That's the Way It Went With Walter Cronkite, The Beatles
The kind of trivia that Bruce Spizer, author of The Beatles Are Coming!, is able to share never gets old. Doubly so when the 50th anniversary of the seminal New York trigger date (Feb. 7 1964) is looming.
Spizer, for CBS New York and other network websites, today reframes the unlikely trio of Walter Cronkite, 15-year-old Maryland high school student Marsha Albert and D.C. radio DJ Carroll James Jr. A daisy-chain of events linked the three and helped speed the stateside spread of Beatlemania.
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