Walter Cronkite, the man who informed us in tears that John F. Kennedy had died, the man who giddily like a school boy told us of the first man to walk on the moon, the man who got his start reporting from the London Blitzkrieg, has died at the age of 92.
Cronkite became the standard bearer of television news when he took the anchor’s desk at CBS in 1962. From the trenches of Vietnam to the living rooms of America, he brought the conflict in Southeast Asia home to millions of Americans, and helped to change public opinion of the war.
He continued to question the validity of war in 2003 when he criticized President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq.
He also lent his voice to both the film and stage versions of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
And that’s the way it was, Walter Cronkite 1916 – 2009.
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