Walter Cronkite Dies at 92

fearless_fx · Jul 18, 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30988078/ns/entertainment-television/

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the U.S. networks’ golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called “the most trusted man in America,” died Friday. He was 92. Cronkite’s longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Adler said, “I have to go now” before breaking down into what sounded like a sob. She said she had no further comment.
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Cronkite was the face of the “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera “As the World Turns.”
He died just three days before the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, another earthshaking moment of history linked inexorably with his reporting.
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title “anchorman” was first applied, and he came so identified in that role that eventually his own name became the term for the job in other languages (Swedish anchors are known as Kronkiters; in Holland, they are Cronkiters).
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master_g · Jul 18, 2009

dont know who on earth he is but he made it to 92 so he lived long.

Akki · Jul 18, 2009

^ me neither.... but 92 is not a bad age to go... i would say 90 anything you can say you have lived.

EvilTofu · Jul 18, 2009

He's all over the news, a legend in news broadcasting. But the man lived a long live already and died in peace.

AC0110 · Jul 18, 2009

About time, Amen + RIP

tjsye2 · Jul 18, 2009

Rip cronkite!

Knoctur_nal · Jul 18, 2009

alota deaths these past months.

Walter Cronkite Dies at 92

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