Who is Walter Cronkite?
Walter Cronkite is probably one of the most recognizable names in television journalism of the past. His coverage of various events such as the death of President Kennedy, the Watergate scandal, the first US Moonwalk, and his commentary throughout the Apollo 13 mission that nearly ended in disaster, are iconic in American television. He was at one time labeled “the most trusted man in America,” because of his upright stance, his comprehensive coverage and because he’s been associated with the reporting of many of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in his capacity of special reporter and anchor for the nightly CBS news. Cronkite is Missourian by birth, the child of Dr. Leland Walter Cronkite. He was born in 1916, and resided in Missouri until he was ten, when the family then moved to Houston, Texas. In Texas, he attended junior high and high school and then briefly attended the University of Texas, Austin. Walter Cronkite left college before graduating, pulled by
Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News and the person who shaped and guided America through the 70s and 80s. Even long after his retirement the name Walter Cronkite inspires up images of credibility, authoritativeness and accuracy that is entirely befitting the person regarded as “the most trusted man in America”. Born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, Cronkite began his journalism career in 1935 and then moved to radio, before joining the United Press in 1937. He covered World War II in North Africa and Europe and was one of eight journalists selected to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress. When Operation Market-Garden, one of the largest airborne assaults of the war commenced, Cronkite was there too, landing in a glider with the 101st Airborne unit and going through to cover the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he covered the Nuremberg trials, and served as the United Press’ main reporter in Moscow for t
