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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News [1] for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.
Jul 13, 2024 · Walter Cronkite, American journalist and pioneer of TV news programming who was known as ‘the most trusted man in America.’ He was the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962–81), for which he reported on many of the most historic events of the latter half of the 20th century.
Apr 2, 2014 · Walter Cronkite helped launch the CBS Evening News in 1962 and served as its news anchor until his retirement in 1981. The hallmarks of his style were honesty, impartiality and level-headedness...
Jul 18, 2009 · Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home...
Jul 26, 2006 · Building on the legacy of Edward R. Murrow, he brought CBS to the pinnacle of prestige and popularity in television news. And when he left CBS, both began to ebb away. Walter Cronkite’s life...
Nov 4, 2016 · Have you watched the news lately? If so, you owe something to Walter Cronkite—America’s uncle and the most influential broadcast journalist of all time.
Jul 18, 2009 · Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite...
Oct 23, 2006 · Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite was with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army that Christmas. Cronkite reflects on the Battle of the Bulge, which remains the largest pitched battle in U.S....
Jul 17, 2009 · 4 minute read. N ewsman Walter Cronkite, who died at the age of 92, was so thoroughly and uniquely linked with the word “trust” that it is tempting to say that the word should be buried with him.
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 ...
