Cronkite (118 page)

USA Patriot Act, 638

USA Today
, 592, 608

U.S.A. Trilogy
(Dos Passos), 131

U.S. Information Agency (USIA), 226, 245, 571–72, 620

U.S. Open, 595, 633

V-2 rocket, German, 121, 224

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 580–81

Van Dyke, Dick, 179

Vanguard
satellite launch, 194–95

Vanity Fair
, 591, 662, 663

Vann, John Paul, 346

Vanocur, Sander, 188, 526

Vantage Point, The
(Johnson), 383, 490

Vero Beach Press Journal
, 628

V-E (“Victory in Europe”) Day, 125–26, 620

Viacom, 642

“Vietnam Perspective” (CBS News), 351–52, 354

Vietnam Perspective
(Pocket Books), 351

Vietnam: The Deadly Decision
(CBS News), 300

”Vietnam: The Hawks and the Doves” (CBS News), 341

Vietnam War, 257, 262, 300, 327, 340–42, 350–54, 356, 361–63, 364–65, 389–90, 401

   antiwar movement, 389, 400–401, 402–6, 443, 444

   Battle of Hué, 369, 372–73

   Battle of Ia Drang Valley, 348–49, 350

   Bau Me atrocity, 448–49, 458

   black Vietnam servicemen, 331

   correspondents tours of duty in Vietnam, 353, 361

   Cronkite’s “Report from Vietnam,” 376–86, 392, 393, 394–95, 513, 569, 570

   and Cronkite’s tours of Vietnam, 342–47, 368–76, 491–92, 577

   the demilitarized zone (DMZ), 340, 341

   Easter Offensive, 382

   end of, 512, 513

   fragging incidents, 365

   Gulf of Tonkin incident, 300–301, 302, 341

   Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 301, 362, 380, 394

   heroin use by troops, 364–65

   “Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam” (
CBS Reports
), 577

   Johnson’s policy on, 340–41, 342, 347, 349, 352, 356, 364–65, 367, 462

   Kennedy’s policy on, 259–61

   last Americans to die in, 512

   moratorium to end the war, 443, 444

   My Lai tragedy, 446

   Nixon and, 442, 443, 447, 448, 451, 463, 472–73

   Pentagon Papers and, 458–60, 461–62, 463

   Pleiku attack, 340–41, 346

   release of American POWs, 492–93

   as a stalemate, 378–79, 380, 384, 441, 462

   the Tet Offensive, 366–86

   torching of Cam Ne, 347–48, 349

   during 2004 presidential election, 641

   “Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The” (
CBS Reports
), 569–70

   wounded correspondents in Vietnam, 381–82, 511

“Vietnam Weekly Review” (NBC News), 342, 345

Vitarelli, Bob, 376

Voice of America (VOA), 136

Voice of the UN Command, 325

von Braun, Wernher, 193, 337, 338–39

Von Fremd, Charles, 234, 257

Vonnegut, Kurt, 417

Von Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd, 122

Voorhis, Jerry, 214

“Voyage to the Moon” (MacLeish), 423

Waco CG-4, 117

Wade, William, 95, 97, 147

WAGA-TV, Atlanta, GA, 328

Wakefield
, U.S.S., 80–81

Walesa, Lech, 553

Walker, Gerald, 624, 645

Wallace, Chris, 314–15, 319, 322

Wallace, George, 298, 329, 365, 408, 409

Wallace, Henry, 221

Wallace, Mary, 649

Wallace, Mike, 186, 249, 309, 314, 315, 336, 406

   and brutal treatment at 1968 DNC, 403

   as candidate for CBS’s news anchor, 248–49

   and Cronkite, 574, 607, 638

   and Cronkite’s death, 659

   and Memogate, 642, 643

   retirement from CBS, 649

   Shah of Iran interview, 534

   and Turner bid for CBS, 585

   “Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, The,” 569–70

   Walters and, 524

Wall, Jimmy, 330–31, 550

Wall Street Journal
, 107–8, 163, 373, 379

Walt Disney World, Florida, 591

Walter and Betsy Cronkite Foundation, 659

Walter Cronkite: Witness to History
(PBS), 652

Walter Cronkite and the News
(CBS News), 171

Walter Cronkite at Large
(CBS News), 578

Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, 484

Walter Cronkite Newsletter
, 488

Walter Cronkite’s Esso News Show
(CBS News), 171

Walter Cronkite’s Universe
(CBS News), 548, 554–58, 567, 568, 609

Walters, Barbara (broadcaster), 516, 523–25, 526, 529, 538, 540–42, 574, 599, 644, 647, 660

Walters, Barbara (writer), 179

Walters, Vinny, 244

“Walter Wants” phenomenon, 529

Waltons, The
(CBS TV), 509

Ward, Jonathan, 614, 619

Warhol, Andy, 593

War Is Hell
(movie), 277

War of the Worlds
(radio drama), 413

war on poverty, 416

War Powers Act, 636

Warren Commission Report, 282–83

Warren, Earl, 221, 282, 501–2

Warsaw Pact, 553

Washington Post
, 154, 155, 158, 188, 201, 202, 220, 251, 280, 367, 389, 400, 424, 467, 592, 666

   and G. W. Bush administration, 637

   on Cronkite and Carter, 526

   and Cronkite on USIA blacklist, 571

   on Cronkite’s
Legacy of War
, 654

   Cronkite’s retirement announcement to, 537

   and Nixon’s resignation, 508

   
Post
-owned TV stations, 475, 477

   and Watergate scandal, 471, 474–75, 477, 478, 479, 497

Washington Star
, 657

Washington State University–Pullman, 47, 60

Washington Times
, 623

“Watergate: Part I” (CBS News), 477

“Watergate: Part II” (CBS News), 478

“Watergate Affair, The” (CBS News), 475–76

Watergate scandal, 164, 445, 470–71, 474–79, 496–97, 501, 502

Waterway Guide
, 527

Watson, Tom, 608

WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL, 381

WCAU radio, Philadelphia, PA, 73

WCBS-AM radio, New York, 331, 362, 512

WCBS-TV, New York, 500, 515, 616

WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, MN, 181

WDZ radio, Decatur, IL, 244

Weatherly
(yacht), 244

Weathermen, 400

Web journalism, 281–82

Webster, Don, 361

Weedin, Harfield, 40

Weiner, Lee, 406

Weisman, Alan, 560–62, 563–64, 565

Welles, Orson, 413

Wells, H. G., 224

WELY radio, Ely, MN, 364

Wenner, Jann, 592–93

Werner, Douglas, 86, 89

Wershba, Joe and Shirley, 154, 155, 622, 648

West, Betsy, 642, 643

West, Cornel, 297

West, Dick, 320, 418

West, Rebecca, 132

Westerland
(Dutch ship), 86–87

Western College for Women, Oxford, OH, 296–97

Westin, Av, 332

Westinghouse, 162, 165, 166, 212

Westminster Abbey, 171

Westmoreland v. CBS
, 570

Westmoreland, William, 347, 349, 350, 365, 371–72, 373, 379, 382, 513, 569–70

Westwind
(Cronkite and Ellis), 580

WHAS-TV, Louisville, KY, 255

What Is Happening to News
(Fuller), 615

What’s My Line?
(CBS TV), 153, 155, 158, 166, 186–87

WHB Broadcasting Company, Kansas City, MO, 70

wheat graft, 474

“Where We Stand” (
The Twentieth Century
), 195

White, Edward H., 333, 336

White House

   Cronkites’ invitation to, 626

   press corps, 259, 260

   tours of the, 157–58, 250

White House Years
(Kissinger), 467–68

White, Paul, 101, 112–13, 115–16, 218, 250

white supremacists, 328

White, Theodore, 203, 205, 257, 310, 574

Whitmire, Kathy, 33

Whitney, Gifford, 580–81

Whitney, Jock, 96

Whitney, William C., 581

Whole Earth Catalog
(Brand), 428

Who Speaks for Birmingham?
(
CBS Reports
), 245–46

Why in the World
(PBS), 554

Wicks Aircraft Company, Kansas City, MO, 117

Wilder, Billy, 247

Wilkman, Jon, 324

William Allen White Medal for Outstanding Journalistic Merit, 454

Williams, Brian, 187, 481, 486–87, 489, 499, 579

   Cronkite and, 616–17

Williams, Jane, 617

Williams, Robert J., 318

Williams, Woody, 43–44

Williston, Scotti, 562

Willkie, Wendell, 311

Wills, Garry, 402

Wilson, Woodrow, 15, 16, 36, 75

Winchell, Walter, 38, 155, 309, 326

Winfrey, Oprah, 614

Winner Take All
(TV game show), 158

Winter, Cornelia “Bit,” 32, 36, 37, 38, 43–44, 45, 46, 50

wire service industry

   newspapers and, 30, 41–43, 54, 55, 218

   
See also
United Press (UP)

With Kennedy
(Salinger), 261

With Lawrence of Arabia
(Thomas), 198

Witness to Power
(Ehrlichman), 465

WJXT-TV, Jacksonville, FL, 477

WKMG-TV, Orlando, FL, 444

WKRC-TV, Cincinnati, OH, 516

WKY radio, Oklahoma City, OK, 59, 85

WKYZ radio, Detroit, MI, 140

WMAQ-TV, Chicago, IL, 249

WNBC-TV, New York, 273

Wolfe, Tom, 317–18

women’s movement, 522–23

Wood, Lew, 244–45, 581

   and Kennedy assassination, 265–66, 269, 276, 277, 278–79, 281, 282

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 555–56

Woodstock music festival, 411

Woodward, Bob, 471, 474, 475, 476, 503, 508

Woodward, Joanne, 174

World Book Encyclopedia
, 18, 22, 70

World Federalist Association, Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, 630

World Is My Sea, The
(Michener), 526–27

World News Tonight
(ABC News), 551

World War I, 13, 15–17, 18, 34, 75, 89, 95

World War II, 60, 61, 71–132, 163–64, 177, 224, 291

   Allied air war against Germany, 89–91, 93–95, 97–98, 108–9, 112

   Battle of Britain, 73–75

   Battle of Dieppe, 80

   Battle of Midway, 81

   Battle of the Bulge, 122–23, 373

   Cronkite and fiftieth-anniversary ceremonies for, 620–21

   Cronkite as UP war correspondent during, 76–132

   end of, 131–32

   journalists on bombing missions, 95, 97–98, 108–9, 112

   
Legacy of War
(PBS), 654–55

   Normandy invasion (D-day), 80, 103, 110–14, 119, 288, 298–99, 572–73, 620

   Operation Market Garden, 117–20

   Operation Torch, 81–83, 86

   UP reporters covering, 64–65, 77

   V-E (“Victory in Europe”) Day, 125–26

   war correspondents killed during, 78, 98, 100, 101–2, 108, 122

World Wildlife Fund, 438

WPLG-TV, Miami, FL, 477

WRAJ-AM radio, Anna, IL, 165

Writing Sixty-Ninth reporters, 95–103, 147, 343

WTBS-TV, Atlanta, GA, 516, 558

WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C., 152–57, 180, 189, 251, 350, 520

Wussler, Robert J., 222–25, 234, 308, 332, 336, 415, 423

WWL-TV, New Orleans, LA, 265, 328, 525

Wyler, William, 96

Wyman, Thomas, 584

Wyntje
(yacht), 245, 439, 471, 480, 501, 526, 539, 581, 582, 596, 599, 625–26

X-15 aircraft, 193

Xuan Oanh, 372

Yahoo! News, 444

Yank
(Army weekly), 95

Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent, The
(Caro), 285

“Yellowstone Remembered” (PBS), 617

Yippies, 399, 402, 403, 404, 406–7

You Are There
(CBS News), 173–75, 176, 178, 179, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 333, 385, 458, 482

Young, John, 332, 590

Your World in Review
(CBS News), 171

Youth for New America, 444

Yucca Flats, Nevada, 175, 176

Zapruder, Abraham, 283

Zapruder film, 283, 284

Zenker, Arnold, 357–58, 359

Zhou Enlai, 467, 468

Ziegler, Ron, 458, 465, 467, 475

Zwick, Charlie and Barbara, 592