Walter Cronkite

[IBKleen]

I was wondering how many "old addicts" here remember him.

I feel like it was yesterday that I was pulled from school and spent the afternoon in my living room watching our "black & white" television and then hearing the announcement that President Kennedy was pronounced dead. I remember Cronkite's reaction so clear.

He was also the news man who followed the moon walk and it is so sad that he passed 3 days before the anniversary.

He was gentlemen and he will be missed. My prayers are with his family.

[GoingToMakeIt]

Walter was one of a kind. Setting a standard that few, if any could live up to. I had to laugh, today on the Biography channel was a story on Walter Cornkite. You didn't see many typos back then, either.

[BaronMunchausen]

I do recall him, despite my young and tender age (I turn 21 next year, really! Ignore my birth certificate!).

They don't make newspeople like that anymore.

[whitie]

I was just a thought in my mommy and dadads mind back then.

but have studied U S history extensively.


when I first heard of him passing, the first vision that came to mind, was the legendary cronkite reaction to  president Kennedy's death,like you mentioned................where he removes his glasses and stares downward in disbelief and sorrow......


they say that is one of the most iconic TV images ever produced.........


he was one of "the greatest generation ever"

[HelpinUtah]

I really enjoyed hearing him report the news.  He was very neutral in the way he reported the news as it should be.  I wish we had more journalists like him today.  

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

Not only the Kennedy Asassination and the moon landing........but the  final nail in the Vietnam War Coffin - - - Johnson saying..."If we lost Cronkite. We have lost the war."  Lot of News during that Mans time and he covered it all so well.  A true talent.

[catmagnet]

Gosh, you guys are making me feel so young! I wasn't even around when Kennedy died, but I vaguely remember hearing about it in years to come. We didn't get our first color tv until I was 14, Listened to am on a transistor radio while growing up. And microwaves and cable tv when I got older? Forget it! And that was in the good old days. I believe the dividing line between the "haves" and the "have nots" is more clear now. Back to the topic though, I remember Cronkite...my Dad was and still is a talking heads watcher...

[pegatha1981]

I was in the 3rd grade when President Kennedy was shot. I can remember standing on the playground that day, when the announcement came and all the students were sent home. It was especially sad because i lived in the Dallas area, where it happened. It was very chaotic there, especially with all the drama that followed Jack Ruby shooting Oswald. Everyone was in tears, my grandmother cried so much it was as if she lost part of her family. Jack Ruby was a local nightclub owner, i later found out that my dad was a musician at one of those clubs. I always felt that it put such a stigma on that city, and it was so difficult living there at that time. Cronkite was the "Real Deal" and will surely be missed.

[dominosarah]

He was such a good and honest man.  He had such class.......I remember watching him on the black and white tv every night.  There will never be another one like him.......It feels like an end of an era.....sara

[outotown]

When Kennedy was shot i was 1 month young so u'ens are very OLD, but my oldest brother was in Nam he went Sept 1970, I do rememmber the moon walks appolo 13 NOT the movie, and watching vietnam news with the family and the Bob Hope Christmas things in Vietnam just trying to catch a glimps of my brother, who was KIA in june 71, also mom wathching the POWS getting off the planes hopeing the news we got may have been wrong. Cronkite was a friend during that awful awful time, he was in Nam reporting, dont like the big comment he made about it, but was a good man and a friend to America

[IBKleen]

You are a bad, bad girl and I luv ya!

I was 11 when Kennedy passed so it is clear in my mind.....my OLD mind...LOL

[allaboutmary]

Who you calling old ?  lol     I was only 3 when Kennedy died, but I remember it. I guess because my mother was so upset.  

Walter Cronkite was one of those all around GOOD-People.