Tag Archives: CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite: 1/22/73: SCOTUS Roe V. Wade Decision

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Derik Schneider

The New Democrat Roe V. Wade, the famous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalize abortion for all American women, is certainly one of the most and important Supreme Court decision in American history. Because whatever your opinion on abortion, … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News 3/17/77: Foreign News and Freedom of the Press

Posted on September 14, 2014 by Derik Schneider

The New Democrat The CBS Evening News looking at foreign news, which is what I wish network news did more of today. An actual sports story on a national nightly newscast involving Oakland Athletics owner Charlie Finley. And a story … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News: St. Patrick’s Day 1977

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat I was well sixteen months old on St. Patrick’s Day 1977. So to state the obvious, I don’t remember it. My memory starts really in the summer of 1978 when I’m three years old and right before … Continue reading →

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CBS News: Dan Rather-George H.W. Bush Showdown (1988)

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  If you are familiar with the old CNN version of Crossfire from the 1980s and 1990s, this is what it looks like. Where the two debaters let’s say aren’t really there to answer the others questions or … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite: 3/17/77: A Look at Foreign Affairs and Energy Policy

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat This was right before President Jimmy Carter gave his famous foreign policy and human rights speech at Notre Dame in the spring of 1977. The first United States President to ever at least during the Cold War … Continue reading →

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CBS News: Walter Cronkite’s First CBS Evening Newscast

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  CBS News making history and for good reasons in 1963 with the first half-hour newscast. Which was a huge deal back in the early 1960s when TV networks were all about entertainment and sports, because that is … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News: Dan Rather-George H.W. Bush Tiff The Day After

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Derik Schneider

\ Source:The New Democrat  I haven’t seen this video in about three years and I saw it then on YouTube. And if I heard anything about it as a kid in 1987 when this interview was conducted when I was … Continue reading →

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CBS Evening News: Ohio 1972 Presidential Democratic Primary

Posted on August 19, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat  The Democratic Party didn’t have a traditional frontrunner for president in 1972. They were out of the White House and even though Hubert Humphrey who was their nominee for president in 1968 was still running for president … Continue reading →

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Watch Mojo: Top 10 Walter Cronkite Moments: JFK, Vietnam, Watergate

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Derik Schneider

The New Democrat Walter Cronkite was and still is the standard for broadcast news because of his knowledge of the news and what it meant, but also how he carried himself. He was always the man in charge at his … Continue reading →

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Bedford TV: Video: CBS News Evening News: Iranian Hostage Crisis, December 26, 1980

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Derik Schneider

This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger Looks like at least from this short film that the American hostages in Iran were taken care of. That they weren’t being starved, or forced to wear awful looking … Continue reading →

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