"Cronkite Remembers" (1997) TV mini-series

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Dale Minor

Release Date:

8 December 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Plot:

Walter Cronkite hosts this series that takes us through his career from his early days as a newpaper...

Plot Keywords:

Journalism | Autobiographical | TV Mini-Series | Character Name In Title

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Benjamin C. Bradlee	...	Himself
Walter Cronkite	...	Host
Daniel Ellsberg	...	Himself (archive footage)

Runtime:

USA:360 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Cronkite Ward TV

Goofs:

Factual errors: Walter Cronkite makes note that his daughter Kathy played Patty Hearst in Network (1976). This is not exactly correct, Kathy Cronkite actually played Mary Anne Gifford, a character very much like Hearst.

Quotes:

Host: [about Oliver Stone's "JFK"] Stone combines real and fictional footage in a very clever way that completely obliterates the truth. He uses my announcement of the President's death to provide an air of reality that he avoids for the rest of the picture. His preposterous theory is that top echelons of the United States government committed the Kennedy murder in order to put Lyndon Johnson in the White House...