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18 July 2009

RIP Walter Cronkite

For those who would like to see him at work, this is how Cronkite reported the murder of Martin Luther King.

I love the anachronisms of old footage. The phrase "in color" in the introduction, as the fact that a broadcast was in color could not yet be taken for granted in April 1968. It was the HDTV of the time.

And the expression "Negro leader" for King. When exactly did network anchors and their ilk stop using "Negro"?

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