Walter Cronkite

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04 Nov 1916

† 17 Jul 2009

St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Biography

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). 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. Although he reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombing in World War II, the Nuremberg trials, combat in the Vietnam War, the death of President John F. Kennedy,...

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Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite's Movies

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Milk

All the President's Men

Network

Thirteen Days

Apollo 11

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

The Pixar Story

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Fail Safe

Studio 54

The Martha Mitchell Effect

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

The Man Who Saved the World

Apollo 13: Survival

Walter Cronkite's TV Shows

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Challenger: The Final Flight

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

E! True Hollywood Story

Murphy Brown

American Experience

American Experience

The Wonderful World of Disney

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

The Seventies

American Masters

The Ed Sullivan Show

Great Performances

The Dick Cavett Show

The Sixties

The Sixties

Liberty's Kids

Golden Globe Awards

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

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