Another history fact: When LBJ died on January 22, 1973, the country was left with no living ex-President for the first time in the nation's history and it would remain this way until the resignation of Richard Nixon on August 9th, 1974.
@Christian-ql7uq6 ай бұрын
first time since 1799*
@thud97976 ай бұрын
@@Christian-ql7uq Haha yeah you right, I guess why you don't believe everything you read! Well we've got 5 ex's now so should be good. 😀
@TaijanDean6 ай бұрын
First time since 1933 (when Calvin Coolidge died) before that in 1908 (when Grover Cleveland died) before that in 1875 (when Andrew Johnson died) and before that in 1799 (when George Washington died). It's not many, but it's certainly notable how many times there have been no living past presidents.
@thud97976 ай бұрын
@@TaijanDean Great info, this was a fun exercise! 😀
@TaijanDean6 ай бұрын
@@thud9797 My pleasure.
@moboutmen6 ай бұрын
Walter puts up his finger, and we all wait a minute....
@jljordan16 ай бұрын
I bet the signal was for the producer on the floor
@moboutmen6 ай бұрын
@@jljordan1 probably.
@dylanboivin26456 ай бұрын
Walter Kronkite really went through it all
@user-vd6cd5pt7c5 ай бұрын
The goat News reporter 😊😊😊
@MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын
Cronkite was a Communist.
@JoeSmith-eo7rcАй бұрын
It’s Cronkite
@OhyesSofresh23 күн бұрын
The greatest news anchor of all times
@MarkHarrison73323 күн бұрын
@@OhyesSofresh He was a Communist who hated the United States.
@larrysproul94246 ай бұрын
He passed just a few weeks after President Truman's funeral . This would be the last time LBJ was seen in public .
@independentthinker.2736 ай бұрын
And I was alive to see both funerals televised. The Reverend Billy Graham was the one that conducted Johnson's funeral.
@lisawilliams20136 ай бұрын
Interesting, didn’t know that!
@paulsellinger98666 ай бұрын
The Reverend Billy Graham also presided at Richard Nixon's Funeral.
@robertkett37546 ай бұрын
Not true. LBJ attended the inauguration of Dolph Briscoe as Governor of Texas on January 16, 1973. www.tsl.texas.gov/governors/modern/briscoe-p02.html
@milancue20615 ай бұрын
Was Truman funeral televised??
@jahjah676 ай бұрын
When news was news. Glad I experienced Cronkite for a few years before he retired in ‘81. What is called news these days seem to be full of opinion shows which has divided this country to a sickening degree
@arielfornari65956 ай бұрын
Truly....propaganda...not real news. #justsaying
@ClassicRoyal5 ай бұрын
Watched him all my life until he retired. I, even as a child, respected him!❤ 2:24
@MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын
@@ClassicRoyal Cronkite was a Communist.
@LindaMerchant-bq2hpАй бұрын
News became progressive and woke opinionated
@goshlikkrudbahr5109Ай бұрын
No joke, Reagan's fault. He enacted rules that allowed news orgs to be profit-generating entertainment
@dcbandnerd10 күн бұрын
Took the call, kept his cool, relayed the information directly and clearly - doesn't get much better than that.
@josephstevens98886 ай бұрын
In 1995 I spoke with one of LBJ's ranch hands, and he told me that the President was dead on the floor of a small bedroom just off the kitchen of the ranch house.
@elgall776 ай бұрын
I suspect nobody changed the channel when Cronkite told them to hang on, they just waited for however long it took.
@Bladerunner492476414 күн бұрын
In those days there weren't many channels to turn to. No 24 hr news cycle either.
@jwnagy6 ай бұрын
Back in the days when journalists were respected and delivered the facts.
@9999bigb6 ай бұрын
And they weren't expected to have opinions one way or the other. They were trained and expected to be neutral, and let the people interpret the facts, one way or the other. Now everyone is an Op Ed "journalist". It's a shame, and it robbed the once honorable profession of journalism of every bit of its credibility.
@gregtennessee82496 ай бұрын
Still do. Freedom of the Press. Radical Right wing extremist hates our Freedom of the Press.
@jollyjohnthepirate31686 ай бұрын
News was a public service put out by broadcasters as part of their duty while holding a broadcast license. News wasn't expected to make money. Today it's called infotainment. And is all about getting the biggest share of ratings.
@sanusiebarrie72256 ай бұрын
No fake news media like msnbc Fox News
@arielfornari65956 ай бұрын
I grew up watching Cronkite documentaries...incredible!
@R32R386 ай бұрын
A secret actuarial study Johnson commissioned in 1967 concluded that he would be unlikely to live to age 65. He died at 64.
@georgecostanza92446 ай бұрын
Imagine how long he would have lived if he never commissioned that study
@scottaznavourian37206 ай бұрын
@georgecostanza9244 after he left the white house he ate and smoked himself to death
@Eric-fb2wp6 ай бұрын
He should of just went to a crystal ball fortune teller would of saved alot of the American taxpayer money lol.
@Eric-fb2wp6 ай бұрын
@@georgecostanza9244kind of like the Doctor that had give a cancer patient 3 months to live The patient could come up with the money to pay the Doctors bill. So the Doctor gave him 3 more months to live.
@Eric-fb2wp6 ай бұрын
I had ment the patient couldn't come up with the money. Damn auto spelling.
@cliffordporteriii66256 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite. Straight news, no BS. One of my childhood mentors. 👍🏽😎
@austinteutsch6 ай бұрын
I met Mr. Cronkite in 1988 at Book People in Austin, Texas. A Texas treasure, both Cronkite and Johnson, with all their help from a grateful nation.
@carolynpiersanti58516 ай бұрын
Truly a man with morals and integrity
@endtheliesnow59066 ай бұрын
When the news was REAL...
@pigs1810 күн бұрын
@@endtheliesnow5906 Don't conflate news with cable news. Cable news channels need to fill 24 hours of programming with about 30 minutes of actual news.
@tbc90966 ай бұрын
Interestingly enough, Cronkite just concluded his last interview with LBJ 10 days prior to this.
@t.p.mckenna8 күн бұрын
I remarked, here, or maybe somewhere else, how Cronkite kept himself out of the story. The moment was all about LBJ and he wasn't going to get in the way giving himself a walk-on role. Great integrity.
@HelloooThere7 күн бұрын
That did him in...
@michaelj.r4576 ай бұрын
History Fact: Tom Johnson, press secretary to LBJ who delivered the news to Cronkite on-air, went on to be the first president of a little channel called CNN, whose first anchor would be Evening News correspondent Bernard Shaw.
@jimfesta89816 ай бұрын
Thanks to its leftist politics, it still is a little channel.
@anthonyv19716 ай бұрын
@@jimfesta8981it's a known channel
@hazmat79496 ай бұрын
@jimfesta8981 it's not a leftist channel. Its huge now by speculation and headlines and not by reporting the news. Leftist or far righter it's a headline station that can attract views by mention of apparent news
@jimfesta89816 ай бұрын
BS. CNN's ratings are in the toilet. @@hazmat7949
@quentincampbell6126 ай бұрын
@@jimfesta8981under Tom Johnson,it was a good reliable source of journalism. Now,it,Fox News and MSNBC like to divide everyone for the ratings while all being owned by people within the same corporate umbrella.
@NYVoice5 ай бұрын
Gone at 64. It used to seem so old. Now? I am 64. I still feel far younger.
@garyc3911 күн бұрын
Im 64 too
@TheGodYouWishYouKnew8 күн бұрын
Do they still need you? Do they still feed you?
@wilsonking16175 күн бұрын
Lot of smoking and drinking and eating fatty foods and lack of exercise back then.
@spockboy6 ай бұрын
This is REAL. If CNN were covering this there would be dramatic music, over the top graphics stating BREAKING NEWS!!!, then a panel of 7 nobodies discussing their opinions of the event. This feels like its actually happening in front of us. Sensationalism has truly murdered Journalism.
@BallparkHunter6 ай бұрын
Sadly, all cable news channels national and local would also be doing that. Sensationalism has indeed murdered journalism.
@noobguy5725 күн бұрын
Reagan killed it by destroying the Fairness Doctrine.
@derbagger2219 күн бұрын
CNN, when? Look up the person he was talking to on that phone....
@lablaine198117 күн бұрын
80 yrs old now...tell me...these news shows w/100 panel of "experts" unreal🤡🃏
@wilsonking16175 күн бұрын
“Breaking News”- by definition all news is “Breaking “
@VideoAmericanStyle6 ай бұрын
Crazy how young 64 seems now, when the two main candidates running are close to 80…
@wet-read6 ай бұрын
Like Tommy Lee Jones, he always looked about a decade older than he actually was.
@wayneburch37756 ай бұрын
One's Over 80 😳
@gregtennessee82496 ай бұрын
The other one was Arrested on RICO and Racketeering Charges@@wayneburch3775
@toniscott10296 ай бұрын
I didn't realize he was that young. Scary, cuz that's my age! 😮
@ridewithdoordash58516 ай бұрын
JB is over 80
@connielaws16746 ай бұрын
President Johnson died a month before I was born. Love the sound of old typewriters in the background. Walter Cronkite was a class act.🥰
@daveubermensch6 ай бұрын
Same here. Hello fellow Feb '73 baby. What a long, strange trip it's been.
@connielaws16746 ай бұрын
@@daveubermensch 🙋🏻♀️Yes, it definitely has!
@arielfornari65956 ай бұрын
I second that motion! #justsaying
@robertdagit43156 ай бұрын
@@daveubermenschGen Xrs rule😊
@williamwatson462510 күн бұрын
So you were born on Christmas Day or the day before that?
@randymcturnan25206 ай бұрын
I'm sure many Vietnam vets were not grieving over LBJ's exit, I sure didn't.
@mattwiser84066 ай бұрын
Neither were the POW-MIA families. LBJ's "Keep Quiet" Policy about their loved ones' treatment in Hanoi caused them a LOT of grief-and that's on top of what the NVN inflicted.
@Greend546 ай бұрын
@@mattwiser8406I think this silently killed him because he inherited this war. The men he had in charge kept lying to him about staying in the war when he wanted to end it almost as soon as he became president. Sadly, the casualties weighed heavily on him.
@DavidTucker-yk1bk6 ай бұрын
FLBJ he had Kenedy killed.
@brendagray96016 ай бұрын
@@DavidTucker-yk1bkWe Know 😊
@collectiveconsciousness5314Ай бұрын
@@DavidTucker-yk1bkAnd covered up the Liberty in 1967.
@edwardp35026 ай бұрын
If LBJ had run and been re-elected in 1968, he’d have ended his second term on January 20, 1973, two days before he died. Or more likely he’d have had a heart attack during his second term with all that stress and died even earlier.
@jumbostorm8876 ай бұрын
Tbh I think he would have lost to Nixon but RFK might’ve lived if we’re throwing a wrench in the timeline like that
@edwardp35026 ай бұрын
@@jumbostorm887 Agreed, considering how tough LBJ had it with Vietnam placed squarely around his neck. Would’ve been interesting to see RFK vs Nixon. Who do you think would’ve won that matchup and why?
@ReesorPark6 ай бұрын
@@edwardp3502This is of course impossible to answer, but I give RFK the edge. The number one issue in 1968 was Vietnam. This is a bit of generalization, but broadly most people wanted Vietnam to go away. Not necessarily lose the war, but to find a way to end the war without too much damage to American prestige. In the same speech announcing that he would run for president, LBJ ended rejecting a military solution to the war and chose the political solution by opening the peace talks in Paris. Nixon accepted of a political solution by promising to continue the peace talks and just presented as the man who could run the better bargain. Hence his slogan of "peace with honor" meant to appeal to both doves and hawks. Humphrey for a long time promised to continue LJB's policies. It is significant that Humphrey was laughing in the polls, but started to rise when gave a speech in Salt Lake City on 30 September 1968 that offered a much detailed peace plan than Nixon did. The 1968 election was extremely close with Nixon winning by a narrow margin. And there was Wallace running on a hawkish platform calling for a military solution to Vietnam. If Wallace was not running, those voters would have gone to Nixon. RFK was not made the mistake that Humphrey did of waiting too late to offer a detailed peace plan than Nixon did. RFK and LBJ hated each other, and Kennedy was not beholden to Johnson the same way Humphrey was. Humphrey had wanted to give his Salt Lake City speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago in August, but chose not to when LBJ told it would be disloyal for him to do that. RFK did not care about Johnson's feelings the way Humphrey did. So for it worth, RFK would had the advantage.
@MovieMakingMan6 ай бұрын
@@jumbostorm887Bobby Kennedy would’ve walked into the White House. It would’ve changed the entire political landscape for the next 30-40 years. We would’ve been spared corrupt administrations like Reagan and both Bushes. Sirhan Sirhan didn’t act alone. The kennedy’s and our country had many domestic enemies. If RFK lived he was going to end the Vietnam war. That meant billions lost to a lot of powerful corporations.
@quentincampbell6126 ай бұрын
He figured he wouldn't live through a second term. He said "Americans are tired of seeing their leaders die while in office".
@gemerique6 ай бұрын
Sworn in as president in a plane, died in a plane. The irony!
@rapman579116 күн бұрын
He was long dead before the plane ride to San Antonio. In an interview seen on television in the 1990’s, a former ranch hand who was employed at the Johnson ranch stated LBJ was found dead on the floor of a tiny bedroom on the first floor off the kitchen of the ranch house. He technically was pronounced dead on the plane, but for all intents & purposes he died before he hit the floor. The protocols then were much different than today. Back then everyone got resuscitated. Now paramedics would pronounce DOA.
@Mo-yd8xc6 ай бұрын
He looked a lot older than 64.
@moboutmen6 ай бұрын
His heart was weak already. Vietnam and the Civil unrest did him in.
@F-Man6 ай бұрын
@@moboutmenNot to mention the lifetime of chain smoking.
@portugal56986 ай бұрын
Was he corrupt, *YES, Absolutely!!!* Was he the most corrupt of them all???? *Not at all!!* Especially when you compare today’s political candidates!! Having to keep his mouth shut for Carlos might have been what did him in, considering that Vietnan had made him the most hated man in the world. He had finally got his dream come true of becoming pres. and holding numerous political records, but never realized until he was almost done w/ his term. Even watching the Kennedy bros., who berrated him on a regular basis get taken down and replaced by him and his buddies, seemed to still not even make the guy happy in the end!! Those may have been the moments that I believe made political figures like Johnson and Nixon “soften up” or become “less bitter” w/ age and as the war progressed.
@stevenbenson99766 ай бұрын
LBJ heart condition was blamed on the fat he had in his diet. If course it simply couldn't have anything to do with his lifetime commitment to chain smoking. Smoking was safe according to experts paid for by the tobacco industry
@gregv796 ай бұрын
I understand he drank a lot too.
@jeffreyking2796 ай бұрын
Back when there was journalism.
@User-ge7ni6 ай бұрын
Cry
@jimmykeepingit100always66 ай бұрын
What a legend
@brianmitchell59066 ай бұрын
This is back when the reporters on TV actually reported the news.
@scottaznavourian37206 ай бұрын
His death came only 27 days after Harry truman...the second shortest passing between american presidents (the shortest being between Thomas Jefferson and john adams who died 3 hours apart om july 4th 1826) and left the sitting president (richard nixon) as the only living president until he resigned 18 and a half months later
@GameTime-yj6qvАй бұрын
Interesting that Jefferson and Adams died on the same day, America's birthday.
@ThePrez496 ай бұрын
Interesting Irony: LBJ died just 2 days after the second Inauguration of his successor, Richard M. Nixon. And before that, Ike died 2 months after the first Presidential Inauguration of his Vice-President, also Nixon. 🇺🇲
@raymundotorres69056 ай бұрын
Cronkite was a fabulous reporter, very professional and respected
@ganderson1586 ай бұрын
Nobody was better than walter cronkite. I was born in 1965. LBJ a towering figure.
@aaronwilliams69896 ай бұрын
I came the year after that.
@spaceace10066 ай бұрын
I remember when this was announced on the radio! It was mentioned that at that point, there were no living former Presidents. I was riding in the car with my Dad when it was announced.
@JoseReyes-lm5ru6 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite a legend, there will never be anyone like him
@bretbailey83752 ай бұрын
I was 5 when this happened. Honestly don't remember this moment. But I definitely remember Walter Cronkite. Even as a kid I knew he was the man! I always respected him and loved listening to him I watch these old clips and sometimes repeatedly. There's something about his delivery and professionalism that just grabs me every time. He was and is the standard bearer for what a journalist should be. RIP Walter Cronkite.
@MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын
Cronkite was a Communist.
@oh-iobuckeyes9869Ай бұрын
We've gone From Cronkite to Jon Stewart and Stepanopolis. How far we have fallen!
@Raptorman090920 күн бұрын
Sorry bucko, Jon Stewart is not a journalist, never has been and he's unlikely to ever become one. Snuffleofolis, OTH, moved from being a political media type to becoming a political media type just as LBJ's media man moved to become head of CNN at its founding. Similarly, Roger Aisles, who had long been a Republican operative, was the leader of the creation of Fox News. And, on Fox News there are 'comedians' that pump out right wing slop by the truckload. Guys like Gutfeld and Steven Crowder who was on Fox until about 2013.
@Neutralino20 күн бұрын
You think Jon Stewart is a journalist? Man you’re messed up.
@Raughwe2 ай бұрын
I think had served another term, that fatal heart attack could have happened in the White House.
@MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын
He was unelectable in 1968.
@DimitristheАй бұрын
@@MarkHarrison733You mean he didn't have the right to run or that he wouldn't win against Nixon?
@sandal_thong863119 күн бұрын
@@Dimitristhe So many young people were against him due to Vietnam; and the Tet Offensive made even more people doubt the truthfulness of the American government and military. And we only had a couple years with the Voting Rights Act that both parties favored Blacks voting. Nixon then devised "the Southern Strategy" to move Southerners from the Democratic to the Republican Party because of race. Nixon may have undermined the peace talks with North Vietnam as well. I read the election of 1968 was extremely close; had Humphrey scored enough votes to win California, Ohio and Illinois, he would have won. Who knows if Johnson had run whether he could have defeated Nixon?
@kevinjenner95026 ай бұрын
HR McMaster’s book “Dereliction of Duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam”
@bigmac99406 ай бұрын
Best book I have ever read. McMaster doesn’t miss a single fact. I lost my only brother to Agent Orange.
@Starphot22 күн бұрын
It was 5 days later, the peace accords with North Vietnam was signed and myself and my shipmates on my aircraft carrier were told that our cruise to Vietnam was canceled.
@MarkHarrison73321 күн бұрын
The US involvement continued until the very end.
@timothycnptmp6 ай бұрын
Walter Kronkite gave the news and nothing but news no personal opinion or thoughts. Just delivered the news.
@user-gm9he1os5o6 ай бұрын
He was a lefty but he really didn't show it during his broadcast career. He did his job, what he was supposed to do. And report the news fairly. What a true journalist used to do.
@iansampson24926 ай бұрын
Hows the MK Ultra going for you....
@Maya-bu2rf6 ай бұрын
He was a truly great man. His announcing how many troops died every day in Vietnam was credited with ending our involvement there. If he said it you could be sure it was the truth. I am sorry there is no one like him today.
@RichV2025 күн бұрын
Mr Cronkite, 40 Million Americans are watching you live right now! Walter: Hold up a minute, I'm on the phone.
@chrisdaigle35882 күн бұрын
I'd love to get the number to that phone behind him oh the pranks i could do........Who answers the phone on live television?
@bradlott32846 ай бұрын
My grandfather deer hunted with him the last couple years of his life. He said he was a nasty old dude
@debbiebrantley616 ай бұрын
Everyone that knew him has said basically the same thing.LBJ wasn’t a bc good guy
@philipnasadowski106018 күн бұрын
The flip side is everything I’ve read and heard was that Lady Bird was an excellent first lady, and treated everyone around her wonderfully.
@tmreadynow123617 күн бұрын
He was a crass old man who could not stop talking about his johnson. No lie.
@williamwatson462510 күн бұрын
LBJ never gave up his racist side of him. The real reason why he signed the 1964 civil rights bill into law was to ensure that African-Americans ("N-word" he called them) kept voting Democrat for the next 200 years. He never wanted equality for everyone. It was strictly a political ploy for the Democratic Party. He was phony from the word "go".
@brucewilson19586 ай бұрын
The Two Fifths of Scotch per day might have been an issue.
@KT722736 ай бұрын
Only Walter Kronkite could have half of America wait on him! On the same day Roe v. Wade was put into law! Talk about historic!
@counseloridealist15 күн бұрын
I served in the military in combat in Vietnam. I went there whole and came home totally disabled.
@briangarrett98206 ай бұрын
Only 64...stress is a killer
@suestephan32556 ай бұрын
And a guilty conscience. He was a ruthless man. Anything to get ahead.
@Charles8777-od4kjАй бұрын
That what Arteriosclerosis, Heart Disease does.
@cityofpalms6 ай бұрын
Coincidentally, this happened the same day (Jan. 22, 1973) that challenger George Foreman knocked out champion Joe Frazier in Jamaica to win boxing's heavyweight title.
@user-tv8mg2vh5fАй бұрын
It was also the same day as the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision on abortion.
@jollyjohnthepirate31686 ай бұрын
Johnson just didn't care anymore. His daughter tried to get him to stop smoking again but he grew his hair long and smoked like chimney his last years.
@debbiebrantley616 ай бұрын
He did that from all the guilt he harbored
@jollyjohnthepirate31686 ай бұрын
@@debbiebrantley61 Johnson tried to negotiate a ending to the war in Vietnam before he left office. Nixon committed treason when he told the S. Vietnamese government that they would get a better deal under his administration. Historical note: The war dragged on another 5 years and didn't end well for S. Vietnam.
@Mickey-19945 ай бұрын
He felt guilty over taking out JFK.
@judasthemadhatter829017 күн бұрын
Back when CBS did the news the right way
@Camop-iz9kt17 күн бұрын
I have a distinct memory of watching this as it happened, while my family sat around the dinner table.
@theOriginalTimG6 ай бұрын
A poignant slice of history.....
@jec1ny6 ай бұрын
Nice cufflinks. People dressed better back then.
@jamesrecknor67526 ай бұрын
We sure did. It's embarrassing now.
@fhb36 ай бұрын
When the news had integrity instead of being op-ed hit pieces. We need journalists like Uncle Walter back.
@davidbatin1699Ай бұрын
Typewriters in the back sounds like firecrackers. I am sure a lot of kids now won't know what is a Typewriter.
@kaymuldoon35756 ай бұрын
LBJ died the very same day that the Roe v. Wade decision came out. I remember seeing him on TV where he was attending a college football game just a short time before he died.
@quentincampbell6126 ай бұрын
He was a totally different Democrat. Pretty sure he'd shake his head at how both parties are now.
@gregtennessee82496 ай бұрын
@@quentincampbell612he'd laugh at trumps cult
@jamesrecknor67526 ай бұрын
Trump's cult didn't get 58,000 Americans killed in Viet Nam @@gregtennessee8249
@terrencealexander50846 ай бұрын
So much for the great society.
@jamesrecknor67526 ай бұрын
Socialism failed again
@sblack486 ай бұрын
No tears like he shed on air for his predecessor
@Tunneltwj28 күн бұрын
That's because JFK was more beloved, younger and was actually in office when he died.
@sblack4828 күн бұрын
@@Tunneltwj and he wasn’t murdered
@sasz21076 ай бұрын
President Johnson did some wonderful things, and some awful things as President. In my opinion, the stress of his job and the events that were going on during his Presidency did him in. I had read he was a heavy smoker, which in no doubt damaged his health - but when he did not run again for President in 1968, saying he would not accept his party's nomination - I think that spoke volumes.
@metroidnerd90016 ай бұрын
From my understanding, he stopped smoking when he either became President or Vice President, but after he left office, he stopped caring about his health and started smoking heavily again, which caused his health to rapidly decline.
@stddisclaimer80206 ай бұрын
Trivial pursuits is not just a game name.
@robertjoyce47396 ай бұрын
Destroyed this country.
@stddisclaimer80206 ай бұрын
@@robertjoyce4739 Nah, he only "destroyed" his lungs.
@JacobHolt1066 ай бұрын
@@metroidnerd9001, he stopped smoking in 1955 after his first heart attack and you are correct he did start smoking again after leaving the White House (literally on the flight back to Texas)
@Adyman18223 күн бұрын
Crazy that this is the last Democratic president to die as of this moment, over 50 years ago.
@BETTERWORLDSGT6 ай бұрын
I remember seeing His funeral on TV when I was a kid. His Presidency would have been more successful if it weren't for the quagmire of Vietnam!
@debbiebrantley616 ай бұрын
That’s his own fault,Vietnam coukd r been over in a few months had he ever listened to his military advisors.
@annas.567618 күн бұрын
I Love seeing these old recordings.❤
@GringoLatino9415 ай бұрын
I met Cronkite at J.F. Kennedy airport in baggage claim at AA in 1983. He was waiting for his luggage.
@chuckspoke6 ай бұрын
Amazing how family fortune was Mrs. Johnson. She had the money, and he had the power of Office of President, so it balanced it all out.
@SMcCaskill6 ай бұрын
Lady Bird Johnson was one of the most gracious first ladies ever. She is the person responsible for Texas' love for wildflowers, especially the Texas bluebonnets and she outlived him by over 45 years.
@Raughwe2 ай бұрын
@@SMcCaskill Lady Bird is quite beloved.
@tombrown18982 ай бұрын
I was a college sophomore working at a 1,000 watt radio station that evening when the AP wire gave out a 5-bell alarm, it's highest signal of importance. I pressed a button to play a one-minute Public Service Announcement. I ripped the AP announcement from the teletype machine, and when the recorded PSA concluded, I told our small audience that President Johnson was dead. I left radio work when I graduated in 1976, but I will never forget that night.
@BarrCode6744 ай бұрын
Imagine having to tell all of America "hang on, I'm on the phone."
@russellfrancis62946 ай бұрын
I’m sorry- the date jumps out at me. George Foreman beat Joe Frazier that very day.
@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont6 ай бұрын
I was in third grade. I remember we got a day off school for the funeral; I think it was a Friday. I don't remember seeing the funeral on TV, although I vaguely remember seeing part of Truman's funeral. Truman passed while we were on Christmas break.
@Maya-bu2rf6 ай бұрын
A day off from school? We did not get one and I honestly would not remember when he died anyway. I only looked at this because it was Walter Cronkite
@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont6 ай бұрын
@@Maya-bu2rf National Day of Mourning. Presidential Funerals are typically National Holidays. I remember I was so happy for a day off from school and my mom told me it wasn't going to be a fun day for the Johnson family.
@Maya-bu2rf6 ай бұрын
@@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont I would have been a high school senior then. I was 8 in 3rd grade when JFK died. That I remember like it was yesterday. LBJ was a president but I felt nothing about him like a lot of people because of how he became president. If I knew it happened at the time I would have felt bad for Lady Bird. The only news thing I remember from early that year was the release of the Vietnam POW's. I wore an ID bracelet with the name, rank, and date of plane or helicopter crash. My POW was released on the first flight out of Hanoi. I remember seeing his name on the list. I know there was no day off from school for LBJ for us. Maybe in some places, but not here.
@albertalcozer707122 күн бұрын
I was in 3rd grade also I'm 60 yrs old know, where has the Time gone ?
@jpeek726811 күн бұрын
I was in 5th grade and I don’t remember any of it. When we pulled out of Vietnam not long after this, I had no clue we had been in a war. I was like “we were in a war? Hmmm”😂 My parents shielded us from the news. The TV was OFF at dinner time.
@edwardbaker244817 күн бұрын
He died three weeks after Harry S. Truman died.
@MarkHarrison7332 ай бұрын
It should have been on 2 July 1955.
@marcelbork926 ай бұрын
This war criminal.
@geraldwalker76096 ай бұрын
I remember that going down.
@jamielunes1841Ай бұрын
I like the Photo of Walter Cronkite with the phone
@kchall58 күн бұрын
Johnson had a history of heart disease, and looked unwell when Cronkite interviewed him at his Texas ranch just 10 days earlier. Apparently he was chain smoking and drinking heavily, and was popping nitroglycerin pills for angina like candy. He was the same age as me when he died (64), which is sobering, although I'm as hale and hearty as he was sickly.
@cnetz22186 ай бұрын
Love Walter Cronkite. ❤️Simply the Best.
@Themaddprof6 ай бұрын
I was in second grade then. They announced it over the loudspeaker in class the next days. We were told, "He was president when most of you were born.
@thomasryan1289Күн бұрын
I was 3 pushing 4 when this happened, but I remember growing up with Walter Cronkite doing the evening news. "And that's the way it was, Monday, January 22nd..." Cronkite's sign off. Back when the news just told us the news. I miss those days.
@mrripley86723 күн бұрын
I was born on his Birthday.. this is a time when America WAS GREAT!! And real journalists
@NeenerBananas11 күн бұрын
I remember this well. I’m saddened by the degradation of our country at home and Worldwide. God bless America. Lord, hear our prayers. 🇺🇸🙏❤️
@jstasiak226219 күн бұрын
LBJ died two days after Nixon’s second inauguration. In November 1972, Nixon won reelection by a margin of just under 18 million votes (17,838,725 votes). That remains to this day (July 2024) the largest victory margin in American election history. Reagan’s “landslide” margin in 1984 (16,878,120 votes) was just under one million votes less than Nixon’s victory margin in 1972. I am certain that Nixon’s landslide reelection in 1972 broke LBJ’s heart and contributed to his demise.
@MarkHarrison73317 күн бұрын
LBJ admitted he wanted Nixon to win instead of McGovern.
@jstasiak226217 күн бұрын
@@MarkHarrison733 Nobody, except the fools in Massachusetts, wanted McGovern. And Nixon’s record of success and significant accomplishment in his first term was compelling. But Nixon succeeded where LBJ failed and I am sure that galled LBJ.
@ontargetthomunclesam39266 ай бұрын
And dying with him is the true story of the JFK because he surly knew what happened and who did it
@henrystowe621714 күн бұрын
I remember hearing that very broadcast. My parents had CBS on all the time. None of us liked Cronkite, but his delivery was seamless.
@louisskulnik73906 ай бұрын
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. Isaiah 5:13
@MovieMakingMan6 ай бұрын
No one knows who wrote that stuff. All the Bible’s writers were anonymous except a couple. And there’s no proof of any of that is true. The Bible is the most immoral book ever written. If people actually read it and we’re honest that’s the conclusion they would come to.
@audubon54256 ай бұрын
Amen -
@jamesrecknor67526 ай бұрын
Amen and thank you for the scripture
@MovieMakingMan6 ай бұрын
Ezekiel 23:20
@louisskulnik73905 ай бұрын
@@jamesrecknor6752 I think Hell was made for LBJ. I am not a believer, full disclosure, but I do think the Bible puts things very succinctly in many places. I hope you have a great day, and stay clear of the war mongers...
@mikebottiaux58505 ай бұрын
I remember this announcement as a teenager.
@MrXdmp6 ай бұрын
This is also the same day when Roe v. Wade decision came out.
@Kentrc116 ай бұрын
A step forward in reproductive healthcare for the maternal side. It is disgusting that the ruling was reversed after nearly 50 years.
@lucascris72856 ай бұрын
Had LBJ run in 1968 and won reelection his term would have expired 2 days earlier than his death
@michaelj.r4576 ай бұрын
And the same day the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was announced, which made the timing of Johnson's death almost eerie. It was a history-packed newscast.
@MHurtado896 ай бұрын
@@Kentrc11Nothing says maternal love like death 😊
@jimmy11546 ай бұрын
Not a good day for babies, or LBJ.
@1987AnimeBoy6 ай бұрын
Is this scene colorized? I recall the original scene was in Black & White.
@namhd016 ай бұрын
It’s likely your TV was still black and white because CBS had color broadcasts starting in 1951.
@merrydaye47636 ай бұрын
There was no black & white news in the 70's.. in the US
@scottjenkins30956 ай бұрын
You were obviously watching on a black and white TV, or you're misrembering. Of course it was in color!
@andyrose56166 ай бұрын
A copy previously posted to KZfaq (with the date and time stamped on top) came from the Vanderbilt news archives, which was still recording in B&W in 1973.
@JohnHillRSNStudios6 ай бұрын
@@andyrose5616yeah that’s where I first saw this clip was by that archive.
@AndrewLumsden6 ай бұрын
Flawless integrity of Cronkite
@roberthendry6145 ай бұрын
Actually, when Calvin Coolidge died in Jan. 1933, FDR had not been inaugurated yet and Hoover was still President.
@user-xd4rt2pb3p28 күн бұрын
By the time Andrew Johnson died in 1875, there was no living ex President until Grant left office in 1877
@donaldharper86326 ай бұрын
How you tell me hold on on live tv!?
@geraldwalker76096 ай бұрын
What else could we do😮
@r5t6y7u85 ай бұрын
It was a different era, and Walter Cronkite was perhaps the only person who could pull that off. Today they'd cut to a commercial.
@tony84.6 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite is the greatest of all time💯And I wasn't even born for most of his time as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. I wish he was here today in 2024. The press has fallen apart allowing too much crap, lying, and chaos to go on in America today. Trump gets a free ride on everything. Then the press cashes in with their "books" of "my time with Trump".
@ComePoopAtMyHouse16 ай бұрын
Trump gets a free ride?
@ryandavidson44156 ай бұрын
He just reported the facts. Didn’t insert his own personal politics into his broadcasts.
@suestephan32556 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite & others just reported the news that’s it. These talking heads don’t even know how to do that today.
@paulwomack38452 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite was a partisan whose OPINION on Vietnam after the Tet Offensive helped polarize the country giving aide to the communists in North Vietnam and the domestic communists here in America.
@tony84.2 ай бұрын
@@paulwomack3845 But what he said was true. And show's that Cronkite was not a biased partisan. Cronkite said later in life he was a Democrat. But the Vietnam commentary on Tet came during a Democratic administration. If he was a biased partisan, he would not have said that during President Johnson's administration.
@paulburns22396 ай бұрын
Assuming the manner and timing of his death remained the same, had Johnson run in ‘68, and won, and served a full term, he would have left office on January 20, 1973, just 2 days before he died.
@sandal_thong863119 күн бұрын
His stress level as President would have been higher, but otherwise he might have taken care of his health better. Who knows?
@markh257212 күн бұрын
I remember watching this broadcast.
@matthewshores9995 ай бұрын
As of February 23, 2024 when I'm posting this, this is the last time a Democratic president died.
@TheBattleMaster1006 ай бұрын
JFK came for LBJ ten years later
@NMarsden6 ай бұрын
HOORAY!!!!! This video is in color!
@SMcCaskill6 ай бұрын
We had color tv by then.
@keyplayer12319 күн бұрын
I watched this broadcast live with my parents.
@karanveersingh636729 күн бұрын
Telephones,Typewriters in background....20th century. ❤
@Dave-mi3jy6 ай бұрын
We need Walter Cronkite more than ever, can’t imagine how many men of integrity are rolling over in their graves lately…
@Up.In.Smoke-19785 ай бұрын
And, a Peter Jennings!
@deantheodosiou28865 ай бұрын
Walter Cronkite sure knew how to take a phone call. Wonderful how Walter Cronkite's graceful on-air persona still rises head and shoulders out of all those who reported on the successive death's of JFK and LBJ.
@trentaccid21776 ай бұрын
This news would never work today. Dead air is totally a no no in television and radio.
@chuckspoke6 ай бұрын
Dead air but the substance and worthiness of the news is missed. Now you news alert for a car chase or bank robbery. I missed the news being news and I disagree. Journalist and role of real journalist (not new celebrities) currently is weak and suspect.
@shanesydney1276 ай бұрын
Just 10 years before he was President. Amazing person. 👍🇦🇺
@SilverSylphide6 ай бұрын
LBJ was a psychopath
@sagesigman82696 ай бұрын
LBJ was a complicated President but his Great Society and dedication to Civil Rights still help provide for the most vulnerable and people who want nothing more than the American Dream. Though Vietnam was a terrible mistake and a quagmire that buried so many Americans and Vietnamese and did so with no purpose or victory, his affect on the Home Front can never be forgotton.
@SilverSylphide6 ай бұрын
He destroyed the american family, greenlit Vietnam, and arguably had JFK assassinated@@sagesigman8269
@user-zq4fv8sj6v6 ай бұрын
Just like Biden..
@Atrail_Mckinley47866 ай бұрын
@@user-zq4fv8sj6vYou misspelled Trump
@scottbarnett80906 ай бұрын
Crooked
@josephadams364422 күн бұрын
Lbj said when he lost walter Cronkite he lost vietnam.
@MarkHarrison73321 күн бұрын
He had prevented the military from being able to win from the very beginning.
@tomgebarowski81566 ай бұрын
Its interesting but very different how he is doing most of this story while on the phone! Normally we would hear the other person talking. Cronkite was obviously a master newscaster, the most important & trusted of his era. Its also interesting he was on air to report deaths of BOTH JFK & LBJ.