Walter Cronkite is dead at the age of 92.
Walter was deemed the most trusted man in America for a very long time. He covered presidents from Eisenhower to Reagan and covered the early years of our space program. His coverage of space was done with both serious reporting and boyish glee at our landing on the moon. His tearful announcement that JFK had been killed shocked the world yet everyone who saw his announcement remembers it even today 46 years later
His coverage of political conventions was exemplary and ground breaking for those would would follow him. In covering political partys he was completely neutral and unbiased in his reporting which is practically unheard of today
Cronkite literally changed Americas view of the Vietnam war by going there and announcing the war was a quagmire. President Johnson then said if I have lost Cronkite then I have lost middle America
There is so much one can say about Mr Cronkite, and so many who will say it. So I will just give my thanks to him for the memories of growing up during the period of time that he was more powerful than presidents and was the voice of American households.
He was a great man
