Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, and Public Opinion

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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American University’s W. Joseph Campbell teaches a class on CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite’s pessimistic assessment of the Vietnam War in February 1968 and looks at whether the impact of those comments has been overstated and is merely a media myth. www.oracle.come/goto/cspan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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