• Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years...
  • STEVE EMBER: For almost twenty years, that was how Walter Cronkite would end his newscasts.
  • Although he resigned from the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in 1981 after 19 years as the show’s anchor, he remained active in television.
  • The most memorable Presidential moment of Walter Cronkite’s career was his announcement of the assassination and death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
  • Walter Cronkite helped launch the CBS Evening News in 1962 and served as its news anchor until his retirement in 1981.
  • In 1969 when Apollo XI was going to the Moon, Cronkite was on the air 27 of the 30 hours that it took for the flight, which many in the profession called "Walter to...
  • Walter Cronkite did not believe in covering the world’s news by sitting in the CBS Television Network anchor chair and having it fed to him through the filter...
  • Many were tuned into CBS and Walter Cronkite, who famously admitted, after seeing Armstrong make his famous first step, "I'm speechless."
  • Walter Cronkite (1916-2009) was a veteran television journalist, who spent 19 years as anchorman of the CBS Evening News. He was interviewed in the special Sing!
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