Walter Cronkite At Work (PHOTOS)

Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor who died today at 92, reported on many historic events from the JFK assassination and the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War and Watergate.

Click through this slideshow of Cronkite's iconic moments:

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Early in his career, Cronkite reported for CBS Radio. In this photo from November 13, 1951, he is reporting on the United Nations (All photos courtesy of CBS News)

Comments

[TechnoGirl]

Walter Cronkite was an American icon throughout the 60 and 70's . He was of the last generation of true television journalists rather than the merely pretty faces we see in our day.

I don't mourn his passing but rather celebrate his life and the richness and honesty that he contributed to American society in his time. He was a great man and led a full rich life and was a part of our culture. I'm happy that he lived and that I was alive to watch him.

[S1m0n]

There's very interesting body language going on in pic #3, Cronkite interviewing JFK sitting in wicker chairs on a lawn.

Cronkite's head is forward, projecting confidence, but his arms are crossed over his chest and his left leg is crossed at the knee, both making very obvious barriers between the two of them.

Kennedy's physically more open, but he's leaning WAAAAY back, projecting discomfort. His heads as far from Cronkite as it could without getting out of the chair. His left hand is fiddling with his tie (& guarding his throat) and his right is braced on the armrest, looking for all the world like he's about to use it to leap up out of the chair.

[motodude]

Even if you put them all together, today's journalists cannot hold a candle to this man's work.

And that's the way it is.

[techson]

I remember my father watching the CBS Evening News every night during the Vietnam War and at the end of the week Walter Cronkite would give a report of the dead and wounded for the US, for the S. Vietnamese and for the N. Vietnamese and Vietcong. it went something like this:

Dead Wounded

US 56 172
S. Vietnam 62 295

N. Vietnam 439 1,182
Vietcong 623 1,505

And every week the numbers were like this - lopsided. Then Walter Cronkite reported that the war was a stalemate and we should leave. How could this be?

Later we learned that the US was never defeated on the field, even during the Tet offensive.

Walter Cronkite embodied the power of the media.

[michie62]

monday-friday, 530-600 cental standard time, was "Uncle Walter's" time in our house. We kids didn't talk and hardly breathed during that half-hour. I remember when he told us Paul McCartney married in1969, as a jilted six year old, I threw my socks at the television in protest. I remember when reported Jim Croce died in a plane crash and the evening after John Lennon was killed, I remember him going through the information. I was only 11 months old when Pres. Kennedy was killed, but I have seen that classic clip of him choking up when reporting "the flash, apparently now official...." There will never be anyone like him. Olberman is about the best we have now.
Goodbye Uncle Walter, rest well and thank you for always reporting the news without bias.

[MostlyAngry]

A good man. I remember the emotion in his voice when he reported the death of Kennedy

[jnaro]

RIP Walt