Walter Cronkite was a CBS news anchor during the 1960s and ’70s. It was a time when almost everyone got their news from either newspapers or a nightly news broadcast. In fact, a 1972 poll called Walter Cronkite “The Most Trusted Man In America”. On February 27th, 1968, Walter Cronkite declared on his widely watched newscast that the Vietnam war was a “stalemate”.
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