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Walter Cronkite Goes to Vietnam

Walter Cronkite Goes to Vietnam

Walter Cronkite looks into the camera from an airfield in Vietnam in 1965. Cronkite returned to Vietnam three years later, and his news special on the scene at the front then turned out to be a pivotal moment in the Vietnam War.

In this photo: Walter Cronkite

Photo: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Jul 19, 1965