Posted on 07/17/2009 5:48:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK – Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," has died. He was 92.
CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his family by his side at his home in New York after a long illness.
He was the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis.
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RIP U POS
RIP.
Another one. Geez.
I thought he died 10 years ago!
RIP, Mr. Tet Offensive. Never mind. Just, never mind.
I’m ticked that Fox interupted Laura Ingraham on BOR for this old liberal bag of air
Up until the Tet offensive, I really liked him.
OK, these things always come in threes... who's next?
Prayers to him and his family.
I hope he finds peace. And knows mercy and forgivness.
Everybody is going to die, bump
stop it with the three’s nonsense...the guy was 92 with cancer...i’m pretty sure this was more than expected
Millions (in Asia) died because of him.
In before the thread pull!!!
Rest in peace Walter. And don’t mind the flames their just for atmosphere.
Look, he may have been a Liberal personally, but he was objective on the air, and there isn’t a one amongst us here would wouldn’t rather have Uncle Walter back in the air chair than the “bag of air” named Couric. Or Rather or Gibson or Matthews, etc ad nauseum.
He was the last of a breed of journalists that lived up to the standards of the profession, and that’s the way it was.
No one gets out alive, even the Commies who worship the State.
Prayers for his family.
BUT he’s responsible for 48,000 American deaths in Vietnam. Just ask General Giap.
I offer prayers to his family, but I am sure that he will go down in the same place as Walter Duranty.
Condolences to his family.
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