On June 6, 1964, CBS aired the 'CBS Reports' episode 'D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy.'

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IMDb says it aired on June 6: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4836534/

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Dr. Todd Arrington
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“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.”

~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964.

Image: Eisenhower NHS.

This black and white photo shows journalist Walter Cronkite and former General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower sitting on a stone wall in an American cemetery in France.
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7:49 PM · Jun 6, 2026

“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.”

~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964.

Image: Eisenhower NHS.

— Dr. Todd Arrington (@btarrington.bsky.social) 2026-06-06T23:49:54.533Z

CBS Reports (1964): "D-Day Plus 20 Years - Eisenhower Returns to Normandy"

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The Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled France on June 6, 1944 was the largest military invasion in history, involving nearly 160,000 service members arriving by ship and air at Normandy. Its success turned the tide of World War II. Two decades after D-Day, former Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was Supreme Commander in charge of the operation, returned to Normandy. Eisenhower talked with CBS News' Walter Cronkite about his experiences in June 1944, the tactical decisions behind Operation Overlord, and how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was talked out of joining the invading forces. Eisenhower and Cronkite visited the Allies' war room on England's southern coast; the coast of France, including Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach; and the American military cemetery at St. Laurent-on-the-Sea. This special broadcast of "CBS Reports," featuring newsreel footage of the invasion, originally aired in 19 countries around the world on June 5, 1964.

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[johnnyfins]

1. I highly recommend this.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I was rewatching Ken Burns WW2 last night

and am very grateful Eisenhower was in command there. If Douglas MacArthur had been in command we likely would have had a different outcome and not a good one. I can't believe Roosevelt allowed him to say in command after all of his massive screw ups.

[lapfog_1]

3. we have gone from Dwight Eisenhower and Walter Cronkite

to Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Bari Weiss.

What have we done?

[George McGovern]

4. And/Or, it occurs to me lapfog_1, what have we not done?