Walter Cronkite is Dead at 92!

ANOTHER TV LEGEND IS GONE !!

Walter Cronkite, the CBS news anchor who was considered the most trusted man in America died yesterday at his New York home , he was 92, he had been suffering for many years from cerebrovascular disease, said close family memebers. Walter Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981 and was easily one of if not the most influential broadcast journalist of the 20th century.

He began his career as a radio announcer in Oklahoma in 1935. In 1937, he joined United Press and became one of its top reporters covering the war effort in Europe and flew on several bombing raids in Germany. Edward R. Murrow recruited him to work for CBS in 1950.

One of Cronkite’s finest hours was, On Nov. 22, 1963 when he broke into CBS’s soap “As the World Turns” to tell the nation that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. As the hours progressed he looked thru the often conflicting information about Kennedy’s condition keeping the people up to date on kennedy and his progress or lack therof but as we all know, Later that afternoon, choking back emotion, he informed viewers that the president had died.

Cronkite was also on the hour for 27 of the 30 hours that the Apollo 11 moon mission was covered , in 1969! What other journalist would have done that atleast for that amount of time, just so he could inform the people of what was gong on, Like President Johnson once said Walter Cronkite is Middle America. And now i think its safe to say that Walter Cronkite was America as a whole! ,,He will be missed not just in the journalistic world ,,not just in tv, and not just in a writers mind he was the epitomy of what a Newsman should be ,,and a great lose to america as a whole!!!

RIP Mr. Cronkite!! billyf.