Legendary TV anchorman Walter Cronkite Dies
NEW YORK (AP) - Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the
networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring
authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in
America," has died. He was 92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m.
Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a
long illness.
He was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981,
when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F.
Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war
riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when
Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV
broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."
Mr Cronkite was a big part of my life growing up.I remember as a small boy watching the the black and white tv with all my brothers and sisters waiting for that rocket to blast off and head for the moon.Mr Cronkiite was keeping everyone posted on how the mission was going and we would not miss a word coming out of his mouth.He was like a father I never got to meet in person.You might say he was the only perfect human being.You will be deeply missed Mr Cronkite.Now you are broadcasting from heaven.
Nick
4 months agoSo sad to see a true American icon pass away. He did live a long wonderful life though. Compare Walter Cronkite to the slobbering, leg tingling, bias liberal media we have today. Pitiful isn't it.
Gary
4 months agoGod Speed Mr Conkrite !
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