{"id":80,"date":"2024-05-18T17:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2024-05-18T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:36:45","slug":"walter-cronkite-reports-on-his-recent-trip-to-vietnam-to-view-the-aftermath-of-the-tet-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam to view the aftermath of the Tet Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">February 27, Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam to view the aftermath of the Tet Offensive in his television special\u00a0<em>Who, What, When, Where, Why?<\/em>\u00a0The report is highly critical of US officials and directly contradicts official statements on the progress of the war. After listing Tet and several other current military operations as \u201cdraw[s]\u201d and chastising American leaders for their optimism, Cronkite advises negotiation \u201c\u2026not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2ev-GalTng?si=QbRuzBXfb4ujmq60\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, Walter Cronkite reports on his recent trip to Vietnam to view the aftermath of the Tet Offensive in his television special\u00a0Who, What, When, Where, Why?\u00a0The report is highly critical of US officials and directly contradicts official statements on the progress of the war. After listing Tet and several other current military operations as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}