Jul 18, 2009 10:15
Died. Walter Cronkite, 92. Probably one of the two most important television newsmen in America. (The other being Edward R. Murrow.) As the host of CBS Evening News, he covered the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, the MLK assassination, endless presidential elections, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and pretty much every other important event from the Forties through the Seventies. Was popularly known as "The Most Trusted Man in America"; I believe it.
I'd call it the end of an era, but that era ended a long time ago.