Remembering Walter Cronkite…November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009
On November 4, 2016
- TV History
Today, he would have been 100 years old.
“Whatever the cost of education, the price is cheap compared with an ignorant nation”. -Walter Cronkite
This is Mr. Cronkite in Studio 42 at the CBS Grand Central studios.
Walter was a newsman through and through.
There’s a Google doodle done for Walter today.
Roger Mudd wrote that he suggested Cronkite name his sailboat “Special Assignment”, so that when Mudd substituted for him on the Evening News during his ever more frequent weeks off, Mudd could truthfully say at the top of the broadcast that he is “Filling in for Walter Cronkite, who is out on Special Assignment.”
Had the privilege to work with him on several of his visits to the CBS Washington Bureau. Don’t remember the circumstance or the date, but shortly after we finished the 6:30 broadcast one evening, he returned to the newsroom set and handed me (on ‘prompter) a revised script. He said we had to “bust in” to the taped playback for an update. We talked about the new information briefly. Then he took his place behind the desk and seamlessly slipped in and out of the replaying program. America’s most trusted newsman at work to get it right!
This is the tall black Trump World Tower that Mr. Cronkite and others tried to shorten, to the right of the U.N.
He lived near me in the United Nations area and tried to limit the height of a massive black apt. tower that Trump built around 2005 on First Ave., just north of the U.N. Sadly, he and the neighborhood group failed in their mission. (NYC is extremely developer-friendly, speaking of corruption as we are these days.)
Proud to share this amazing man’s birthday!
A Great Real Newsman!-)
A most appropriate quote for our times.
He spoke the truth to me when I was a little boy. I trusted him. RIP
I have to share that quote. Thank you, Bobby.
I remember when he announced the death of President John Kennedy.
“And that’s the way it is….”
Where was this picture taken?
Any idea what that set was for?
We are celebrating his birthday tonight and tomorrow at the Walter Cronkite Memorial. Waltercronkitememorial.org