Walter Cronkite, for decades the embodiment of TV news, died Friday night in New York, his family said. The avuncular anchor once dubbed "the most trusted man in America" was 92 and had been in failing health. “My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said Friday night. CBS interrupted programming to show an obit of the legendary anchorman. Missouri born and Texas raised, the robust young Cronkite dropped out of college in 1935 to cover news and sports for various newspapers around the heartland, and, in 1936, met his future wife, Betsy, while working at the Oklahoma City radio station Wky. World...
- 7/18/2009
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Legendary CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite, who many referred to as "Uncle Walt," has passed away, CBS News reports. He was 92 years old. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite passed away on Friday evening, surrounded by family in his New York home. His cause of death was cerebral vascular disease, his former chief of staff Marlene Adler tells the Associated Press. As the CBS anchorman for almost 20 years, Cronkite's dependability and everyman demeanor comforted audiences through such lows as the President Kennedy assassination and cheered them in such highs as America landing on the moon. Cronkite was born in 1916 in St. Joseph, Mo but grew up in Houston, TX. He wrote for his high school newspaper and became the campus correspondent for the Houston Post when he was a student at the University of Texas. He dropped out of college but continued working for the Post until he moved to...
- 7/18/2009
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
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