He hadn't anchored the Evening News in nearly three decades, but Walter Cronkite set the standard for serious, authoritative network news. The stuff he covered was the biggest stuff of the 20th Century: from WWII to JFK, Apollo to Vietnam, Chicago '68 to Watergate and the slow rot of America beginning in the mid-1970s.
CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite Dead At 92
CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite Dead At 92
CBS Newsman Walter Cronkite Dead At 92
He hadn't anchored the Evening News in nearly three decades, but Walter Cronkite set the standard for serious, authoritative network news. The stuff he covered was the biggest stuff of the 20th Century: from WWII to JFK, Apollo to Vietnam, Chicago '68 to Watergate and the slow rot of America beginning in the mid-1970s.