Topic: Walter Cronkite
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Obama mourns passing of iconic journalist and CBS News anchorman Walter CronkitePresident Barack Obama praised broadcasting icon Walter Cronkite as a newsman who " In a statement, Obama described Cronkite as a trusted voice who calmly guided America through wars and riots, ...
In England, they are simply called newsreaders. Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. anchored CBS' coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the first to be televised. For nearly 2 decades from the early 1960's to the 1980's, Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening ...