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.
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.
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!)
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.
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...
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.
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.......
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.
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 !
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Now this is news! Foreign affairs , domestic policy and no Fox channel subjective opinions. Also , have you noticed , there is no salicious , celebrity gossip?
Man, I wish the news broadcast was this way now. Straightforward with out gratuitous commentary
You can thank Reagan for doing away with the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine.
Yes. They told you what to think about, not how to think about it.
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.
55 years later, we still face the same issues.
It’s as if human nature never changes.
What a nightmare the Vietnam War was.
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.
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!)
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.
The Marlboro cigerette commercial had the theme from the Magnificent Seven ( a movie from 1960)
He died of lung cancer 🦀
27:32 - And that's the way it was, Wednesday, July 31, 1968.
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.....
This is what the evening used to be.concise and to the point. RIP Walter Cronkite
And only one or two commercials per break! I love it!
News based on fact, and not commentary, speculation.
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...
Cronkite is like the the Beatles! Irreplaceable, boy we need walter!
I believe 'the boys' were still working on The White Album when this was broadcast....
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.
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.
+Barry I. Grauman Commercials have been never the same since the TV and radio (commercials) stopped advertising cigarettes.
Rene Auvray
A lot of people dislike cigarettes now due to its proven bad effects on health.
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.
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.......
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
This is brand new news for me as I was serving in Vietnam.
Loving the commercials! I remember all those products! :-)
Yep. Totally forgot about the cigarette commercials. They always had a big, epic,motion picture-style to them.
I was a Winston smoker in the early 70’s.... Quit tobacco eight years ago..
My God, can anyone even imagine how far advanced the US would be today had the Rockefeller wing won out?
i like that you left the commercials in. i could watch walter all day. man, we could use him today!
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.
And there are all kinds of running news strips, pop-up boxes, loud background music-gives me eye strain and a headache!
Today America wants to know what JALO had for breakfast!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!
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 !
War never changes, and neither do politics.
The only thing that ever really changes are the names and the faces....
One of the most important videps on RUclips. Real history.
I was eight days old when this was broadcast.
Amazing upload. For this poli-sci guy this is a fascinating watch.
I wish the commercials were still like these, without the annoying music and stupid 😒 stuff we now have
And only ONE!
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.
I so love this. .I was 7 years 28 days old. ..great
I was 7 years, 51 days 🥂
I was about a month away from my 4th birthday. It was about this time that my brother enlisted in the USAF.
Just over halfway through what the writer William Manchester called 'the year everything went wrong'.
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.
Followed by the nightmare of 1969.
Who doesn’t remember the classic Marlboro commercial?!
Eric Sevareid reminded my of Simon Bar Sinister as a kid...
LOL
I remember every commercial from back then. Of course it hits me in the nostalgias.
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?
I don't remember Measurin. I was 15 years old at the time.
I.I.N.M., the opening announcer was New York CBS staffer Norm Stevens, substituting for Harry Kramer.
Those talks in Czechoslovakia didn't end up so happy. The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20th.
That exuberant crowd reaction to Dubcek probably sealed his government's fate.
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.
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.
How we need a Walter Cronkite here at the BBC.
Wow I thought I'd never see a Marlboro Man commercial ever again!
A lot of those Marlboro men died of cancer because of smoking.
See, this is what real news looks like. Not the political spin, opinions, and ratings hunts we have these days.
That's because today's audience expects to be entertained, not informed.
Exactly!
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.
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.
Smoking at six?
Nixon wasnt president until 69.
You see Nixon at 16:56
The more things change...the more they stay the same
27:31, The great Cronkite!
CBS news went from Walter Cronkite to Norah O'Donnell. Talk about a fall from grace!
I'm no fan of Strom Thurmond but he did America a favor torpedoing Justice Fortas. That man was crooked
I was one year and 30 days old! Wonder what i was up to?
Sure sounds like 2019 In 1968…
My main man Walt!!! RIP.
Thank you for posting this. Any chance of posting meet the press face the nation issues and answers from 1968? you guys are awesome
A simpler time, always to the point. I would never go back though, not without my phone
"I WAS SIX DAYS OLD!"
(drops mic)
+dwsh1 I was 2 yrs. 1 month.
I WAS 2 1/2 MONTHS OLD!!!! :D Turned 3mos AUG 7....LOLOLOL!!!
I turned 2 in June '68.
I was two years and four months old.
That "Measurin" commercial seems like a SNL ad spoof. (Tryopenin)
was "liberal" not a term back then?
used as much i mean
Wow the political rhetoric and bulls**t of yesteryear is the same bulls**t we hear today.
The difference is back then journalists didn't wear their ideology on their sleeve.
@@briane173 The difference is that back then journalists didn't constantly shove their ideology in our faces.
czechoslovakia pre czech "spring" by the way donald trump's future 1st wife still was a citizen of that country.
Lindsey became a Democrat in the early 70's.
All those steel companies were toast in 12 years, that price increase was not enough. also, lol at stock exchange closed for bookkeeping!
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.
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.
27:32 And that's the way it is
Welcome to 2021
We haven’t advanced much if any as far as I can see
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.
Amen
Sorry, thats Daniel Schorr.
Unfortunately they had a general who don't know to wage war
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
Thank you for that
Ronald Reagan was 100% correct on both counts.
I was in 'nam in 68 and Reagan was an idiot.
He was a precursor to the Republican Party we have Nowadays.
16:12
note no female reporters back then :P
And yet, life went on, children came home to attentive moms, and the country thrived.
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
Little known fact: little Dean Cain was only 2 years old when this news was out
George Wallace was one scary dude, he was in many ways the original MAGA
Bobby the brain heenan. In March of 1994 called himself the walter kronkite of the WcW
Go Rayguns
Had the Republicans wanted to, they would have abandoned Tricky Dick & backed Ronald Reagan for President back in 1968.
Talk about dodging a bullet.
Democrats are so far left now it's a diffrent time but conservatives are still the same we need our republic back
100TH COMMENT LETS GO
This is when News was real , not political .
Now this is news! Foreign affairs , domestic policy and no Fox channel subjective opinions. Also , have you noticed , there is no salicious , celebrity gossip?
Many Republicans became Democrats in the 60s and 70s when Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan pushed their party too far to the right.