Hugh, sorry. Of course I didn't know. You sound as though you might have survivor's guilt, but I'm just guessing. I will never put on anything like this again. Do you want me to delete the video?

No Fred. Do not delete! It's ok. Keep doing what you do. Thank you for such a respectful response, but really, it's ok. Love what you do. Repeat, do not delete. I may share more of the story later, but as I said, your site is for enjoyment, but at the same time you may run across a story as mine. Absolutely love your work.

I didn't think you'd want me to delete the video, Hugh. But I wanted to give you that option. Yours is an amazing story. Anytime you want to tell the full version, in private, here is my email: orionlightray@yahoo.com

Oh, Hugh, those memories must be so difficult for you. Bless you, and thanks for your generous spirit towards Fred.

To Hugh - Is that the main reason why the gas station guys don't take care of your car as soon as you come and drive into their station? Many times, when I was a kid, they were pouring sheets of water onto the car's windows, before your engine was turned off! The attendants would grab onto the gas pump, open your hood, check your oil, check the air in your tires - last time I saw that was 50 years ago, and I miss it.

Blacques Jacques I enjoyed them too

Well I guess you and I were just two strange kids together!

It’s all good brother. I’ve been listening to AM talk radio to sooth my nerves since 1986

You're welcome. Back in the '90s I sent a tape of a 1965 Tonight Show to Tom Snyder because he had mentioned on his '90s show that he missed "the old Carsons." He sent me a postcard back thanking me and said he was going to send the tape to Johnny. (Not a great story but it's the only one I have about Tom Snyder.)

I adored Tom Snyder.

John Chancellor - NBS News. Next clip is ABC's Jules Bergman.

I was an adult when most of these aired, so I remember where I lived, where I worked..and I worked at a newspaper so I almost HAVE to remember.

Just saw this. Thanks, Roger.

Yep.

Cool!

Now it 2022, I wonder how will we know now???

And when they didn't sit around on a panel talking about the President 24/7.

We didn't even know he was a libtard until years later. Which is how it should be.. Thats when journalism had a moral compass. Closest thing now is One America News Network

My dad had Cronkite figured out back then. He considered him just as bad as Jane Fonda.

+kurtb8474 smart dad there! my parents trusted none of them...and called out many of the serial shows as pushing feminism...made my mom furious to see men being made to look dumb & inferior to women. Now look what we've got. 😱 😢😥⬇

@@kurtb8474 Yes.. very true. He was a leftist as was Hanoi Jane!

I almost forgot about Huntley and Brinkley. These were the days of news not opinions.

The networks now couldn't do these newsbreaks without getting caught up in fake politics crap.

LOAblue refreshing to see. No Fake news back then.

LMAO!

Hold on now, Cronkite removed statements by LBJ at Johnson’s request from an interview in 1969, and Huntley and Brinkley let JFK re-do an “unrehearsed” line from an interview on film in the Oval Office. Don’t fall for automatic nostalgia. There was just as much ass kissing and deference to the powerful then as now!

I shall. Thanks, Jude.

Doc for real MISTER !!!

And as it turned out, he was a political hack just like those that came after him.

Sir James W. V. Savile, OBE Yup.

Those old news clips remind us that the world was always screwed up. But that same world also produced Lynda Carter. It's a mixed bag. A demented slaughterhouse...but with flowers!

How true my friend, how true!

@@FredFlix hi Fred I hope you will reply to this yesterday I subscribed to your channel

@@sherryhannah9262 Welcome aboard, Sherry!

Thanks, Hank.

Interesting, to say the least.

Totally thanks!

That's a tall order, Therese, but I imagine somebody has them somewhere. Thanks for your comment.

:-) I don't even know if they all exist! I just want to see the one with Leonard Nimoy! ;-) Thanks.

@@FredFlix At 6:22, In the 1960s, through the 1970s, I'm used to men doing the news ONLY, no women at all. Like during the Kennedy assassination; I watched it again, I'm saying " That' s right. THAT'S RIGHT, men only reporting the news THAT'S the 60s ! " I'm just saying,Fred, to this day, I won't get used to a woman doing that.

@@bobbyfrancis8957 I remember the amusing things that would happen during the party conventions each election year. I'd love to see a compilation of those, such as a correspondent cursing an equipment malfunction or wolfing down a sandwich not knowing they are on camera.. All men!

Joe Ciliberto My mothers' home was bought for 29k

Nonsense, of course they were concerned about their ratings. They’re in business to make money.

I'll refund your money.

FredFlix 🍻👍

Back before everybody knew about it, anyway.

Believe what you will. Had Robert F. Kennedy not been assassinated in '68 and became President, he would have gotten us out of Vietnam much sooner.

No, he was not.

@@brianarbenz1329 yes he was. Consider: It is wrong to speak ill of the dead. On the other hand, it is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to pretend that Walter Cronkite was the “voice of God” and “universally credible,” as Mara Liasson put it on Fox News Sunday. The terrible truth is that Walter Cronkite symbolized liberal media bias and used that bias with disastrous consequences for our nation and the world. His latest cause was world government and the destruction of American sovereignty. We found out after his retirement that he was not only a liberal, which was evident from his broadcasts, but a one-worlder. In appearances before the World Federalist Association, which favors world government financed by global taxes, he called for the U.S. to renounce “some of its sovereignty” and pass a series of United Nations treaties-many of which are now being pushed in the Senate by President Barack Obama. Cronkite called for an “international Liberty Bell.” He called for Senate ratification of the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Most important, he said, we should sign and ratify the Treaty for a Permanent International Criminal Court, which would violate U.S. constitutional rights by enabling foreign judges to prosecute American citizens and imprison them in foreign jails. Cronkite was determined to use the U.N. and its treaties to inhibit the ability of the U.S. to act in its own national security interests. One of Cronkite’s appearances, where he accepted a “Global Governance” award, is available on video, at an event which featured the wife of then-U.N. boss Kofi Annan and a video from then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. The same “Global Governance” award had also been given to former Time magazine columnist Strobe Talbott, another advocate of world government, later a top State Department official in the Clinton Administration and subsequently named as a “special contact” of the Russian intelligence service by a Russian spy. Talbott now runs the liberal Brookings Institution. In 1988, seven years after his retirement as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, Cronkite addressed a left-wing People for the American Way conference and denounced President Reagan for the “unilateral” military actions in Grenada, when the U.S. military evicted a communist gang, and Libya, when Reagan ordered a military strike in retaliation for the acts of terrorism against Americans. Cronkite despised Reagan’s peace-through-strength policies and said that the smartest president he ever met was Jimmy Carter. Later, Cronkite denounced Operation Iraqi Freedom and attacked the Bush administration for its “arrogance.” His role in the Vietnam defeat is being reported as if it were a highlight of his career. Yet, his misreporting helped create the conditions for a premature U.S. military withdrawal, leading to the loss of the lives of 58,000 Americans in vain, not to mention the millions of additional deaths caused in Vietnam and Cambodia by the Communists. Cronkite’s public verdict that the 1968 Tet offensive was a “defeat” for the U.S. is widely seen as a turning point in American support for the war. Cronkite falsely claimed that the Vietcong had held the American embassy for six hours and that the offensive “went on for two months.” The facts show that Tet was actually a major defeat for the communist enemy.