Walter Cronkite Dies
c/p from AP
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.
It was Cronkite who read the bulletins coming from Dallas when Kennedy was shot Nov. 22, 1963, interrupting a live CBS-TV broadcast of the soap opera "As the World Turns."
Former President George H. W. Bush hailed the former newsman as “a towering, respected figure” in television journalism.”
“Many Americans heard it from Walter first that President Kennedy had died, or that man had walked on the moon. He is already missed," Bush said in a statement.
The last truly honest News Anchor in America. May he rest in Peace
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