Today, he would have been 100 years old.
“Whatever the cost of education, the price is cheap compared with an ignorant nation”. -Walter Cronkite
This is Mr. Cronkite in Studio 42 at the CBS Grand Central studios.
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From the David Sarnoff introduction to the history highlights at the end, this is one of the best short study resources you will ever find. Every angle of the how, when and why are in this special December 1953 publication from RCA. http://www.visions4.net/journal/wp-content/uploads/Sarnoff1-PDF.pdf
We are celebrating his birthday tonight and tomorrow at the Walter Cronkite Memorial. Waltercronkitememorial.org
Any idea what that set was for?
Where was this picture taken?
“And that’s the way it is….”
I remember when he announced the death of President John Kennedy.
I have to share that quote. Thank you, Bobby.
He spoke the truth to me when I was a little boy. I trusted him. RIP
A most appropriate quote for our times.
A Great Real Newsman!-)
Proud to share this amazing man’s birthday!
He lived near me in the United Nations area and tried to limit the height of a massive black apt. tower that Trump built around 2005 on First Ave., just north of the U.N. Sadly, he and the neighborhood group failed in their mission. (NYC is extremely developer-friendly, speaking of corruption as we are these days.)
This is the tall black Trump World Tower that Mr. Cronkite and others tried to shorten, to the right of the U.N.
Had the privilege to work with him on several of his visits to the CBS Washington Bureau. Don’t remember the circumstance or the date, but shortly after we finished the 6:30 broadcast one evening, he returned to the newsroom set and handed me (on ‘prompter) a revised script. He said we had to “bust in” to the taped playback for an update. We talked about the new information briefly. Then he took his place behind the desk and seamlessly slipped in and out of the replaying program. America’s most trusted newsman at work to get it right!
Roger Mudd wrote that he suggested Cronkite name his sailboat “Special Assignment”, so that when Mudd substituted for him on the Evening News during his ever more frequent weeks off, Mudd could truthfully say at the top of the broadcast that he is “Filling in for Walter Cronkite, who is out on Special Assignment.”
There’s a Google doodle done for Walter today.
Walter was a newsman through and through.