Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite
Birthdate:
November 4, 1916
Birthplace:
St. Joseph, Missouri

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  • Making the connection at 'Pan Am'

    ...rehearses the episode airing Sunday, Jan. 22. It unfolds the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Walter Cronkite 's voice, thick with emotion but composed and ever professional, delivers the first news that the president......

  • George Clooney expects skinny dipping at his Lake Como pad

    ...pals to disrobe. "Let me tell you. First I got Walter Cronkite to jump in. Then I got David Gergen to jump in. And I used Walter Cronkite to get Gergen to jump in. And I used Marisa [Tomei......

  • '2001: A Space Odyssey' Author Dies at 90

    ... Clarke's celebrity status was further enhanced when he offered commentary alongside CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions. He later wrote and hosted two television series for British television that were......

  • CBS Exec Stanton Dies at 98

    ...Stanton stood up for the broadcast press and resisted government efforts to intimidate it," former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite wrote in the foreword to Corydon B. Dunham's 1997 book about Stanton, "Fighting for the First Amendment......

  • CBS Announces Rather's Departure

    ...He interviewed every US president from Eisenhower to Clinton, as well as countless world leaders. He replaced Walter Cronkite as anchor of the evening news in 1981 and stayed behind the desk until March 2005. Since leaving "CBS Evening......

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