[Roger Darthwell]

50 years ago today Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President of the United States died of a heart attack at the age of 64, here is how Walter Cronkite reported the news of his death on the CBS Evening News while on the phone with Tom Johnson, the press secretary of former President Johnson (no relation)
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Three minutes later Garrick Utley who anchored NBC Nightly News that evening was about to introduce to Roe v. Wade story (the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling was handed down the very same day LBJ died), but interrupted his newscast in order to break the story of Johnson's death www.youtube.com