R.I.P. – Walter Cronkrite Dead at 92
July 17th, 2009 Filed under: News/Calendar/Industry, R.I.P. by admin
Walter Cronkite, former CBS anchor known as “Uncle Walter,” has died.
Cronkite was 92.
(CNN) -His career spanned much of the 20th century, as well as the first decade of the 21st. The native of St. Joseph, Missouri, broke in as a newspaper journalist while in college, switched over to radio announcing in 1935, joined the United Press wire service by the end of the decade and jumped to CBS and its nascent television news division in 1950. He also made his mark as an Internet contributor in his later years with a handful of columns for the Huffington Post.
He covered World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, the Nuremberg trials, several presidential elections, moon landings, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon’s administration.
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