New York, NY - Today we lost another great Icon, Walter Cronkite was the face of CBS Evening News. I believe we can give the title to him as the first official Anchorman that America believed and trusted(Dan Rather if read this blog your right up there their with him, man). This was back when television went off the air at midnight(yes, young people we didn't always have 24 hour news coverage).
Walter Cronkite reported some of the most pivotal events in America, such the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Apollo 11 landing on the moon and the Vietnam War. It was President Lyndon B. Johnson that once said "If I have lost Walter Cronkite, I have lost America". No newscaster, reporter, broadcaster was ever held in that high regard.
Good Old Friend, thank you for always being true and always being you. God Bless You.
Photo Credit: Reuters
Check out some YouTube footage of Walter Cronkite.
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