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Aug 7, 2019 · Walter Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on December 4, 1916. The family moved to Texas when Cronkite was a child, and he became interested in journalism during high school. While attending the University of Texas , he worked for two years part-time for the Houston Post newspaper, and after leaving college he took a variety of jobs at ...
Jul 18, 2009 · Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo. An only child, he grew up in Kansas City, Mo., and Houston. By his junior year at the University of Texas at Austin, he had ...
Jul 18, 2009 · Walter Cronkite, the CBS News anchor who famously became the most trusted man in America, died Friday at the age of 92. The Kennedy Assassination. For nearly two decades, tens of millions of ...
Aug 27, 2012 · For the next 30 years, Walter Cronkite reigned as an iconic broadcast news personality. Compared to today’s media mash-up of raucous 24/7 competition. Cronkite was a pioneer in a time when ...
Jul 2, 2012 · Cronkite was born in 1916, near Kansas City. His father was a dentist. When Walter was ten, the family moved to Houston. He entered the University of Texas in 1933, but dropped out after two years ...
Nov 4, 2016 · He was the first-ever non-astronaut, non-NASA employee to receive the honor. Cronkite in turn gave the award, which included a coveted moon rock brought back during an Apollo expedition, to the ...
WALTER CRONKITE. Hailed as "the most trusted man in America" during his 18 years as anchor of the "CBS Evening News," Walter Cronkite first gained national recognition for his reporting from the ...
