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Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite. By Jared Byars. Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite. Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas.

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Walter Cronkite

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  1. Walter Cronkite By Jared Byars

  2. Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of Helen Lena and Dr. Walter Leland Cronkite. Cronkite lived in Kansas City, Missouri, until he was ten, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. He attended junior high school at Lanier Junior High School and high school at San Jacinto High School, where he edited the high school newspaper. He attended college at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) where he worked on the Daily Texan and became a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity

  3. He dropped out of college in his junior year, in 1935 after starting a series of newspaper reporting jobs covering news and sports. He entered broadcasting as a radio announcer for WKY in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1936, he met his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Maxwell (Betsy), while working as the sports announcer for KCMO (AM) in Kansas City, Missouri. His broadcast name was "Walter Wilcox”. In Kansas City, he joined the United Press in 1937.He became one of the top American reporters in World War II, covering battles in North Africa and Europe. He was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress part of group called the Writing 69th.

  4. In 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in its young and growing television division. Cronkite began working at WTOP-TV, the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C.. He originally served as anchor of the network's 15-minute late-Sunday-evening newscast Up To the Minute, which followed What's My Line? at 11:00pm from 1951 through 1962.

  5. Walter Cronkite was the man who told us that President Kennedy had been shot, told us that we had put a man on the moon, and told us that we couldn’t win the war in Vietnam.

  6. Walter Cronkite’s early fame got a huge boost from a popular program from the early days of television, YOU ARE THERE. Every week a team of CBS reporters would “report” on a critical historic event like the death of Julius Caesar, the Louisiana Purchase, the Salem witch trials, or the trial of Galileo. Reporters would “interview” Sigmund Freud while he was analyzing a patient or Joan of Arc on her way to the stake. Every show would end with the same refrain from Cronkite: “What kind of a day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times. And you were there.”

  7. Another of his network assignments was The Morning Show, CBS' short-lived challenge to NBC's Today in 1954. His on-air job included interviewing guests and chatting with a lion puppet named Charlemane about the news. He considered this discussion with a puppet as one of the highlights of the show. He said, "A puppet can render opinions on people and things that a human commentator would not feel free to utter. I was and I am proud of it." Cronkite also angered the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the show's sponsor, by grammatically correcting its advertising slogan. Instead of saying "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" verbatim, he substituted "as" for "like”.

  8. On April 16, 1962, Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News,a job in which he became an American icon. The program expanded from 15 to 30 minutes on September 2, 1963. In 1969, during the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 moon missions, Cronkite received the best ratings and made CBS the most-watched television network for the missions.

  9. One of Cronkite's trademarks was ending the CBS Evening News with the phrase "...And that's the way it is," followed by the date.Beginning with January 16, 1980 Cronkite is vividly remembered by many Americans for breaking the news of the death of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963.

  10. n February 14, 1980, Cronkite announced that he intended to retire from the CBS Evening News; at the time, CBS had a policy of mandatory retirement by age 65. Although sometimes compared to a father figure or an uncle figure, in an interview about his retirement he described himself as being more like a "comfortable old shoe" to his audience. His last day in the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News was on March 6, 1981; he was succeeded the following Monday by Dan Rather.

  11. Walters Farwell address This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long have planned, but which, nevertheless, comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman, Doug Edwards, preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists; writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away! I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and, beginning in June, every week, with our science program, Universe. Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is: Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night

  12. Books by Walter Cronkite  Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot A Reporter's Life Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline South by Southeast Conversations with Cronkite

  13. Awards In 1968, the faculty of the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University voted to award Cronkite the Carr Van Anda Award "for enduring contributions to journalism.“ In 1970, Cronkite received a "Freedom of the Press" George Polk Award. In 1981, the year he retired, Jimmy Carter awarded Cronkite the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1985, Cronkite was honoured with the induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. In 1995, he received the Ischia International Journalism Award. In 1999, Cronkite received the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement's Corona Award in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in space exploration. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. On March 1, 2006, Cronkite became the first non-astronaut to receive NASA's Ambassador of Exploration Award. Among Cronkite's numerous awards were four Peabody awards for excellence in broadcasting

  14. Citations http://www.cronkiteaward.org/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/walter-cronkite/about-walter-cronkite/561/ http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Cronkite,%20Walter http://www.famoustexans.com/waltercronkite.htm http://cronkite.asu.edu/walter/waltercronkite.php

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