Who is Walter Cronkite?
– the man behind the legend of Americas most trusted man 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
