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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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Walter Cronkite? Walter Cronkite helped launch the CBS Evening News in 1962 and served as its news anchor until his retirement in 1981.
5 days ago · 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.
Jul 18, 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 in...
Nov 4, 2011 · Walter Cronkite and a Different Era of News. The legendary CBS anchorman was the “most trusted” man in America
Nov 4, 2016 · Have you watched the news lately? If so, you owe something to Walter Cronkite—America’s uncle and the most influential broadcast journalist of all time.
Jul 2, 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 ...
Jul 26, 2006 · Building on the legacy of Edward R. Murrow, he brought CBS to the pinnacle of prestige and popularity in television news. And when he left CBS, both began to ebb away. Walter Cronkite’s life...
Jul 17, 2009 · N ewsman Walter Cronkite, who died at the age of 92, was so thoroughly and uniquely linked with the word “trust” that it is tempting to say that the word should be buried with him.
Jul 18, 2009 · Parting words tonight from the late Walter Cronkite. On February 27th, 1968 during a CBS News Special Report, Cronkite did something that changed America's perception of the Vietnam War.
