Bob Schieffer, the legendary CBS correspondent and journalist who has covered many of America’s most important moments since the 1960s, was just 28 when he embarked to report on the Vietnam War for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Schieffer, a Fort Worth native and a TCU grad, was sent to talk to young servicemen and relay messages to their families back in Texas.
Star-Telegram photographer Harry Cabluck sent Schieffer to Vietnam with a 35mm Nikon film camera. He arrived in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in December 1965, and spent four months talking to and photographing soldiers — some barely older than 20…