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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News [1] for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.
29 Apr 2024 · Walter Cronkite, American journalist and pioneer of TV news programming who was known as ‘the most trusted man in America.’ He was the longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962–81), for which he reported on many of the most historic events of the latter half of the 20th century.
2 Apr 2014 · Walter Cronkite helped launch the CBS Evening News in 1962 and served as its news anchor until his retirement in 1981. The hallmarks of his style were honesty, impartiality and level-headedness...
4 Nov 2011 · Walter Cronkite and a Different Era of News. The legendary CBS anchorman was the “most trusted” man in America
18 Jul 2009 · Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home...
Walter Cronkite, (born Nov. 4, 1916, St. Joseph, Mo., U.S.—died July 17, 2009, New York, N.Y.), U.S. journalist and television newscaster. He began his career as a reporter with the Houston Post and later worked for United Press (1939–48) and served as a war correspondent in Europe (1942–45).
2 Jul 2012 · The Cronkite story has become part of a much larger, decline-of-the-news narrative—the narrative that the new HBO series “Newsroom” is built on, for example, and that Cronkite’s deposed ...
26 Jul 2006 · During the 20 years he anchored the evening news on CBS, Walter Cronkite became a daily presence in the American home. Building on the legacy of Edward R. Murrow, he brought CBS to the pinnacle...
29 Feb 2024 · Walter Cronkite. Anchor, CBS. Walter Cronkite did not believe in covering the world’s news by sitting in the CBS Television Network anchor chair and having it fed to him through the filter of teletype machines and the news writers in the back room.
Updated: July 17, 2009 Walter Cronkite died at age 92 on July 17, 2009. Mr. Cronkite was the anchorman and managing editor of "The CBS Evening News" for 18 years until 1981.
