FBI files discuss Cronkite aiding Vietnam protesters

Fri May 14,
Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite allegedly collaborated with anti-Vietnam War activists in the 1960s, going so far as to offer advice on how to raise the public profile of protests and even pledging CBS News resources to help pull off events, according to FBI documents obtained by Yahoo! News.

The documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, say that in November 1969, Cronkite encouraged students at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., to invite Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie to address a protest they were planning near Cape Kennedy (now known as Cape Canaveral). Cronkite told the group's leader that Muskie would be nearby for a fundraiser on the day of the protest, and said that "CBS would rent [a] helicopter to take Muskie to and from site of rally," according to the documents.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2067

Liberal bias is nothing new, but this is simply a file of an unnamed source claiming something (was offered).

On the other hand, Izzy Stone getting payments from the KGB while writing for the New York Times was apparently true last I read...

Tom