Why is the American nation remembering Walter Cronkite?
CBS News is honoring legendary newsman Walter Cronkite, who died July 17 at age 92, with That’s The Way It Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite, a special airing Sunday, July 19 at 7 p.m. ET. CBS News producers have been working on the special in earnest since Cronkite’s health took a turn for the worse last month. It includes remembrances from a long list of television news luminaries, including Tom Brokaw, Diane Sawyer, Charlie Gibson, Ted Koppel, Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Cronkite’s CBS News colleagues Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Don Hewitt and Andy Rooney. Prominent voices from the worlds of politics and entertainment also weigh in. “He brought us all those stories large and small which would come to define the 20th century,” says President Barack Obama. “That’s why we love Walter, because in an era before blogs and e-mail cell phones and cable, he was the news. Walter invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down.” Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart calls Cronkite a “fr
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States “has lost an icon,” President Barack Obama said Friday, commenting in glowing terms on the influence of the late CBS TV news broadcast legend Walter Cronkite. Cronkite died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he anchored the influential CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. “For decades, Walter Cronkite was the most trusted voice in America,” said Obama in a White House statement. “His rich baritone reached millions of living rooms every night, and in an industry of icons, Walter set the standard by which all others have been judged.” Cronkite “was there through wars and riots, marches and milestones, calmly telling us what we needed to know. And through it all, he never lost the integrity he gained growing up in the heartland.” The late newsman was born in 1916 in the midwestern state of Missouri. “But Walter was always more than just an anchor. He was someone we could trust to guide us through the most important issues o
America has lost an icon, our industry has lost its living giant, and all those who learned about the world from Walter Cronkite have lost an exceptional teacher. Sources: http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.
