Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr.was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth4 November 1916
CitySaint Joseph, MO
CountryUnited States of America
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.
I think he's terrific. I've always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like to see him stay on the job there.
It is difficult to think of our craft without him.
My piece just kind of was another bullet in his rear end.
We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be. I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't think it's proper. My wife has only been gone less than a year. I'll wait until that year has passed, at least.
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.
gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.
An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.
I remember her when she was an NBC reporter -- correspondent in Japan -- and I thought she did great work. I haven't watched their morning show that much in late years, but from what I remember then, I can't see how she would lose her ability to be a journalist.
Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.