After a trip to Vietnam in early 1968, legendary “CBS Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite became convinced that he had been misinforming the public about the war’s progress. On Feb. 27, 1968, he broadcast an editorial that was a rare departure his reporting; it became one of the most famous media moments of the Vietnam War.
Like at the beginning of the book? Where the capulets and Montagues got into a street fight and the prince came and said that if this were to ever happen again they would be sentenced to death.