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    10/14/09

    In reply to The Story Behind Walter Cronkite's Destroyed FBI File
    Nice digging, John. You're like the Indiana Jones of Gawker. Watch out for snake pits, though. And bad dates.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to The Story Behind Walter Cronkite's Destroyed FBI File
    Can you see what they've got on Sacco and Vanzetti too while you're at it?
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    the bureaucracy is always amazing in its bureaucraticness

    why not just lie all the way and say files, what files?
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    Because that's the way it is.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    The only document in the file, and therefore the only one destroyed, was a memo about how Walter refused to dress up in gingham with J. Edgar.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    There's no telling what kind of crackpot investigations J. Edgar Hoover might've ordered against Cronkite, so quite possibly, the FBI was just protecting themselves.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    I think after Walter came out again the Vietnam war in 1967 his file got a lot thicker. Johnson said when you've lost Walter you've lost the country. The audience Walter pulled in every night is hard to fathom today. He might have been watched by 60-75 million people a night. Hard to beat.
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    09/22/09

    @Mike Kilpatrick: This seems like a very probable explanation.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    Perhaps he was videotaped torturing Iraqi Prisoners and Congress ordered the video preserved. Hence, it was destroyed.
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    09/22/09

    In reply to Why Did the FBI Destroy Walter Cronkite's FBI File?
    I saw the files, and all I'm permitted to say is this: Did you ever notice that you never saw Mr. Cronkite and Captain Kangaroo in the same room? Same dude. Don't tell anybody.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to Tributes to Walter Cronkite
    The sad part is, there aren't even big shoes to fill. This era is ending without replacement, and the kids aren't coming up from behind.
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    08/01/09

    In reply to When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
    I have a confession. Right after that pile of stinking doggy doo-doo she wrote about the death of Farrah F., she of blessed memory, I visited our local Santeria priestess and had a pretty powerful curse put on Alessandra. Like a lowdown dirty black arts thing that would make the mojo warriors down in Louisiana cry. I didn't think it would work out this splendidly!
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    08/01/09

    In reply to When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
    Now we should have a contest to find yet more mistakes in that article so the Times has to keep appending corrections. Kind of like "Find The Hidden Pictures" in Highlights for Children but more fun.
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    08/01/09

    In reply to When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
    Hack trick!
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    08/01/09

    In reply to When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
    The correction is now longer than the piece.
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    08/01/09

    In reply to When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
    Oh, if only there were an edit feature for life.
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    08/01/09

    @seyswho: If only! I'd have far fewer ex-boyfriends, and only a fraction of the number of sexual partners! Oh, and 2005? Sorry, I deleted it.
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