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Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
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Walter Cronkite dies at 92
Friday, July 17, 2009
By Bill Ritter NEW YORK (WABC) --
A CBS executive says retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has died at his home in New York. He was 92.
Cronkite didn't set out to become an institution, or a national father figure.
But that's what happened. Because for several decades for the major and at times society changing news events, Walter Cronkite was the man the country turned to and watched. And believed.
For millions of Americans, the day couldn't end and night begin without Walter Cronkite letting us know what happened. And why.
He was at the height of his career voted the most trusted man in America.
People saw him not just as a newsman, but almost like family.
In fact, his nickname, said with affection was Uncle Walter.
He reported and explained. He was direct. He never talked down to his viewers and he never talked above their heads.
Cronkite was first a newspaper then a radio reporter. He hit his professional stride just as television was becoming a common household appliance.
And he covered news at a time when the news was huge. The first televised conventions, space shots and moon landings. The civil rights movement and wars, and the assassination of a president.
He was so much the gold standard, that the word anchor was invented for him.
60 minutes executive Don Hewitt slapped the label on him during the1960 presidential conventions. And it stuck.
When the Vietnam War had dragged on for years, through two presidencies and thousands of young American lives lost, Cronkite, reflecting the growing sentiments of a nation, editorialized on his newscast that for the U.S. the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
After the story, President Johnson reportedly said that if he lost cronkite, he had lost middle America.
Johnson would drop out of the race for president, and, a few years later, American would lose the war.
CBS forced Cronkite to retire in 1981. He was just 65 at the time, young by today's standards.
He would later prove he had much more to offer.
Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Adler said, "I have to go now" before breaking down into what sounded like a sob. She said she had no further comment.
Friday, July 17, 2009
By Bill Ritter NEW YORK (WABC) --
A CBS executive says retired CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has died at his home in New York. He was 92.
Cronkite didn't set out to become an institution, or a national father figure.
But that's what happened. Because for several decades for the major and at times society changing news events, Walter Cronkite was the man the country turned to and watched. And believed.
For millions of Americans, the day couldn't end and night begin without Walter Cronkite letting us know what happened. And why.
He was at the height of his career voted the most trusted man in America.
People saw him not just as a newsman, but almost like family.
In fact, his nickname, said with affection was Uncle Walter.
He reported and explained. He was direct. He never talked down to his viewers and he never talked above their heads.
Cronkite was first a newspaper then a radio reporter. He hit his professional stride just as television was becoming a common household appliance.
And he covered news at a time when the news was huge. The first televised conventions, space shots and moon landings. The civil rights movement and wars, and the assassination of a president.
He was so much the gold standard, that the word anchor was invented for him.
60 minutes executive Don Hewitt slapped the label on him during the1960 presidential conventions. And it stuck.
When the Vietnam War had dragged on for years, through two presidencies and thousands of young American lives lost, Cronkite, reflecting the growing sentiments of a nation, editorialized on his newscast that for the U.S. the Vietnam War was unwinnable.
After the story, President Johnson reportedly said that if he lost cronkite, he had lost middle America.
Johnson would drop out of the race for president, and, a few years later, American would lose the war.
CBS forced Cronkite to retire in 1981. He was just 65 at the time, young by today's standards.
He would later prove he had much more to offer.
Cronkite's longtime chief of staff, Marlene Adler, said Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. at his Manhattan home surrounded by family. She said the cause of death was cerebral vascular disease.
Adler said, "I have to go now" before breaking down into what sounded like a sob. She said she had no further comment.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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I honestly thought he had died years ago.... Rest in peace Mr. Cronkite.
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he was awesome....
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