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The Most Trusted Man in America

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source: The New York Times

美國最值得信任的人 ─ 華特·克郎凱特
Walter Cronkite 1916-2009
美國最值得信任的人、最偉大的新聞主播 華特·克郎凱特(Walter Cronkite)2009年7月17日在他紐約市寓所過世,享年92歲。


Walter Cronkite, who died on July 17, became known as the most trusted man in America during his tenure as the anchorman for the “CBS Evening News.” He became something of a national institution, known for his unflappable delivery, distinctive voice and daily benediction: “And that’s the way it is.”

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Before appearing on television, Mr. Cronkite worked in print and on radio. In the 1930s, he worked for the radio station KCMO in Kansas City, Mo., where he read news and broadcast football games under the name Walter Wilcox. He was fired from the station in a dispute over journalism practices he considered shoddy.

Photo: WC Collection, New York


Mr. Cronkite became a star when he was chosen to lead CBS’s coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1952, the first presidential election year in which television outshone radio.

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President Harry S. Truman speaking to Mr. Cronkite in 1952. Mr. Cronkite knew every United States president since Herbert Hoover.

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Mr. Cronkite with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on a program marking a D-Day anniversary.

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Mr. Cronkite, as a CBS correspondent in 1960, seemed far less rigid than other newsmen.

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Mr. Cronkite interviewing President John F. Kennedy about two months before Mr. Kennedy was assassinated.

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On the day Mr. Kennedy was shot, Mr. Cronkite briefly lost his composure, taking off his glasses and wiping away a tear. It was an uncharacteristically personal note for a man who did not like to express opinion.

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Newsmen working election night 1964 at CBS included, from left, Harry Reasoner, Roger Mudd, Eric Sevareid, Mike Wallace, Robert Trout and Walter Cronkite.


In 1968 Mr. Cronkite traveled to Vietnam, where he called the war a stalemate and advocated a negotiated peace. “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America,” President Lyndon B. Johnson said after seeing the broadcast, according to Bill Moyers, an aide to the president at the time.

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Walter Cronkite, right, facing Menachem Begin, left, Israel’s prime minister, and Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president, in 1977.

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CBS producer Don Hewitt and Mr. Cronkite preparing for a broadcast in 1963. Mr. Cronkite retired from CBS in 1981 at age 65, but continued to work in journalism for decades. On his 90th birthday he told The Daily News, “I would like to think I’m still quite capable of covering a story.”

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