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Unless you are 91

I will always remember him telling me JFK was dead as he fought back tears

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I will always remember him telling me JFK was dead as he fought back tears


Along with Jim McKay at the 1972 Olympics (When I was a kid my father used to say "Our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized." Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They're all gone), that is truly one of the rawest moments ever on live TV.

Its a pity that the fools who got us into and wasted the lives of so many young Americans in Vietnam actually blamed Cronkite for helping to change the public's view on the war. That's a travesty. That's in the bible.

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harry Wrote:

I will always remember him telling me JFK was dead as he fought back tears


Along with Jim McKay at the 1972 Olympics (When I was a kid my father used to say "Our greatest hopes and our worst fears are seldom realized." Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said there were eleven hostages; two were killed in their rooms yesterday morning, nine were killed at the airport tonight. They're all gone), that is truly one of the rawest moments ever on live TV.

Its a pity that the fools who got us into and wasted the lives of so many young Americans in Vietnam actually blamed Cronkite for helping to change the public's view on the war. That's a travesty. That's in the bible.


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Hopefully the Cronkite family will have the decency to let Rev. Wright preside at the funeral.

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From Walter Cronkite to Bob Bland... A state's demise.


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From Walter Cronkite to Bob Bland... A state's demise.


Funny you should make such a connection, Monty...

http://bobbland.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/bestwalt/

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FT Wrote:
Aaron Rodgers Mustache Wrote:
From Walter Cronkite to Bob Bland... A state's demise.


Funny you should make such a connection, Monty...

http://bobbland.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/bestwalt/


Sorry, though, for not referring to a GREAT state, or the Lone Star Republic.


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