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Remembering Walter Cronkite…November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009

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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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16 responses to “Remembering Walter Cronkite…November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009”

  1. William Redlin

    Walter was a newsman through and through.

  2. Karen Gentile

    There’s a Google doodle done for Walter today.

  3. David Breneman

    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.”

  4. Dave Jones

    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!

  5. John Mainelli

    This is the tall black Trump World Tower that Mr. Cronkite and others tried to shorten, to the right of the U.N.

  6. John Mainelli

    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.)

  7. Clarence Williams

    Proud to share this amazing man’s birthday!

  8. Andrew Boggs

    A Great Real Newsman!-)

  9. James M Patterson

    A most appropriate quote for our times.

  10. Paul S Erstein

    He spoke the truth to me when I was a little boy. I trusted him. RIP

  11. Charlie King

    I have to share that quote. Thank you, Bobby.

  12. Grace Arnone Kern

    I remember when he announced the death of President John Kennedy.

  13. Paul Mock

    “And that’s the way it is….”

  14. Scott Pearson

    Where was this picture taken?

  15. Albert J. McGilvray

    Any idea what that set was for?

  16. Cori Criger

    We are celebrating his birthday tonight and tomorrow at the Walter Cronkite Memorial. Waltercronkitememorial.org

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