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Walter Cronkite's CBS News special commentary on the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission
Walter Cronkite commenting on the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald and on the Warren Commission;...
Video: National Archives and Records Administration/Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org)

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Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite, c. 1970.
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Walter Cronkite and Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Cronkite (left) interviewing Lyndon B. Johnson, 1971.
Frank Wolfe/The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite covering the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-gtfy-07363)
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite, c. 1983.
Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-gtfy-00860)
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