The most trusted man in America,.........dead at 92 years old, We all have seen his broadcasts ,and one of the most famous telecasts was the news of JFK's assination
http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/TVNews/Articles/090717_walter_cronkite_GD
" And that's the Way it Was"---------Walter Cronkite
 Cronkite helmed the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years |
Walter Cronkite dead
Veteran newsman passes away at 92
For a generation of TV viewers, he was the man who delivered the news. Now he’s become a news story himself.
Walter Cronkite, who guided America through the Vietnam War, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy and man's landing on the moon, has passed away. He was 92.
The current news world is packed by competing newscasters on dozens of networks, but back when Cronkite was helming CBS News, he was simply the one everyone tuned in to. Known for the catchphrase “And that’s the way it is,” Cronkite was called the most-trusted man in America.
Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News for 19 years before Dan Rather stepped in to take his place.
Cronkite got his start as a battlefield correspondent during the Second World War for the United Press before coming to CBS as a Washington correspondent in 1950.
The Missouri native moved to the fledgling CBS Evening News in 1962, where he was named anchor of the 15-minute nightly program, which became the first 30-minute network newscast the following year with him at the anchor desk.
From the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to publicly questioning U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War to the landing of the first man on the moon, Cronkite was known for a tell-it-like-it-is reporting style that was often tinged with genuine emotion.
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That Kennedy video is so sad - I hope the two of them are meeting up again right now.
Your right Sandy & I remember when it happened how alot of the adults around me were sad on hearing this news,they sent us home from school early that day,...........
Seems as the old song said "It seems the good they die young"
Abraham , Martin & John,,,,,,,here's the video fromYoutube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHvYB5JdSs
here's another version with a gal singing it,she's good too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsYscCNWRiY
Les, I haven't heard that song in so long - it's a great one alright. I was 16 and had just graduated from high school and was going to the Motherhouse. I think it was a Friday - anyway there was a hairdressing school on the corner of Guy and St. Catherine and that is where I was - getting my hair cut for cheap. The video said he died at 2 - we got out of the Maison Mere at 12 - all of a sudden there was a lot of commotion and talking in the place and I got a gist of what had happened - as soon as I got out of there, I rushed home and listened to the news non-stop.
Les I must be getting old because I couldn't watch and listen to that video without the tears flowing. I was in school (VCHS) when Kennedy was killed. Very sad day as we were taught by Irish Presentation brothers who really related to Kennedy and his Irish cabinet.They used to say that the world was ruled by people of Irish descent and what great things that little island had given the world.Brian
I remember walking home from Wellington after buying a pair of winter boots the weather that day was cloudy and dull. When I got home my mother was listing to the news and crying. I cried with her. The first catholic President in history and they had to kill him. It was such a sad period and to watch the funeral and the children saying good bye to their father.
Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the death of John Jr.Kennedy Anoter sad sad Kennedy story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbIq3ph7pg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXTxvZmmTzY
Pauline
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