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On the anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, CBS News takes a look back at the four days that changed America and American television history.

Roger Mudd, legendary political reporter for CBS News, has died at 93 March 10, 2021 / 6:58 AM / CBS News Legendary journalist Roger Mudd dies at 93 Roger Mudd, the CBS newsman whose political reporting and substitute anchoring on "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" made him a familiar and respected face to tens of millions of Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. He was 93.  "Roger was a hero in the CBS News Washington bureau," said Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer of CBS Ne...

Dictatorship based on race. >> we're still seeing intense violence. lynching is still the reality. >> if you were black, you couldn't vote. you couldn't buy property. you couldn't go certain places. >> i said i'm sorry, our management does not allow us to serve niggers in here. >> while jfk is looking at the moon and stars, you see real hypocrisy and contradiction. >> how can the united states be a democracy if its citizens are killing, are hurting, are hospitalizing its other citizens? >> but in the spring of 1961, john f. kennedy and his brother, robert, didn't care that much about civil rig...

Than ever. >> bobby became the chief law enforcement guy. he became his chief foreign policy adviser. he became his chief political aide. and he became the closest thing that we have and we will ever see to a co-president. >> it seems amazing to this day to have these two brothers who are basically running the country together. >> there is one battle that bobby kennedy is determined to fight on his own, taking on the mafia. >> the mafia was really huge in this country, and there was a stronghold of monster influence on politics and entertainment and government. >> they were very powerful. they...

He needs his brother now more than ever. >> bobby became the chief law enforcement guy. he became his chief foreign policy adviser. he became his chief political aide. and he became the closest thing that we have and we will ever see to a co-president. >> it seems amazing to this day to have these two brothers who are basically running the country together. >> there is one battle that bobby kennedy is determined to fight on his own, taking on the mafia. >> the mafia was really huge in this country, and there was a stronghold of monster influence on politics and entertainment and government. >>...