American Decades
"We Are Mired in Stalemate"
Television broadcast
By: Walter Cronkite Jr.
Date: February 27, 1968
Source: Cronkite, Walter. "We Are Mired in Stalemate" news broadcast. CBS television, February 27, 1968. Reprinted online at http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/Cronkit_1968.html; website home page: http:/www.richmond.edu (accessed April 8, 2003).
About the Author: Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (1916–), American journalist and radio and television news broadcaster, was among the preeminent group of correspondents and commentators developed by CBS News after World War II. He anchored CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981 and hosted the Universe TV series. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1985.
Introduction
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- "From Clown to Hero"
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- "A Dialogue—Marshall McLuhan and Gerald Emanuel Stearn"
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- "Chicago: A Post-Mortem"
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- "TV: An Awesome Event"
- Spiro Agnew and the Liberal Media
- "Future of Non-commercial TV"
- "The First Debate over Presidential Debates"
- Tell Me a Story
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
