On February 27th, 1968, Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America", told the American people that the chances of America winning the Vietnam War were low. Cronkite produced an hour-long special on CBS where he visited Vietnam to give the American people a first hand look at what was going on. In his final words of the broadcast, Cronkite famously said, "We are mired in a stalemate", and called for the U.S. to get out of Vietnam. This event began a backlash from the American people about the country's involvement in the war, and Cronkite's prediction was only proven when the "Pentagon Papers" were published in the New York Times in 1971, proving that the U.S. government had been lying to the American public about the progress of the war.
