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Ask anyone over the age of 40, and he or she will likely say that the last great American broadcast journalist was Walter Cronkite. From 1937 until 1981, Cronkite reported on many important events in ...

Late CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite may have been at one time “the most trusted man in America,” but he was hardly infallible. When he broke his own code of objectivity to editorialize against the ...

For decades the war in Vietnam was the central drama on the stage of Southeast Asia. It was an intensely publicized war, the first television war that came roaring into the living rooms of America ...

Walter Cronkite, whose career as a journalist spanned six decades, speaks at Rudder Auditorium on Sunday afternoon. Walter Cronkite, the veteran newsman who covered almost every major world event that ...

Cronkite set – and then lived up to – a standard never again achieved in network television news. But it was not always thus. The young Cronkite, a print reporter and war correspondent for the ...

Regarding the letter to the editor "Public's loss of trust in the media long predates the last 4 years" (Dec. 12): The writer cites Walter Cronkite's commentary in 1968 suggesting negotiations as an ...

No surprise that the FBI kept files on Walter Cronkite, one of America’s most influential newsmen. Yahoo! News reported that it obtained FBI files through the Freedom of Information Act that show ...

Parting words tonight from the late Walter Cronkite. On February 27th, 1968 during a CBS News Special Report, Cronkite did something that changed America's perception of the Vietnam War. Mr. WALTER ...