Who is Walter Cronkite dating?
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (born November 4, 1916) is a retired American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (196281). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1970s and 1980s he was often cited in viewer opinion polls as “the most trusted man in America,” because of his professional experience and kindly demeanor. Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena (ne Fritsche) and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist. He has remote Dutch ancestry on his father`s side, the family surname originally being Krankheyt. Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. He attended junior high school at Lanier Junior High School (now Lanier Middle School) and high school at San Jacinto High School. He was a member of the Boy Scouts. He attended college at The University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on The Daily Texan, and became a member of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi Frat