What Your Average Tuesday July 20th Sounded Like . . .in 1965

(Robert McNamara - forever the voice of doom) [media id=17580] July 20th also came on a Tuesday in 1965. 45 years ago we were still dealing with a

By Gordonskene

07/20/10 02:39 pm

(Robert McNamara - forever the voice of doom)

Robert McNamara was wrapping up a fact-finding mission to Vietnam and arriving home with more dire scenarios and more promises of troop increases.

No change, right? Only the names. Well . . .that, and the fact that there was more information and the dose of "happy news" was relegated to the last two or three minutes - as opposed to the other way around now.

So here is the news of the day from WCBS in New York, the morning of Tuesday July 20th 1965.

What Your Average Tuesday July 20th Sounded Like . . .in 1965

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