On January 31, 1968, during the lunar New Year holiday of Tet, the North Vietnamese, and Vet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fiercely attacked more than hundred cities and towns in South Vietnam. United States forces and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the communist attack, however, news coverage of the offensive shocked the American public. The strength of Communist forces in the Tet victory shocked the respected television journalist Walter Cronkite. Walter Cronkite’s was America’s well-known and most popular CBS journalist of the era. Cronkite went to South Vietnam in February 1968 to get a firsthand look at the ongoing Tet Offensive. After touring war-ravaged sections of major cities
