When the News Broke by Heather Hendershot

Author:Heather Hendershot [Hendershot, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS036060 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HIS036090 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

CBS Sums Up “a Shaking Day”

After a commercial break, Cronkite was finally ready to close out the coverage. He tried to get his correspondents going about who the vice-presidential pick would be, but they kept circling back to the street violence. John Hart opined, “I was reminded in watching him [Daley] seated behind a phalanx of security men tonight of similar, perhaps less bloody scenes in other cities in the South while covering the news there. And I also recall the words of some of those sheriffs who told us, ‘Well, if you newsmen would go away, and if you outside agitators would go away, we wouldn’t have any trouble.’ Mayor Daley gave the same feeling. And the same sense in his statements here. I think that one immediate result of this convention, the effect of it, whether or not it is deserved, . . . would be to replace George Wallace with Dick Daley as the symbol of repression by the white power structure.” Hart was on to something: if the widespread reaction among TV viewers of the convention had been liberal, this is how it might have gone. Instead, the conservative “law and order” response dominated, and the villain was not Daley and the white power structure but the “liberal” who had “misrepresented” the mayor and his police force.

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