walter cronkite.ause] >> walter cronkite has covered nearly every major news event in his affiliation with cbs, including 40 years as anchorman on the cbs evening news. -- 14 years as anchorman on the cbs evening news. but it was as a unite press correspondent that he covered world war ii, including taking part in the beachhead assault in normandy 50 years ago today. [applause] >> mr. cronkite, please. walter conch right -- walter cronkite: welcome, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and their honored of today, our veterans. 50 years ago today, the liberation of western europe began on these beaches in normandy. the greatest invasion force in history landed here to open the final stage of world war ii in europe. i am honored to have been asked to share it with you on the solemn and historic commemoration. for this great allied undertaking more than 70,000 american soldiers, sailors and airmen overcame tremendous odds to secure these beaches. however, we are not here to celebrate. nor are we he

walter, quite -- walter cronkite.ause] walter concrete has covered almost every major news event during his 44 year affiliation with cvs, including 14 years as anchorman on the cbs evening news. it was as the united press correspondent that he covered world war ii, including taking on normandy,ssault 50 years ago today. [applause] mr. cronkite, please. >> thank you. good afternoon. distinguished guests, ladies and honored ofand the today, our veterans. today, theo liberation of western europe began at these beaches of normandy. the greatest invasion force in history landed here today to open the final stage of world war ii in europe. i am honored to be asked to share with you this solemn and historic commemoration. for this great allied undertaking, more than 70,000 american soldiers, sailors and oddsn overcame tremendous to secure these beaches. not here to celebrate, nor are we here to glorify battle. remember tois to say thank you, once again, to the veterans who stand before us and who live around us here. lie aro

cronkite took time after the newscast to talk to them and it changed the way cbs covered the gay movement at the time. various groups and nationalities that were not best their stories were not being told by the mainstream press, they would start their own newspapers and magazines. here you see gay activist and commit many publications rose up -- here you see "the gay activist" and other publications that rose up. this woman was encouraged to come up with a flood that symbolized the gay movement. you will notice it has two more stripes than has now. the reason is because two of the colors were harder to produce. the flag was made by gilbert. this was the sewing machine on which he created the original flag. it is not the original but it is one of the flags with that template. next we will talk about the aids crisis and how it activated and mobilized lgbtq activists. in every movement, you see signs of progress and then push back. with this incredible spirit of openness come gay people being public about their sexuality, who they were, their sexual orientation, protesting, on the heels of

reporting from the cbs news space center, correspondent walter cronkite. >> the spacewalk is over.lk in a true sense. >> the only thing we did not do well was e.v.a., extravehicular activity. for the last flight of gemini 12 buzz brought in the idea of training in the water tank. >> i was a scuba diver from 1957, so i knew a bit about dealing with currents and moving around and spacewalking, it was very delicate moving and you balance so you don't exert yourself. so i started training underwater. >> buzz put all that together and the final e.v.a. was done very much by the book. it was a big success. >> so i was standing up in the hatch and looking around and took a couple pictures of texas and the astrodome and took a -- and i decided let me just turn around and take a picture. nothing unusual about that. but that was the first selfie in space. >> gemini 12. >> when gemini was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were completely synced and we came out with confidence in ourselves. it was like let us have this apollo stuff, we're going to

cronkite, chaplain, distinguished leaders of our government, members of congress, members of the armed services, our hosts from france, and, most of all, our veterans, their families and their friends -- in these last days of ceremonies, we have heard wonderful words of tribute. now we come to this hallowed place that speaks, more than anything else, in silence. here on this quiet plateau, on this small piece of american soil, we honor those who gave their lives for us 50 crowded years ago. today, the beaches of normandy are calm. if you walk these shores on a if you walk these sores on a summer day, or you might hear is children playing in the sand, singles overhead or the ringing of a church bell. the simple sounds of freedom barely breaking the silence. peaceful sounds, ordinary sounds. 1944 was the least ordinary day of the 20th century. on that chill done, these , thees echoed with gunfire roar of aircraft, the thunder of bombardment and through the wind in the waves came the soldiers out of their landing craft and into the water, away from their youth and towards a savage place.

novel about it but we do do a decent job, trying to explain what it meant when someone like walt cronkite came out against the vietnam war that his shifting opinion didn't really matter for the country and that's something they don't quite have today but it's something that we do try to re-create. >> there are probably more sources of information today than ever before. is that a good thing or a bad thing? >> it can be a good thing. the problem is people need help navigating that, so we've had a movement in the country, a kind of revolt against the elites, and that elitism is a bad thing. that's also thrown out the role of experts with it. and i think we need experts to help guide us in our daily affairs and to help us figure out which of these sources is actually trustworthy. >> so you're putting this book together. who surprised you the most what intrigued you the most, what was the one thing that you learned that you didn't know going into the project? >> that's a great question. we've been at it for so long i'm trying to remember what i didn't know at the start. i think what really im

walter cronkite. 50 years ago, thousands died here in normandy. wreath presented by the president and two d-day veterans acknowledged the sacrifice. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff brought d-day to the present with the induction of company commander joe dawson, one of the first to land at omaha beach. to an audience of thousands, the president of the united states delivered a message that recognized the price paid in the past. the president went on to say that what d-day set in motion is the continual american commitment to freedom and democracy. this ceremony is america's way of commemorating the sacrifices of world war ii, of paying tribute to those who dared. this is designed with them in mind. >> thought it was very moving. very moving and a nice tribute to our fallen comrades. >> no sacrifice too great. >> camaraderie, absolutely. >> yes ma'am, it sure was. >> beautiful. >> i got a picture of gordon sullivan, he shook hands with me. i got to take a picture with my camera. >> very much worth it. >> another part of the ceremony, seldo

in 1973, he interrupted a live broadcast of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. holding up a poster that read, "gays protest cbs prejudice." >> gay people have the same right to protections. >> reporter: months later, cbs reported on the early gay rights movement. today, most americans see progress in ending discrimination against gays and lesbians, according to a cbs news poll. but nearly half say discrimination still exists. 56% of people polled say there's a lot of discrimination against people who are transgender. sarah kate ellis is c.e.o. of glaad, a gay rights advocacy organization. what is the young gay kid today who lives in missouri to take from this anniversary? >> to see that there are people out there who are fighting for their rights, fighting for their visibility, who are fighting for ireir acceptance, is very, very powerful. now i think they can see themselves. they can see a path forward. >> reporter: sarah went on to say, "our story today is resistance, but it's also celebration." tonight, thousands of people are here in front of the stonewall s

. >> reporter: in 1973 segal stormed a live broadcast on cbs with walter cronkite.sign with a message seen by millions of viewers, but cronkite heard his message. >> the homosexual men and women have organized for acceptance. just recently the nypd commissioner james o'neill apologized to the gay community. >> the actions and laws were diskrimm na toye and oppressive. >> do you remember where you were when you decided to do it? >> i wasn't sure i was going to do it until i got to the podium. i thought, this is going to have to be done. >> reporter: despite the progress, statistics show tolerance for lgbtq americans, particularly among young people, has sharply decreased from 63% in 2016 to 45% last year. sara kate ellis is president of glaad, one of the leading advocacy organizations. >> finish this for me. our story today is about. >> joining forces with all marginalized people. >> this stonewall has been -- >> reporter: for 28-year-old ray monday braun, the riots at stonewall are history. it's a journey documented in the film, "state of pride." >> we should be thi

. >> we need to get back to walter cronkite-type journalism where people can trust what they hear inhe media. >> sean: i'm proud of our work on this show, because we have sought the truth and the truth only and we were right and these others were wrong. when we come back, joe biden tried to convince voters eight years of the obama white house were scandal free. a "hannity" history lesson mini monologue. what are they think of the vice president's flip-flopping later? an explanation by rush limbaugh why liberal lawmakers are ignoring homelessness and the crisis in california, interesting observation, straight ahead. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say "oh we can't beat usaa" we're the webber family. we're the tenney's we're the hayles, and we're usaa members for life. ♪ get your usaa auto insurance quote today. i was told to begin my aspir

last night i watched again the special that was on walter cronkite. >> so did i. >> 1964 on cbs. 90 minutes dwight david eisenhower. >> went back to that cemetery and went back to the battlefields and he walked past those same gravestones almost crying because of the memory of all those deaths that came because of decisions that he had made. how an american president on foreign soil could talk this way and especially do it in front of those gravestones, i just can't imagine how that could have happened. >> i've been thinking so much about dwight david eisenhower, one of the spectacular american lives, a product of abilene, kansas. went through west point. worked his way up the military chain of command. a controversial call by fdr to give him the job he had, but looking back at it, it's hard to think that we could have had anyone better in charge of this massive undertaking. and, michael, i assume you regard d-day, twinned as it is in history with pearl harbor -- >> right. >> to have been part of the formation of our modern world and the united states as we know it. >> absolutely. d-day was

. >> this is walter cronkite, in our newsroom.o introduce to you the chief cameraman. and assistant news director. this is bert shipp, bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden we saw them approaching, they didn't slow down, as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. and then i jumped into a police car and went to parkland. >> these two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and was hollering for the stretchers and cots and everything. and they brought the governor in first. >> what happened next? >> then the president came in behind him and they took both of them back -- >> albert thomas, democrat of texas is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room said he's been told the president was still alive but in very critical condition. >> two priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead. >> of bullet wounds. this is

like the d-day commemoration, you go back to 1964 when former president eisenhower went with walter cronkite, walked on the beaches and warned about the wages -- the costs of war, the importance of peace. very much in 1964, the same year as the daisy ad that lyndon johnson aired against barry goldwater. very much a cold war moment. eisenhower, the warrior who understood peace, warning us about heedless and the cost of war. you go to 1984, president reagan turning d-day and operation overlord into an essential chapter in the story of american restoration. you go to bill clinton in 1994, the generational shift, when these men were young, they changed the world, and when we are young, we have our duty to do. george w. bush, '04, the same week ronald reagan died, the alliances, projection of force, the need for moral authority. barack obama, the need for international order. now, is this a continuity this week or a contrast? it is self-evidently a sharp contrast and one of the things we're going to be dealing with for a very long time is to go to some of the men you mentioned. we had a coherent

. >> they are one of the biggest and they are unrice the news paper business or walter cronkite in the sense they are not responsibility they say they are a platform not a news agency and absolve themselves. >> two titans of america. facebook and trumpp. you are taking them on. >> that's right. >> stay tuned. >> somebody has to. >> be still my heart. hold on. >> you have a heart? >> i don't know. we try to fake it. but i will tell you one thing we have and that's an up-to- date weather report forecast. darren take us away. >>> let me attest you got a heart having met you in person. and you don't need to defensed yourself on that one. we started a new month. remember may? it's june now. and this is going to be the ek taste of summer. let's get into the details here on the temperatures. san jose, there you are looking at the next five days. average daytime high for san jose is 7 # 7 degrees right now. we will be well above that getting into tuesday and wednesday. but this is going to be a more exaggerated warmup inland. watch what happens when we switch from san jose to concord. you see

. >> he's not walter cronkite.ven after robert mueller's investigation exposed the full extend of the elections, he said it's not interference, it's information. he said maybe he would call the fbi. ted liu from california. congressman, the president believes it's okay to take dirt, oppo research from a foreign government. he said it's okay. does that square with your committee's decision not to impeach him? >> thank you, chris for your question. what donald trump said is unamerican, unpatriotic and unbelievable. the issue is not oppo research. you can take oppo research and you cannot take it from a foreign power. there is a law against this. the federal election campaign ad said you can't take anything of material value from a foreign power. donald trump is selling america down for his own personal benefit. >> what do you think the russians were up to. he thought there was something wrong because he lied about it later saying it had to do with adoptions. do you believe his motive that he thinks it's okay to do th

, they were out of press conference behind the lines and they were out there watching and walter cronkite was one of the great world war ii journalists many others who went out for some of them to fame and fortune. so, my feeling and a media coverage day it came back for these well-known correspondents and this went out unfiltered the decision was made to show the american marines in the sir on and someone that was quite a traumatic moment for american, not the americans who had already lost children but it was of the day. so that's my impression and i will stick with that. >> so, for those of you in the audience who have been brought here by others and may not know that much about world war ii and might know more about literature, it's a wonderful biography by martha gellhorn who was a great journalist and she was married to ernest hemingway at the time and the two of them were highly competitive. she managed to stowaway on a british ship during the invasion of normandy and he never forgave her. >> that's an amazing story, she pretended she was a nurse, it was a british ship bringing cas

the commemorations starting in 1964 when former president eisenhower went back and talks to walter cronkitend all about the importance of peace, the importance of americans not being interested in conquest. that was all about the cold war. it was all ant containing adventurism because history's often about as present as the future. it is about american restation. president regan does a brilliant job. bill clinton in 1994. it becomes a generational moment. that he was the son of a sacrifice. george w. bush in 2004, it's about alliances and projecting power and his attempt to make the case about america's role in the world. so all of these moments tell us something. what does this moment tell us? tells us that we have an incoherent president. grade him on a curve. it was a perfectly fine speech but let's be clear. he is the president of the united states. this is kind of part of the basic 101 toolkit. what it says is his essential incoherence of policy and the more dignified role in the world would -- i think never on sharper display. you had these marvelous images all week of the longest rei

. >> we need to get back to walter cronkite-type journalism where people can trust what they hearw inhe media. >> sean: i do know something, professor? i'm proud of our work on the show the last two and a half plus years. because we have sought the truth and the truth only and we were right in these others were wrong.ig thank you both, you've been a big part of it. when we come back, joe biden trying to convince voters his eight years in the obama white house was scandal free. okay, a hannity history lesson many model of and lawrence jones asks new yorkers what they think of the vice president flip flopping. big explanation by rush limbaugh why liberal lawmakers are homelessness in the crisis in california. interesting observation straight ahead. ♪ thanks for the boat rides and the bonfires. for camping out and jumping in. for the little fish, the big fish, and the bigger-than-me fish. because if it weren't for dads, we wouldn't be here-- and this is the place to be. at bass pro shops and cabela's, we join you in thanking dads everywhere for time spent in the great outdoors. save on g

for the pbs newshour, i'm arren kimbel-sannit at cronkite school of journalism in phoenix. >> woodruff: that story came to us from the howard center for investigative journalism, an initiative of the scripps howard foundation. >> woodruff: a new york playor ex what happens to a family after the father is arrested for downloading and trading child pornography on the internet. hari sreenivasan sat down with the actress wife who has written an emotional drama about the searing experience. it's part of "canvas," our arts andcoverage o culture. i see a decent human beings who have done som uenspeakable things. >> reporter: in this play yout start th a line that i want to read out." this isn't one of those shows where i'm here to tell you tt i was okay and that i wasn't okay but now i am okay." where are you? four years out. >> you know, i hate the word "journey," but i guess i'm on the journey and i am-- i have really good days and i have not s great days and i have d where they're both amazing and excruciatingly difficult. >> reporter: difficult and complicated. maddie corman is a working

i'm going to take it to the set to see.d, and he sow you see cronkite and he siid, and roger there atid mud and a rather dan sits here at said rather, and you'll sit there ant aid female. before my class, i call him the affirmative action. babies of 1972 women basicallyy fundamentavered, uh, what we call the soft issues. ov covered health recovered arst ladies, weed parties, but aftion we were covering the pentagon, we were coverinpolitics. we were covering the white house. everything just washed over us. >> woodruff: phenomenal journalist and pioneering lesley stahl. yo you can find all episodes of our program on facebook watch at that moment whenhow. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. ein us online and again h tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newsho, thank you and see you soon. >> text night and day. >> catch it on replay. >> burning some fat. >> sharing the latest viral cat! >> you can do the things you like to do with a wirelan designed for you. with talk, text and data. consumer cellular. learn more at consumercellular.tv >> babbel. a language appal

laced news anchors just letting loose. [ laughter ] used to be, you'd tune into the news and walter cronkiteemnly read the day's headlines, and now journalists are like drunk red sox fans lighting cars on fire after the world series "[ bleep ] hey bro, that's some crazy [ bleep ]. [ laughter and applause i mean, pretty soon -- [ cheers and applause at this rate, pretty soon, msnbc is going to have a show just called "[ bleep ]. [ laughter ] welcome to "[ bleep ]. uh - [ laughter and applause it's like when the redacted mueller report first came out, and wolf blitzer read trump's expletive-filled response on national television. >> this is what the president himself said, and i'm quoting him now. he calls it "total bull [ bleep ]. >> seth: it's so bizarre to see someone say those words in such a dry tone [ laughter ] it's like an episode of "star trek" where they give data a profanity chip "captain, i've detected a goddamn anomaly in the [ bleep ] warp core, bitch." [ laughter and applause we need to hear from mcgahn. we need to hear from robert mueller and we need to hear again from barr, wh

murrow to walter cope -- walter cronkite. journalists report what they see. and what did they find out and being a former journalist myself, i have always been one of those people who believe you are held to that standard and no matter what you do, you stick to that standard. we had questions from the audience that they wrote out that they would like to ask you. card number credit and expiration date? [laughter] just kidding. hero coda is considered a of d-day. on monument was once proposed, what's his leadership considered less than that of teddy roosevelt? worthy of aership medal of honor consideration? part.start with the first why did it teddy roosevelt, wallace's leadership -- why was his leadership over dutch'? rick: they landed on the wrong beach. roosevelt who was with them is a combatthe tooth for leader and he has been in north africa and sicily in quite a lot of combat he. he takes command on the same. he improvises. he rallies at the men and says we may be in the wrong place but we are going this way. him andmance by famously is walking around. he

she didn't let us eat dinner until we watched walter cronkite. and then, you know, everyone would do their thing and she'd put us to bed, right? and my mother would sit up at that kitchen table, i think until midnight and beyond just figuring out how to make everything work. and it's through the lens of her that i think about a lot of issues, including the priorities for american families. it's literally that parent who is sitting at that kitchen table after the kids are in bed, just figuring out how to make it all work. it's literally through the lens of when people wake up at 3:00 in the morning with that thought that's been weighing on them, which, by the way, for most people regardless of where they live, their race, their ethnicity is the same thought, right? it's how, you know, their personal health, the health of their children or their parents. can they get a job, keep a job, pay the bills by the end of the month, retire with dignity, pay off their student loans? these are the things that wake people up in the middle of the night and they

ike said to walter cronkite after the war, no way. that would have seemed like a lifetime, but he was walking up and down deciding if he should give the final order to go. 75 years ago. finally, he looked over around 4:30 in the morning, and he looked up and said quietly, let's go." today is an historic day. i'm going to take you through very quickly some of the highlights of d-day. i'm going to focus mainly on the yanks, of course, but being a limey, my heart will beat a little faster when we come to some characters. the point of the book and my story is to highlight the guys who got the job done, who, had they not succeeded, d-day may have failed. these are the people, young combat commanders, most of them never in combat before, never been fired at in anger before, who were given the critical jobs on d-day. they had the longest arts of survival, the toughest missions, and the highest stakes. let me start with this really beautiful colorized photograph. deadliest the sector on omaha. 900 of you guys killed in a roundabout three hour

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to describe this, if you imagine a spectrum on youtube, on my left side there is the calm walter cronkite section of youtube, on the right-hand side there's crazy town, ufos, conspiracy theories, big foot, whatever. if you take a human being and you could drop them anywhere, you could drop them in the calm section or you could drop them this crazy town. if i'm youtube and i want you to watch more which direction from there am i going to send you? i'm never going to send you to the calm section, i'm always going to send you towards crazy town. now you imagine 2 billion people like an ant colony of humanity and it's tilting the playing field towards the crazy stuff. the specific examples of this, a year ago a teen girl who looked at a dieting video on youtube would be recommended anorexia videos because that was the more extreme thing to show the voodoo doll that looked like a teen girl, the next thing to show is anorexia. if you looked at a nasa moon landing it would show flat earth conspiracy theories recommended hundreds of millions of times before being taken down recently. 50% of white