioGirl 8 лет назад +6

    note no female reporters back then :P

    • @KB4QAA
      @KB4QAA 7 лет назад +9

      And yet, life went on, children came home to attentive moms, and the country thrived.

    • @CaptchaNeon
      @CaptchaNeon 6 лет назад +6

      FlavioGirl Ummm Barbara Walters was. Also, too many women were primarily behind the scenes writing for the news, keeping things in order and a ton more women had done journalism both across seas and on radio news broadcasts. This had been going on well before the 1960’s

  • @misstee101
    @misstee101 5 лет назад +1

    Little known fact: little Dean Cain was only 2 years old when this news was out

  • @charlesritt5088
    @charlesritt5088 2 месяца назад

    George Wallace was one scary dude, he was in many ways the original MAGA

  • @danielsantana540
    @danielsantana540 7 лет назад +1

    Bobby the brain heenan. In March of 1994 called himself the walter kronkite of the WcW

  • @richardsalvucci3472
    @richardsalvucci3472 6 лет назад +1

    Go Rayguns

    • @luisreyes1963
      @luisreyes1963 6 лет назад

      Had the Republicans wanted to, they would have abandoned Tricky Dick & backed Ronald Reagan for President back in 1968.
      Talk about dodging a bullet.

  • @mikecamp486
    @mikecamp486 Год назад +3

    Democrats are so far left now it's a diffrent time but conservatives are still the same we need our republic back

  • @TheLogoKid
    @TheLogoKid Год назад

    100TH COMMENT LETS GO

  • @tonyhurd5697
    @tonyhurd5697 Год назад +1

    This is when News was real , not political .

  • @shawnmalone9711
    @shawnmalone9711 5 лет назад +1

    Now this is news! Foreign affairs , domestic policy and no Fox channel subjective opinions. Also , have you noticed , there is no salicious , celebrity gossip?

  • @PhoenixDemocrat
    @PhoenixDemocrat 2 года назад +3

    Many Republicans became Democrats in the 60s and 70s when Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan pushed their party too far to the right.