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Barry Kibrick: ‘Love Your Mistakes’
“Mistakes are your best assets. They hone your skills and develop your creativity. Don’t be afraid to make them, the more the merrier.” From Barry Kibrick Eric Metaxas the right-wing author and radio talk show host, once said when he was talking about one of his books and I’m paraphrasing: “We’re all a bunch a screw […]
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World Opinion Forum-CBS News: President Richard Nixon’s Resignation Speech- Dan Rather vs Roger Mudd
“CBS News covering President Richard Nixon’s resignation speech in August, 1974. (I wasn’t born yet!) …” Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat CBS News covering President Richard Nixon’s resignation speech in August, 1974. (I wasn’t born … Continue reading
CBS News: Fidel Castro- On Face The Nation, in 1959
Source: The New Democrat Plus This was just after the Castro Communists had taken power in Cuba in 1958, from the authoritarian Batista Regime there, after winning the Cuban Civil War. Cuba replaces one authoritarian regime from Fulgencio Batista and creates … Continue reading
American Throwback-CBS News: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 1/22/73: SCOTUS Roe V. Wade Decision
Source: This piece was originally posted at 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. … Continue reading
Posted in Classic News
Tagged Abortion, Abortion Rights, CBS Evening News, CBS News, Free Choice, Freedom of Choice, Freedom to Choose, Individual Freedom, Liberalism, Personal Choice, Personal Freedom, Personal Responsibility, Reproductive Rights, Roe V. Wade, SCOTUS, The 1960s, United States Supreme Court, Walter Cronkite, Women's Right to Choose
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CBS News: Video: CBS Evening News 3/17/77: Foreign News and Freedom of the Press
This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger 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 … Continue reading
CBS News: Video: CBS Evening News: St. Patrick’s Day 1977
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 I started nursery … Continue reading
CBS News: CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, 3/17/77: A Look at Foreign Affairs and Energy Policy
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 to make human … Continue reading
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Tagged 1977, CBS Evening News, CBS News, Energy Policy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Jimmy Carter, President Jimmy Carter, Walter Cronkite
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CBS News: Video: Walter Cronkite’s First CBS Evening Newscast
This post was originally posted at The New Democrat on Blogger 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 … Continue reading
CBS News: Walter Cronkite Announces the Death of LBJ- in 1973
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat Walter Cronkite announcing the death of one of our strongest and most effective presidents as far as what he was able to get passed in Congress and the amount of people … Continue reading
Watch Mojo: Top 10 Walter Cronkite Moments: JFK, Vietnam, Watergate
This post was originally posted at 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 … Continue reading
Bedford TV: CBS News Evening News- Iranian Hostage Crisis, December 26, 1980
This post was originally posted at The New Democrat 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 prison uniforms … Continue reading
