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The Twentieth Century: With Walter Cronkite, Daniel Schorr, Winston Burdett, Peter Kalischer. A long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars and assassinations within the wider context of their era.
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- 1957-10-20
- Documentary, History
- 30
The series was replaced in 1967 with a spin-off, The 21st Century. Produced by many of The Twentieth Century team and narrated by Cronkite, the new series focused on what humankind could shape and expect by examining aspects of the future already evident in the present.
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- October 20, 1957 –, 1966
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- CBS
In 1957, he began hosting The Twentieth Century (eventually renamed The 20th Century), a documentary series about important historical events of the century composed almost exclusively of newsreel footage and interviews.
- 1935–2009
- 3, including Kathy
- Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., November 4, 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.
- University of Texas at Austin
Premiere: 7/26/2006. He was the man who told us that President Kennedy had been shot, the man who told us that we had put a man on the moon, and the man who told us that we couldn’t win the war in...
