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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
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To the moon: Historic TV coverage, global audience
he first words from the anchorman that Friday morning were calm and measured. He didn't seem intent on recording history but, one might have imagined, citing the next stop on a commuter train. "Good morning," said Walter Cronkite. "Man is about to launch...Tags: Space Programs, CBS Corp., Ohio, Columbus, NASA
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Walter Cronkite: In Very Bad Shape
The TV Zone(AP) The "most trusted man in America"...the former anchor of "The Evening News"... who told us about JFK's assassination, and Vietnam, and the moon landing, and earlier generations about the battle over Civil rights, and before that, the Battle......Tags: Tom Brokaw
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Cronkite's assistant denies CBS newsman is gravely ill
verne.gay@newsday.comWalter Cronkite's longtime assistant denied reports on Friday night that the retired anchorman of "CBS Evening News" is gravely ill. Marlene Adler, Cronkite's assistant, said by phone late Friday, "he is aging. He's suffering the challenges of age, but...Tags: Tom Brokaw
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Vietnam, the living room war; the media's role
By 1969, the war in Vietnam had turned, and so had television coverage. The Tet Offensive the year before had carved out a new reality in American public opinion, and it was an increasingly harsh and embittered one. Forty years later, a distant echo of...Tags: NBC, CBS Corp., New York, Lyndon B. Johnson, History
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Reports: Walter Cronkite gravely ill
From wire reportsWalter Cronkite, the longtime CBS TV news anchor who was known as "The Most Trusted Man in America," is gravely ill, according to media reports. The Web site Mediabistro.com cited several unnamed sources at CBS who say that Cronkite, 92, is near death...Tags: CBS Corp., World War II (1939-1945)
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Rep Says Newsman Walter Cronkite Is Not "Gravely Ill"
wpix.comWalter Cronkite, the longtime CBS TV anchorman who was known as "The Most Trusted Man in America," is gravely ill, according to media reports. The Web site Mediabistro.com cited several unnamed sources at CBS who say that Cronkite, 92, is near death...Tags: CBS Corp., WPIX-TV, World War II (1939-1945)
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Walter Cronkite, legendary TV newsman, reportedly gravely ill
The Associated PressU.S. veteran newsman Walter Cronkite, who was the face of CBS television news for more that two decades, is reported to be gravely ill. The 92-year-old former anchor of "The CBS Evening News," who has been ailing for some time, has apparently taken a...Tags: CBS Corp., World War II (1939-1945)
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Lessons Norman Ollestad's father taught him
Tribune NewspapersThere's a photo on the back jacket of Norman Ollestad's memoir, "Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival," that could make a parent weep. In it, a man is surfing in the ocean. On his back in a canvas papoose is a baby, blond, happy, oblivious to the...Tags: Ocean Surfing, Movies, Windsurfing, Topanga, Transportation Accidents
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Two lost icons: For Generation X, a really bad day
The Associated PressA record-shattering vinyl album and its moonwalking maestro. A paper poster of a golden-haired beauty in a one-piece swimsuit that was gossamer and clingy in all the right places. The man-child named Michael Jackson and the luminous girl known as...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Celebrity, Al Sharpton, Death and Dying, Kate Gosselin
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