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With the U.S./North Korea summit being conducted in Vietnam this week, CBS ended Tuesday’s edition of Evening News with a celebration of their efforts to help America lose the Vietnam War. Or as anchor Jeff Glor put it: it was “the realities of war, minus the fog.”
“Our coverage of the U.S./North Korean summit here in Vietnam marks a return for CBS News. The most important events of the Vietnam War, events that changed our country and this one forever captured in real time by CBS News crews,” Glor boasted as they came back from a commercial break.
He continued his bragging as the video portion of the report got underway. “For the first time in American history, news from the front lines was sent straight into living rooms across the country.”
That quickly gave way to praise for a report by the infamous Morley Safer depicting U.S. Marines burning down a village used by the Viet Cong:
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