Walter Cronkite On America's Post-9/11 Reaction | Letterman 

What a gem of a memory! Aww 🖤

Now that is something sweet. Good old men are treasures.

Dream on, Grasshopper, dream on.

He was thinking 20 years ahead of the time and he was 100% right. He should have be an advisor to the people in power when he was still of a sharp mind before he died.

The full unedited video of this has been on RU-vid for 15 years. If you're a fan of Cronkite and read his biography then you should truly search for the entire unedited interview.

@@624radicalham Thank you so much. Very kind of you to let me know♡

One of the best bios I've ever read!!!

@@jeremycummings6702I agree, one of the best. David Brinkley’s I a good one too.

No he wasn't. They tried that when Clinton was president. Osama then said, "America is a paper tiger." This attitude is what led to 9/11. If you don't know that, you were taught poorly in school. I lived through the 90s and this event. Walter was a moron.

Yes it was, to bad it wasn't heeded because as he stated when RFK was assassinated for months after MLK that the ripple effect of his lost will be felt throughout America and many generations to come. As RFK was Hope and I who wasn't even thought of yet😂 do believe that while ever of President that was assassinated before 1968 was tragic, don't get me wrong. The year of 1968 is when not just one great man with many flaws, but two great men with many flaws but they weren't afraid to admit to all mankind of their Country. They were opposite sides of the same coin, truly wanting a middle road for all of Mankind in America, where outward appearances was only suface ways of thinking like colors of a person's skin, it who they were on the individual, on the inside who makes us us humans. To work better to establishing better for all of us, best way to start is making sure all had the rights to equal schooling as education is the way to helping climb out of the hole and opening a whole new world to imagination, dream, thinking outside the box at any situation, knowing their is always more then one choice to any given situation. 😢 1968 was a year where many dared to dream that maybe finally we had two great individual souls that truly came from two walks of life's but treated each other as equals, brothers and a future of truly mending, never forgotten a better road forward as all truly free, brothers and sisters of one Nation, one Country, United We Stand.. Hope!!

That comment just brought tears to my eyes. ❤

Now I have to add that to my reading list!

I especially enjoyed the audio version, read by Cronkite himself. His voice breaks when describing the pilot killed in action.

The GAY MAFIA became known as "anonymous" in 17th C. Britain. The corporation is so used to making excuses for themselves, they are providing free cover for our mutual enemies. Now they've got the technology of Kali, and no religion to speak of. We're obviously all going to die if Washington doesn't un-f_ck themselves.

I literally laughed out loud; hope I didn't wake anyone (it was early here)

He would have absolutely nothing to do with most all of it. He is spinning in his grave because of people who call themselves 'news journalists' (with a few exceptions)....I'm glad he never had to deal in any way with the criminal DT and MAGA

You mean Biden's.

Dave probably wasn't expecting it and was caught a little of guard by it.

: That's depends on how you look at it. It accomplished the goal of the U.S. government to create over 6 trillion dollars out of thin air. It allowed the U.S. government to pass the Patriot Act, which suspended the Constitution to this day and place America under War Powers Authority. It allowed for the suspension of Habeas Corpus. It allowed for the pharmaceutical industry to steal unlimited amounts of poppy to flood the streets of America with a disastrous opioid epidemic. It allowed for American corporations to plunder Afghanistan of precious minerals. It allowed for record profits of the military industrial complex. Just to name a few If you were a politician or CEO or shareholder, the invasion of Afghanistan was a highly profitable endeavor.

He wasn't the only person who saw it so clearly. Anyone with any sense knew that going off half cocked into a guaranteed quagmire like Afghanistan was a bad idea. Not unjustified, but not smart either. Unfortunately, Cronkite was one of the few with the courage to say so honestly. The worst part of the days that followed 9/11 was how quickly the fear and confusion turned to rage, and voices who cautioned restraint and consideration were shouted down, threatened, and branded traitors.

The proper quote is not "forget" but "refuse to learn from".

@@njpaddler wow, you're a wicked fart smeller, I mean smart fella!

Did you watch this interview? They weren't united on anything. Cronkite is telling you exactly how polarized people were between going to war vs. using diplomatic solutions and intelligence

The description says it first aired 9/20/2001, so only 9 days after the attacks.

Was he through? We did that with Japan and Germany after WW2 and now we have positive relationships with both and Germany is an ally

*someone *would've (contraction of "WOULD haVE") You confuse it for "would of" (a nonsensical phrase) because of how it sounds when spoken, but "of" is not a verb. Similarly, it's could've. should've, may've, might've, and must've.

Dan Rather pushed him out, did you seriously not know this? It was either he leave or Dan Rather threatened to leave and CBS was not about to lose Rather. It's politics. How did you not know this?

@@624radicalham I thought I heard something like more money coming in I didn’t know Dan Rather was going to leave CBS in the 1980s at that time I just probably have to listen the story carefully because maybe because it was a CNN reporter who said something like that when Cronkite Passed Away in July of 2009.

But I didn’t know Rather was going to Leave CBS at one point something I learned today everyday you learn something new mostly.

There are many interesting books on the matter. Rather was threatening to leave. He felt that Cronkite was purposely taking too long to retire thereby damaging his career. Alot of bad blood there. @@tylerlozano9849