Walter Cronkite, the voice of the CBS Evening News for 19 years, passed away on July 17, 2009. Cronkite got his start in television presenting CBS’s “You Are There” in 1953.
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Cronkite holds a model of Sputnik.
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Although he memorably wiped away a tear while announcing John F. Kennedy’s death and appeared giddy while covering Apollo 11’s successful moon mission, Cronkite, seen here in 1967, rarely lost his composure or faltered in his authoritative delivery.
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Cronkite relaxes in his study.
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Cronkite tries out the reduced gravity simulator at NASA’s Langley Research Center in August 1968.
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Cronkite (pictured holding the microphone) interviews the commanding officer of a Marine battalion in Vietnam on February 20, 1968.
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NASA officials and engineers celebrate the Apollo 11 landing on July 20, 1969 as the CBS telecast featuring Walter Cronkite is broadcast on television screens in Mission Control.
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Cronkite (right) speaks with President Reagan in March 1981. Cronkite retired on March 6 of that year and was succeeded by Dan Rather. His farewell statement from that night ended with this remark: “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.”
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Cronkite gives the keynote address at a Columbia School of Journalism panel discussion on media reform in February 2007.
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Cronkite arrives at a Tribeca Film Festival party sponsored by Vanity Fair in 2007.
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