Yojimbo
18-Jul-2009, 06:39 PM
Though I saw this mentioned under the "Celebrity Death" threads, this great man who largely shaped the way all television news broadcasters work today deserves his own memorial thread.
I feel it is sad that so much attention was showered on Michael Jackson, yet little more than a few mentions have been made about the passing of Walter Cronkite, whom I am old enough to remember watching on the news before his forced retirement from CBS. From reporting on the radio about WWII and having a pivotal and large role in ending the war in Vietnam, to the moonshot, there will never be another Walter Cronkite. We will never hear him say "and that's the way it was" ever again, and I will miss that!
Rest In Peace, Mr. Cronkite.
I feel it is sad that so much attention was showered on Michael Jackson, yet little more than a few mentions have been made about the passing of Walter Cronkite, whom I am old enough to remember watching on the news before his forced retirement from CBS. From reporting on the radio about WWII and having a pivotal and large role in ending the war in Vietnam, to the moonshot, there will never be another Walter Cronkite. We will never hear him say "and that's the way it was" ever again, and I will miss that!
Rest In Peace, Mr. Cronkite.