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Walter Cronkite Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Walter Cronkite. A broadcast journalist, Cronkite was managing editor and anchorman of the CBS Evening News during the Kennedy years. On November 22, 1963, he reported the news of the president's death on live television. Interview conducted at Mr. Cronkite's office at CBS News in New York City on April 14, 2004 by Stephen Fagin of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and Vicki Daitch of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The interview is one hour and eight minutes long.
Walter Cronkite Oral History
04/14/2004
Digital-8 videotape
68 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2004.001.0017
Mr. Cronkite passed away on July 17, 2009. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
This joint oral history was separately recorded by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The JFK Library's audio file of this interview, as well as a PDF transcript, may be accessed here on their website: Cronkite, Walter: Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/14/2004 | JFK Library. Unfortunately, in the transcript, my first and last names are misspelled. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Walter Cronkite Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Walter Cronkite. A broadcast journalist, Cronkite was managing editor and anchorman of the CBS Evening News during the Kennedy years. On November 22, 1963, he reported the news of the president's death on live television. Interview conducted at Mr. Cronkite's office at CBS News in New York City on April 14, 2004 by Stephen Fagin of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and Vicki Daitch of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The interview is one hour and eight minutes long.
Walter Cronkite Oral History
04/14/2004
1960 presidential election
Presidential campaign
Oral histories
Cronkite, Walter
New York
1960 Campaign (OHC)
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
News Media (OHC)
Space Program (OHC)
Digital-8 videotape
68 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2004.001.0017
Mr. Cronkite passed away on July 17, 2009. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
This joint oral history was separately recorded by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. The JFK Library's audio file of this interview, as well as a PDF transcript, may be accessed here on their website: Cronkite, Walter: Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/14/2004 | JFK Library. Unfortunately, in the transcript, my first and last names are misspelled. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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