Watch Walter Cronkite announce Pan Am's plans to ground safari hunters (1971)

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If this happened today, the MAGAs would call out Pan Am as being a “woke” corporation for violating Americans’ god-given rights to kill whatever animals they want with their 2nd-amendment-guaranteed weapon of choice.

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I had forgotten about the days when you had to manually adjust the vertical and horizontal on your television. A less than quality reception on a channel could lead to rolling like this. I miss Uncle Walter. And that’s the way it is

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Following the 71 Riviera ad was another one about drunk driving. I thought DUI was pretty much still legal in 71.

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(Gets up and goes over to smack the faux woodgrain TV console)

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I don’t know how to feel about broadcast news from the year I was born being in B&W.

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