 About ten minutes into the January 22, 1973 broadcast of the "CBS Evening News", Tom Johnson placed a direct call to Walter Cronkite to inform him of the death of Lyndon Johnson.CBS cut away from a pre-recorded report on the progressing Vietnam peace talks in Paris back to the CBS newsroom where Cronkite was on the phone receiving the information from Tom Johnson.A moment later, Cronkite asked Johnson to stay on the line, then he reported the death of the former U.S. president to the television audience.